It wasn't without its hurdles, but now that we've gotten the biggest one behind us (the SSL causing loading issues), we can actually sit down and put ourselves in place for more stability and growth, and I think that's one of the best ways to ring in the new year, what about you?
Now, while I've fixed the biggest of issues we were dealing with - there are still bugs and tweaks that need to be made - and things that need to be repaired - so as you see something, please continue using the bug report to turn them in.
On top of that - there are so many essential things that can be done with our site - so many opportunities for community and growth, but first, we need to ensure we can maintain it. Our current setup lasts us another year - I've gotten things paid in advance with our earlier collection (thank you all so very very much for it). We have time to breathe, but to be real, and ready - I've put together our donation areas once more, one for general site maintenance, and one for add-on additions.
To protect our community there have been some changes - as some of you have already seen - there is a new protocol to allow bumping and posting in our direct messages - a user must make at least one post in the public threads before you will be given access to DMs - additionally, we have implemented a bumping policy for your request threads - a 72 hour timer to maintain our 3 day policy.
I want to hear from you all on what you'd like to see - because this is a community, and you all deserve a voice in this as well - so you tell me what you think. How are things so far, and where do you want us to go from here?
I'm so excited to be on this journey with you.
Rei