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Just wanted to touch base with everyone here as I've been spending the last few months putting a lot of work into the site, which has turned out to be a bigger undertaking than I expected. Some of you might have noticed that the site now has a new front page, along with an updated design to the blog. Those were the first couple of things I wanted to get out of the way prior to starting on the forum.
Redoing the board has been the tougher part of this process. The new version of the software was done in a completely different format and framework, which was a challenge. It required me to have to take quite a bit of time to re-immerse myself in some of the updated coding changes to try and break things down to be able to modify and re-code the pieces I had put in place. I had things down pretty well with the current version but this has been discontinued and isn't supported any longer, which is why we're going to have to make the change and upgrade. There are no more patches, etc. So now I've had to suck it up and get it done.
The new board is coming along well and I'm developing a few features, including the ability for you to pin your own threads (the new version of the software also allows you to be able to bookmark threads). There will also be some changes on mobile so you can toggle the twitter feed on your phone, do more advanced searches, get in-season sortable stats, etc. I realized there were some things that are available on desktop that you can't do on mobile, so I'm also trying to address them for this new version.
There are also some additional things I've been working on, but I'll announce those once it's done. I've taken into account everything in the suggestion thread, so I'm excited to share all of that with you guys once it's done and I've tested everything. I am streamlining a lot of the existing stuff and will be removing some of it. So it will be cleaner with less clutter.
But man...this part of things has been a massive undertaking and I wanted to at least let everyone know that behind the scenes, I'm still working on this. Social media has changed that landscape and all of the software is pretty boring compared to years ago. It stinks, because as you know, I've always tried to push the limits to make this place as fun and as useful as possible. Fortunately, after finally clearing a couple of coding hurdles that had me at a standstill, I'm finally in the home stretch of things and I think we'll probably be making the change next weekend, probably late Friday night.
Needless to say, we're getting there. Given where we are right now, hopefully we'll have a full season to take our minds off of things and that obviously remains to be seen. Like many, I have my doubts, but we'll see how it goes.
In the meantime, hope everyone is doing well and I appreciate your patience and your support.
Redoing the board has been the tougher part of this process. The new version of the software was done in a completely different format and framework, which was a challenge. It required me to have to take quite a bit of time to re-immerse myself in some of the updated coding changes to try and break things down to be able to modify and re-code the pieces I had put in place. I had things down pretty well with the current version but this has been discontinued and isn't supported any longer, which is why we're going to have to make the change and upgrade. There are no more patches, etc. So now I've had to suck it up and get it done.
The new board is coming along well and I'm developing a few features, including the ability for you to pin your own threads (the new version of the software also allows you to be able to bookmark threads). There will also be some changes on mobile so you can toggle the twitter feed on your phone, do more advanced searches, get in-season sortable stats, etc. I realized there were some things that are available on desktop that you can't do on mobile, so I'm also trying to address them for this new version.
There are also some additional things I've been working on, but I'll announce those once it's done. I've taken into account everything in the suggestion thread, so I'm excited to share all of that with you guys once it's done and I've tested everything. I am streamlining a lot of the existing stuff and will be removing some of it. So it will be cleaner with less clutter.
But man...this part of things has been a massive undertaking and I wanted to at least let everyone know that behind the scenes, I'm still working on this. Social media has changed that landscape and all of the software is pretty boring compared to years ago. It stinks, because as you know, I've always tried to push the limits to make this place as fun and as useful as possible. Fortunately, after finally clearing a couple of coding hurdles that had me at a standstill, I'm finally in the home stretch of things and I think we'll probably be making the change next weekend, probably late Friday night.
Needless to say, we're getting there. Given where we are right now, hopefully we'll have a full season to take our minds off of things and that obviously remains to be seen. Like many, I have my doubts, but we'll see how it goes.
In the meantime, hope everyone is doing well and I appreciate your patience and your support.