The future of the RPG Blog Alliance

As many are aware, Google+ is closing its doors and with it the community that we were using as the base for the RPG Blog Alliance (RPGBA) will be going with it. As the “keeper of the keys” so to speak I’ve been giving this some serious thought and feel that it’s time to morph things a bit which I hope will improve the RPGBA going forward.

The first and largest step is to give the RPGBA a home on the open internet again. Now there are a lot of ways to accomplish this and I’ve decided to take a position similarly to what we’ve done with the RPG Blog Carnival – create a central hub we can work off of and then, should the need arise, a new keeper can assume things but simply moving the hub to a location that they can administer.

The new hub for the RPGBA will be located here at of Dice and Dragons, you can find it in the menu at the top of the site right now or directly link to it at: https://ofdiceanddragons.com/rpg-blog-alliance/

If you head over to the page now it will give you some information as well as links about where you can find RPGBA member postings via RSS feeds and social media.

There’s still more information to come, including how to join the RPGBA and stay on our active rolls (there are a lot of blogs that have unfortunately shut down or haven’t been updated in months or years).

Please spread the word, and share your thoughts and ideas in the comments below. The RPGBA is a community,  it’s not just about me, it’s about all of us, helping each other and expanding the reach our of hobby and community.

May your dice roll well!

 

7 Comments

  1. I definitely think that we need to do something to refresh the brand a little, as well – give people a reason for being involved, even if it’s as simple as a weekly link aggregator collecting articles from RPGA member sites that anyone (even non-members) can visit/subscribe to.

    1. Agreed, the Alliance needs to be brought back to life, we’ve been on life support for too long.

      Appreciate the suggestion, challenge is there are over 150 articles on average but I will look into it.

      1. It must be possible, I’ve seen many websites that have a blogroll listing the most recent posts by other sites that the site owner has listed. It might be a headache manually adding each site to the list, but there must be a way to batch that – even if it’s a form that each Alliance member needs to fill out or something to be included.

        1. It is possible. The right side of the page currently shows postings from members of the Alliance right below the subscribe button for the blog. Is more needed? Yes. I am planning a full listing of the member sites, a downloadable OPML file, and links out to more resources.

          It’s just going to take time and as long as the community continues to support the effort I’ll do my best to keep things rolling along.

  2. Thanks for creating a rally point for the RPG Carnival — these all sound like excellent first steps.

  3. I took advantage of the roundup post for the under-subscribed March blog carnival to publish some further thoughts on the RPG B A and what it *could* be to its members and the wider public. http://bit.ly/2WTGBCB

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