I have noticed a small trend in the other direction, a lot of new
stuff gets forumed sometimes and the lists left out for ages, so
giving them a miss is probably not a good things eiter.
At 07:56 a.m. 20/12/2011 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
Well, right now I must say you and I are in the minority when it comes
to forums. I've gotten several e-mails on this topic today and clearly
public opinion is for a mailing list which we already have. That's
fine as far as it goes because the USA Games mailing lists don't get
all that much traffic. When people want to talk about STFC, MOTA, or
anything else they seem to go to Audyssey rather than the USA Games
list. So I don't want to drive even more people away which is why I
asked.
The developers list has suffered a similar fate. Before BGT came out
there were a few people interested in learning VB, C#, C++, Java,
Python, whatever to write their own games from scratch. Now, that BGT
is the tool of choice several of the potential developers are on the
BGT forum. I can't honestly blame them as BGT is certainly better than
trying to program an entire game or game engine from scratch in any
programming language.
That said, I like forums for basically the same reason you do. If I am
going to read a forum its nice to pop in, read a thread that is of
personal interest, and skip everything that isn't. I don't have to
first delete everything from my e-mail inbox I have no personal
interest in, and then read/reply to everything that is left. However,
it looks like most are comfortable with the current list setup we have
now on USA Games.
Cheers!
On 12/20/11, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
> I'd personally prefer a forum, sinse it's possible to pop in and pop out of
> a forum but not with a mailing list.
>
> I had to unsubscribe from the Usagames mailing list because I was just
> getting far too much mail to read, but would be happy to drop into a forum
> as and when I had the time.
>
> Beware the grue!
>
> Dark.
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