You're right: it's confusing. Some of it is historical; some of it is in transition; and some of it is just poorly thought-out.
Let me set out the basic method behind this madness. Ultimately, I would like to adhere to the following guidelines:
1. All Transcendence information should be easily accessible from
http://transcendence.kronosaur.com. I don't mean all information has to live on that domain, but all information must be easily accessible via links. Obviously, the most important information will require the fewest number of link clicks.
We're not there yet. But that's my goal. If there is specific information that anyone feels needs to be more easily accessible, please post examples in the Community forum [or PM me].
[Same thing applies to Anacreon and
http://anacreon.kronosaur.com.]
2. In general, community resources should span games. The forums, the Multiverse, the (future) bugs database, will cover all Kronosaur games. Of course, there will be some segmentation within (just as there is within the forums), but I don't want to have separate community resources for separate games, because I believe the community will mostly transcend specific games.
Thus each of those resources will likely have a full subdomain:
forums.kronosaur.com
multiverse.kronosaur.com
ministry.kronosaur.com (future bugs database)
For the same reason, I think communicating with the company should be cross-game. Rather than have
[email protected] (etc.) we're just going to have
[email protected]. People should not have to deal with trying to remember email addresses. [Other email addresses may server other purposes--for example,
[email protected] is generally for press inquiries and cold calls. But
[email protected] will always work for any customer issue (bugs, feedback, purchase problems, etc.)]
3. All news about Transcendence should go out over every available channel. You should be able to follow whatever source you want (forums, Facebook, Twitter, whatever) without fear of missing something. You should NOT be forced to follow everything.
Right now, I'm violating that rule because I'm trying to get more Twitter followers. I'm trying to experiment to see if posting some exclusive content (temporarily) on Twitter will entice people to follow it (so far, it seems the answer is no).
Note also that the process of new dissemination requires community participation. RPC and others work very hard to keep the Facebook page running. Ttech and lots of others keep the IRC channel going. [And if anyone wants to volunteer to run a Reddit subgroup, I would love to hear from you.]
So that's my plan. I hope it makes sense, but if not, let me know. Suggestions are more than welcome.
Any URLs/domains I didn't mention are likely in transition or are just shortcuts. For example:
http://transcendence-game.com redirects to
http://transcendence.kronosaur.com. In general, I use this URL in ads, because I think the URL is more memorable (I might also get the domain without the hyphen.)
http://trans.kronosaur.com is a temporary set of pages that happen to be hosted on a different physical server. Ultimately all this will be folded into
http://transcendence.kronosaur.com.
The Transcendence wiki is another community run project. It will continue at its current URL.
