by bryanb » Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:30 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 9:06 pm
True! And I don't know if I responded to the last email you wrote. I'd rather send people here should RFTK come back than a pointy-style forum. Just makes more sense, one less thing for me to manage and this place can use the discussion anyway. We can turn on guest posting in the "Text Adventures" sub forum here, too, so people do not need to register.
I can't remember if I asked if you were on Steam. Are you on Steam, Bryan?
You didn't respond to my email...I'm still waiting. However, Flack's pretty much convinced me at this point that Wordpress really is the way to go at this point so I guess we don't need to continue debating the merits of keeping the old site as is or modernizing it a bit. I have to say, though, that I really do want to keep comments on the reviews themselves despite the perils of that approach. The forums will inevitably feature a wide variety of discussions and won't necessarily be focused on any particular game or the reviews we're writing. With comments on reviews, we have gems like Adam Cadre giving us behind the scenes information about 9:05 or Ben pointing out that puzzles I claimed to be easy in my reviews are really the absolute opposite. Adam could post that comment in the forums and I'm sure it would get a response, but it would get buried over time and new users reading about 9:05 won't necessarily even know he posted about the game. It's like how Caltrops features more discussion about politics than it does gaming despite not being a political site...forums just aren't focused by nature and if you try too hard to make them focused you kill the conversation and the fun. That's why I want forum activity AND comments -- it's the Trotting Krips way!
The spam issue is certainly real, though. Is Akismet no longer effective at all? In any case, I'd be happy to take over the job of manually approving comments personally...it's worth it to me.
In other site news, I got a nice message from a forum member who is interested in contributing reviews to the new site. What could I say but "Welcome aboard"? The guest reviews were a great feature of the old site and I definitely want to see that legacy continue. Who knows, maybe we'll end up recruiting one or two more official Trotting Krips reviewers. Considering my bouts with writer's block, having some more backup would definitely be a good thing. Do you think Flack might be interested in contributing, too? We could definitely use some more C64 game reviews.
I am on Steam...sort of. I want to be a cool uncle so I like to buy Steam gift cards to give my nephew for Christmas. Sending physical gift cards through the mail makes me worried so, yeah, I'm on Steam. But I still hate DRM and believe strongly I have the right to play games I've purchased anyway, anyhow, and anywhere I choose. This has lead to a situation where the only games I actually have on Steam are oddities that are DRM-free but still only sold through Steam like the Binding of Isaac and CKII or games my nephew got through Humble Bundle and didn't want or games Steam gave me for free. So I'm on there, embittered and still rooting for GOG and Indie Box to ultimately triumph, but on there nonetheless.
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True! And I don't know if I responded to the last email you wrote. I'd rather send people here should RFTK come back than a pointy-style forum. Just makes more sense, one less thing for me to manage and this place can use the discussion anyway. We can turn on guest posting in the "Text Adventures" sub forum here, too, so people do not need to register.
I can't remember if I asked if you were on Steam. Are you on Steam, Bryan?
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You didn't respond to my email...I'm still waiting. However, Flack's pretty much convinced me at this point that Wordpress really is the way to go at this point so I guess we don't need to continue debating the merits of keeping the old site as is or modernizing it a bit. I have to say, though, that I really do want to keep comments on the reviews themselves despite the perils of that approach. The forums will inevitably feature a wide variety of discussions and won't necessarily be focused on any particular game or the reviews we're writing. With comments on reviews, we have gems like Adam Cadre giving us behind the scenes information about 9:05 or Ben pointing out that puzzles I claimed to be easy in my reviews are really the absolute opposite. Adam could post that comment in the forums and I'm sure it would get a response, but it would get buried over time and new users reading about 9:05 won't necessarily even know he posted about the game. It's like how Caltrops features more discussion about politics than it does gaming despite not being a political site...forums just aren't focused by nature and if you try too hard to make them focused you kill the conversation and the fun. That's why I want forum activity AND comments -- it's the Trotting Krips way!
The spam issue is certainly real, though. Is Akismet no longer effective at all? In any case, I'd be happy to take over the job of manually approving comments personally...it's worth it to me.
In other site news, I got a nice message from a forum member who is interested in contributing reviews to the new site. What could I say but "Welcome aboard"? The guest reviews were a great feature of the old site and I definitely want to see that legacy continue. Who knows, maybe we'll end up recruiting one or two more official Trotting Krips reviewers. Considering my bouts with writer's block, having some more backup would definitely be a good thing. Do you think Flack might be interested in contributing, too? We could definitely use some more C64 game reviews.
I am on Steam...sort of. I want to be a cool uncle so I like to buy Steam gift cards to give my nephew for Christmas. Sending physical gift cards through the mail makes me worried so, yeah, I'm on Steam. But I still hate DRM and believe strongly I have the right to play games I've purchased anyway, anyhow, and anywhere I choose. This has lead to a situation where the only games I actually have on Steam are oddities that are DRM-free but still only sold through Steam like the Binding of Isaac and CKII or games my nephew got through Humble Bundle and didn't want or games Steam gave me for free. So I'm on there, embittered and still rooting for GOG and Indie Box to ultimately triumph, but on there nonetheless.