Forums.

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SJ 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?".

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Considering the total number of posts the In Nomine boards over on Pyramid get in an average month... At least if they're in with other games there's a chance of other people ever seeing the threads. Honestly, I'd prefer far more consolidated forums overall. What's the point of having a separate forum for each individual game? You end up with three posts a month each in forums most people won't look at in the first place because they don't already own That Game.

At least with In Nomine in with some other games, there's chance of people occasionally posting about it, and other people seeing those posts and responding.

[archangelbeth]

I suspect that a goodly chunk of the reason the Pyraboards don't have IN stuff on them is... We have the mailing list. The mailing list is free, and most of the people on the Pyraboards who like IN are also on the mailing list.

That said, I was a bit peeved at no IN board, too, but if enough threads have IN in them, I have faith it'll come along.

That, and I know forums have a nice little SEARCH option, which I've used to good effect on rpg.net a few times.

[demiurgent.livejournal.com]

You'll note I gave in, finally. Goobing about IN trumps grumping about the ghetto address.

Besides, if we take over the place, they'll either give us our own forum out of recognition of our rabidness, or because the Munchkin RPG player complains.

Why yes, I meant that singular.