Well it's about time I had a mini-rant so here goes. Oh and I blame
Spalls for making a post about reusing IP.
The Wargamer website has been around for as long as I can remember and
as the name suggests it concentrated on table top and digital wargames.
Boy how things have changed.
It was sold off several years ago and nothing really changed at least
from the outside. Last year though was a bit different, it got a
makeover (nothing wrong with that) and said it was going expand its
remit to include more table top games (nothing wrong with that either I >thought). Yes you had some of the gronads moaning but my thoughts where
very much, move with the times granddad. Well I was wrong and the site
is pretty much now unrecognisable as it's dominated by D&D, Warhammer
40k and Magic The Gathering.
Now there's nothing wrong with having a website like that, the problem
is that it replaced the one I used.
The really sad part is that often these modernizations are the first indications of an attempt to change a site from something created out
of love for the topic (or hobby) and into something designed to make
money. Being particularly old-school, there's still a part of me that
rejects any idea of commercializing the Internet (yeah, I know, that
boat has long sailed). It just saddens me that too often people can't
be bothered to create something unless there's a profit in it for
them, and transformations like the one described above are just a
reminder of how far from its original ideals the Internet has strayed.
On Friday, June 10, 2022 at 8:43:24 AM UTC-7, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
The really sad part is that often these modernizations are the first
indications of an attempt to change a site from something created out
of love for the topic (or hobby) and into something designed to make
money. Being particularly old-school, there's still a part of me that
rejects any idea of commercializing the Internet (yeah, I know, that
boat has long sailed). It just saddens me that too often people can't
be bothered to create something unless there's a profit in it for
them, and transformations like the one described above are just a
reminder of how far from its original ideals the Internet has strayed.
Dragonsfoot.org changed a couple years ago, but it was more a security
update to newer web forums. I preferred the old look and utility, but
it didn't change the discussions.
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