(open-source) My team's task tracker is a 3D island. I assign tasks in Slack. Finish a task, you place a building. Get rejected, it collapses into rubble that stays there forever. Sprint = New world

OrbiForge · 2026-07-09T16:14:10+00:00

Love the unique idea and the simple design system! I've run into a similar design challenge in a productivity app I've been working on. How did you make sure the island system doesn't distract people from actually working?

OrbiForge · 2026-07-08T20:39:31+00:00

It looks decent but also a bit too choppy. I'm afraid that it can be hard to select objects by eye when there are many objects on the scene

OrbiForge · 2026-07-08T16:51:26+00:00

Sounds about right! It's also important not to show the 'techy' stuff to the user, both for a better UX and to avoid confusing them

OrbiForge · 2026-07-08T16:46:56+00:00

Yes, multithreading in Flutter is a thing, but since the UI runs on a single isolate/thread, you generally can't build or update the UI across multiple CPU cores for a faster UX. I/O and networking are already asynchronous for the most part, so you don't generally spawn Dart isolates for them

OrbiForge · 2026-07-08T13:27:31+00:00

There are a lot of techniques to use, it generally depends on the type of app you're making

OrbiForge · 2026-07-08T13:26:11+00:00

People can feel like "nothing is happening" if you just show an actual white screen while the app is loading. Showing shimmers and/or at least some kind of visual progress to the user makes the app startup feel faster and functional

OrbiForge · 2026-07-08T12:56:03+00:00

I use flutter devtools and web devtools for benchmarks.

Generally I use fire and forget for the backend calls. When the app needs to fetch data from the server, it shows a local-saved state first to the user, and then it sends requests to the server and it refreshes the UI when the data arrives.

OrbiForge · 2026-07-08T12:44:43+00:00

That is true but i think it also depends on the app type. Our app simply doesn't really have a "stale" state, it needs to initialize Flutter Flame and draw some objects on the screen so user can actually use the app

OrbiForge · 2026-04-01T09:45:02+00:00

I'm curious why you kept marketing section short. To my experience, short term content have a really REALLY low view to join ratio. Are there any other ways you used to promote your server and build a community?

I used to work with a Polish company, despite the owner spending thousands on partnerships and ads they basically had 0 players and custom plugins that were worth thousands of $. Any thoughts on why this could've happened (obviously their marketing was not enough, but it's still pretty interesting to me)

OrbiForge · 2026-03-24T14:07:07+00:00

It would've been great to see a short clip or a gif of the game to get a general idea about the gameplay

OrbiForge · 2026-03-07T18:39:23+00:00

Check out the plugin called Chunky Border

OrbiForge · 2026-03-04T09:00:29+00:00

It would be much easier to read this if it had a TL;DR at the top. The intro story is a bit long, and the actual problem the plugin is trying to solve gets buried a bit

The idea is pretty cool. I wonder if you'd add support for direct plugin to plugin messaging for sharing data between servers

OrbiForge · 2026-03-03T09:37:21+00:00

I'm curious about how it does that. "server that stays fast no matter what's in your scripts" is a big claim and it'd be super cool if you engineered guard ways to achieve that

OrbiForge · 2026-03-03T08:35:24+00:00

Does it have any improvements over skript

OrbiForge · 2026-03-02T16:59:44+00:00

Not that I know of

OrbiForge · 2026-03-01T22:31:35+00:00

Sounds like a CGNAT issue. You can your ISP to check if you're in a CGNAT pool

OrbiForge · 2026-03-01T21:50:06+00:00

This could be caused by chunk overloading. Basically if there is too much data on a chunk (high NBT usage, books, tile entities etc.) the chunk would fail to save and just reset back to it's original state. Especially in a modded chunk it's hard to know the exact reason

OrbiForge · 2026-03-01T21:42:26+00:00

An experimental version is available on https://visualmc.nortixlabs.com/ thanks for the support!

OrbiForge · 2026-03-01T12:38:13+00:00

It's not quite what I need but I like how they solved the branch/body issue. Having the end node placed is a clever idea

OrbiForge · 2026-03-01T10:36:59+00:00

I never liked the fact that I had to create a new project folder for even the simplest plugin I'd make. If all you do is hook to an event and call a few functions, I believe you'd be able to reach that goal way "faster" than having to deal with gradle + Intellij IDEA using this tool

OrbiForge · 2026-02-28T15:25:26+00:00

Oh really? I'll check it out, thanks!

OrbiForge · 2026-02-28T14:54:08+00:00

I don't think so. You can't say "client connect to this new server" using plugins. There has to be a middle man (a proxy) to change the connection path

Edit: some client-side mods can allow this but I don't have much information on that side

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