The mouths app[ear] in wake[ful]ness and slumber, the creature’s encroachments are countless, the floor will not cease stirring. We have barred the gates but doubt if they can hold them long. If there is no escape it will be a horrible fate to suffer – but I shall hold
We cannot get out: we can[not] get out
it has taken the bridge and the second hall
Ed and Kiera fought there bravely while the rest retreated to the Treehouse
We still holding: but hope undying
Katharine’s party went five days ago but no sign[: th]e line is up to the wall at Westgate: the due diligencies took Alice – we cannot get out: the end com,
es soon we hear drums drums in the deep
it is coming
Changelog:
- Removed: liveblog
- Removed: daily puns
- Added: subheadings
- Added: full comments functionality
- Needed: story tips
- Needed: reader recommendations
(Actual announcement post follows.)
Hello all! You may have noticed that we’ve stopped doing the weekly Maw liveblogs. Instead, we’ve been doing a round-up of new PC game releases with subheadings and a standard-issue comments thread.
The reasons for this are fairly simple and boring. When I came up with the Maw liveblog concept, I envisaged it as a big old melting pot of open-air news planning tool, forum thread, reader tips thread and scraps drawer. It was quite an open-ended concept, one that sort of needed a whole site built around it, and I’ve struggled to figure out aspects of the execution – for example, how it should work alongside our private Trello board, where we list embargoed stories.
Really, though, the issue here is time and turnover. A lot of people have left RPS in the nearly two years since I joined, which naturally means there’s less scope for anything that isn’t bread-and-butter news, reviews and features. Our current liveblog tech isn’t really suited to my original goals for the Maw – it lacks full comments functionality, for example – and Gamer Network’s hardworking tech team aren’t in a position to make any upgrades anytime soon.
The Maw itself will always plague us. Its hunger is, after all, insatiable, and its reach is beyond measure. The world is the Maw and the Maw is the world. The liveblog may yet return, given a change of circumstances. In the meantime, it is my frail hope that our Monday rounds-up articles, newly bolstered by the latest in h2 tags and futuristic comments-threading, will be enough to blunt the creature’s appetite and buy our newswranglers a precious few hours in which to carve some headlines from the firmament. Once more with feeling, FEED THE MAW.
