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Quoted from rubysbest1:First - I love the pinside top 100, market, pin map, and machine details. Absolutely stellar.
The forums are REALLY daunting for a newbie though. The whole megathread concept with 8,000+ posts, and 200 pages is completely impractical for someone just starting with that thread today. I tried to just randomly pick through the stern/JP thread it was full of duplicate content, and people saying "I didn't read the previous 100 pages, but here's my question". I've been using forums on the interwebs for a long time, and I understand there are often a lot of duplicate threads created, but that's typically much more manageable than these 2000 post threads.
I know I'm a newb here, and I know nobody is going to change just because I said so, but as far as I can tell there seems to be an interest in the pin community to keep manufacturers making new games, which means bringing in new people. This website is so frickin awesome for that, but the forums made me immediately seek out other alternative forums that aren't so impossible to digest.
Thanks again for all the good stuff!
Welcome to Pinside!
There are so many different aspects of our hobby - events, comps, modding, owning, maintenance, restoration, buying/selling, ... right down to circuit board repairs; and Pinside covers all these areas, so it can be quite daunting at first. To start off, it depends upon what you want to learn or read about, if it's just keeping up with what going on in the industry as a whole then https://www.pinballnews.com might be better as Aurich has mentioned above, however if you own a machine then following that machine's Pinside owners thread (mark it as a favorite) is a great way to learn about your machine and to ask people for advise that are familiar with your game. You may not ever branch out looking at the other areas of Pinside, but over time you may find yourself looking to buy or sell on the Pinside Marketplace or looking at other threads.
So do you own a machine, or are you looking at purchasing one or what are you interested in learning about?
