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[Tracker]

...who for whatever reason, have no urge to register on site, or who have but don't visit regularly.

Recently I have just became one of those people, yet I never thought I should register on Facebook (let me tell you I have no accounts on FB or Twitter either), just because I'm not here every night. Of course it would be boring to log in whenever I'd like to access the forums, but then I ask, what are the cookies for? In this case surely not for happy munching, so if you just save your password (not that anyone would like to steal your AB account to post bulls__t, right?), it'll automatically log you in whenever you visit the site (Theoretically. Practically, if you use Firefox, or the site has a bad day, you might be f___d, as there have been cookie issues in the not distant enough past). I can't see that as a reason to have a too close relation with FB, and that script the debate is about, is a sign of a relation not enough remote. We're just reinventing the wheel here I believe, as one of us did with a retrogaming oriented "social networking site" - why would we need a new place for sharing our experiences in this subculture?

I must admit that those SNS sites are a paradise for PR folks and advertisers, and we might want to share what we have with the world through them, but I believe that those who are interested in oldschool gaming actually find us on their own, and the casual FBers are in no way interested in tweaking DOSBox to be able to run ancient games or play ancient games at all, and such.

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Originally Posted by Tracker

one of us did with a retrogaming oriented "social networking site" - why would we need a new place for sharing our experiences in this subculture?

I've voiced similar opinion back then. I simply couldn't see what new that site can give to us.

Originally Posted by Tracker

those SNS sites are a paradise for PR folks and advertisers

Exactly. That's why the social networks gained social acceptance and multiplatform support (those built-in FB buttons in newest handhelds!) all of the sudden, because they've realized this.

Originally Posted by Lulu_Jane

I am very interested in any ideas you guys have for implementing this better

I guess the common Facebook crowd is too dumb to use RSS (to aggregate headlines/news from dozens of websites at once).