ScrewAttack is a website made for gamers by gamers. The core team produces exclusive entertainment which appeals to video-game culture. ScrewAttack also runs a unique pay-for-content system called the Advantage program, where paid subscribers get a higher level of access and unique content.
ScrewAttack isn’t just a publishing company. They have a strong community and they run conventions, interact heavily with their fans, and encourage guest authorship.
The ScrewAttack website’s primary purpose is a publishing platform. Anyone that creates an account on the site is able to post blogs, videos, and create shows.
This means thousands of users, millions of pieces of content, and millions of views. As a result, the site has robust permission tiers for moderators and authors. To handle the intense load, the site runs on distributed architecture, with multiple servers and a CDN.
Since ScrewAttack is a large community site where gamers can connect and share, it needs the tools to facilitate that community involvement. ScrewAttack is packed full of social networking features to grow user engagement and keep the conversation constantly rolling.
The site has customizable user profiles, walls, a real-time comment system, feeds, private messaging, real-time notifications, and follower/following relationships.
The site effortlessly handles two tiers of subscriptions (monthly and yearly). Content producers are able to access restrict content by subscription type.
The site handles automatic code giveaways for games and merchandise. The team just uploads a table file (excel), and the site does everything else.
Running a media empire requires a division of duties. Administrators are able to declare lower level users with specific roles and abilities to ease the burden of site moderation.
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