Balmung wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 6:46 pm
I have only written that solving issues in a forum works better than via discord. I would prefer a real issue tracker, but at least it's structured and easy to manage.
Despite the fact that we're talking about two different types of issues (it seems like you're talking about "Software Bugs" and I'm talking about "Creative and Collaborative Goings on") - I still disagree that a forum is better, even for communicating about software issues. Although, a bug/feature tracker, like Nolt, would be handy, that's *still* not what we're talking about - we're talking about user involvement.
Balmung wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 6:46 pm
But in general, there is nothing stopping anybody to post finished maps or maps currently in creation; or anything else. It just don't happend on a daily or even weekly basis. In fact, the last map shared in this thread (
https://otherworldmapper.com/forum/view ... 5&start=30) was 9 months ago.
See, to me, that's a reflection on forums as a communication method.
Balmung wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 6:46 pm
I really don't want to slow down or demotivate anyone here, but if you're craving more activity and content, just get more active; regardless of the software.
I don't understand what you're going for here.
Someone, wanting to get move involved, feels stymied by the current mechanisms that are at their disposal, decides to offer up an alternative that they feel would make both themselves, and others, get involved *more easily* - to have someone say "well, get more involved" ... what do you think they are trying to do by proposing another, more accessible and conversational-formatted mechanism to do so? This feels a little "no! not like that!"
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On the other hand and for what it's worth, I think there are good suggestions in this thread, and I think that there are suggestions here that aren't as actionable as we think they may be, and I think there are some that, frankly, are built on a lot of assumptions (which, isn't inherently bad, just that assumption-based ideas has their weaknesses). Conjecture has a low tensile strength. It doesn't like being stretched too far.
Lionheart wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 7:12 pm
Judging from the lack of dev participation even on this forum and in general and the responses, it seem OWM is a sideshow though, and it will just be what it is. I wish them all the best. But it takes a lot more to get this train rolling.
I dunno. I've had a handful of conversations with 3MS staff just today on here. They've totally read this thread and have probably pondered most of the suggestions in it. If I were in their shoes, I would absolutely take a sit back and see how it unfolds approach while making note of the suggestions that are practical and actionable.