Hey hey! Been a minute since I've done one of these (counts on fingers), so free free to check my math.
Today's update is to announce that @Luxuria will be stepping down as the role-play mini-mod to focus on her education and @Louanne Learning has agreed to step up and fill the position. We thank Luxuria for her service and for rebooting the role-play back at the OG after years of dormancy. It is one of the Forum's most vibrant features and would not be here without her dedication and enthusiasm, so we salute her! Louanne has also been involved since the beginning and her contributions have been equally legion, so I expect no drop-off moving forward.
Beers, salutes, and big-ups to both! Please reach out to @Louanne Learning if you are interested in participating.
Other news while the iron is hot:
Today's update is to announce that @Luxuria will be stepping down as the role-play mini-mod to focus on her education and @Louanne Learning has agreed to step up and fill the position. We thank Luxuria for her service and for rebooting the role-play back at the OG after years of dormancy. It is one of the Forum's most vibrant features and would not be here without her dedication and enthusiasm, so we salute her! Louanne has also been involved since the beginning and her contributions have been equally legion, so I expect no drop-off moving forward.
Beers, salutes, and big-ups to both! Please reach out to @Louanne Learning if you are interested in participating.
Other news while the iron is hot:
- The contests continue to do very well with more entries, action, and voting than we've had in years. Thank you all for your participation and to the contest mods for making sure the trains run on time. There are still a few days left to vote on the Flash Fiction contest, which has some particularly excellent entries this round. It takes less than 30 minutes to read through all of them, so I encourage those that have not voted to get over there and check it out. We've yet to have any entries in the Fourth Contest this month. The theme is screenplay, but like Moose said in the thread, that might not be for everyone, so if it doesn't work, we'll cycle something else in there. Give it shot if you have the chops, though. I love writing screenplays.
- Membership continues to do well. We're up to about 275 members, though I'd say fewer than 200 have posted anything since Lifeboat day. We continue to average around 70 unique visitors a day, which is very good considering that Summer has classically been our slow time of year. Once Fall comes around membership and activity tends to increase, so we should only see those things go up. We are getting a steady diet of spammers and junk mail too, which is a good thing because it means our SEO is working. The spam-filter on this site is much better than our old one at the OG, so the more who discover us, the better.
- There are more upgrades to the Forum and things we'd like to do, but time has been short for the mod team over the summer. It's the busy season in a lot of our worlds and, you know, the outdoors beckons. We expect to have more time to concentrate on Forum things once the weather turns and cold, darkness, and computer screens begin to bloom.
