{"id":921,"date":"2008-11-09T23:21:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T23:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=921"},"modified":"2008-11-09T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T23:21:35","slug":"or-is-it-because-we-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2008\/11\/or-is-it-because-we-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"Or is it because we smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playfire.com\/idcrisis\">Playfire<\/a> &#8211; a social networking site for computer gamers. It got me wondering why there&#8217;s no equivalent for wargamers.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/user\/idcrisis\">BoardGameGeek<\/a> but (a) the interface sucks and (b) its remit is so much wider than wargames. <a href=\"http:\/\/theminiaturespage.com\/\"><abbr title=\"The Miniatures Page\">TMP<\/abbr><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frothersunite.com\/\" title=\"Not Safe For Work. Ever.\">Frothers<\/a> are fine places to come together and talk about games but that&#8217;s all. Where&#8217;s the site where I can catalogue the games I play and the miniatures I own and connect with other players?<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the functionality that the knitters have on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/\">Ravelry<\/a> would be great &#8211; a flexible but standardised way of listing &#8220;projects&#8221; &#8211; which minis, which paints, which <abbr title=\"Table of Organisation and Equipment\">TOE<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"Work In Progress\">WIP<\/abbr> photos, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Considering how geeky and techie a lot of wargamers are, why has no one created the site? Is it simply because the idea of <strong>social<\/strong> networking isn&#8217;t really our thing?<\/p>\n<p>Someone will now pop up in the comments and tell me about a site that I should have known about all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was introduced to Playfire &#8211; a social networking site for computer gamers. It got me wondering why there&#8217;s no equivalent for wargamers. There&#8217;s BoardGameGeek but (a) the interface sucks and (b) its remit is so much wider than wargames. TMP and Frothers are fine places to come together and talk about games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,3,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-games","category-miniatures","category-www"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}