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In preparation for the highly anticipated opening of Alpha access, I decided to go back and read some of the blog posts I haven't read in a while. I wasn't concerned with posts about the art assets, Kickstarter rewards, or how the money is being spent; rather, I was trying to focus on brushing up on the mechanics of the various systems.
I discovered that it is virtually impossible to review the posts in any fashion other than starting with post number one and advancing through every single post in turn. The reasons for this are two-fold.
1) Entitling the posts with song lyrics that are only tenuously related to the topic of the post and even then only if you already know what the post is about makes it impossible to see at a glance what the actual topics are by scanning the titles. Clever, yes; useful, not so much.
2) In the entirety of the blog, there are only two posts that have been given a category, they both have the same category, and that category is the least descriptive word I can think of, short of perhaps "Stuff."
Give this job to an intern if necessary but please, someone, take a few minutes to go through and slap some categories onto the blog poets.
Some recommended categories include: Geography, Settlements, Combat, PvE, PvP, Character Development, Factions, Reputation, Alignment, and Companies.
If the software you're using for your blog supports the use of user-generated tags (which it should, given that the game is ALL ABOUT user-generated content), please consider enabling that feature so we can do the work for you.
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Goblin Squad Member
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Categories/summary would be useful. +1
Nihimon has provided a description to each as per the forum threads per blog post here: Blog Post descriptions
Suggest you use that to find a blog to read then tap into google:
goblinworks.com : "blog title" and click the link from there in the meantime.
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+1 At some point the Wiki should take off but that will not be before well into Alpha, I think.
I think the plan is to send an email out to all the Pioneer and above pledgers before the landrush starts, so that would mean a large influx of people who want to read up. I guess some of the blogs are a little bit outdated, but categorizing them would be still be very helpfull.
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Drawing attention to old blogs can be both positive and negative. The game is very much a work in progress and lots of old blog posts are outdated and the mechanics described have changed. I stopped following things for 6 months and pretty much all the mechanics I knew were different. If we make it easy to read the old blogs, we will see a lot of confusion from new players.
The blogs are more for people following the game actively, for information about mechanics, the important information for new players is in the info pages on the goblin works site.
I don't think the website is using any software, I think it is just done in an HTML editor. The new website might use some third party software, but the old one could have been written with notepad.
I would like to see them get a blog/forum setup like XenForo or VBulletin.
