farrer {l Wrote}:Maybe someone of the community who knowns some CMS system could set up a repository with a mock up for others to start / join from there.
Julius {l Wrote}:This is similar to LGDB https://lgdb.org/ which is based on Drupal8 (and we could probably get the source of that website). But for that to work, we would need to find someone to update the Drupal <-> phpBB bridge to work with more modern versions of both (see: https://www.drupal.org/project/phpbbforum or https://www.drupal.org/project/phpbb_sso).
Julius {l Wrote}:The question is also: is there really a demand for such a platform? Not so sure...
Julius {l Wrote}:Edit: one of the things I thought would be neat, is a https://movim.eu/ (XMPP) based platform for developer chat & microblogging, that could also be linked to better IRC services (there are somewhat slack-like interfaces such as https://thelounge.github.io/ ).
Sauer2 {l Wrote}:Ideas for the Wiki?
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farrer {l Wrote}:As far as I remember LGDB was up to be a replacement of LGT. But, at least for me, the interface is so not-user-friendly that I never got used to it (among other reasons too, but not related to this)...
(...) For me it's more a egg and chicken problem: the FLOSS game scene from some time now loss momentum to the indie-game development bubble, so there isn't much interest (or even knowledge) in or about FLOSS game, but, on the other hand, probably the FLOSS game community won't grow up again without a place to 'spread the word' and explicitly differentiate to what we are and what we aren't.
farrer {l Wrote}:In an ideal world, I would be favourable to:
f. Wipe it, in favor of another integrated way to here (for now the wiki is just a very hidden place, without almost any interaction to the forums).
Julius {l Wrote}:Yes, but is a catalogue of FOSS games the right tool for this and is it something FOSS game developers & players want? Sure Steam has something like that by necessity of being a shop, but at least I hardly ever go into the catalogue and filter/search for games. Same for LGT or LGDB...
Julius {l Wrote}:I don't really see the point as usually you get to know about game through blogs, tweets, articles, forums etc. and then you can go to the games website directly.
Julius {l Wrote}:In addition I always felt that a huge (usually outdated) catalogue of mostly dead games doesn't exactly leave the best impression with users...but this is what these catalogues (or similar efforts like wikis) tend to become quickly.
Julius {l Wrote}:Something like this that is fully integrated with phpBB: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... edge_base/ would of course only be a very simple replacement for a full wiki, but probably sufficient to post some tutorials etc.
charlie {l Wrote}:2) requires a lot of effort on the part of the player/user. I still frequent the planet because it is an easy way to see updates, even though many of my faourite projects don't get included by it. The more you can catch all projects under 1 umbrella, the more eyes you get on all those updates because people will come to you for news. I found this with the blog. At it's best it was 1-2k views per day because people enjoyed the regular updates and finding new projects without having to do the leg work themselves.
Julius {l Wrote}:My criticism was really much more specific to LGDB like catalogues, which I personally think are mildly counter productive and rarely developers will bother with updating their pages if they are already struggling to update their own website
charlie {l Wrote}:My end game, were I to really go at it, would be to have it so the site itself could basically be a project's website. If you have everything on there - from updates / forums / screenshots - then you only need a place to host the downloads (which you might argue you should use github etc) then that's all a developer needs. Just add a human friendly url (http://fossgames.domain/a_game/) and voila. The idea is to reduce the amount of work developers need to (1 location to post updates, etc) rather than add to it. That's when it would become something decent for the community.
Further to that idea of reducing the work needed, if users can submit screenshots/videos and you have a voting system, then you move that to the users as well as providing additional activity for a project.
themightyglider {l Wrote}:I like the idea of a micro-blogging platform because it offers best changes to bring players of FOSS-games together, what is much more important then giving the devs a place to promote their latest releases IMO.
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