Sunsetting the fontgeek forum

Craigy is basically the digital equivalent of a vet shooting an old broken horse that no one wants anymore and is costing too much to keep alive. He probably doesn't want to, but he kind of has to. Or Lord Reedpop will beat his ass.

The poster has taken his comment back. In the spirit of Craigy, let's sunset this conversation.

Forum killing bastard.

I kind of got the impression it was too much work for him to move it over to the new platform so he decided to bin it. Not that I really give a shit who's decision it was.

It really doesn’t matter now, does it. Why not move on?

Was Craigy even involved with RPS before the acquisition? He's always seemed alright and had a good rapport with the EG lot. Plus he seems to be keeping an eye on FG which is nice. It probably could have been handled better for RPS but his job isn't PR - should have been someone else dropping the news anyway

As I said in the RPS thread, I don't think Craigy really did anything wrong, though it would have been nice if he introduced himself. What annoys me is that not a single familiar face from RPS bothered to pop their head in for five minutes to break the news. Ex-editor-in-chief Graham turned up when a mod summoned him to say he'd be around to answer questions and then hasn't replied at all (which Craigy at least did - thanks craigy). Makes you feel loved and appreciated, that does.

SIR,you forget yourself! This thread will have incredible value to historians:

fontgeek.io/thread/34/poo-diaries?page=1#post-21325

One can only weep at the loss of the original and the impact on generations to come

I don’t really get why the sites would have shown any love or appreciation when they weren’t at all engaged with them for several years. Most staff that had some engagement left years ago.

Essentially they let everyone squat on their sites chatting away at the sites cost for probably no return. If they’d shown interest for some time then I’d get it.

Still, the community carries on so why not move on and put any bitterness to one side.

They aren’t, just running them is a cost and they’re difficult to monetise. Pushing people onto discord or twitter makes it someone else’s responsibility

I still don't understand Discord as a way of building a community as there's just no permanence to what's been discussed so you just find people repeating the same questions again and again especially if it's a chat that acts as a information resource. I haven't been on the official EG Discord but that's deader than dead right? Which is ironic considering the forum was judged as dead.

There’s no intention of building a community, they want all traffic on the main site where there’s adverts, the quality of the comments is also irrelevant. Discord was a token suggestion to appease a few hundred forum users, it’s run by a volunteer and costs nothing

Personal opinion and all that, but it’s the “community” bit that I actually value. That’s why I stuck around Eurogamer for 20+ years and also why I spent a lot of time on the Guardian Gamesblog pages (also RIP) several years back.

Without community - regular names that you get to know - the internet really is just shouting into the void.

I guess the front page of EG has also changed - there’s now far more regurgitation of press releases and stories about Fortnite skins compared to the Kristan Reed and Tom Bramwell era. I used to love reading EG reviews and articles just because they were great pieces of writing about a topic I was passionate about, or they were funny (Ellie Gibson) but now they’re mostly whimsy or filler. I mean Chris Donlan puts words together nicely enough but I’m not sure I really feel what he’s saying.

Emma Kent was a shining star who did some great writing but even she’s gone.

I dunno… life moves on. It’s just sad that the EG owners and editorial team didn’t really know or care much about what they had there.