
Journal Short Circuit's Journal: Need to Move 8
I need to move my RPG discussions off Slashdot. Here are my reasons (in no decipherable order):
First, I've got five discussion topics waiting to be posted. (I email them to myself at my gmail account, as a sort of draft from, before I post them here.) And that number grows as people email me, and as I think of things while reading other RPG material.
Second, I can only link to one at a time from my signature. Then I spend hours commenting in the front page articles in order to advertise this material. (Not that I wouldn't spend hours reading anyway...it's just that some days, I don't feel like I have anything useful to say.) Maintaining a separate page pointing to my discussions has proved difficult.
Third, In order to make sure each article gets some activity, I don't post new topics immediately when they come to mind. This is because I can only have so many active journal entries before they get archived. And journal entries without that "RPG:
Fourth, I'd like to expand this as a project. I'm only familiar with D&D. Yet there's plenty of people out there who have things to say, questions to ask, and stories to tell, about other RPG systems. For this reason, I'd like to involve more than just myself. Obviously, my Slashdot journal can't be posted to by two people.
Fifth, I'd like to expand readership, but a Slashdot user journal isn't very image-customizable or even very impressive. (Even if the commenting mechenism is awesome.) Having only a Slashdot sig as advertisement certainly scores hits (I've still got a warm fuzzy feeling over the response to the article I posted yesterday.), but the URL is a lot harder to transmit by word-of-mouth. (I am curious if I'm getting any of that sort of advertisement, though.
Some issues:
My skills at webmastering are lackluster at best. My familiarity with web-based Perl programming is unproven. And I haven't recently tried working as a team. (Though I imagine roleplayers are pretty good at that.
If you have any suggestions, thoughts, comments, or (timidly)offers of help(/timidly), feel free to post them. Or, if you'd prefer, email me.
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But on the other side, I am a java developer and can help you in many ways (though I don't have much time to really work on anything else). Heck,
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Also, aren't there some rpg sites where you could become a presence? Any point to a new site?
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Sure [google.com].
There are many of them. Unfortunately, a lot of them have horrible spelling and grammar habits. Most of them use phpBB, which has a posting/reply mechanism that's altogether too flat for my tastes. (I guess I get that from spending too much time on Slashdot for way too long.)
Heh...If I do start my own board of sorts, the tagline will be, "For the (wannabe) Sophisticated Gamer", or something like that.
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I'd really like a slashcode site, but they're a RPTIA to set up. There's a Linux Journal article on the subject, but it's currently subscribers-only.
As for maintaining contact with Slashdot readers, I'll frequently put article links in my journal on Slashdot. Something like a daily list, but containing artiles posted the previous day. (I can't imagine coming up with enough stuff to "push data off the front page" at the rate Slashdot do
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Wordpress (Score:2)
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