The UI is a bit different and will take some getting used to, but I love not relying on reddit.
Nerf
Welcome, Nerfers! This is a place for Nerf, Modifications, Homemades, Assassins, Office wars, Humans vs. Zombies, BoomCo, Off-brands, Water Blasters . . .
We're intended to be like /r/nerf except not dependent on reddit.
Are you new to Lemmy? Please click here to expand.
Lemmy is a lot like reddit. For most purposes you can treat it as if it is reddit.
The main difference is that when you view your front page or search for other communities, you have a choice between "subscribed" (what you've already joined), "local" (a small subset of communities) and "all" (every community that this server knows about).
discuss.online is one of many Lemmy servers and many of the communities that you see here originate on other servers - but this networking is handled behind the scenes. This decentralization makes Lemmy resilient but you can still use it just like reddit.
A longer explanation can be found here.
Rules
We have some idiosyncratic rules. Please click to expand and take a minute to read them before posting.
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Don’t spam (post excessively) or excessively self-promote. That means at most 1 post per day, and less than 1/10ths of your posts and comments each may be self-promotion.
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No low effort content.
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Only post thrift finds on Thursday - where "Thursday" starts at 1AM GMT-07 and runs for 24 hours. This corresponds to daylight Thursday for most of our readers.
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Don’t recommend or show dangerous practices, such as these. There is to be absolutely no deliberate weaponization, even as a joke or against nonhuman targets.
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Pirated/knockoff versions of hobby-made designs should not be shared; don’t give pirates free advertising.
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Respect community standards (below) and stay on-topic (further below).
Community standards
We maintain a higher standard of civility here than an average forum. Please be nice, and be forgiving: the other guy might be literally a kid.
We have moderate post quality standards here; nerfchatter is very lax. If you'd like to ask a question, please try googling it first.
It’s “blaster/dart,” not “gun/bullet” - because the latter can lead to things that we'd rather avoid. This is a common mistake, but it is a mistake. Similarly, it's good to be clear that realistic blasters shouldn't be used in public spaces for the benefit of our young readers.
What we aren’t
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3d printing questions not specific to nerf should go on 3d printing communities.
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You can buy/sell/trade/“what’s it worth?” on /r/nerfexchange (though we may make an exchange Lemmy community later).
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No scripted battle footage. We have to ban this so that we don’t get flooded with it. This is very easy to find on YouTube if you for some reason want to see it.
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No memes/jokes; there may be rare exceptions for discussions of ongoing events. Again, we have to ban this to not be flooded by it. Memes/jokes are very welcome at Nerfchatter.
Tags
Tagging makes your post easier for people to find.
You can tag a post by including a tag (including the square brackets) anywhere in the title. As a rule of thumb, we suggest that tags higher on this list take priority if more than one could apply.
Resources
[help] - Asking for advice.
[download] - A 3d printable blaster or accessory that's ready to download and print.
[guide] - Writeups (and occasionally videos) describing how to do something.
[review] - Reviews, usually of blasters but also of mod kits etc.
Playing
[event] - An upcoming game looking for players.
[LFG] - Looking For Group.
Showing off
[completed] - A completed project: paintjob, performance mod, integration, etc.
[WIP] - As above except not completed but still something you want to share.
[selfpromotion] - Do you have something to sell? Is this a link to your own YouTube channel? We’d appreciate it if you’re completely upfront about it.
[thrift] - "Hey, look what I just found for cheap in a thrift store!"
[armory] - A picture of your entire collection.
[conceptart] - Concept art for hypothetical blasters, often wit weird and wonderful operating mechanisms.
News
[availability] - Did an anticipated blaster just get released early? Did Amazon accidentally list the DZ Tomcat for a few dollars again?
[1stparty] - For hobby news such as announcements, press releases, and leaks from major manufacturers.
Discussion
[theory] - Ideas, usually on the technical side of the hobby, that you'd like to discuss.
[meta] - Information about this community.
Links
DartSweep: A system for finding games and groups with more features in development.
(old) Map of Active Nerf Groups
BritNerf: A traditional forum catering to British foam flingers.
Nerfy Discord Servers: There's tons of Nerf servers on Discord.
Blasted.de: A German forum (and mostly German-language, though English is welcome too).
NerfHaven: A 20+ year archive of information. Not accepting new members.
Lipo battery guide, charging, safety tips
Me who used exclusively Old Reddit: "UI looks no different to me, I feel right at home."
I like that it defaulted to light on black. Vote buttons moved, threading indents are shallower. Site seems a bit buggy and does not work on my usual redditing client.
I've been wanting to get away from the big social media platforms for years now, but this is my first tangible step in that direction. Here's to the future.
I'm about 10 minutes out of the womb here. Just making a post to make a post if that's ok. And Bam!
When we went dark on reddit I found out it's practically the only platform we were on. Tried to go to nerfhaven, but they weren't accepting new accounts so that was pretty useless. Let's see if we can get off the ground here
Nerfhaven gets pretty overwhelmed by spam account signups, which is why the mod team turned off new sign-ups and preserve it mainly as an archive. Lemmy probably has more modern anti-spam measures, so might be a more sustainable long-term solution
🤞 here's hoping
I thought I'd try posting my little bow blaster over on Nerfhaven to stoke interest, but then I found out it's not accepting new members. So yeah, it's basically a necropolis, mighty but dead.
Pretty much the same experience here, I joined a couple of nerf Facebook groups and even they were basically wastelands. Granted one of them was a page for a nearby local group so there's probably organization and conversation outside of their Facebook page.
Here out of curiosity.
Some discussion about the future of the sub would also be welcome.
I didn't think Discord is a good alternative for what we had on Reddit, so I'm glad this community was created.
Hopefully, the JSON errors I keep seeing get fixed.
I had a really hard time understanding how discord could be a functional replacement. It's chat, and it's endless and hard to track.
There are forum post options on discord but it doesn't get used all that much on servers
A new release candidate is being tested to resolve some issues. Feel free to report anything to me. I’ll either fix it or get the open source community to resolve it. It’s been very active.
Still figuring out this fediverse thing, but I think I'm here.