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This latest edition:
3 May 2022
Volume II



Community Sequence Highlight





Alex! Reflects on Monthly Contests this Year
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Larry's Online Sequencer Minecraft Server
by Cool172 of OS News

        OS User LarryTheMaskMan was tired of his personal Minecraft worlds 
only attracting a handful of friends and players across the web, so he took to 
OS to start a new one.  The comparatively large userbase here would prove 
itself eager to join OS-craft, as it would be called.  Currently, 150 members 
can be found in the 'Official OS-craft' discord server.
        In its early days, there were many complications to running a Minecraft 
server fit for the Online Sequencer community.  It was originally a bedrock 
edition [a version of the game which runs on multiple platforms, including 
console, mobile, and PC] server, so that it would be accessible to the most 
players.  During this time, OS-craft was very active, with a few different 
teams and players always online.  Of course there were occasional disputes, 
but nothing got in the way of the server's operation.  Larry had a handful of 
simple rules in order to prevent these things, like those against thievery, 
and respecting the rules of other teams when on their property.
       After only a few weeks, nearly all player activity dried up.  He cites the 
launch time of the server, being around holidays to blame.  Now that 
everyone was back in school and work, there was little reason or motivation 
to join OS-craft and chip away at projects.
        In an attempt to prevent OS-craft from fizzling out again, he started a 
new server which used a service allowing it to support both java [an often 
preferred version of the game, which only runs on computers] and bedrock 
edition.  This did not work out, and the server crashed too often for any 
gameplay to be enjoyed.  From this point on, OS-craft became java only, 
meaning far fewer players have access to it.  A consequence of this has been 
the necessity to coordinate active times on the server, so that it is less 
lonely.  On previous servers in their beginning weeks, people would be 
online at all hours of the day.  In addition to this, the only team yet to join 
is Pattako, led by Larry himself.  It has over a dozen members, but only a 
handful play often.  A few independent players also call the server home.  
So far, the newest OS-craft server has been somewhat of a success, with 
player activity remaining relatively low, but not trending down any further.  
Pattako is working on team infrastructure projects such as building a town 
center and a few different farms to supply the team.
        Larry hopes that OS-craft grows into a larger community that does not 
need his constant attention to maintain player activity.  It does not seem 
like this will happen unless Online Sequencer itself receives an onslaught of 
new members, but Os-craft will continue hosting Minecraft java edition 
servers for the forseeable future.



Alex's Take: the Sustainability of Using Violins
by Alex! of OS News

So you know how pseudosustain is common amongst the elites of this site.
The gap between the 2 classes are really quite something. Is it really useful?
Why do the elites get to have good violins while the poor, non sustainable
users can't figure it out. Sickening if you ask me #makeviolinsustainable
As a former member and formerly active player of OS-Craft, I have mixed but generally positive opinions of OS-Craft

OS-Craft was a really creative idea to bring the OS Community together, and it has its ups and downs, its ups being that anyone who joins can feel involved and have fun, although OS-Crafts downsides are that there are cliques/groups which can often lead to people who don't take sides or those who are of rivaling teams of Larry's team (I was a rival of Patakko), this can often lead to people being left out or feel hated/disliked. Speaking from personal experience I loved OS-Craft but finding out Larry wanted to destroy me and knowing that those of his team disliked me created unnecessary stress (I was young back then) so I decided to leave.

Overall, a good experience if you have the right friends
why tf did i even make this i hate writing