About the New Products forums

Can you please give a believable reasonable answer as to why you're going to close these and especially HOW using in world paid advertising will somehow be better? Or even as good?

Hey Jellin!

We've definitely heard a lot of positive feedback about New Products, including how they get new content creators started. As announced in Robin's blog post:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/08/10/forums-take-a-new-turn/

These are under the header of "Long Term Changes". It could be very, very long off--but we thought best to let Residents know far in advance, especially after getting so many emails about how we could do that better!

The emerging thing here which hasn't been keyed into yet: what about a way to bridge inworld and forum classifieds to add value and make them more useful and fun?

For example, it can't be just me who thinks that one nice thing about forum classifieds is the extra formatting and presentation, and how it doesn't seem terribly hard to add a weblink--to these forums or any other website--button to each inworld classified.

I'm surprised I didn't hear this mentioned earlier, but we're going to keep an eye on things--again, any action, if taken, will be announced *considerably* ahead of time, and I've heard a lot of positive feedback about how the situation can be ameliorated to make things even better for showcasing new products... and more!