Getting PBP notifications

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As I wrote earlier, this is my first full weekend of PBP (Play by Post) and Spacemaster. The game I am playing is being played out via the rpol.net. One of the weaknesses of the system or so it seems so far is the lack of notifications. You can enable email alerts up to every 15 minutes, but that took a couple of false starts to get going, the conf email went straight to junk and then it insisted on sending alerts for every single forum on the site and then I eventually tamed to to only show alerts from the game I am in. It is not the most intuitive interface I have ever come across.

Since setting up the alerts I have had one email about two hours ago and then nothing so that doesn’t seem that promising.

Rpol does offer RDF, RSS and atom feeds. I thought maybe I could add the feed to feedly and then have that notify me whenever there was an update but yes technically that works but you have to manually make it go and refresh the feed. I am after something to tell me as soon as GM Joe updates my game thread. Every 15 minutes doesn’t sound very long but there is only a limited window when we are both awake at the same time. I would kind of like to make the most of that time but also not be having to hit F5 refresh every two minutes to see if the game has moved on.

If I find a solution to this then I post an update.

Why?

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There has been a bit of a discussion on the ICE forums recently about blogging, official blogs, fan blogs and the pros and cons of blogs over static sites such as the Guild Companion.

You can read it all in full here in the original blogging thread.

As a result of this I thought why not set up a blog and see if there was a genuine appetite for the content. I am also open to allowing other Rolemaster fans to guest post here or become regular contributors.

First and foremost though I will be blogging about issues and thoughts that come up via my own gaming.

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