Non-content update for Dan today, but with mostly important stuff to say. First off, it's not been a month that the forums have been up, and all I've got to say is wow. For this site being in a slow period, the stats of the forums completely exceeded my expectations. Within 24 hours of opening them up, there were 30 users, much more than I expected. Today, it has grown to just over 115 users with well over 2,300 posts in the first month. For comparisons sake with my other site, SMU passed MKBO, which had a forum restart in June 2002, in both users and posts within two weeks. Normally, I really wouldn't care much about stats outside of making milestones in the hit count, in which we have passed 350,000, but these stats greatly exceeded my expectations and that's just awesome. If you're reading this and haven't signed up for the forums yet, I encourage you to as there's lots of great conversation going on there and it's a good way to pass the time between updates.
Speaking of time between updates, this is gonna be my last one for a while. I am in the midst of finals week this semester, which means less time than ever this week, I honestly shouldn't even be typing this out right now, but it will probably be my last chance for a while. After finals, I'm moving out of the dorms. Only this time around, I'm not staying home, hell, very little is coming home with me. I'm moving in a house off campus in a few weeks, so I'm storing my stuff in my friend's house until I move up here, which includes my computer. Even if I brought my computer home, I wouldn't bother connecting it to the internet for the two and half weeks I'd be home. So this means I'll be very inactive from now until at least June 1st, possibly after. I move in my place on June 1st, but I might not immiedately have internet, so it might be a few days until I'm back online. So for the next few weeks, expect no updates from me, I'm taking a break after these finals. I'll be back around early June and then big things will be in the making for this site. I'll still be in the forums now and then via the family computer, but other than that I'm inactive online. I should start studying now, so I'll see you all again in a few weeks.
May 13th, 2003
Dan - Non-content ramblings
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