Haha, you're speaking as if the GW db has never changed hands before. Hint: It has.

Not that I care.

I've decided that I won't be bothering with copying the posts, the site will stand with it's own merit.

I would like to change the subject now to URL suggestions, thank you.

.net

It's going to be called Gaming World. The url will be something derivative of that, it could be as simple as just buying the old one with another suffix.

I don't really think it should be called Gaming World for the same reasons we changed this site to Salt World.  It's not going to be solely about gaming.

That's a good point. I think we could get away with it and I'm inclined to keep it otherwise I will just be creating a titless version of DeviantArt.

I have plans for the registration process which will make it very clear to new users what are our acceptable forms of media. Gaming World primarily, yes - there will be an open way of submitting things.

I don't have to name it until it's done. That's the beauty of having a testing server. Fire me some suggestions and we can say how good or rubbish they are when the time comes.

Not going to post all the details of the design.

do something about the bots though.

for a more general theme, we should probably name it: www.peepmydopeshit.net so people will go there when they want to peep the dopest shit

www.wedontgiveashit.net

Really what could we call it.

www.radicalworld.net

www.shadowmaker.net

www.indiehipsters.net or org

romanceofthethreebuttkingdoms.com

skulls4skulls.org

I'll try to think of real suggestions.

I was going to suggest darksteel .org or net and I keep get redistricted to dark forge god damnt dose them mean it's taken

I disagree with you about case A.  The thing is, we (at least based on things we talked about in pre-Salt World topics) want a site for our community.  The idea is we want a site that showcases OUR games, OUR music, OUR writing, OUR art, etc.  So who cares if deviantart or flickr or whatever technically lets you do those things?  They don't let you do all of those things in the same place and they aren't focused around OUR community.  That's what this site was always supposed to be, a site for our community to showcase what we have going on.


I mean going by your case B we'd just be gamejolt or w/e other indie gaming site.

But nobody wants to slog through a forum to find the good stuff, which is the whole point of having a site.

I think you're totally wrong in this.  The more clicks you put between a user (and I'm talking a new user here, not someone like myself) and content the less likely they are to look at it.  If you make them go to a forum, find a subforum, find the stickied thread, by this time a lot of people stopped caring.  If you have a single mainsite that has everything right in your face (look at ed's mockup here if you haven't already) then they are immediately given the content.  Forums are a terrible way to highlight content.  I'm sure Something Awful has tons of amazing threads, but people who aren't already into reading their forums are much more likely to read the front page articles.  Forums are not meant to be a way of showcasing specific things and they aren't set up to make this easy.  We've had a Finished Games board for ages and how many of them have almost no (or none at all!!!) replies?


Also I don't think it's going to take ed years to put a site with these functions together.