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Shedletsky wrote:
> > So far no one has disagreed and I think it's time to remove it. I would
> have
> > removed it long ago but I realized that the main page is locked and I
> don't
> > have adim rights so could someone else please do it?
>
> I disagree. In my opinion, more information is almost always better than
> less. The news section is fulfilling its mission: to raise awareness of new
> RLs.
It's mission shouldn't be to raise awareness of new RLs. It should be
to provide news to the Roguelike community. The RogueBasin isn't, I
believe, supposed to be a Roguelike Development site. It's supposed to
be a roguelike site.
The RogueBasin::News section is failing its purpose. Reading it one
would think nothing much has happened in the last two months in the
roguelike world. Of course Witherwyn will get hits when it is listed
as the only change in the roguelike community for two months! There
have been at least 12 other releases in that time frame - including
high profile roguelikes like T.o.M.E.
As copx says, if no one is taking responsibility of *trying* to get a
good coverage of the roguelike scene, the site is doing a disservice to
the scene.
The right way for Wytherwin to be advertised in RogueBasin is to be
added to the appropraite Categories so it shows up on the proper lists.
I get a lot of hits coming in from the POWDER and You Only Live Once
RogueBasin entries long since they fell of the Recent Changes list, so
I know people are traversing the depths of the RogueBasin site and not
just checking the What's New. Those who really want to know what's new
probably check the Recent Changes anyways.
> In my specific case, putting a link there to Witherwyn brought me a good
> number of hits for a project that's not mature enough to warrent a post on
> roguelikes.announce.
If it is not worth a post on roguelike.announce, why is it worth a post
on the roguebasin?
I'm not saying it isn't worthy of being on RogueBasin's news section.
I'm saying if you think it should be there, it should also be valid for
rec.games.roguelike.announce.
> Plus, who uses newsgroups anymore? (ok, in the RL dev community probably
> most people) Roguebasin is more friendly for someone who is casually
> interested in RLs, but who might not go through the trouble of using usenet.
Well, I do peek in roguelike.announce when I do updates to
http://thelist.roguelikedevelopment.org/. Unlike the news section of
the Roguebasin, someone has the misfortune of having ownership for
updating that list.
In any case, we could easily just have the ::News section have a link
rec.games.roguelike.announce and thus save the duplication of effort.
This has the advantage of only asking roguelike authors to concentrate
their announcements into *one* forum.
--
Jeff Lait
(POWDER: http://www.zincland.com/powder)
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