It has now been one year since the start of what might be called “DoSu 3.0″. The original, started in 2006, was mostly a forum with exported news. Version 2.0 was a video slideshow of sorts, again using forum software. For this version we ditched the forums for blogging on WordPress, with our first official post on January 13th, 2008.

Now that it’s been a year, and to celebrate the anniversary of our most successful version, we’re ready to launch a new forum. We weren’t satisfied with any old copy-and-paste forum with bloated features and hard to style tables, so we went with the sleek and customizable Vanilla boards. It helps focus conversation and community on a small site such as ours.

So, if you want to talk democratically about games, comics and various forms of digital art, we’d be delighted to participate. Just start a discussion over @ yonder forum:

DownloadableSuicide Forum

Furthermore, we’re currently re-evaluating what content and coverage we create and how we present it. (as if we don’t make constant changes all year long) If you want to offer some suggestions (or encouragement) now’s a good time to do that.

Welcome to iteration #3 of the DoSu site. We’re trying to find the right combination of elements and tools to inspire us to contribute regularly. If successful, I might actually link this site more often. (imagine that)

So, this version uses WordPress. I’ve installed and used it before on other sites, and it’s a decent tool. I tried using just forum software in the past with the first two versions by just outputting threads chronologically by topic date, but people seem less interested in creating regular entries in that “hackish” way. Now the forums are just there as an archive.

Iteration #2 was an attempt to focus on streaming videos, which seemed to only interest me in the end. I still like what I created and I’m going to maybe implement some of those ideas into something in this version.

I’m hoping everyone likes the new tools. I’m still working on the template and sticking in some plugins, so if you have any requests, let me know.