Since these are the early days of Handmade Network, I want to explain where we want to be headed.

Public Beta

It's been one month since the Handmade Dev Team made this site public in order to get feedback. The praise has been great, but so has the amount of bug reports and feature requests. After careful review, we don't anticipate moving from beta to stable release until mid-June. If you're new, the bug list is here, and to submit feedback, go here. We also have major plans to do significant design improvements with the help of developers who just so happen to be professional designers (more on who they are on future updates). For expert people to volunteer their time suggests Handmade Network has some appeal. Which leads me to our next item.

What Handmade Network (HMN) is About

HMN wants to be

Access

Server: irc.handmade.network Port: 7777 (SSL) or 7666 (Plain Text)

The server now supports cloaking, and will do so automatically when you connect so your IP address will not be visible to non-admins.

Where programs expect an IRC url, use:

ircs://irc.handmade.network:7777/

Using a Web Client

You can access HMN via the Kiwi IRC web client via this url: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#ircs://irc.handmade.network:7777/#random

There is also another web client hosted by [member=insofaras]insofaras[/member] available at https://hmnirc.party with history playback.

Common Channels

#dev — programming talk / questions #hmn — questions / concerns relating to the website or other hmn services #hero — concerning Handmade Hero #streams — automated twitch stre

Greetings! We're proud to present the v1.0 release of Handmade Network to the public!

Handmade Network is the home for dozens of projects that were inspired directly or indirectly by Handmade Hero. Some eschew libraries, while others are themselves libraries written in a simple an conscientious style. Some are released products, others are in early alpha, and some are just beginning to materialize.

For each, we provide the option to have their own self-contained forums and blog, so they can share news about development and interact with the people using their software directly. Membership is site wide, so anyone who has an account here can post on any project. Additionally, we've inherited the Handmade Hero forums and all the accounts on it, so anyone who had an account on the old forums can log in anywhere on handmade.network with their old account credentials. (Note: a registration page for new members will be going up in the next day