Alex

Long time since last update here; I'm a pretty piss-poor blogger evidently. We passed 3000+ users a week or two back, and at this pace will be passing 4000 and beyond in the very near future. 130k+ posts, far and away more new-gen ninjette-related posts than anywhere else on the planet. With all of that traffic, we've still managed to keep this place light-hearted, fun, stress-free, with so much less bickering and silliness that often crops up on forums. We did have to deal with a growing spam problem a few months back, but with some new updates (scanning all posts of new users, blocking known spammer emails/usernames from even being able to register), it's been pretty calm on that front for awhile. I'm really enjoying each and every new DIY, each of the new videos (many of them in HD!), and there is a rare day that goes by that I can't find something someone posted on this board to make me smile.

Happy riding, folks!

1000+ users, 50,000+ posts, and a whole bunch of happy ninjette owners apparently enjoying themselves here. What else could we want?

And now for some more fun... I've added two significant features to ninjette.org in the past few days. The first one is completely useless, and completely fun. Everyone like video games, and now we've got 150+ of them on the site for people to play with. Thousands and thousands of games have been played so far, and people are getting giddy about beating eachother's high scores. I love it! Here's a link to the Arcade.

On a perhaps more serious note (but still cool!), I've launched a new wiki on this website. It can be reached right at wiki.ninjette.org, and there's all of the launch information right in this thread. A few of our more websavvy members have been pushing for a wiki-like structure for awhile, and I hope that this will become a very useful section of the website. We're using the most widely supported wiki tool (mediawiki), with a few custom plug-ins to allow it to link pretty seamlessly with the rest of our vbulletin architecture. This...

Nothing much to report other than things are A-OK! 750 members, 40K+ posts, server is holding up, and participation is both voluminous and positive. I'm starting to work a bit more on the google SEO side to make sure that people who may be searching for a place like this can find it a little more easily, but that's a slow process that requires a bunch of faith and patience.

Well, things are just trucking along! 330+ members as of this week, and more joining us each and every day. I'm excited about the logo contest, I'm excited about the Area P raffle, and I'm most excited about the amount of new and interesting posts I find every time I visit the site. For the past week it's approaching 300 posts per day! Volume alone isn't the only measure of success, but the absence of volume could certaiinly be the inverse. And I'm glad that's not a problem.

Thanks for all of the suggestions and comments so far; each of them have helped make ninjette.org just a bit nicer for the rest of us to enjoy.