Slimor wrote: ↑27 Oct 2022, 05:48
everything that can help to bring more people to TWM should be welcomed.
cuoco wrote: ↑27 Oct 2022, 07:04
I like the idea, we should publish TMW everywhere we can.
Not every people deserves to be welcomed: TMW is the only online community when I had to insult players only once and that's remarkable compared to other online communities where there's lack of nice people sometimes.
An abrupt increase of players (if will ever come) may put more workload on GMs.
WildX wrote: ↑27 Oct 2022, 12:35
https://the-mana-world.itch.io/
We currenly use itch.io and there has been zero interest in helping maintain the TMW Legacy page, so I have little hope of being able to maintain a presence on another platform.
I imagine a community of bored "gamers" avoiding a game with a page barely updated: it may give the idea of something unmaintained or abandoned or boring. But I may be wrong...
WildX wrote: ↑27 Oct 2022, 13:49
The web analytics tell me that a lot of people are clicking on TMW for the first time from within itch.io so this really is the best way people can help right now.
I'm not the web analist but I tell you that gathering informations without user consent is not a nice thing to do. I don't know if "web analytics" can actually tell a crawler/spider bot from a human. Last but not least you probably don't have any information about where ManaPlus client installations comes from: because repos, stores and whatever allows executable file downloads probably don't share any kind of data with you.
A more consistent data analysis to me is polling the community where they got the ManaPlus client.
As for GOG, the Privacy Badger reported some trackers in it and probably some other script. Not really in line with ethics of free software. However, inviting friends to play TMW by just giving them the official link (themanaworld.org) is surely less effective but it shouldn't bring tracking and bad players (that can make negative advertising by themselves).