When I first clicked on this site, I really thought for a moment that I looking at Grogheads. http://thegamebox.gamesontables.com/index.php
Michael
There can be only one.
Quote from: DicedT on September 04, 2014, 08:01:46 AM
When I first clicked on this site, I really thought for a moment that I looking at Grogheads. http://thegamebox.gamesontables.com/index.php
Michael
yep - that was a schism in the BGG community and they're using the same forum software we use (and Languish.org, and others).
I reached out to some of those guys from BGG when the split happened, but they weren't interested in coming over here because we don't talk enough board games for them, which was pretty much
why I wanted to reach out to them... ::)
Far more disturbing was a website Brant found a few years ago while I was still running WG.
There was a site that had cloned WG. Identical except for the URL. At Brant's urging I looked up the folks who owned it. It was held by an Anglo name - like Shirley Smith or something. But when I called the phone number listed it turned out to be a woman who (probably pretended) to only speak Chinese.
Brant mumbled something about it time to start arresting people, but to my knowledge we never did anything about it. I never looked at it again, as they didn't seem to have any audience and I had bigger fish to fry.
yeah - that site is now taken over by an actual game, rather than a squatter cloning someone else's work
Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 04, 2014, 10:33:04 AM
yeah - that site is now taken over by an actual game, rather than a squatter cloning someone else's work
Good to know.
So, point is (I guess) there will be clones around the net. Just because they look similar (or identical) doesn't mean they'll succeed.
Personally, I run Alexa's toolbar on my browser. It ranks websites for both the country in which it's hosted and the global rank. It's not a perfect tool, but it does help gauge an approximate rank.
Gamebox.com - the site referenced by Diced in the OP - has no US ranking according to Alexa, and its world rank is ~ 6.5 millionth. Compare that to Grogheads, which as of this moment ranks just about 200,000th in the globe.
Were I them, it would have been wise to take Brant's offer to host here. Considering they've only been open for two months, they're not doing too badly. But the internet rewards synergies.
Youse want me and da boys to pay dem bums a little visit?
It's pretty much child's play to gank code from any site you like, throw it through something like Dreamweaver, and voila, instant stolen page.
I remember that WG clone, actually.
<----- stifled snarky comment. :-X
It was actually their sub-forum called "Fuck It All" that reminded me of the spirit of Grogheads.
They would have been a good fit.
Michael
^That post drips with pun-ade.
Quote from: Gusington on September 04, 2014, 07:41:08 PM
^That post drips with pun-ade.
Is that a side effect of contracting grogorrhea?