kingandy | Recognition

Hmm.

Special School has been invited to join SpiderForest.com. It seemed to be pretty specific - the mail menioned my email being hard to track down (which I should probably rectify) - so I don't think it's somebody simply throwing invites at anyone and everyone they see on the KeenSpot forums. It's kind of an opportunity to be a small fish in a small pond instead of a tiny fish in a really massively huge lake, and the lake is full of all kinds of sewage and shopping carts and crap.

I'm not even sure why I'm hesitating. I'm a little reluctant to leave KS, even though I don't owe them any particular kind of loyalty and they're not particularly fashionable. I think it's more that they're a known quantity, and I fear change. The SpiderForest people are selling themselves as a kind of exclusive club rather than a free service - it's still free, but when somebody applies to join they get judged, so there's some degree of quality control. (At least in theory - I don't think there's enough comics in there that they'd be turning people away just yet.) Of course, making something appear exclusive is a long-established marketing tactic, but still, to actually receive an invitation gives one pause for thought. (This, likewise, is a tried and tested advertising pitch. But my email was kind of hard to track down from the KeenSpot forums (I actually don't know how they did!), so I guess you've got to give them points for trying.)

And hell, it's free. And nobody says I have to give up the KeenSpace site...

I think I'll probably go for it, if for nothing other than the ability to host domains (at a later date, if I decide to splash out).