Well those 9 months went very fast and here we are its all over now.  :)  I have a beautrful baby girl and I couldn't be prouder!  She was born on Tuesday and now that its over you will see a few changes coming to MudDomain!  More to come...

Wow what should have been a few hours of downtime turned into over a week.  Guess thats what happens when you plane major site updates in the middle of flu season. We are now running the newest version of elgg (the software powerin this site) which gives us added stability, features,and alot of bug fxes.  With the upgrade i'm sure some of my custom additions have been broken.  I've not found any errors yet if you do let me know.  I will be turning on some of the new features such as bookmarks over the next few days.

 

Thanks Again!

Wow... been awhile since I posted here.  Who would have known that buying a house and the needed to learn how to fix things around the house would take up so much time :) and put on top of that it being Christmas which is happens to coincide with the busy season where I work (thank God its not retail though :) ) and there you go no time to update this site or other similar sites I run.  But, there is good news! Elgg, the open source project that this site is based on has just released another package and this being the package I was waiting on before I rolled the updates to the site.  I'm hoping to update the site on Tuesday at that time I will take the site out of beta mode and all users to sign up with out the need for an invite.  Unless you guys prefer it this way and like the more closed community?  If that is the case I will rework the invite system, but we will see.

Finally,  I'm done moving and am begining to get settled in my new house.  After a few days of no Internet I'm back online and ready to push out some site updates.  Expect to see them with in the week.  I'm sure you'll be happy with some of the changes, bugfixes, new features, and cosmetic changes to come in this release.

 

Sorry for the recent lack of updates to the site.  I had to freeze the site as a new version of the software was being released and I didn't want to continue to make changes that would make an upgrade more difficult.  I will be updating the site very soon to a new stable release once I have all of our enhancements added back in so be watching for that.  Other than that not much going on our site stats continue to grow with more people visting the site each day.  Continue to invite you friends and remember you have unlimited invites under you "myFriends" link on the toolbar.

 

Thanks

My wife, Danielle, and I went to the Doctors the other day and heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time so I guess its offical now.  The due date is May 6th which is 2 days before Danielle's.  Needless to say we are excited and of course i've begun that freaking out stage which starts with the fact that our 1 bedroom apartment is suddenly way to small

Well my employer finally convinced me that I need to take some certificaion exams so I went today and took(and passed) the CompTIA A+ IT Tech. exam.  CompTIA recently released their new exams and this one was very easy so anyone worrying about taking it ... don't.

 

I like numbers and statistics which is why I like to post these results.  Sorry if they bore anyone.  For the month of September, our very first month as a Social Network, we had a total of 130,000 hits from 628 unique visitors

Browsers Grabber Hits Percent   Firefox No 61840 49.6 %   Opera No 28202 22.6 %   MS Internet Explorer No 27104 21.7 %   Mozilla No 4242 3.4 %   Unknown ? 2087 1.6 %   Links No 629 0.5 %   Safari No 240 0.1 %   Netscape No 72 0 %   Epiphany No 56 0 %   BonEcho (Firefox 2.0 development) No 47 0 %   Others   70 0 %

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.

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.