How many people here are on MeWe? How do you think of it as a replacement for the G+ gaming scene?

I think it's doing better than I expected, there's a lot of good stuff there, especially in my groups!

If anyone hasn't added me yet, I'm there as Kasimir Urbanski

I'd like to know as well as I want to move away from Facebook rather quickly.

First I've heard of it.  Signed up.

Are there any games going on there, then?  Does it have communities like G+ did?

Only issue I've had is once everyone is awake, the lag on the site can be ridiculous. I usually have to hit refresh, wait ~5 seconds, and hit refresh again.

I dislike the preeminence given to chat in the interface. I'm not actively on the site, so for some of the groups (like the 100+ Inglorious OSR chat the other day), I just miss much of the talk.

Other than that, it's been OK. They need to update/make more clear how often update notices are sent. I've tried to setup my account to give me updates when I want, but I never seem to get any or I get them at random times. If you're an all-the-updates-all-the-time person, you probably haven't seen that.

The RPG Design group I joined on MeWe is quieter but "better" than the FB one. The FB one, the members were great--storyfolk and OSR-folk got along fine--and tried to give each other useful feedback. But the bloody mods (group members, not FB employees) kept injecting politics into the group, which was annoying.

I like MeWe better than G+. Seems like G+ had way too many virtue signalers and obnoxious political posters despite being able to block people. I'm not sure why MeWe is so different, but so far so good.

More quiet, but far less hysterical than the last year or so of G+.

I enjoy the OSR and Dungeons and Dragons communities on MeWe, but some communities seem to have died down a lot since moving to MeWe from G+. In particular I see less activity with Sine Nomine and White Star on MeWe than there was on G+, which is a shame.

Never heard of it.  Just signed up.  Will check it out when I have time.

I like it a lot. Once the migration actually happened and people started using it, MeWe's interface made sense. Now that most of the groups have taken measures to weed out pornbots it is even better.

I didn't really like the Google+ UI very much, I like MeWe even less.

While some of the groups I was in on Google+ have a MeWe presence, their activity seems less, and many of the individuals I followed didn't go there, and really there is no good replacement to continue to stay engaged with most of them.

I'll keep checking out MeWe, but it's drifting down in my list of to check places.

Maybe the result of the loss of Google+ will actually be lest time spent following stuff that really doesn't impact my active gaming...

Frank

I have a couple of MeWe groups, and while its not bad, you get a lot of drive by porn popping up. I can't say I am all that fond of the default emphasis on chat either.

It's a distillation of the non-dramatic elements of G+, it seems to me.

I ran a poll in the OSRIC group, and a small majority preferred the group chat function disabled.  I turn off all the chat notifications on any group I belong to that hasn't.

I joined, and I've got a ton of "contacts" or whatever they're called, but, for the most part, I ignore it.

Facebook, Twitter, G+, MeWe, pretty much all "social media" is a shitty way to communicate.  I far prefer forums-style stuff.

Quote from: kythri;1091914I joined, and I've got a ton of "contacts" or whatever they're called, but, for the most part, I ignore it.

Facebook, Twitter, G+, MeWe, pretty much all "social media" is a shitty way to communicate.  I far prefer forums-style stuff.

Ditto.

The software / site itself is a huge pain in the ass, but I've met a number or pretty cool people I enjoy talking to over there. Particularly in the Necrotic Gnome group, which is pretty active.

The Traveller group(s) are much less lively than I'd like.