Communication is important in RPGs. Both in and out of games.
Once the age of computers began, Earthdawn was run through Yahoo! Geocities on a group for messaging about game as well as the E-Dawns which were mostly in character written recaps. Earthdawn 7 Sands was a website that was dedicated to my in-game house rules. The original Earthdawn ten year campaign remains one of the most organized campaigns of all time with a lot of surviving content although much of the early days of that campaign are lost to the mists of time and only exist in the memories of the gaming group and myself. Especially since the death of Geocities and the 7 Sands.
These days, recaps are mostly done from the GM's perspective in most campaigns as I often don't have an NPC to record the relevant session and offer their thoughts. Earthdawn Cathay Quest didn't have a relevant NPC voice. Necessary Evil was an outlier because of Dr. Destruction. Shaintar had Hiraltki, Phelos, and Grundy who aren't writers but were a warrior, comedy relief, and an engineer. Return to 50 Fathoms is similar with Equias gone. Saga of the Goblin Horde doesn't have any NPC to write except for perhaps Chief Bignose as leader of the Redfang Tribe. And writing a blog trolling the players in the voice of Chief Bignose doesn't seem fun (at least for the players that read the blog to remember what happened last session).
Now games have their own dedicated Facebook group and a Facebook messenger group to keep people informed about game. I moved the recaps to Blogger. I used to just post them in the Facebook group, my wall, and other places were people might be interested around the net. Blogger is a useful app because of its photo upload capacity. I used to lose a lot of pictures by just uploading recaps to walls and such. I still don't have a full campaign here on Blogger as I started about using the app about 1/3 into Necessary Evil and the newest campaigns are still in progress.
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