thread: 2005-12-03 : Closing GNS and RPG Theory is Good
On 2005-12-04, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
I'm not marginalizing this, because it shouldn't be.
Misuba is so damn right that it hurts. I take blame for the article dating thing. I blame, well, inertia for the forum software.
One thing five years of hosting the Forge has taught me is that forum software is crap, and that if I were to start the Forge again, I'd use something else entirely. New developments, like Vanilla, are cool, but hard to get old hands to try. (Me and Ron are butting heads on it this morning on another forum.) Personally, the Forge's structure would look a lot more like LiveJournal if I were to re-do it. Everyone gets individual weblogs, you can subscribe to each others and tag posts with what they're relevant to. Posts that get enough votes or that a moderator picks move to the front page of the site.
This makes CRN go "Don't try this, though..."
That is, convincing me to do this. I've got too much respect for what we've done to splinter it.
This makes RE go "Thanks C"
As the academic of the two of us, this has been a bit of a behind-the-scenes grrr-grrr thing all along. Just so you-all know.
This makes jmn go "So, CRN, your idea..."
...would be a combination of LJ and Digg?
This makes misuba go "BlogParty!"
That was my code name for some software I used to think I would design. Making one big blog out of lots of little ones, and in some ways erasing the distinction between blog post and comment, until everything was tangled into one big, theoretically happy mass. Never started, but there are still things it'd work for in some form.
This makes CRN go "It's called Drupal"
And yeah, someone should do this. If we had two years ago before everyone already had a weblog, then it'd work.
This makes BL go "Importing Scheme"
If you find some way to import text and comments, I'm desperately hoping to escape the blogspot prison.
This makes jmneff go "Drupal is very cool."
Could blog content be exported over to a new website?
This makes NinJ go "I think you're wrong, Clinton."
... that is, I think it can still happen. In fact, when I look at the splintering that this is going to cause, I think we need it, and soon.
I appreciate your other life pressures, but I also think you're the man for the job.
This makes CRN go "But, but..."
But I like my current weblog! I don't want to change it again.
This makes misuba go "Planet Forge, anyone?"
Aggregative meta-weblog software such as that available at planetplanet.org is popular amongst open-source software developers.
This makes jmn go "Planet Forge!"
That would be fantastic!
This makes CRN go "Damn it, people!"
Now I have to write this. It'll be a few weeks, maybe more.
This makes XP go "Go Clinton!"
You're too benevolent for your own good, but hey, it's for our good so I'm not complaining. :)
This makes JBR go "Planet has too few options"
Planet is a robust aggregator, but it does nothing for the kinds of user moderation that is being bandied about. We will have to rely on the goodwill of folks like Clinton.
