This morning we flipped the Mud Domain Social Network's switch and went live.  This means that you may now be invited to join the network by your friends or by sending an email to invite@muddomain.com for the time being.  Soon we will enter the registration process where you may freely sign up.  We have posted a few helpful tips in the support forum.  We welcome your suggestions and comments on the state of the network.  More features are being added soon.  We are currently beta testing Private Messsages, Chat, and Bookmarks they should be live soon.

Thanks and keep on Mudding.

One day after we launch our social network I went over to visit TMCNet as I always do and got the old "

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Hope I didn't scare them off  though that was never my attention.  I just wanted to create a fun place for mudders to hang out.  Mainly geared at building networks between players not admins.  Though I’m sure its just a coincidence and I'm sure the site will be back up before most people even read this. 

As you can expect I’ve very pleased with the direction that MudDomain has gone in only two days since launch.  We have seen nearly 20 new user signups, almost all of them being active users.  We have found a few bugs, most of which are now fixed as I will discuss later.  Thank you everyone for inviting your friends and please continue to do so the more the merrier.  My hopes are that we can build a community that will be free from the trolls as seen on other sites and the elites seen on one of the other sites.  And so far so good but we are young.  In the last two days MudDomain has surpassed the amount of traffic it had for the month of August. 

 Now on to the bugs!

1. Picture galleries not creating thumbnails. –Fixed today 9/3/07
2. Random users box on front page getting all screwy  -- Fixed 9/2/07
3. People link bad – Fixed 9/2/07

 Features added!

You asked for some things and we added them.

1. List of Logged in users – Added 9/2/07
2. Addition of Home button to toolbar Added 9/3/07
3. Addition of a home link in forums Added 9/3/07

 

More to come, I am working on skinning the forum software so that it will match the rest of the page and share a common navigation toolbar.

 

Well, it has been one week since we launched the Mud Domain Social network and the stats are rather impressive (if I do say so myself).  We have had 33 new accounts created, 167 unique vistors and over 50,000 htis this week.  we have also reached number 1 postion on google for the search term "Mudding Social Network" and "Mud Social Network"  passing up others who have been around much longer than us.  Many bugs have been found and squashed (thanks for everyone pointing them out) and a few are still out there lingering and they will be fixed soon (many are fixed on my test site but still testing stability).  So again Thanks everyone and keep on inviting new people hopefully this time next week we will have over 50 users.

I've had a few people asking if we had any images that can be used to link to MudDomain... well now there is .

 

 I am working on some images that are more like badges that will customize to you account, for example showing how many friend connections you have.

This morning we surpassed 100,000 hits for the month which is a huge amount for a site only launched 22 days ago.  We have also seen a steady increase in the amount of unique users per day which is now above 100 a day and we have pushed about 5 gigs of data this month.  Continue to invite you friends and players so we can continue the growth on though the next month!  Alot of big changes will be moved over to the live site this week.  That includes updates to the PM system, Hopefully a fix to spell check, and Users Voting and Ranking on all content.  Thank you everyone who has submitted bug reports most of them will be fixed when the update is rolled over in the coming days.