{"id":140,"date":"2024-11-26T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/?p=140"},"modified":"2024-11-26T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:47:30","slug":"social-media-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/moredepth\/2024\/11\/26\/social-media-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So making the game less engaging might be a factor that’s as yet unproven but one thing that is for sure is that the formerly used social media presences on Facebook and X are retired, for now at least. Every year the provider that take the game updates and post them to social media get more difficult to use and\/or add costs. It is not worth my while to pay them so I don’t. This year the same thing happened again – X is now not working at all and Facebook would work for the first two weeks only. Tied to my lack of social media presence in general I find myself thinking it is easier to just pull the plug, and so I have for X at least. I am trying out one last free solution for Facebook, and fingers crossed it works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This might kill the game even more. I have never worked out if engagement is linked to the social media posts and it might be difficult to get a real feel given the other big change this year, but I worry that essentially mandating players to visit the website every day will drive down active participation. It’s one more thing to remember to do, and who needs things? We’ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the new FB approach doesn’t work then it will be dead too, so I urge players to use an RSS aggregating website or app or tool and point it at https:\/\/acc.scriv.me.uk\/feedme.xml<\/a> to get updates however they wish to. That or bookmark the page and visit regularly. I’m thinking of ways to maybe make an opt-in mailing list but my preference is some kind of third party provider that can parse an RSS feed or even the website itself and so far I’ve turned up nothing. It needs to be automated as I don’t want to make work for myself as inevitably the more I have to do, the more likely I am to break the game accidentally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PINs are planned for tomorrow or the next day. Stand by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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