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Message: <blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 4402813" data-attributes="member: 43019">Speaking as the Gleemax Blogs Volunteer Community Lead... shutting down the blogs is a good and correct thing to happen. I'm not official and I don't know if my opinions ever made it anywhere, but for several months I and some others tried to make things work and ran into a lot of technical problems. But they didn't have the resources to get things where they needed to be - that's nothing to be ashamed of, I kept saying it was crazy to do Magic Online V3, D&D Insider, Gleemax Games Portal, Gleemax Blogs, a forum reorg... all at the same time. In the same three month span even. I'm also not sure what happened with the outside company that was working on a lot of these things, but I haven't seen mention of it lately so I'd kinda assumed things went really wrong with that deal. Maybe that's just the cynic in me, though.Anyhow, back in May (before Merric's post, though I suspect his post got a lot more attention : - ) I said dead out that they really should just put the blogs on pause, say they don't have the resources, put the resources on more important stuff (MOv3 and DDI) and that people would understand. This is something I'm sure they already knew, but it's a hard truth of realistic use of resources and I'd been hoping to discuss things at Gen Con more. Apparently there's no need.There actually was a ton of good stuff on Gleemax blogs that unfortunately only a few people other than myself ever saw. Especially back in the beginning when the technical problems were really bad. But, we move on. I really want to see D&DI succeed. Maybe someday the D&D Game Table will be working great and we'll see implemented the ability to port your character, adventure, screenshot, etc to your dnd blog of some sort. Maybe from Magic Online you can export your deck, tournament results, even a play by play. Those are tie ins to their core products that I'd appreciate and are a good basis to build onto for greater online offerings. Maybe that will grow from there into something more. In the meantime, get all those resources onto the things people really want and are asking for. As Mike says, that's a good thing. Now, Ari losing contracts on novels. That's not a good thing at all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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