Hi Tom.
Lack of centralization is indeed a possible concern. The audiogames.net site
news and the fact that there are many members in common does tend to mean
that the major stuff gets passed on, but is more of an issue for miner
things or things that are very new, for example this morning a member called
Stirlock posted a message about a new mud, Flux world, with apparently some
access fixes. I've not tried it, and I'm not experienced enough with muds to
coherently try to paraphrase Stirlock's message, but that is just one
example.
On the other hand, (and even speaking as I said from the fact that I don't
personally like facebook), there are already some major communities which,
if not actually specifically audiogames related, are so close as to have a
lot of useful info that sometimes gets passed on.
I'm thinking here of places like Applevis, the BGT forum, the Gma mailing
list and possibly Klango (although Klango has sort of become the audiogame
cracker's heaven from what I've gathered).
So to an extent we might already be in the situation you mention, and sinse
facebook is a visible platform it might be helpful to have some sort of
stronger presense relating to audiogames there? That is why audiogames.net
has a facebook page, although as I said I don't think it says anything too
different to what is in the site news.
So, I see pros and cons either way, although I confess even if it weren't
for the fact that I'm not a fan of facebook anyway, I probably wouldn't want
to get heavily involved in another audiogames community, just on the basis
of time, heck, much as I do like the Applevis site I can't exactly call
myself a contributing member.
Perhaps that is another major concern, that whatever else most of the people
who would be interested in participating in a facebook group are perhaps
already involved with one or other or both audiogames communities, so how
much time they'd have to spend on facebook I'm not sure.
Really I don't know whether this is a good idea or not.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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