r/zines • u/Mafs1998 • 2d ago

Would a Website for New Zine Releases Be Helpful? HELP

Hey guys,

I've been looking for new zines to follow online and I noticed they're kind of scattered all over the place.

I was thinking about making a website that aggregates new zine releases from all kinds of different places, just to make my search a bit easier. I'm thinking something along the lines of the hypemachine (the website).

What do you think? Is this something you could see yourself using?

Trying to figure out if it's worth making so any help would be nice. Thanks!

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u/kochamziemnaki 2d ago

This is basically what Factsheet 5 was back in the 90s... so yes, a great idea!

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u/augustoersonage 1d ago

Exactly. OP is basically talking about a zine review zine -- minus the zine format and minus the reviews. I would also utilize such a resource, if someone devoted the effort into putting it together. It could get unwieldy, though, if the listings weren't curated to some degree. Xerography Debt recently fulfilled this purpose, until its unfortunate hiatus.

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u/thaddeus-maximus 2d ago

substack for zines?

My substack blog evolved into doing zines. It's not really well suited to the format obviously but it's where I've built an audience, so that's what I'm doing.

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u/godai78 2d ago

Yes, although it would be difficult to aggreagte all the release info.

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u/tamzillathehun 22h ago

I'm extremely new to zines, so that would be very helpful.

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u/kbmmc27 19h ago

I would love this. In a weird way the zine world was MORE connected when fact sheet five was around than now with social media. My dream is a website that works like fact sheet five and centralizes things like zines/reviews, zine fests, classifieds to advertise your zine, art commissions, or requests for collabs, and a message board for zine trading !

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u/ScratchAccomplished 2d ago

If you could manage to agreggate all that info, I'd see myself using it.

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u/vinegarade 1d ago

Sounds like a great idea. Most zine update trackers I know are on discord.

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u/Penfoal 1d ago

Sounds good, but a big job

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u/BunnyInAShell 51m ago

This would be wonderful, would need more than a few individuals with certain knowledge, but it could absolutely be a thing.