 | Open Thread #3February 18th, 2006 |
Sorry for no posts yesterday — we’re having a fun time around here at home… a combination of a diabetic kid and a stomach flu is tricky to manage; she can’t keep anything down, but we have to keep her blood sugars up, and then keep them down, and so on… without food, which is our usual main tool for pushing sugars up.
Anyway, you might have noticed the addition of the “other posts you might be interested in” thingie at the bottom of posts now, before the comments thread. That’s because I was too lazy to keep linking all of the disparate posts on single-player games manually.
One of the best things about having the blog is actually trying out all the insane plugins. 
I’m thinking of retiring the display of “Popular Posts” though, because it has some really odd selections on it, that I think people are reading only because of the post title, and only because they are there. I thought maybe I’d replace it with a “Recommended Reading” section that we update manually. What do you think? And what should be in that section? I’d probably still keep the “View top 100 >>” thing though, because it’s near. Plus, it’s not officially part of the plugin anyway, Kristen hacked it in.
We’ve also been futzing with the layout. All you feed folks can’t see that, of course. But if you ever stop by for discussions, and the layout is bugging you, this is the thread to ask for changes…
I’ve had to add a few words to the spam filter, causing more posts to show up in the moderation queue rather than get posted immediately. Don’t be surprised if some of your innocuous posts seem to take longer to show up. We’re looking into installing a more robust spam filtering method too.
I do have notes on more stuff at Living Game Worlds on my laptop, so at some point, I’ll toss those up there. In particular, I wanted to talk about Juan Pablo Gnecco’s talk, which laid out 7 or so things that he saw as mandatory to gaming. One of them was that “games must be social.” Another was that “games must be ad supported.” Juan Pablo promised to send me a copy of his slides so I could do a write-up.
Anyway, open thread, so discuss quail-hunting or whatever.
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