Interview With Neowin

Hello Fellow Aquas...

I was reading some material on a site I really like and one I'm sure many here know of well - Neowin. I came across an interview conducted by Big-Boards with the three admins of NeoWin.

There were two things that cought my eye and I was hoping to see how my friends at the Aqua community feel about them:

When asked "What other sites do you visit?", one admin - Redmak stated that:

the emulation communities aren't that much fun anymore

And when asked about he's worst memories of Neowin another admin stated that it is

when a member leaves Neowin because it no longer interests him/her.

Now what I was thinking is:

A. Do veterans get tired of the emulating projects after a while? (I'm not quite a veteran so I can't say yet)

B. It seems that even though those admins lead seperate lives with families and kids they still take to heart when a user isn't happy in the community and eventually leaves - Do you think that taking these things seriously benefits the community or rather that at the end of the day - an virtual community is just that - virtual - "don't take things to heart...?

The interview is over here.

Sorry if I posted in the wrong forum - wasn't sure where this belongs.

~ Quazimodo ~

#119537

Wow...well...emulation is sorta fading away for me, i'm not into it so much as i was a year ago, and many people have left aqua-soft already because they bought a mac, or skinning doesn't interest them as much. Skinning doesn't interest me as much as it did before, because less and less quality skins are being released. And those that are quality can't beat ibar 4 or opus. Before i remember i kept changing my skin every couple of days because a new / better skin came out like every day. I've almost reached peace with my computer even though it is windows.

#119545

There will always be an interest for emulation, but yeah as you said of course a lot of the veterans will dissappear as they get macs or finally get happy with the setup they have. After a while the community developes enough quality stuff to emaulate what they were trying to acheive that the constant demand to reproduce a gui kinda dies down. As you can see here, we still have plenty of the old guys as far as this community has come, and hopefully we'll all stick around.

#119551

Sometimes it's like you start off doing things like this because it is fun. But then it starts becoming in essence a full time job that you aren't being paid for. Yet people are as demanding as if you where being paid. They want things to be perfect and they want them yesterday. Then it stops being fun.

Then of course there are also those people who are out to put your efforts down as if you making skins\mods is a personal insult to them. You know who I'm talking about, "Get a Mac!!!".

Of course there is also those people who get into it because it's a novelty but they want instant gratification as in... install such and such and get it perfect right now. And either they see that they can't and the novelty wears off or it just wears off.

Or they just plain lose interest.

I have never lost insterest in customising but I am tired of putting in all the hard work and then having people be like it's not good enough like I said in the first example. But I still work on things in my spare time when I'm not working on college stuff at least for myself because I like tweaking things and improving things all the time.

#119599

I think because the emulation has reached a very high level. There are few things to do, and now the apps that yesterday emulated OSX (ex: dock) aren't released a OSX emulation apps, but as fully windows apps porting some OSX func.

for example the project of StevieBM and godpunk goes beyond the aqua emulation, but in the whole skinning concept

#119624

A ) Only the dedicated veterans will continue to work on their projects. The casual person will leave once they get a job or start to make a family.

B ) No, it's not a bad thing. A decent size community need that kind of attention and dedication from the leaders. If they don't, it will show in the community itself. If a Administrator were to ignore the site, it will go downhill (TCPU.com for example).

#119630

Interview With Neowin

no offence... but who cares...

I just come to this thread to say this (because I say 'neowin'), I dont even read the whole thread because I dont care a f*ck about neowin...

#119632

Originally posted by Blade@Feb 25 2004, 06:07 PM

no offence... but who cares...

I just come to this thread to say this (because I say 'neowin'), I dont even read the whole thread because I dont care a f*ck about neowin...

Opinions are like arseholes, we all have them.

It's human nature to get bored by the smae thing, thats why we try to create our own spin of it. It adds a little bit of spice to it and also could motivate others to creat new things.

I don't bother to create for others to like, rather just do things I want to do. If people don't like it, it's no biggie because I like it.

#119635

i've never been interested in emulation. i'm here because i loved the aqua look, and even though i've changed styles, i still enjoy the aqua style every now and then.

the love of modding precedes all else, but i'm always ready to try out new ideas.

#119638