Posted by Tony C on January 17, 2002 at 13:01:21:
In Reply to: Re: Reservations posted by Dave K. on January 17, 2002 at 12:55:50:
: I agree with Jonathan's well worded (non-flamey) opinion :-). Lets not fragment the high quality community that comes to BYOAC. I think its great that AD is offering these finely written tutorials, and has a msg board to support the tutorials only.
: I would also like to defend Saint's choice of msg board software. Using newer msg board software usually requires more administraion responsiblity (userid/password administration for example). This board is very simple and intuative.
: -Dave
: : Hey, Agent Davis, I know you mean well, but I gotta admit to serious misgivings about this.
: : Right now, arcadecontrols.com is host to pretty much the only message board dedicated to custom-built arcade cabinets. While I think the message board interface here is pretty clunky and wish Saint would upgrade to some of the more modern software that's available (hint, hint) there is very much to be said for having just one place for all us cab builders to congregate and discuss. If you set up competing message boards, it'll add an extra stop on our daily surf. It'll probably also result in a lot of duplication, as people post identical questions to both boards in hopes of getting the most replies, and it'll result in some people missing out on important information (if, say, Person A only reads your boards and Person B only reads arcadecontrols.com, and Person A has a query that only Person B can answer).
: : It's great to have extra resources available on the Internet. But it's also great to have a single "meeting place", and I hope you think long and hard before fragmenting it.