News @ Gameslate

Update: Nope, I'm second-guessing this again.

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Following my ponderings and expelling of frustrations last week, I'm bitting the bullet and moving ahead with Drupal 5, something that in hindsight I should have done months ago. Ahhh well, it's easy to look back isn't it. Now it'll feel good to get back to the grindstone.

My priority will be on moving the main Gameslate community features to Drupal over the coming weeks. I'd like to get the guild features in especially, since Age of Conan will be launching on May 20th. I'll be experimenting with different configurations with the Organic Groups module until then.

Gates Motel will come afterwards, I'm not feeling super rushed on it and would rather spend the time to get it running nice and stable like it once was. I realize after all this time that Gates isn't likely to gather the large community that it once enjoyed, aside from the time spent in a half-assed state, casual gaming has plenty of other popular avenues these days. Still, long live old BBS ports!

In the long run, it would be nice if Gameslate can carve out a niche for itself within game-centric websites. I don't necessarily want to compete with the big media offerings, the portal communities or the recent game-related blogs, but I would like to provide a cozy place for gaming peeps to gather around.

Now I just need to juggle this with other stuff that I've got going on. =)