Goodman Games Forums Closing.

[darjr]

Goodman Games have decided to close their forums.

Goodman Games has outgrown its web forums — the software of which has certain incompatibilities with the direction we’re moving for the rest of our site — so we will be shutting the forums down in about a month.

That’s four weeks to migrate important information elsewhere, stay in touch with contacts, etc.

We still do most of our communication through our Facebook page: Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game

You can also keep up with us at our official discord site: Join the Goodman Games Discord Server!

Thanks for all the support from the greatest fans in gaming over the many years of our forums — we look forward to seeing you on Facebook and Discord!

Here is a direct link in case you want to go fetch anything.

Goodman Games Forum

I joined back in 2009 and haven't posted much. I'd always hopped that it would get more traction.

 

[JEB]

Hopefully there'll be sufficient backups on the Internet Archive. Hate to see history going away. (Still sad so much of the Wizards forums didn't make it.)

 

[Celebrim]

Makes me realize I need to go ahead and write that web crawler to store all my history here.

 

[Autumnal]

@Celebrim Would you say that’s an agenda, a premise, or a mode of system use?

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Ugh, another company doing this. The increasing trend to shift to Discord over traditional forums just leaves me cold, I don't like the format at all. Pretty much done with Facebook as well, that's been too toxic for me since 2018 or so.

Ah well, I'm sure it makes business sense to them, and there's no point losing money on updating forums if they don't get the traffic any more.

 

[payn]

Ugh, another company doing this. The increasing trend to shift to Discord over traditional forums just leaves me cold, I don't like the format at all. Pretty much done with Facebook as well, that's been too toxic for me since 2018 or so.

Ah well, I'm sure it makes business sense to them, and there's no point losing money on updating forums if they don't get the traffic any more.

Yes, I like discord a lot for organizing my local play groups. Though, its a terrible format for in-depth and long running discussions.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Yes, I like discord a lot for organizing my local play groups. Though, its a terrible format for in-depth and long running discussions.

Yeah, that's my principle objection to it, with often-poor moderation being a secondary issue. Certainly has its uses, just not my cup of tea.

 

[Celebrim]

@Celebrim Would you say that’s an agenda, a premise, or a mode of system use?

It's definitely an agenda and a mode. But as I didn't create the forums, I also didn't create their premise. You'd have to ask someone else about that.

 

[Emberashh]

Not surprising. Conglomeration platforms like Reddit and Discord are just too convenient and broadly useful for these kinds of things.

 

[Nikosandros]

Unsurprising news, but still sad for me. I really dislike Discord as a discussion platform and Reddit is possibly even worse (all of this IMHO).