Hi Tom.
I agree on forums.
As long as it's not a silly board with links everywhere and a less than
accessible setup, i've never had problems navigating forums, and it's easy
enough to skip down from post to post by tabbing and then just reading the
ones I want, or going streight to the bottom with hal's jump to eddit area
key.
If people aren't as used to using webpage navigation to jump to button, jump
to edit area or skip paragraphs I could see the problem with forums
generally, but for myself as long as the forum is a logically layed out one.
I have nothing against mailing lists, it's just that while if I miss a
couple of days on a forum it's not a big deal sinse I can just skip in and
read most recent content, mailing lists I have to keep up with or my inbox
just gets over full, especially when discussions take place that I'm not
included in.
At the moment I really can't afford to be on another list, which is why I'd
be in favour of a Usa games forum, sinse while I'm willing to drop into any
forum and post occasionally (as indeed I have on many for online games like
core exiles), I'd rather not be on more mailing lists, and indeed stopped my
subscription to the Usa games list for this reason.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games Mailing Lists or Forums
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.
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