Working on Viral Sugar on word press, I've realized how much better it is then Blogspot. You have all these plug-in's, themes, tools and bunch of other things that help you personalize your blog. Here you have themes... and well, that's about it.
Not to say I don't like Blogspot, I think when it comes to actual posts and managing it, its a lot better. But, for someone like me, well I like to fool around with a bunch of stuff. And if my Blog were to be on word press... I would probably be writing more? Ok, probably not.
Of course, I'm saying all this when I don't really know if Blogspot supports Plug-in's and what not. Its just that I've never seen them so I assume they don't.
I should probably note that Viral Sugar is going through a re-design. Generally, I like the look but they're a few things about the innards that I don't particularly like.
What happened to that secret cool website I joined? Well it's still going on... just without me. The owner listens to a lot of the writers, and a lot or, at least one wanted to go all gonzo journalist. And he pretty much agreed.
I won't get into much detail of what the plans were but I'll give you one. Some guy got the idea of two different reviews for a game. One: a standard review where one guy reviews the ins and outs of a game, and two: opinions of two different people on the game and where they stand. Which isn't anything new, and its always cool to have a more in depth discussion and read about. But what go weird was with the second one.
See, the more "in depth" discussion turned out to be more of a historical perspective and how said game gets its ideas from and how it evolved into what it is now... Like what? Is that really necessary? I mean, in truth, that isn't a review. Its just looking at the family tree of genre games that happened before it. I can't speak for everyone but to me, hearing how Mass Effect 2 got its origins from... I don't know... say Quake isn't all that interesting. Eventually the owner got behind it and adding more stuff to that with a bunch of other ideas.
I can even remember a time when one of the writers asked the group "Is this site right for me?" with someone replying to the effects of "We need to show just how different we are from other video game websites". Then this other time with "This is how I feel reviews should be written" to another reply of "Let's be totally different so we can get attention". Of course I'm paraphrasing there.
It's all good and dandy to be different, and all honesty I was ok with a lot of the initial plans. But I just couldn't go for the idea of being different for the sake of different. In my eyes, if you find your niche and just stick with it, you'll just become "that site that does this". But again, the site as far as my knowledge goes is still in development and a lot can change.
Maybe I should of stayed and seen how it went, but then again, the owner should of seen people not liking the direction the site is going.
When I left I told him that the site has a good basis and if he does stick to his plan he should be fine. And I believe that wholeheartedly. For a volunteer job about writing video games, I never seen a development staff put as much effort as it has. I also told him to not loose sight with where he wants to take the site. Because at the time, he had about fifteen writers and I'm sure they all have different opinions.
Morale of the story: Blogspot is A-Ok!
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