WotC Forum Closure Delayed?

Morrus · Nov 5, 2015

What will be interesting is to see if new registrations here increase or decrease now that they WotC forums are closed. On the one hand, some folks may have been waiting until the very end; on the other hand, while they were open but closing, people were being directed here. I wonder what will happen now? I assume mainly people will head to social media, and a small percentage will stumble across us via Google.

Hollow Man · Nov 5, 2015

I don't do Reddit, and barely use Google+, but via Facebook D&D talk is quite active. Its biggest problem is that it's hard to find information, because there's no organization whatsoever, so the same things get asked, then answered, a lot.

I'm still "classic" in that I do like getting information on my various hobbies via forums, and have lots of forum accounts scattered about the place. For whatever reason I lurked here for a while before I registered...go figure.

Anyway, yeah...it'll be interesting to see if the community grows here now that the WotC forums are GONE gone.

-HM

Morrus · Nov 5, 2015

Facebook recently announced that public posts (like those on pages and public groups) will be archivable and searchable. That will be the thing, I think, that bridges the difference between a forum and a social network.

G+ posts come up first in Google searches already.

Hollow Man · Nov 5, 2015

Morrus said:
Facebook recently announced that public posts (like those on pages and public groups) will be archivable and searchable.

Will the posts in the Facebook D&D groups, which generally one has to be an approved member of to participate in, be searchable?

-HM

Morrus · Nov 5, 2015

Hollow Man said:
Will the posts in the Facebook D&D groups, which generally one has to be an approved member of to participate in, be searchable?

-HM

Existing privacy permissions will be respected, so that will be entirely up to the group owners.

ShadoWWW · Nov 5, 2015

WotC Forum is eventually closed!

Mistwell · Nov 5, 2015

Morrus said:
I've never really used it, so I don't know much about it. It's very popular from what I understand. Still, I'm happy enough in our little corner of the web.

They have one very useful thing. The Monster A Day thread, which someone has compiled into a PDF. With 81 entries now, mostly looking very professional, it's almost like a free Monster Manual 2.

RealAlHazred · Nov 5, 2015

Meh, I'm on the /r/D&D subreddit. It's not a bad forum -- there are some great threads, and some terrible ones, and occasionally an edition war gets ugly; this makes it exactly like every other D&D forum.

FWIW, if you stick with just the one subreddit, it's not bad. Just avoid the dark places, stick to the high way, and you'll be fine.