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This is so effin cool. Easiest sub of my life. Here’s to TWIV’s success 🍻

I've been loving the TWIV website as a Patreon for over a month now, and I'm pleased to see that everyone now has a chance to check it out and see all the excellent news headlines and brilliant features the site has to offer! Congrats on the public launch of the TWIV site, Ralph! 😁

Logging in via mobile version of the site on an iPhone with Safari results in a endless loop where the site refreshes everytime I try to enter my username & password. I don’t know how to report this without logging in to the site so I’m letting you know here. Thanks!

Website exploding is a good problem to have... probably?

Very inspiring to go from the division to reviews to a news show to an ad free website and entity. Huge respect. Site sounds excellent.

There is a bug where when you change the width of the browser window the site reloads. And why can't I open a news article in a new tab with middle-click or via the context menu?

Huge. Feel like this was inevitable after watching you slowly lose your sanity over years of NFT and industry layoff news week after week. Happy to support soon as cloudflare realizes your audience aren't AI.

Congratulations!

Moved my patreon sub over to the site. This and the @gameinformer.com magazine coming back has me hopeful for games journalism.

Maybe move your "Supporters Only" content off the front page? It sucks to barely scroll down the page and get the popup that everything else is only for paid customers. I don't know the percentage of free content to paid content, but it definitely feels heavily slanted towards paid. Good luck!

Congrats on the site launch! I was trying to send an editorial enquiry, but it seemed like the submit button wasn't working. Is there another way I can reach out?

I've never signed up for any form of Patreon or Patreon adjacent thing but I love this so much I jumped up to a Benefactor membership. Congrats on the launch and thank you for all your hard work. Cheers!

Subscribed and this has become one of my top sites since its launch for gaming news. Information organization on the site is top notch. Love the review system without scores.

RSS please!

Are you looking for writers? Squirrel me hasn't been around for that long, but real-name me has been a professional writer for twelve years; my last job was writing about games, incidentally. Also, I'm on a weird schedule, so I'm probably awake when you are.

Cloudflare being the ultimate DDoS was an unexpected twist.

Congratulations! Will there be an RSS feed eventually? (I know, it's old-fashioned, but it makes it so much easier to find articles I actually want to read)

Congrats! I haven't been able to make it onto the site yet, but from what you showed on your Youtube video it looks REALLY nice! I will certainly be adding it to my bookmarks!

Congrats! Loving the design. One question tho, where are the RSS links?! Shame for them to be disabled on a Wordpress site

Congrats! I look forward to reading the site as well as posts from @thisweekinvideogames.com

Congrats on the new site! Looks great! It's chugging a bit, but, on a positive note, that means everyone wants to check it out! I've been looking for a site to follow after the fall of Polygon, and I'll be giving you a bookmark.

gasp love dis

Congrats on the big news! Best wishes, man. Hope it becomes a smashing success!

frantically clicking to sign up

clean* layout. 🤦🏼

Congrats!

Such a good news, let’s goooo ! ✨

Donkey Kong review dropping?

Congratulations! I would suggest putting the "About Us" in the top menu as well, maybe. Not everyone is going to scroll to the bottom past the section that's restricted to paying visitors :)

So many rushing to this it crashed the website. Good work Ralph & team, looking forward to this. 😎

I'd love to support this but it's just too much. Should've been closer to Verge pricing at $40-50 USD annual

Here we fucking go, yay! Ralph, amazing site, and all, but please consider a cheaper plan or a regional pricing — I would love to recommend the site to some of my friends, but the US$10/month is quite expensive for them, and even in my region. Love your work, good luck with the project!

Also, it would be a lot easier to swallow / recommend to friends at $5 per month. But, you guys know what you're doing.

Duuude this is amazing! Been a fan for a few years now, and TWIV helped keep me sane + get me through some dark times 2 years ago when I was unemployed. Really excited to see where this goes. Thank you Ralph, Stu (?), Austin, and everyone else involved! You guys rock 🤘

Honestly, I don't like the website, not in the current state. It works slowly on mobile, it has very slow animations, scrolling just a bit down shows obtrusive full screen popup, and articles are not marked as exclusive before they are opened.

Site is well done! A few complaints: the scroll lag (aka animation) drives me insane. The load time when changing pages is quite long, and then all the fancy animations make it even slower. Maybe consider a toggle in the header to just turn off all the animations? But well-designed otherwise.

Hey Ralph, I hope the website does well enough to provide a valuable outlet for gaming journalism. I've already started a subscription in support, but I have one main request: please fast-track multi-factor authentication for the website, especially since my credit card info is going through it.

immediately subscribed to support. The site looks clean and very easy to use, excited to see where this goes. ❤️

This is really cool. I love that this is a completely independent outlet. This feels worth supporting.

You love to see it

This website is amazing! I love the style, I love the loading animations. I'm so incredibly proud of what you and your team have done, I'm so impressed with your vision for this.

In love with this. Awesome job and so happy to support this.

Proud to say I was there when it "launched" and then launched for real hahaha

This is good stuff, big congrats to you and the team man

Bro I can’t wait to check the TWIV

You're the first content creator (and you're much more than that!) that I've felt the need and want to support by being a Founder Supporter! I'm so excited for what's to come from TWIV and from you!

That's really really cool, but the website is down now 😂 Ig it's a good thing eh

LET'S GOOOO

your reviews introduced me to games journalism that genuinely gives a shit about both games and the people that make them while exploring them as real pieces of art. really stoked for this, will definitely be keeping an eye on it. congrats

*cries in lack of RSS feeds* :( Is there a possibility of adding rss feeds?

Congratulations on the website 🎉🎉🎉

Congrats team! I saw the site layout on the video and almost wept. What a throwback to a website from days of yore.

So glad you guys are up and running. I'll be reading!

Amazing site mate. Curious if there’s anything the community could do to help contribute to the site? Not sure who your devs are or if it’s open source but I’m happy to contribute if it is!

Congratsss

so excited for this! gonna save to my favorites bar on browser (when the site is back up and running lol)

This rules, grats!

Hmm…did the site and video go down because it got blasted with too much traffic, or because Big Video Game is trying to stop Ralph from seizing the means of production and starting a Marxist revolution?

Also, congrats!!

Very cool, any plans to launch an app or to integrate with google/apple news?

This is great, I'm all signed up. 👍

Any social media for the site itself ?

That explains why the site was down earlier 😅

Looks great!

Is there any further need for a web dev? This is something I'd be proud to work on if there's a need 🤙🏽 (literally made a bsky just to comment this lol)

Congrats! Love the vision behind the site and can't wait to check it out. As soon as it becomes available again 😂

Love everything about this, congratulations! I would strongly suggest implementing and linking to one or more RSS feeds asap, as well as social media presence including @thisweekinvideogames.com‬ posting stories to the site for discovery/growth. Both essential for a news website.

Really great work. Love what it is and what it represents. Can you sense a "but"?… As others have said, please remove the scroll lag. It's motion sickness for websites. The back button doesn't always work and i could live without the animations.

do they have an official twitter handle?

Wow. Definetly one to keep on our radar. What a bold choice for a title XD

The signup flow needs some work, literally didn’t know there were paid plans that could be scrolled horizontally. This needs to be a vertical scroll, or something more compact that makes it obvious there are multiple plans.

I love this and everything it stands for, but overriding the user scroll is a web dev sin and makes it incredibly frustrating to use

EXCELLENT idea!

Do you follow them on Steam? That's where I get that info, but you're right - it should be baked into this

YES. PLEASE make this a reality. Not to endorse paywalling content, but an extensive and detailed section for upcoming stuff in 1 place might actually add enough extra value to make me pay the sub. Ive found a lot of good shit from that segment, it'd be cool to see that on the site.

Huge congrats to your team on the official launch!

It just kind of has the look of "Look what i figured out how to do! im gonna do it *everywhere*" that i associate with early react sites.

Hello, I like the spartan look of the site But there's a thing that annoys me enough to get away: The scrolling effect, that is nothing like every scrolling on my computer. Everyone has their own scrolling configured by the OS, and/or by the browser. Overriding for a web site is problematic. Thx

Ralph entering his media mogul era, as we all predicted he would.

Love it mate, well done. Nice to see more independent media sites pop up out of Australia.

This is excellent! 👏 👏

Absolutely love to see this. More independent games media is great. No ads. No fluff. Brilliant.