A New Beginning March 13, 2009
This post inaugurates my blog’s move over to wordpress.com, thus ending its days as a forum of its own on the gaming forums I founded, Subcreation.
Why am I moving?
- To join the conversation
- To provide a real feed
- Because Subcreation’s all grown up
To join the conversation
Blogs and forums, while similar beasts, are not quite the same. Bloggers posts on blogs, reading each other’s posts and linking to each other. With my blog as a sub-forum, it was hard to link to me — further, any references I made to others’ posts didn’t get trackbacked to them, which meant they didn’t learn that someone had replied to their post. With a proper blog, I’ll be able to join the conversation with links and trackbacks.
To provide a real feed
Subcreation runs on PunBB. While PunBB is amazing forum software, it less than shines as a blogging platform. It can certainly work, but it isn’t optimal for the purposes of blogging. For example, the RSS feed — while available — is a bit buried, making it non-obvious to most visitors (and thus useless). Further, the feed itself only shows excerpts. While I certainly could edit appropriate php file to generate a full text feed, the fact that I hadn’t in spite of over a year of my blog-as-a-forum shows that well, sometimes it’s better to use the right tool for the job and not try to make a hammer into a screwdriver.
Because Subcreation’s all grown up
I founded Subcreation back in Fall 2005. The forums took off when I included a link to them in my updated A Guide to Mage Talent Specs in Spring 2006, right around WoW Patch 1.11 (the first big mage patch). Subcreation’s grown, gently, and I’m happy to say that it’s remained a cozy corner of the Internet for discussion on topics near and far from gaming. But my blog didn’t quite fit in; it stood out like a sore thumb: one of these things is not like the others. Far better then to move the blog to here, where it can be a blog among blogs, rather than a blog among forums.
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