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State of the game post!

I wanted to give a run down as to were things are at with the game.

1) Been very happy with the stability of the server of late. This breeding season went very smoothly and it was even a double breeding season. We went from major speed and crashing issue just a few months ago to zero crashing issues. And I still have more room to optimize on that front!

2) The horse page is the last public facing page left that needs converting to the new template. This is a huge page and it is going to be a dozy to work on, but it's my most important project for this week.

3) We just yesterday finished the epic project of converting the horse generator to a queued off-site generator. We can now generate horse images without any resource use on our server. We still need to create the JavaScript that talks to amazon and gives you messages (like 3 of 5 in queue) and shows the image once finished but those are minor in comparison to the rest of the project. Can't wait to get that out for you.

***Quarter 2: Here are some of the things you can expect in the coming months. ***

1) SERVER 2 MIGRATION! Don't forget at the end of April HJ2 is being moved to it's own dedicated server. (Right now it shares a computer with HJ1) That will mean some down time for HJ2 users but it will greatly increase how many users can access the server at once and further increase stability.

2) As soon as template updates are completed we will be working on SSL certification for the site. There may be some odd site behavior while we finalize the switch but we expect this to be pretty seamless.

3) The horse page is the last public facing page that needs converted to the new template but almost all of our pages still need to be converted to the updated JavaScript system. During quarter 2 (April through June) expect to see lots of changes to page functionality as I stream line the user expiration.

4) Quarter 2 my focus will be on user experience. I will be adding lots of features for new members and upgrading our email systems so you can have a more seamless experience interacting with the site.

Thanks so much everyone for your continued support and encouragement! Can't wait to show you what we have in store.