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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 5492906" data-attributes="member: 2642">I'd be very sad to see the news page go. I don't post that often but I've been a reader of this site in its various forms since 1999 and it was the 3E news of that early era that first brought me here.But, if I'm honest with myself, I'd be sad about this for reasons of nostalgia, not because I get a hell of a lot out of it in its current form. For reasons others such as Umbran and especially Erik Mona have touched on, the news page as it currently exists, while I still find it worth browsing, is just not as interesting as it used to be.Besides the factors others have mentioned, I'd also have to say there is less need for the kind of resource this site used to be than there was in the early years; all but the smallest publishers are smarter about getting the word out themselves, and the third party market is (with the possible exception of the OSR) just not as exciting a place as it used to be. I'm not saying that such a resource couldn't exist nowadays, and I for one would love it if it did, but the incentives to create one are weaker than they once were. Today's Internet and today's hobby gaming market are just different places than they were a decade ago.</blockquote>