American Girl Scouts 2.0?

[kaputtnik]

Ahoi there.

Yesterday I got hungry. Hungry for food, luxurious food. I then looked up a recipe on the Internet(TM), found one alright, well, here comes the point: This was a Web 2.0 cooking community. Everybody shares their recipes, has own cookbooks etc, you get the point.

Gastrically saturated I went for mental stimulation to the AGS pages and almost immediately wondered: How come this is so Web 1.0? I mean, I grew up with 56k and Napster assholes canceling download at 99% and I'm really not one who wants to spend more time on his fashionable and hip online self-portray than on his real life, but:

Wouldn't that be just the right thing for a community like the AGS Forums? You can mark your favorite games, you can mark games you might want to play, you can send friends links to cool new games etc...

I know, implementing this would probably mean killing server and time and money, I know. But other than that, wouldn't you enjoy a more openly accessible AGS community?

Regards,
kaputtnik

[Ishmael]

We don't need half the stuff, and the part we need we already have

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

A dated forum for a highly dated genre of game seems appropriate.

[Vince Twelve]

A greater presence of AGSers on The Great Games Experiment could serve both as a way to suggest AGS games to AGS players as well as expose lots of others to AGS games.

[Nostradamus]

I'm getting a little tired of people trying to introduce the latest in internet technology and the latest 1337 feature other boards or website have every couple of days.
This community is an old school adventure game community. We are based on tradition and simplicity.Introducing all this ultra modern latest craze on the web is simply not us and will take out of what we are as a community. We should stay as simple and traditional as we are now to keep the spirit of our community. Otherwise all these technology, all these 2.0s and shoutboxes and whatnot all those ideas introduced here will overshadow and delete the reason we are here - to make. play and talk about adventure games. Old school style.

[Andail]

Yes! I prefered it when the AGS forum was just a collection of chalkboards in CJ's basement. When you had made a game, you could announce it using his toy megaphone.
Those were the days!!

[m0ds]

Somebody cut the piece of string between my cup and Andails

[Stupot]

I do think going completely 2.0 is unnecessary.  However I reckon it would be cool to introduce some elements.  At the moment our personal profiles are a bit boring.  It would be cool if we could tart them up a bit, customise the layout, have space for a few piccies or screenshots. This could also be a place for keeping information about our own games stuff.

I don't really care either way, but the benefit of this would be that we would have a 'gamespace' of sorts each that we could share with other gamers around the web and get them interested in our community.

Vince I checked out that GGE link.  It's great (as the title suggests).

[kaputtnik]

Vince: Didn't know that there was something like The Great Games Experiment (could have reckoned, though), but this is a bit too much if you ask me. I mean, it makes my computer work hard!

I didn't mean to overthrow this traditionalist community which is proudly looking at their oldschool roots and conserving the heritage of a better time, I was simply thinking of a better way to involve games into user profiles,  a better way of crosslinking. You like a game, you add it to your favorites. The games main page shows maybe the five most favored. Highly representative, nothing like the "most downloaded last week", which has been discussed ever since it has been implemented.

Don't get me wrong, I like the AGS community like it is and I read a lot in the forums, it's just that I find it a bit hard to discover interesting new games by using the games main page.

[Ali]

Somebody cut the piece of string between my cup and Andails

What colour was that cup now?

[m0ds]

You can see them both in Ben Jordan case 6.

I'll say no more 

[Akatosh]

I vote for Newgrounds' approach on the whole Web 2.0 thing: Arrongance. Just include a message on the top of the page saying, "We already were Web 2.0 when YOU were still getting you porn by stealing it from Ted's Grocery!" or something.

[Ishmael]

I do think going completely 2.0 is unnecessary.  However I reckon it would be cool to introduce some elements.  At the moment our personal profiles are a bit boring.  It would be cool if we could tart them up a bit, customise the layout, have space for a few piccies or screenshots. This could also be a place for keeping information about our own games stuff.

This is a discussion forum, not MySpace. You already can link your games to peoples' profiles, ought to be enough for anybody.

[Evil]

Isn't this board v2.0? EZboard was 1.0, sorta.

Wait, what was the question?

[Pumaman]

As much as I hate the term "Web 2.0", we shouldn't be completely averse to enhancing the games page at all. If there are good suggestions on useful improvements that we could make, then I'd be interested to hear them.

You like a game, you add it to your favorites. The games main page shows maybe the five most favored.

This is an interesting suggestion, what do other people think?

[Akatosh]

Well, that's not too Web-2.0-Bandwagony and actually makes some kind of sense.