Blogs

[Slothy]

For instance, I'm thinking about doing an FF foodie type of blog here soon. Where does that go - the front site? Doubtful, because it's not really news or anything really related to Final Fantasy itself other than in reference. The art threads? Also doubtful. Threads in GC? Who wants to see me posting pictures of food and recipes in a main forum thread once a week? Also doubtful.

This is what I was trying to get at but I think Shorty has done a much better job of it than I did. Sometimes things just don't quite fit somewhere. Sure, GC is a bit of a catch all forum for the stuff that doesn't go anywhere else, but I also tend to think of it as the least serious forum on the site, and sometimes a lot of discussion can get in the way of a topic. Shorty's food blog idea is probably a better example than mine. Blogs would let her post a recipe and pictures and whatever, people can reply and comment as much as they like, then for the next one she just does a new blog post. It's better than cluttering up a forum with multiple threads about the same thing, or cluttering a thread with 50+ pages of some pictures and recipes people might like to try, and a whole bunch of conversation which may or may not be relevant and is a pain to sift through if you want to find something in particular.

You can have just as much conversation, but the ability to sift through the blog for different topics is a bit simpler than searching a single or multiple threads.