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Originally Posted by EricH
You do realize that the vast majority of these sites started--in quite a few cases, years ago--by working with/on CD? Sometimes, a forum/discussion format just isn't the way to go!
FRCDesigns is a design repository: CAD and the like. CD doesn't do that nearly as well, even in CD-Media (which has quite a few renders, but detailed CAD doesn't fit very well). As I recall, it WAS discussed on CD when it started. There are quite a few other groups that are formed through CD, but work independently because they've got a different purpose for existing.
On another note: There was one infrastructure collaboration between CD and something else. I think FRCwiki is shut down--or at least not in active use--because people just didn't use it and spammers did.
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Eric, I understand what your saying, but also notice that it's possible stand what you wrote on it's head.
Creating a persistent, easy to find and navigate path between the sites sounds like something desirable. However, using a discussion thread is a lousy way to make a persistent path between the sites. As you say, sometimes a forum/discussion format (for an announcement intended to have a lasting effect) just isn't the way to go.
The sort of collaboration I'm suggesting might amount to nothing more than replacing the discussion-thread type of announcement the OP used (that will disappear in a matter of hours), with a persistent, well-labelled link on CD to the other site (and a link on the other site to CD).
The cooperation might turn into a formal division of responsibilities, it might not.
Right now, for me, announcements like the OP feel like a balkanization of information/resources. Perhaps I (and maybe others?) am given that impression because the announcement doesn't describe the FRCDesigns site as a part of a complete, bigger whole.
WIBNI each of the sites mentioned in this thread (CD, Gamesense, FRCDesigns, TBA ...), prominently mentioned each of the others, and their respective missions, on each site home page? I checked CD, Gamesense, and FRCDesigns. None of them do it.
I suppose I have used a curmudgeonly way of making my point, but regardless, I think it is a valid point.
Blake