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Sunday, February 27, 2005
If you build it, they will come. | If you haven't already been, you should really visit Alan's Dead-Seraphim.net forums. It's a cool place and Alan is offering to teach you how to modify your myOtaku in slightly less-than-legal ways. That alone really makes it worthwhile, especially if you have questions about how to achieve certain effects.
I remember saying to Adam a while ago that I'd like to see more precise controls for styles on myOtaku.com. Adam expressed a concern that the uh..."lower quality members", so to speak, might create sites that are simply unreadable as a result. But I told him that they will do that anyway; just look at the sites with millions of quizzes on their front pages and so on.
So in an effort to push that agenda a little, my next myO update is going to see a combination of Alan's hacking support and my own design ideas. It'll be similar to this design in terms of colours, but it's going to feature edited graphics and HTML code. I hope that the end result will be pleasing, if only to demonstrate how far it's possible to go on myOtaku.com as it currently stands.
I have also had something on my mind lately, in regard to OtakuBoards.
As you know, theOtaku.com has never really had a history of affiliation. Many web sites get very involved in affiliation and so on, as a way of advertising for free and building up their visitor base. Due to our current size and growth, it is unnecessary for us to link up with other sites in this way. Obviously there are benefits to that; we are able to very carefully control the kind of content on our network and so on.
However, specifically in reference to OB, I am interested in looking outward. I don't actually intend to have any kind of affiliation program through OB or anything, however, I would like to consider expanding our Community Events forum, so that we can develop cross-site events with event partners.
I see a few advantages to this. One, OtakuBoards is a pretty tight-knit community. We're very independent and proud of our uniqueness. But at the same time, we are part of a vast sea of anime and gaming-based communities on the Internet. Obviously there are varying levels of quality, but there are still quite a few sites out there who have a similar attitude to quality as OtakuBoards.
So, I'm interested in seeing if we can expand our community-wide events to include other friendly sites. There are already several online communities who are engaged in this type of activity. And not so long ago, there was an opportunity to do it on OB -- unfortunately, the other site was a Gran Turismo site (of similar size to our own), but I didn't feel that there were enough hardcore GT players on OB to justify any kind of competition.
Still, it's something I am thinking about. Of course, if anything like this goes forward, you can bet that I'll be very cautious about who partners with us on such events. Afterall, I am more concerned about OB's quality and integrity than anyone else. What do you think, anyway? Are there any sites out there that you think would make good candidates for this type of thing? |
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