8 Jun
2006
8 Jun
'06
3:07 p.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
CCN-turned-TR would "go blog" instead.
*runs*
We're quite aware that the web log format will
turn off some readers. Some
people insisted that CCN be delivered in raw text as no more than 80
columns, as we were happy to oblige. That made sense two years ago. But
now we think it's equally important to help this hobby grow, and the web is
the place to do it. We'll be sorry to see any of our former readers leave,
so we ask that you give the format a try.
Other than the inclusion of images (or in the case of the web, links to),
can't you just spit out each blog entry automatically to subscribers who want
plain text rather than a web format? Heck, you could even include links at the
relevant points in the plain text to the images referenced on the website if
you wanted. Do it at say the close of each day and spit out that day's entries
from your database in plain-text form as an email.
Or does the new site have no concept at all of a subscription database and
it's purely casual browsing only?
What 'scale' issues did you have with the email format? Surely 99% of people
can handle subscribing and unsubscribing without intervention of any kind of
admin.
I'm missing something, I know - but I fail to see how writing, collating and
formatting text into a web page is really any different to writing, collating
and forming text into an email; the former's just far more
heavyweight/slower/inconvenient for the user!
cheers
Jules