KapCon XXX - The Wrap-around

[mashugenah]

Like a lot of people, I started going to KapCon because some friends were going. Like a lot of people, aside from KapCon, I mostly gamed with the same half-dozen people only slightly reconfigured over a couple of different games. Word of mouth was pretty much the only way to learn of KapCon, and hence to attend KapCon. After my first outing, I hard

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[anonymous]

I think a lot of the online discussion has moved to Facebook pages, but I wouldn't know as I don't do Facebook

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[anonymous]

Mine is on DreamWidth (same as I was on LJ, and it transferred old permissions across, so LJ users should be able to read it by logging on with OpenID).

As for engagement, I'm not seeing much. Facebook and the switch to phones (which enable reading but encourage only short messages and likes) as the primary interface device killed our old communities, but the new platforms don't encourage or enable the same sorts of conversations. Oh, the larpers have a huge amount of post-game squee, with threads hundreds of comments long after every big larp, but its all tweet-length ephemera, or memes and reaction gifs. Facebook calls that "engagement", but its not really.

- idiot

Oh, right, LJ has subjects in replies

[adrexia]

Copied across from FB, which is where I thought to leave comments if that's any indicator of how much things have changed:

This:

"I expect that in large part what's happened is that the explosion of popularity in LARP a few years ago moved a lot of the community centre to an arena I'm not that interested in."

Is what happened for me. For a while there I was coming mainly for the community. But now I live in a different city, entirely, and even before I moved I skipped a year. I don't think I even remember how to play tabletop games.