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Yogi the Great -> RE: Curious Question about Matrix/Slitherine forums (5/29/2015 12:52:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: wodin
I wonder how they decide what goes to Slitherine and what goes to Matrix. Personally I'd put the more groggy games here and the more casual games over at Slitherine.
Here's what Ian posted on Slitherine to a thread I started asking about why some games only have the Matrix Logo, some only Slitherine logo, some both logos, and whay now some games are only being covered in one forum or the other.
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Hi guys,
both Slitherine & Matrix are strong companies with strong communities and identities. If we used the Matrix forum as the basis for the future it would alienate Slitherine customers and vice versa.
We've experimented with various approaches over the last 5 years and we've decided the best thing to do is make all games available via both sites but to focus on presenting the games that each community is looking for. The Matrix audience is more interested in deeper hardcore strategy games and so we only put up news that is relevant to that. We only promote games that appeal to that audience. Hardcore wargames are Matrix branded - e.g. War in the West, Brother Against Brother etc. Slitherine games are general aimed at a slightly wider market though to the rest of the industry are still hardcore strategy games. This covers games like Panzer Coprs, Pandora, Order of Battle etc. These games are Slitherine branded.
We could just combine everything but we think we'd have a lot of unhappy people it we did. It would certainly make life simpler to do that but the simplest option is not always the best. To avoid duplicated forums the plan going forwards is to have only one forum per game either on Slitherine or Matrix, depending which umbrella it is under. You'll see a redirect in the forum pushing you to the appropriate forum on the other site. The combined login system should allow you to use your credentials on either site and if not tech support will sort it out (there were some logical issues with combining some accounts due to duplicated usernames and it takes a bit of manual setup to sort it all out).
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