28 October 2011
New domain name, no more Wikia, pwnage Snap
You may have noticed, I went ahead and moved this blog from gracefool.posterous.com to my own domain gracefool.com. Unfortunately this means you can't see the likes and retweets for the old posts. Some +1s have shown up, so looks like Google+ has it sorted, but not Facebook or TweetMeme. Oh well - they're out there somewhere. So yeah it's not that my blog had no audience until now. My most popular post was "From next week, P2P in New Zealand is illegal", despite it being my least favourite (it turned out the main point didn't really matter). My followup post was much better, but it didn't catch on. It wasn't helped by Wikia looking ugly.
After my trial run with Wikia I decided it isn't ready for what I want (a blog with MediaWiki collaboration tools). Perhaps it's possible to make it look nice like Posterous, but it would be a lot of work. I also found a bunch of very annoying bugs, including an inability to edit old revisions, and issues with blog posts. Wikia isn't quite what I want anyway, it doesn't give the admin full control of the wiki - if an admin doesn't logon for 30 days, the wiki is released for adoption by someone else.
I think Wikia is still worthwhile for other things though, so I started the Ultimate Snap wiki with a comprehensive rule set. Ultimate Snap is my favourite tabletop game - if you think Snap is boring or just for kids, try Ultimate Snap and you'll likely change your mind, the only limits are your imagination, and it's inevitably hilarious. Strategy is simple and card counting isn't much use so it's a perfect party game. I made the Facebook page for Snap too, because I like creating pages - Facebook is my favourite computer game ^_^
