Art, Technology & People

Well I for one am sick of looking at this layout and I'm ready to start playing with v5, what do you guys think? There's still stuff that needs to be added like the new topsites, but I'm thinking maybe we should just go ahead and change the site and start playing with the new toys. Nick is finishing up the ad system stuff so at least out advertisers can start using it right away, then I think we'll go ahead and launch.

What do you guys think? Should we go ahead and get this thing rolling more or less as-is and keep working on it on the fly?

Dan

Hey all,

I think it's about time for another little update on where things are at on v5 don't you? The Publishing system is just about done although it looks like the video integration will have to happen AFTER launch because we are hitting too many snags and it's slowing everything down development-wise. Nick spent the last week redoing the entire image directory structure as the old system was a wreck and I have asked him to try and finish publishing by this Monday. Once that is done we can finish the ad system and toplist and then final touchups on the forum skin and we should be good to go.

I'm really sorry about how long this is taking guys, no one is as stressed about it as I am to be honest. Once the site is live, then both NG and Chaos can work on various areas so the other features that won't be ready for launch will be up and running hopefully fairly quickly.

I am hoping this can all be wrapped up in 4 weeks or less, so cross your fingers. A huge thanks to all the die-hards that have stuck with us for so long, I promise it will be worth it soon enough!

Dan

I admit… I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to certain things. I love my Sci-Fi movies, I love books about dragons, I drool over Transformer CGI goodness, and from time to time, I have been known to go apesh*t over VERY cool case mods. And today I found the best case mod ever! OK, well since that Doom case I lost my mind over a few years back…

I LOVE Wall-E and I love case mods… combine the two and you get one hell of a nerdgasm! Check it all out at acidcow.com and let the drool flow!

Dan

Oh wow, look at that! April 30th has come and gone and surprise, surprise… no v5 release. Oh well, so much for deadlines! Thank God I don’t report to anyone, otherwise I’d be fired by now. V5 is not ready for release as Nick is now working full-time and can only work on the site in the evenings as he has time, so development is really not full blast at all. But I am happy to report that the last major area (The Publishing System) is almost done so now we’re down to the improved ad system and top sites and then some tidying up and we’re good to go. Honestly I have no ETA to give anymore… I wanted this done ages ago so all I can do is sit and wait. I will actually be working on all the help documentation now with the Publishing System done, so hurray I can start working on it! In the meantime, I feel that at the very least you guys deserve a full screenshot of something, so today I would like to share a screenshot of the Image and Video Collection area of the Publishing System:

So we’re getting there! Like one blog comment poster pointed out, we probably meant end of April 2010 rather than 09! 😉

Dan