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Starting in about 45 minutes at 1:30 PM Eastern, we'd love to see you there!

Rebuilding Community on the (fujo)Web — Part 1

It's (finally) time! A year after my CitrusCon24 talk & 10 days before my next, Part 1 of my "Rebuilding Community" series is on my blog.

This part explores why many indie social projects are caught in a "Downward Spiral" of disillusionment and burnout.

What's the "Downward Spiral"?

It's the vicious cycle where project runner burnout, user disillusionment, and impossible expectations feed each other. This makes it harder for the next project to get off the ground, and breeds resentment even within aligned communities. On… and on… and on…

I also look at the common "solutions" we desperately want to believe would work, but that are anything but straightforward:

Reducing scope (doing less)

Raising more funds

Relying on volunteers

Featuring: one of my favorite charts 👇 as they say, "ouch"

In the next part, we'll explore THE core issue we must fix, one that (once you see it) explains so much of… everything: our relationship to power.

You can watch the full original talk on YouTube, or follow along as I post the rest in the next days!

See you soon at @citruscon for my new talk (and spiritual successor): "Working Together in a Dying World"!

In the meantime, if this presentation convinced you I know what I'm doing (I do), support my work to fix this whole mess on Patreon

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It's that time of the month(s)!

The FujoCoded Mune (Jay?) newsletter is out

Find the table of content in the pic👇 or go straight to the site for all our work in the past month+!

Are you a hobbyists HTML/CSS dev looking to build your skills and get some extra cash? Are you a more experienced developer wanting to contribute to a FUN project, with a mission you can stand behind?

This month, we've added a "small-gigs" webdev recruitment form to our line up! Check our opportunities out and 🏦💰🥖 Come join our fight for a better web 💪🌐

✏️ Writers assemble! Do you want to help with our NPM articles? Or maybe, you want to help us sell the lore behind our catboys (and beyond) to the wider public? Our Writers Intake Form is for you!

💻 WebDev Gigs incoming! There is a lot going on in the FujoVerse™ and many pages (like the one on FujoGuide Volume 0) could use some TLC from entry-level HTML/CSS-wranglers. We also have a few other challenges at different levels we’ll be looking to take care of as we grow. Join the fight here!

🖼️ Art(ist) Archive! We’ve got some character art needs in the pipeline (don’t we always?), and we’d love to have even more artists on tap for when that gets firmed up—monsterfucking tendencies appreciated but not required. Add your info here!

Read the full newsletter, help us spread the word, and see you next month!

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Rebuilding Community on the (fujo)Web — Part 1

It's (finally) time! A year after my CitrusCon24 talk & 10 days before my next, Part 1 of my "Rebuilding Community" series is on my blog.

This part explores why many indie social projects are caught in a "Downward Spiral" of disillusionment and burnout.

What's the "Downward Spiral"?

It's the vicious cycle where project runner burnout, user disillusionment, and impossible expectations feed each other. This makes it harder for the next project to get off the ground, and breeds resentment even within aligned communities. On… and on… and on…

I also look at the common "solutions" we desperately want to believe would work, but that are anything but straightforward:

Reducing scope (doing less)

Raising more funds

Relying on volunteers

Featuring: one of my favorite charts 👇 as they say, "ouch"

In the next part, we'll explore THE core issue we must fix, one that (once you see it) explains so much of… everything: our relationship to power.

You can watch the full original talk on YouTube, or follow along as I post the rest in the next days!

See you soon at @citruscon for my new talk (and spiritual successor): "Working Together in a Dying World"!

In the meantime, if this presentation convinced you I know what I'm doing (I do), support my work to fix this whole mess on Patreon

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Last day for cookies (and free digital pack)!!

Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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It's official! We sold enough gluten free fandom cookies 🥠 to meet the minimum order. These are now the LAST 48 HOURS to buy our cookies before they're gone forever (this time for real...probably)! 👇

Thank you so much EVERYONE for your support! 🎉🥠 You all rock!

Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Bake Sale #2: The (limited edition) Re-bakening

tl;dr: missed our fandom cookies? Buy them AGAIN for a limited time!

Friends, fujin: production is ready! Our fortunes are chosen, our packaging is selected, and only one foe remains—alas, the most terrible of them all: minimum order quantities.

As we discovered when placing the final order, minimum order for Gluten Free cookies is per flavor. This means we need to sell 5 more packs for each Gluten Free flavor to meet the threshold!

Know someone who hates gluten? Curious about what gluten free flavored fortune cookies taste like (we're told, delicious)? Want to help our founder not meet a terrible fate and have to eat a bunch of unsold cookies herself?

Buy our cookies now for the very last time!

...and don't forget to send this to your friend who hates gluten!

Already bought cookies? Get free shipping at checkout with code ENCORE! Want 15% off? Check out our latest Patreon post!

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Are you a writer?

Are you in one—or many!—niche online communities? Do you want to helps us build a better web for our own community (fanworks fandom), help yours in the process, and get some money 💵🏧💰 in return?

FujoCoded is looking for all kinds of writers! Drop your contacts in our form ⬇️

As a reminder, FujoCoded LLC works to bring internet weirdos together and to empower niche communities to reclaim their online spaces! Help us help the web by lending us your talents ⬆️ our supporting our work on Patreon ⬅️!

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We're so excited to announce we'll be back at CitrusCon this year! And we'll be (once again) sponsoring the con by donating some of our merch.

Can't wait? Check out our current offerings here: store.fujocoded.com

We're so excited to announce @fujocoded as a sponsor for Citrus Con 2025! Find out more info about them on our sponsor page

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Are you a writer?

Are you in one—or many!—niche online communities? Do you want to helps us build a better web for our own community (fanworks fandom), help yours in the process, and get some money 💵🏧💰 in return?

FujoCoded is looking for all kinds of writers! Drop your contacts in our form ⬇️

As a reminder, FujoCoded LLC works to bring internet weirdos together and to empower niche communities to reclaim their online spaces! Help us help the web by lending us your talents ⬆️ our supporting our work on Patreon ⬅️!

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Are you a writer?

Are you in one—or many!—niche online communities? Do you want to helps us build a better web for our own community (fanworks fandom), help yours in the process, and get some money 💵🏧💰 in return?

FujoCoded is looking for all kinds of writers! Drop your contacts in our form ⬇️

As a reminder, FujoCoded LLC works to bring internet weirdos together and to empower niche communities to reclaim their online spaces! Help us help the web by lending us your talents ⬆️ our supporting our work on Patreon ⬅️!

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New Contractor Announcement ✨

Friends, please welcome our new contractor and first-official-sysadmin, Kat 🎉

Kat is not only a long-term member of Fandom Coders, but a prolific self-hoster of fandom software, and we're SO excited to have her aid in our quest!

Over the next few months Kat will work on getting our servers in order: from backing up our data, to setting up monitoring of our resources (no more accidental 20GB log file), to much needed "service down!" alerts. She'll also help us set up infrastructure for future services!

This is Kat's first professional experience as a sysadmin, and a huge step in our mission to create opportunities for members of the fandom community!

If you'd like to join us, we're looking for writers, technical and not! Drop your contact in our form 👇⬇️👇

And if you'd like to give *your* aid to our mission of creating professional opportunities for software hobbyists (and beyond) in our community, ESPECIALLY now that being a junior in tech is so incredibly hard, support us on Patreon!

Help us help them help the web!!

(Last thing, to get ahead of potential questions about Kat's TOS banning certain content from her sites: we talked extensively about her stance on issues dear to fandom, and we're comfortable with where she stands. Likewise, we stand by her right to choose what she's personally comfortable hosting.)

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New Contractor Announcement ✨

Friends, please welcome our new contractor and first-official-sysadmin, Kat 🎉

Kat is not only a long-term member of Fandom Coders, but a prolific self-hoster of fandom software, and we're SO excited to have her aid in our quest!

Over the next few months Kat will work on getting our servers in order: from backing up our data, to setting up monitoring of our resources (no more accidental 20GB log file), to much needed "service down!" alerts. She'll also help us set up infrastructure for future services!

This is Kat's first professional experience as a sysadmin, and a huge step in our mission to create opportunities for members of the fandom community!

If you'd like to join us, we're looking for writers, technical and not! Drop your contact in our form 👇⬇️👇

And if you'd like to give *your* aid to our mission of creating professional opportunities for software hobbyists (and beyond) in our community, ESPECIALLY now that being a junior in tech is so incredibly hard, support us on Patreon!

Help us help them help the web!!

(Last thing, to get ahead of potential questions about Kat's TOS banning certain content from her sites: we talked extensively about her stance on issues dear to fandom, and we're comfortable with where she stands. Likewise, we stand by her right to choose what she's personally comfortable hosting.)

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Geese, Guides, and Good Luck Cookies 🪿📔🥠... and a (paid) Call for Writers 📝💰

It's out! Check out this month's update, including: our visit to #ATmosphereConf (feat. geese yaoi 🪿), our plans for the fortune cookies revenue 🥠, news on the GitHub Guide Beta and... A 💰PAID💰 opportunity for daring—not to mention aspiring—tech writers 📝⬇️

Call for hire

This month we’re once again happy to share a paid position: come forth technical writers (and aspiring such), and let us bring you on a Now Paying Money adventure!

Smithing Words📝…for Money (💰): After much time, feedback, and outlining, the “Introduction to JavaScript with NPM” articles financed through our founding campaign are ready to be written! Now we’re finally looking for technical writers (fannish background appreciated) to help us inspire new, confident explorers of everything the NPM ecosystem has to offer—and yes, we (also) mean Astro. Check out some of the articles in our learning website for an example of what the final artifacts should look like, and get in touch if you’re up for the (paid) task! We require both basic computer knowledge and the willingness to run simple command line programs, but we don’t require previous experience with professional technical writing NOR pre-existing knowledge of NPM/JavaScript. Just send us some tutorials or other explainers you’ve written!

Smithing Videos📹…for Glory: Are you willing to wrangle video wranglers? BobaBoard’s documentation bubble is looking for a wondrous lead volunteer to coordinate our wonderful video volunteers as they turn our many, many hours of recorded web development and BobaBoard documentation into something the whole FujoVerse™ and beyond can put to good use. If you have previous experience with managing work on video, or have been part of similar work and want to build some managing experience of your own, reach out!

If any of these calls for aid sound up your alley, or if you’d like to get involved in other ways, please reach out at contacts@fujocoded.com or via DMs!

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Geese, Guides, and Good Luck Cookies 🪿📔🥠... and a (paid) Call for Writers 📝💰

It's out! Check out this month's update, including: our visit to #ATmosphereConf (feat. geese yaoi 🪿), our plans for the fortune cookies revenue 🥠, news on the GitHub Guide Beta and... A 💰PAID💰 opportunity for daring—not to mention aspiring—tech writers 📝⬇️

Call for hire

This month we’re once again happy to share a paid position: come forth technical writers (and aspiring such), and let us bring you on a Now Paying Money adventure!

Smithing Words📝…for Money (💰): After much time, feedback, and outlining, the “Introduction to JavaScript with NPM” articles financed through our founding campaign are ready to be written! Now we’re finally looking for technical writers (fannish background appreciated) to help us inspire new, confident explorers of everything the NPM ecosystem has to offer—and yes, we (also) mean Astro. Check out some of the articles in our learning website for an example of what the final artifacts should look like, and get in touch if you’re up for the (paid) task! We require both basic computer knowledge and the willingness to run simple command line programs, but we don’t require previous experience with professional technical writing NOR pre-existing knowledge of NPM/JavaScript. Just send us some tutorials or other explainers you’ve written!

Smithing Videos📹…for Glory: Are you willing to wrangle video wranglers? BobaBoard’s documentation bubble is looking for a wondrous lead volunteer to coordinate our wonderful video volunteers as they turn our many, many hours of recorded web development and BobaBoard documentation into something the whole FujoVerse™ and beyond can put to good use. If you have previous experience with managing work on video, or have been part of similar work and want to build some managing experience of your own, reach out!

If any of these calls for aid sound up your alley, or if you’d like to get involved in other ways, please reach out at contacts@fujocoded.com or via DMs!