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   Justisaur to MrRogers   
   Re: Looking for fellow Google+ OSR / ind   
   23 Feb 26 16:01:44   
   
   From: justisaur@yahoo.com   
      
   On 2/22/2026 12:00 AM, MrRogers wrote:   
   > Hi all,   
   >   
   > This may be a bit of a message in a bottle.   
   >   
   > I was a active lurker in the OSR and indie RPG design circles on Google+   
   > back in the day,   
   > and like many others I migrated when G+ shut down. I went to MeWe   
   > initially,   
   > but left not long after, and as a result I lost touch with a lot of   
   > people I’d   
   > been regularly following.   
   >   
   > Lately I’ve been trying to reconnect with that older OSR / DIY / small-   
   > press   
   > design crowd, the folks who were sharing drafts, blogs, odd mechanics, and   
   > half-finished games in comment threads, and I’m wondering who, if anyone,   
   > from that Google+ diaspora is still around here.   
   >   
   > If you were part of that scene and are still reading, I’d be glad to   
   > say hello again. No big agenda, no attempt to recreate G+ (that ship has   
   > sailed),   
   > just looking to re-establish a few conversations.   
   >   
   > Thanks for indulging the nostalgia,   
   >   
      
   Unfortunately I found it fairly near the end.  G+ was far superior to   
   reddit etc. in many niche areas like that, just as usenet was in it's   
   hayday.   
      
   I put a lot of my stuff on my web page/blog:   
   https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/   
      
   This reddit has a lot of similar design stuff:   
   https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/   
      
      
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