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 <[email protected]> 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. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
