Hey guys!

We're currently trying to improve our email newsletter, GDNet Direct, and we'd love your feedback so we can make the best newsletter possible.

What do you want to see in a newsletter, and how regularly (if at all) would you like to receive it?

If you don't mind, it would also really help us out if you could provide some information along with your responses so we know what sort of people are asking for certain things:

• Do you currently receive the newsletter?
• Do you always read it? If not, how often do you read it?
• How often do you visit the site?

Thanks so much for any feedback you're able to offer!

Do you currently receive the newsletter?

Any other feedback?

Even if you're not a subscriber, we'd love to hear what you might like to see in a newsletter -- or even why you would never consider signing up!

Great feedback guys -- I'll respond to some specific points in more detail either later today or tomorrow.

Just to re-iterate, any and all feedback is welcome -- you don't have to be a subscriber!

Unique content that is unique to the newsletter, a unique selling point. Thus that is what I hope to find in a newsletter that little bit extra unique to a newsletter, though I cannot say what that would/should be.

Does anyone else have further feedback on this? What might make a good additional inclusion? Some of Stormynature's suggestions could potentially be workable.

1) Individualised newsletters that bring news to you from the forums for which you select to be advised on...for example being told about an XNA article holds no desire for me but might be completely relevant to another member.

That's something we would like to be able to do in future. To do this we need to be able to correctly identify the content that interests a particular members, and we need to have enough of that content to present something new/interesting. These are both problems we're working on solving, but it may take us some time.

3) a comics section
4) an editorial / or perhaps meet the staff/moderators series of pieces - this might extend to a "meet the gd-net member" along the road.

These are interesting ideas that we might be able to do -- it'd be a fair amount of work, and we might not be able to manage it for every newsletter depending on how often we're publishing, but it may be something we can do sometimes. Similar ideas might be short opinion or editorial pieces (either written by staff/mods, or contributed), or even industry relevant jokes.

We'd still love more feedback!

I remember on the old site there was a section for Game Dev for certain geographical locations. So on the newsletter is there a way to have a section like: Game Dev Events Happening in Your Location/Area.