On Fri, 21 May 2004, Tim Hall wrote: TH>Actually the web-forum-where-only-one-person-can-start-threads is the TH>default way game fora are set up on Dreamlyrics; anyone can post, but TH>only the GM can start new threads. The Phoenyx was supposed to have this feature in the *last* release, but I never got around to it. Wasn't enough demand... if anybody ran their game that way, they enforced it socially instead of technologically, which is good enough for a mailing list. TH>I've been known to crosspost things both to my blog and to a relevant TH>mailing lists. I don't know if this is gross breach of nettiquette, TH>but I have no idea how much overlap there is in readership. If it's a breach of netiquette, I'm committing the same thing right now. I'm planning to make that possible (and even the norm) in the new software. In fact, one of my thoughts is to make it possible, either on a message-by-message or group-by-group (or maybe both) basis to say "This message is both a blog entry" (which is really to say, a post to my personal forum) "and a forum post to" for example "GAMERS." TH>I went the other way; I considered that one blog covering multiple TH>subjects was better than a bunch of infrequently updated individual TH>ones. If readers want game content they will have to skim the TH>postings about model railways or prog-rock music. The Gamehawk model will have subtopics same as any other forum, I think. Bryar does that, but so far as I can tell it's all-or-nothing... the blog owner sets the depth that the main blog displays to. Mine's set to 1 (no sub-blogs in the main one), so if you want to read my other blogs (which are only experimental right now) you have to read them separately. Gamehawk'll work either way. And then you can read it with NNTP, with a *real* newsreader. Heh. TH>With the growth of RSS aggregators I don't think there's any real way TH>of knowing how many people read a give blog; a lot of readers won't TH>show up in the server site access logs, because they're reading the TH>RSS or Atom feed through something like Bloglines. Bloglines tells you how many subscribers there are in the referer line, so if your web log (the REAL web log, not the weblog) shows that, you can at least tell that much. Far as I know they're the only ones. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
