What's up with RAS?

I'm in RAS since 1998 (RS2, GPL) and it was my daily MUST lecture. There were so many posts every day, that it took 1/2 an hour to read them all amd I found informations about all the updates first here. And you found all the news of all the racing sim comms here. Now you have a forum for every mod and every sim on 1000 sites and you have to look here and there. You need some hours to search all of the forums, you are interested in, because there is no one platform anymore. Do you have any ideas, how to make RAS as vivid as it was before: The platform for all the informations about racing sims? Rolf

In article <bu74tp$nie$05$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (Rolf Wesemann) wrote: > Do you have any ideas, how to make RAS as vivid as it was before: The > platform for all the informations about racing sims? Time machine? :-) IMO the rise and rise of forums over newsgroups has a lot to do with people being able to access the net at work/school. I may be wrong, but it's hard to see why forums would be so popular for any other reason, because they're a truly lousy way of communicating! I still enjoy newsgroups because I can download all new messages quickly and speed read/ignore. It means I can keep in touch with everything that's going on even if I don't read all of it. Doing that with even the best forums is impossible unless you're getting paid to sit at your desk doing nothing all day :-) I'm still waiting for someone to produce a universal "forum reader" that can be used like a newsreader. But that'd just help kill off newsgroups, so it's a bit of a dilemma. Anyway, to answer your question seriously I think we... er... um.... yea, I was right about the time machine. I suppose we could always raise the level of informed debate to such a high standard that folk flock back here, but I think the time machine's more likely ;-) Andrew McP

In article <bu74tp$nie$05$[email hidden]>, "Rolf Wesemann" <[email hidden]> writes: >Now you have a forum for every mod and every sim on 1000 sites and you have >to look here and there. You need some hours to search all of the forums, you >are interested in, because there is no one platform anymore. That's probably a product of people bitching here. Game X comes out, and naturally a lot of people talk about it. But then you have the people who are NOT interested in Game X that start complaining. Instead of just ignoring threads about Game X, they end up saying "We don't care about Game X - get your OWN damn forum for that!" So they did... Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

Andrew MacPherson wrote:

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> In article <bu74tp$nie$05$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] > (Rolf Wesemann) wrote: > > > Do you have any ideas, how to make RAS as vivid as it was before: > > The platform for all the informations about racing sims? > > Time machine? :-) > > IMO the rise and rise of forums over newsgroups has a lot to do with > people being able to access the net at work/school.

Certainly for me, my broadband provider doesn't provide a news server, so I'm forever searching around for free ones! I don't have a news server at work either, so have to use a free one there too. Where I worked before you couldn't even get newsgroups because you could only get certain ports externally. Also, people like big flashy graphical pages rather than standard plain text, especially now as bandwidth isn't so much of a problem. At least all those stupid arguments about top-posting and snipping text and posting binaries should be gone forever! Scott

> Now you have a forum for every mod and every sim on 1000 sites and you have > to look here and there. And some leagues post some stuff here AND other stuff in their own web forum so you have to look in both places! I blame the advent of those stupid emoteicons and animated gifs!

This was my argument against using web forums, but it happened anyway :( Larry "Rolf Wesemann" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bu74tp$nie$05$[email hidden]... > I'm in RAS since 1998 (RS2, GPL) and it was my daily MUST lecture. There > were so many posts every day, that it took 1/2 an hour to read them allamd > I found informations about all the updates first here. And you found allthe > news of all the racing sim comms here. > > Now you have a forum for every mod and every sim on 1000 sites and youhave > to look here and there. You need some hours to search all of the forums,you

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> are interested in, because there is no one platform anymore. > > Do you have any ideas, how to make RAS as vivid as it was before: The > platform for all the informations about racing sims? > > Rolf > >

In article <bu90hg$2n9m$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] (scott) wrote: > my broadband provider doesn't provide a news server I'm all in favour of providers dumping the binary groups. My provider thankfully offers a separate text-only server which means I don't have to share its bandwidth with the pirates. I suspect that it's piracy that will kill newsgroups altogether though, sadly. > Where I worked before you > couldn't even get newsgroups That's my point. Workplaces can block access to groups to stop people wasting time, but it's impossible to block access to forums. > people like big flashy graphical pages rather > than standard plain text Ah yes, the "look how big my impressive sig pic is" generation. Good riddance :-) > At least all those stupid arguments about top-posting > and snipping text and posting binaries should be gone > forever! People have bad manners wherever you go. Forums just have different types of bad manners and laziness.... which is always at the root cause of such arguments IMO. Andrew McP

You've GOT to be kidding! -Larry "scott" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:bu90hg$2n9m$[email hidden]... > Certainly for me, my broadband provider doesn't provide a news server,so..

In article <RVXNb.2747$_H5.2125@lakeread06>, "Larry" <[email hidden]> writes: >This was my argument against using web forums, but it happened anyway :( I ended up dropping out of one of my GPL leagues because they switched to a forum for communication. I don't like forums, and it wasn't worth the hassle of not being able to download mail and group messages all at once, like I do now. Eldred -- Homepage - http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Member Screamers Racing League IICC League GPLRank -2.4 MoGPL rank +302.38 ChallengeRank +54.48 MoC +743.77 Hist. +82.82 MoH in progress N2k3 rank:in progress Remove SPAM-OFF to reply.

"EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > That's probably a product of people bitching here. Game X comes out, and > naturally a lot of people talk about it. But then you have the people whoare > NOT interested in Game X that start complaining. Instead of just ignoring > threads about Game X, they end up saying "We don't care about Game X - getyour > OWN damn forum for that!" [sarcasm] Well that's *obviously* because Game X is no GPL! [/sarcasm] -jde

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> [sarcasm] > > Well that's *obviously* because Game X is no GPL! > > [/sarcasm] > > -jde >

No sarcasm needed, EVERYBODY knows Game X couldn't wash GPL's shorts...!!! :) dave henrie

4 No sarcasm needed, EVERYBODY knows Game X couldn't wash GPL's shorts...!!! :) dave henrie

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