Blogs for everyone, 'on the house'

Yes grant us blogs!

Another feature that could be cool would be a "Snippet Wall", people instead posting 'source' tags for a reply on how to do stuff on a thread, they write a titled snippet wall in the snippet wall section which they link to in their reply and that can also be browsed by people later.

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or it could be a button at the post frame (next to rating, pm, etc.)

a laudable idea
two flys though

A/ extra bandwidth (perhaps even an order of magnitude) == extra costs
B/ decrease in revenue, from the X number of ppl that pay already each month

thus not a good idea WRT business sense

I can't explain why in detail, but this will soon be a moot point thankfully. While we'd love for existing Journal authors to continue publishing here on the site, several have already given into hosting their own blogs instead and just reposting to their GDNet journals with links back to their blogs for the full post. We understand the reasoning behind this and have come up with something in V5 to support these users and take advantage of the blogosphere in general to provide an even greater breadth of knowledge to everyone in the community.

If anyone knew of Andy Schatz's site Qatfish before he took it down (to help feed our upcoming endeavor), then you have an inkling of what's coming.

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Original post by Gaiiden I can't explain why in detail, but this will soon be a moot point thankfully.

Ooo, sounds promising. Is there any idea (even very roughly) when "soon" is?

Personally I find trying to update two blogs/journals tedious and as a result my net posting rate has gone down. [sad]

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Original post by Gaiiden We understand the reasoning behind this and have come up with something in V5 to support these users and take advantage of the blogosphere in general to provide an even greater breadth of knowledge to everyone in the community.

GDNet TwitBlogs confirmed.

I've never heard of Quatfish, but after reading this I'm excited. I presume it will be a GDNet+ feature, will it not?

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Original post by programmermattc Quote: Original post by Gaiiden We understand the reasoning behind this and have come up with something in V5 to support these users and take advantage of the blogosphere in general to provide an even greater breadth of knowledge to everyone in the community. GDNet TwitBlogs confirmed.

Says you :P

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Original post by MikeTacular I've never heard of Quatfish, but after reading this I'm excited. I presume it will be a GDNet+ feature, will it not?

Not directly, no. That would be akin to making our entire Resources section GDNet+ only - you can still find them all our there on your own, but you wouldn't have access to the central repository. That would be pretty lame on our part, IMO. It's a big chunk of our content moving forward though so little bits and pieces may be GDNet+

And by GDNet+ I may not be referring to what you currently know as GDNet+...

gah. too much drama and suspense. spill the beans already.

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Original post by Daerax gah. too much drama and suspense. spill the beans already.

QFT. I leave for South Africa and Namibia in exactly 4 weeks for 2 years, during which time I won't have access to a computer, which means I won't be able to visit GDNet for 2 years. If you're gonna wait to spill the beans until after I leave... someone will die...

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Original post by MikeTacular Quote: Original post by Daerax gah. too much drama and suspense. spill the beans already. QFT. I leave for South Africa and Namibia in exactly 4 weeks for 2 years, during which time I won't have access to a computer, which means I won't be able to visit GDNet for 2 years. If you're gonna wait to spill the beans until after I leave... someone will die...

Would you mind telling us that story? I bet it'd be a lot more interesting :)

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Original post by owl Quote: Original post by MikeTacular Quote: Original post by Daerax gah. too much drama and suspense. spill the beans already. QFT. I leave for South Africa and Namibia in exactly 4 weeks for 2 years, during which time I won't have access to a computer, which means I won't be able to visit GDNet for 2 years. If you're gonna wait to spill the beans until after I leave... someone will die... Would you mind telling us that story? I bet it'd be a lot more interesting :)

Which story? Why I'm going to South Africa and Namibia or who's going to die and how they might die?

I just hope that whatever GDNet decides to do, they make good their promise to integrate the Game ProgrammingDevelopment Wiki into their site. It really disappointed me that it was just casually tacked on onto the site after the (in my opinion) forced takeover. I understand that it takes time to fully merge it with the site; I just hope that they do it with the upcoming revision of the site, instead of waiting longer.

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Original post by MikeTacular Which story? Why I'm going to South Africa and Namibia or who's going to die and how they might die?

It's obvious why you are going to Africa; because you need to lie low after the GDNet murder. The question is how will you kill them, and whether it'll involve kittens.

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Original post by Gaiiden And by GDNet+ I may not be referring to what you currently know as GDNet+...

Well, I just shelled out the 40 bucks for another year, it better be awesome...

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Original post by Servant of the Lord Quote: Original post by MikeTacular Which story? Why I'm going to South Africa and Namibia or who's going to die and how they might die? It's obvious why you are going to Africa; because you need to lie low after the GDNet murder. The question is how will you kill them, and whether it'll involve kittens.

He was supposed to lie about it and let me find out his real intentions 20 years from now when he's out of the nambian prision and the first thing he does is comming here an posting about it...


... by that time I'll probably still be redesigning the game I'm never going to finish :)