LogFAQs > #976715637

YoBlazer posted...

Do you have any ideas as to how someone could have kept text-based guides and message boards relevant?

Hindsight is 20/20 but I do think changes to the FAQ format rolled out during or immediately before/after contests could have helped immensely because it would give people who come only during contest time the feel that the site was evolving. I do think there are legs to the FAQ format-- changing structure to something more wikilike rather than .txt dumps would be good as would integrating video walkthroughs WITH text based guides. Make sections of the video jump to the corresponding text when clicked, make sections of the text jump to parts of the video when clicked. Text based guides and videos working in harmony sounds magical to me.

Even something as simple as modernizing the interface would have helped loads though. "Text based" is taboo only because this website looks like something from like 2004.

It's easy to say "like what" when it's not clear what the answer is, but SBAllen didn't even try anything and frankly you could hire some web developers for, no joke, a few hundred bucks to help put together some site redesigns. He just did the bare minimum maintenance and then sold the site when time came.

There was a time when people who didn't come here used to mention GameFAQs. So yeah it was absolutely a missed opportunity, and that's a real shame to not even have tried anything.