{"id":77,"date":"2005-10-17T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2005-10-17T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T18:22:00","slug":"the-importance-of-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/the-importance-of-forums\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of forums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with Emmanuel (funpause owner) yesterday about the importance of having a forum. He objected that since he makes prevalently casual games, he thinks that his customers would find a forum quite useless.<br \/>\nInstead for software houses like mine who makes complex games, definitely not casual (like UBM or Magic Stones) having a forums can really help.<br \/>\nHelp both you and other players\/customers.<br \/>\nYou first as developer: as you may know if you&#8217;re a programmer, there&#8217;s always a very well hidden bug somewhere in the code, and more people can test and easily report it (like in a forum). I fixed many bugs thanks to comments of people in forums. I also post there if &#8220;that bug XX was already fixed in version 1.31&#8221; so even other people who have same problem can just take a look and find a solution for their problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking with Emmanuel (funpause owner) yesterday about the importance of having a forum. He objected that since he makes prevalently casual games, he thinks that his customers would find a forum quite useless. Instead for software houses like mine who makes complex games, definitely not casual (like UBM or Magic Stones) having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}