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RP on Imzy?
Anyone else think Imzy would be a great platform for RP? You don't need separate accounts for different characters! The rudimentary threading would be slightly problematic, but I think it's still doable, I think.
The primary problem I see is I don't think comments are necessarily sorted chronologically. I just can't figure out how they are sorted.




About the limited threading problem. I know it's not a very elegant solution, but maybe people could indicate who they're responding to with a @so-and-so at the top of the comment? I used to RP through mailing lists, not sure how they've been doing on tumblr actually. I've never seen RPing on tumblr.
I don't think the limited threading would actually be a problem. As long as you sort by new and keep each thread limited to one conversation it would work about the same as on Dreamwidth; DWRP doesn't have a lot of branching threads anyway.
That's a good point! For small games, or for people who just RP with a few friends, it'd be perfect.
They have said that they're probably going to provide group chat for communities at some point. Would that work?
It would work for OOC communication or for people who prefer chat-based RP, but I and a lot of people I know just can't do real-time RP. Too stressful.
They are default sorted by "popularity" (however that is calculated) but if you click the "popular" link at the top of comments you can change it to "new".
I have never done RP but one issue with the multiple identities thing might be that you can only use one identity per community? But I guess as long as people only need one identity per scenario, and there's only one scenario per community. Or...however it actually works :)
Ooh, that sorting option is totally there, isn't it? Go me.
I didn't think of the one-identity-per-community thing. That actually might be a problem, since a lot of RPs on Dreamwidth have more than one character per player. For small games with character caps maybe it wouldn't be an issue.
I guess people could make secondary accounts with their own sets of characters, and so forth. Assuming Imzy is ok with that sort of thing.
(Also, not RP related: how convenient is getting comment notifications on anon comments without having to manually track or anything)
(SO CONVENIENT. OMG.)
Switching between accounts for RP is pretty inconvenient. It's only made easier on DW/LJ/IJ by extensions like LJJuggler. If I had to do it on Imzy, there wouldn't be much to set it apart from other sites. And on LJ clones you get more icons, too.
Ah, yeah, that make sense.