On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Travis Briggs <audiod...@gmail.com> wrote: > As someone who is thinking about registering, I was just wondering, what is > the canonical source of current rules? > > The link on the homepage points to a text file that says "go see > http://agora.qoid.us/current_flr.txt"; which itself is dated 24 November > 2014.
I responded about this on IRC, and also monologued a bit about infrastructure improvements that would be nice, including finally getting rid of the hassle for new players, which probably seems bizarre, of repeating the mailman subscription process 3 times in a row... I just did a barebones update to the links on agoranomic.org, but I think a somewhat more substantial change is called for. I might try to do this when I'm less tired, but if anyone else is interested, the homepage is on GitHub[1] and I will accept pull requests (unless there is any controversy, in which case maybe a proposal is called for ;p). Some ideas: - Really, a-d should be mentioned in the same section as a-b and a-o, with the backups by themselves: it doesn't really make sense to encourage new payers, even vaguely, to join a-b and a-o without a-d, and the current layout sort of makes it look like you have to join 5 mailing lists, increasing the abovementioned hassle (while in fact there's no /urgent/ need for new players to join the backups, one of which doesn't even work). - Mention that reading the entire ruleset is not a requirement for joining. - More generally, there should be a guide for new players. For inspiration, here is a 20-year-old(!) Agora Guidebook: http://agora.qoid.us/www.fysh.org/~zefram/agora/agora_vanyel0/agora/guidebook.html - Putting a dynamic list of recent list posts right on the homepage would quickly demonstrate to any comers that the game is not dead (...or if it is). Somewhat related non-homepage-related ideas: - Non-fixed-width ruleset - Better rule browser - ... [1] https://github.com/comex/agoranomic
