Just an idea, I think having a dedicated 'GOG News Forum' would be good

It's a bit tiring having to trawl through the general forum, looking for News posts.

All the best

This has bad idea written all over it. :P

If you are only interested in the OP post of the news posts, then the RSS feed is your friend.

Don`t we have enuff news threads already?

Aren't the Headlines on the main page exactly that?

I think that would be a good idea. Does anyone know if there is any way to only display threads that a GOG staff member has submitted or posted in? "?staff=yes" works only in threads and not in the forum itself. If you don't like them you wouldn't have to look at the News forum. Not every news thread gets a headline and of course there are differences to a thread.

If you use my script you can just use the username search with "Gog" and it will bring up staff and news posts, I'd advise you only do about 100 pages at a time though as it can get slow and crash at much above that (and it's limited to about 300 pages anyway to prevent crashes)

When you say "news", are you talking about news relating to gaming, gamers, electronics, and etc. or are you talking about world news like politics, plane crashes, and propaganda?

I'd be all for more games news, completely uninterested in seeing world news on here.

I think he's talking about news from GOG, not from sources like, say, snowkatt or catpower1980.

Generally that would not be a bad idea, especially for a brand new website/forum just starting out. They tend to have separate areas for news, announcements, general, support and other categories. The problem with retrofitting it into an existing forum with a long history though is that there is already a long history of such posts being where they are now already and people having expectations of where things are and how things work. Any changes to the way things are done are going to be met by people who really would like to see the given change happen, and those who greatly oppose the change. Both groups with valid reasons. In the case of GOG, they've got little incentive to change it because it more or less works good enough as is, and they know if they were to make such changes like this even with the absolute best of intentions - like most things they change there is a vicious highly polarized 50:50 split in the community upon which world war 3 breaks out, and GOG is caught in the middle ending up being hated equally by both sides. They can't ever win.

In the end, violent war breaks out at the mere idea of it and almost always - nothing ever changes. GOG is pretty highly unlikely to make any major changes to the way the forums are divided up, or where or how things are posted at this point in time because making any changes will derail things no matter what the change is and anything to be gained by it is lost in all of the noise and fighting of angry opinions in favour and against the change(s).

The easy way to see just the news is as JMich suggested, subscribe to the RSS feed, or if you don't use RSS then subscribe to the newsletter and get it emailed to yourself and archive it locally. The newsletters and RSS contain links that point back to the forums so if you want to actually comment on an article you'll still have an easy way to navigate to the forum and do so. The benefit of this is that, it works right now for everyone this way so it is usable right away, and the second benefit is that it doesn't require GOG to change anything, while the third benefit is not needing to rely on something changing that most likely never will change. :)



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