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edgSJ Games has announced their new, free web fora. I'm one of the moderators of the "other SJ Games RPGs" forum. Hopefully this will incline me to actually populate the forum, because in general, I hate web fora. Hate hate hate.
Mailing lists? Fine. NNTP discussion groups? Fine. Web boards? Hate 'em.
I'm not 100% sure why this is. I kind of wish I were, because then I'd be able to feel like this was a rational dislike. I think at least part of it is that MLs and newsgroups are so automatic; I can tell the email or news client to download everything new from all the groups I'm subscribed to, walk away, and come back later and read them. With web boards I have to ferret out the new posts, and it bugs me.
There are probably options I can change in the boards that'll make that easier. I haven't bothered to find out, because I'm on dial-up, and having to wait until the damn page loads before I can change anything, and then having to wait until that page loads to find out what it really changed: this pisses me off.
So here's hoping that mandatory long-term exposure changes my mind, because at the moment I'm looking at the forums and thinking "these aren't newsgroups why?".
Mailing lists? Fine. NNTP discussion groups? Fine. Web boards? Hate 'em.
I'm not 100% sure why this is. I kind of wish I were, because then I'd be able to feel like this was a rational dislike. I think at least part of it is that MLs and newsgroups are so automatic; I can tell the email or news client to download everything new from all the groups I'm subscribed to, walk away, and come back later and read them. With web boards I have to ferret out the new posts, and it bugs me.
There are probably options I can change in the boards that'll make that easier. I haven't bothered to find out, because I'm on dial-up, and having to wait until the damn page loads before I can change anything, and then having to wait until that page loads to find out what it really changed: this pisses me off.
So here's hoping that mandatory long-term exposure changes my mind, because at the moment I'm looking at the forums and thinking "these aren't newsgroups why?".
