Amazing!

What 'call to arms' is that, never heard of such a thingie? 

Doh! Yeah, I forgot to ask about that too.
So, sverx, spill them beans 

...I had to remove a bunch of people on twitter cause they kept spamming some silly social - gamers connect - platforms nonsense that I don't care about a bit because its all about shifting your warez to other people who shift their warez and no one gives a shite, and at the same time I would see Sokurah's tweet, for which I infinitely care much more, in like 3 days after or sometimes lost for good??

Aww, thanks 
I don't read much Twitter anymore. A year ago I would check up on my entire feed since the previous day, in the morning when I got to work, but I've stopped doing that and now only scroll through a couple of screens a couple of times a day, so I'm guessing I miss a lot. But there's SO much noise that I just can't be arsed to spend the time anymore. A have two columns for tweets by Lobo and other artist I've worked with (Redballoon) and that'll have to do 

I think gbadev.org's forum is still the place where DS/GBA homebrewers meet - it's just that we (they?) are very few remaining. I'm still checking it on an almost daily basis, DWedit and guauu do appear often, ant512 is still releasing stuff. Beside those (and you) - I guess I didn't forget anyone else  

As for SMS/NES/ZX/etc homebrew, I guess you've read Epyx 'call to arms'... right? 

Yep, the current rise of the NES homebrew (and apparently SMS homebrew) communities make me hope that I'm not developing for me alone, and that some day, people who grew with the Nintendo DS will enter a part of their lifetime where they'll want to code for it themselves. We had a super-strong community. It was so amazing that I just had to post a news on one French board to see it translated in 5 or 6 different languages and relayed over the world without having to raise the smallest finger.

I'm convinced there are some people still interested, but we no longer have any place to meet, imho. Partly because there wasn't one place to meet in the first time: we were so many that we could simply keep in touch with our local peers without worrying about building a worldwide community.

Someone (I think one of you) mentioned two other person still doing homebrew for DS (or GBA?) over the last week. Maybe on twitter. But our new communication channels have a flaw when it comes to memory. Impossible to force the websites to show it once more...

I did pick up some NES homebrew in recent years, not as much output as say C64/ZX or possibly others but it keeps going, methinks the interest is rising up somewhat as it goes.

You're right about meeting place, it is strange really..back on DS there was a choice, I know Dev.fr is where I could find Kukulcan, Alekmaul, Mollusk, smealum etc..I could see them on PlayerAdvance too as links were there, GBAdev and DSscene for English oriented news but there were other 'general' sorta 'fire and forget' places with forums/comments at least and it did work methinks.

Somehow..these new social places were supposed to be a better solution in terms of bringing people together but after using Twitter for years and consequently avoiding FB for years and looking at the state of forums at some places, I am bloody convinced that IRC chat channel is damn far more clear and superior and effective way to put people/information together than all this shit if you pardon me French.

Social media outlets (as you noticed) treat conversation pieces as 'news' which is bullshit and as news tends to be replaced instantly with newly new news to keep you glued to the platform, the relevant information from just yesterday - disappears - before you even get to bloody see it! Instead you are force fed some stupid meme from people who should know better than that, and loosing any sense of connection with 'what you want to see or find'. I mean, I had to remove a bunch of people on twitter cause they kept spamming some silly social - gamers connect - platforms nonsense that I don't care about a bit because its all about shifting your warez to other people who shift their warez and no one gives a shite, and at the same time I would see Sokurah's tweet, for which I infinitely care much more, in like 3 days after or sometimes lost for good??

So..yeah, its a bit of a problem, because eventually people who are interested in stuff we all do might never see it. Like, the other day this guy mentions that he never knew there was Warhawk on DS, I mean its not too late to discover of course, but yea, it points to that problem of disseminating information proper and I'm afraid there is no gaming outlet out there which is doing it right anymore (in my opinion, everyone else can disagree) as the focus is either concentrated on one platform only or just bloody the good old fashion popularity contest as usual, which is really *meh* and unfunny in 2018.

Also..dammit, dunno if its just me, but passion from yesterday in so many people have been replaced with downright cynicism, dunno why and naming no names but wtf mario.