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CELEBRATE THIS: GOOD TIMES (COME ON)

16/12/2014

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Oh! Yesterday was Digitiser2000’s one month anniversary apparently, and thus cause for this: a fat-faced celebration. 

Who can forget all those great times we shared? All those whimsical characters – Frantle the Mantle, Jamiroquoit, Razzle the Crow… And how about all those games we thoroughly failed to review, and news stories we never broke? 

And get this: we had some 46,830 page views in our first month. We'd love to tell you how many regular individual readers that is but, well, poxy Weebly's statistics aren't working today, so we can't. It's probably not exactly what we used to get on Teletext, but it's more than five.

Whatever the case... we may have a long way to go to spreading the word far and wide, but it seems to us like a healthy start for a blog that just came out of nowhere, like some murderous, manic-eyed unicyclist.

CH-CH-C-C-CH-CHEEEERS

And we just wanted to say this, really: thank you. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to plug us on Twitter, or wrote something about the site, or invited Biffo onto their podcast or radio show. Thank you for continuing to do that. We're trying to keep atop all the comments and contact form emails; sorry if we've missed anyone, or not gotten back to you yet. We will.

People have been almost unanimously lovely about us being back, and every single comment to that effect – and even those that have given us “constructive feedback” – is sincerely appreciated. Frankly, it has all been a bit humbling, and not at all what we were braced for. We’re still trying to make sense of it. But! And! Thus! It's what we needed to spur us ever forwards. Shucks.

So, in short… This outpouring of – and there’s no less a word for it than this – love has taken us somewhat by surprise. And now we want to know what more you want from us. 

Are we getting the balance right between all-out stupid stuff, slightly more factual articles, and more serious pieces? Realistically, what do you want to see us do going forwards? Is the site looking ok for you? More feedback, please.

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AIRPLANS 

Just to update you on the current plans… 


We’ve still got an eye on doing the full on Kickstarter book in the new year, though it might be preceded by something a bit less ambitious: a Man’s Daddy joke book, as a sort of print-on-demand thing. 

Is that something that appeals, if we promise it’ll include lots of new content, and make it look really nice? Or shall we not bother?

We're not unaware that you're becoming ever more vocal about Digitiser2000 becoming something more permanent and ongoing, and offering to lob money at us to make that happen. In short: having found this past month an utter, utter joy, we’d love to be able to make this an enduring concern – and turn Digitiser2000 into something more all-singing and dancing, with up-to-date news and reviews and videos and that.


To that end, unless some swollen-walleted entrepreneur or whomever wants to invest in us, we're probably going to swallow our inherent distaste, and give Patreon a go, if only to invest it back into the development of the site, and justify the time this takes to do. Please tell us if this is a horrible idea.

And that? That is the latest update. And again - thank you. So much.

28 Comments
Super Bad Advice
16/12/2014 10:33:37 am

Hooray! Digi coming back is genuinely lovely - like finding a pound down the back of the sofa. And it's not even your sofa!

Just one thing though - can we finally have our reversible sedgewicks now?

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SBA
16/12/2014 11:32:34 am

Sedgewicks were withdraw after harming a child's imaginary friend. And we're very humbled to be "the coin in your sofa crack".

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James
16/12/2014 11:31:45 am

Hello there. I am a fan of your fine work. Please complete the following:
1. More mans daddy jokes for me to pretend to have written
2. The return of Chester Fisho
3. A review of Worldwide Soccer '98 on the Sega Saturn

Bye

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Mr Biffo
16/12/2014 11:33:16 am

The rate we're going, Worldwide Soccer 98 is an inevitability. More Man's Daddy later this week. We can barely remember what the hell Chester Fisho did.

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james
16/12/2014 01:26:23 pm

I think he was a depressed fish forced by circumstance into a vigilante lifestyle with his companion and mentor Mr Ambivalent. Something like that anyway.

Bye

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Mr Biffo
16/12/2014 01:54:53 pm

That's probably all the info I need. He may yet return...

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Officer Crabtree
17/12/2014 04:05:34 am

'ello 'ello 'ello. Will some form of income go towards paying for stock photos instead of blatantly leaving watermarks on?

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Mr Biffo
17/12/2014 07:56:20 am

Hah! Watermarks are funny.

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Dan link
17/12/2014 04:19:50 am

It was great having you on the Retro Unlim live show! Thank you, and may Digi2000 prevail. I sense big things in 2015...

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Mr Biffo
17/12/2014 07:56:48 am

Cheers, Dan. I really enjoyed it. Fingers crossed for the big things.

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Stoo
17/12/2014 04:47:57 am

I would happily load some crisp ten pound notes into my Money Trebuchet and hurl them at you with great force. Or, er, contribute to a patreon, or however it works nowadays. It's great to have Digitiser back.

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Mr Biffo
17/12/2014 07:57:35 am

Thanking, Stoo. We'll give an update on Patreon thing after Christmas.

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Steeeeve
17/12/2014 06:19:33 am

I prefer the dafter stuff to the more serious, reviewy stuff. Not that I dislike the more serious stuff, it just doesn't feel quite so "Digitiser flavoured". My memory of the Teletext version was that you worked to a punishingly limiting word count (compounded by the tendency to put huge chunk pixel art everywhere - which I'm loving seeing again, by the way), and then you devoted a huge amount of those few words to random stupidity, and maybe somehow got a passing reference to games in there. It was good :)

Patreon seems fair enough. I'd rather see Digitiser2000 stick around for a while than see all of the energy going into a book that'll come out before Digi disappears again, like some kind of Atlantis made from bum jokes.

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Mr Biffo
17/12/2014 08:00:27 am

Opinion does seem to be leaning your way in terms of the book/Kickstarter thing, Steeeeeeve. A book is sort of less ambitious than keeping Digi2000 going indefinitely - plus there's less chance of it all going sour, and me messing up in some way. BUT! We'll do our best, if that's what people want.

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Digester
17/12/2014 08:12:59 am

My feedback is here: below:

I liked Digitiser2000 back when it was niche and new but it's too popular now. Tone down the mainstream stuff and write more things just for me, thanks.

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Mr Biffo
17/12/2014 08:16:47 am

You are my new best friend. x

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Frank Chickens
18/12/2014 03:52:04 pm

I think you've got a good balance between the serious and silly stuff as you've got enough of both not to start getting bored of either one.

Still up for the history of Digitiser book and like others have mentioned more than happy to chuck sponds your way in order to keep things going.

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19/12/2014 05:41:52 am

Fun fact: Reading Digitexter made me want to become a journalist and write irreverent guff. I'm now am one, but mainly just write guff. Hurrah-oh! Welcome back; it's been a dark 11 years.

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