(thanks to Cereal Velocity for the image btw, truly an amazing use of lens flare if I do say so myself)
Anyway news time! You can find it after the post break!
>Archeology
The Archeology event did exactly what it was supposed to do, even if I did fudge the beginning due to my screwing up. Stories that were nominated got viewed, and the stories that were chosen got tons of comments. Next time hopefully it will be a bit more organized, and longer. I was honestly just testing it out with this one. Feel free to continue to leave feedback on the post, I make it a goal to read every comment on event posts for tips and stuff.
>Quality Control
And with so many visitors, comes a lot of random...stuff. I have received piles of emails complaining about some of the stories on the site. I agree, there are some bad eggs floating around in the archive that make simply browsing story-by-story for new people a chore. I honestly suck at telling people no, but I've been doing it a lot more lately (mainly for youtube videos surprisingly). A huge amount of people are coming directly from Deviant Art, and we all know what that means.
I am considering Deleting stories that drop below 3/5. The start system is a bit exploitable though, so if I see tons of people love it, but it has a terrible rating, I'll just assume someone decided to proxy and vote a bunch of times to spite people. I don't have time to read everything, and I don't want to be the be all end all of a stories success, so please, have a few people proofread it first, and post it on /co/ for some feedback. If English isn't your first language, have someone who does write clean English fix it up a bit.
And here is a big one... Youtube. I get 10 Youtube videos a day of random scenes pasted ontop of a soundtrack. (Most of) the Youtube videos in the archive are because they did something awesome. That epic 7 artist one for example remixed 7 songs and had almost perfect lip syncing. The Elder Scrolls one took a trailer for a game and made Spike the dragonborn that everyone who has ever been obsessed with oblivion/morrowind was amazed to hear about. Don't just paste the Twilight Vs Nightmare Moon fight on top of your favorite metal song and send it.
>Story Archive Re-sorting
I'm looking for a way to create hierarchical menu's for the story archive. Something like Click Rainbow Dash-->See ship/grim/normal, click one for a list of all storys while the others stay collapsed. CTRL+F is cool and all, but I still think it would be neat to have a menu thing. Blogger has a separate HTML section built into posts. If anyone knows how I could pull something like this off, let me know! You can of course still use Fairy Slayer's Table for easy sorting access HERE
>Writefriend/Drawfriend Friendoff for March
The last event was tons of fun for a lot of people, and pulling it off again would help get the community back on the same page. Unfortunately, some of our best contributes still have another 9 days on their bans. I also got bumped in hours at work, so I have to choose a specific day to host it where I will actually be around to upload everything.
And this fell on...March 14. Yah it's way out there... I know. So we have some time to brainstorm I guess!
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Anyway this is already way passed tl;dr for the majority of you. Thanks for hanging out on the site! It's actually a lot more fun than it should be to organize and keep everything rolling here. I definitely couldn't do this without you guys though. All the emails with content and stuff really helps a ton so keep it up!
This community is an awesome one, and if it keeps growing at the alarming rate it currently is, I think we might start seeing MLP:FiM pretty much everywhere! And for the first time ever, I'm cool with that. It was my original intention to keep everyone connected somehow in the giant mess of /co/ threads and random internet forums, and considering how limited my HTML skills are I think I've done a pretty good job.
So onward to 1 million!
44 comments:
I just want to take this little comment slot to thank Sethisto for his blog. It's a perfect, active place for Poni updates, and I often find myself checking it all the time.
ReplyDeleteSo, thanks! It wouldn't be the same without your wonderful work!
heres to half a million more :D
ReplyDelete/keep up the nice job :3
@Chin
ReplyDeleteYeah same here for me.
*Raises a goblet of hot sauce*
Heres to a great long-lasting website!
Cheers mate!
fifteen thousand people or one person with a very bad multiple personality syndrome... the world will never know.
ReplyDeleteAside from that you've done a great job.
*inhales deeply*
ReplyDeleteyay
It had to be done.^^
If every unique visitor came and refreshed 33 times, you'd reach 500,000 pageviews. You have a very refreshable blog, apparently.
ReplyDeleteI think the story sorting could be more thorough, though. I simply can't do without being able to sort stories based on whether or not Dash has said the word 'soliloquy' in a silly fashion. It's unbearable.
here's to 500k more <3
You've done a great job here with this site. I hope that it gets to 1 million views and beyond, because you really deserve that. From all of over on ponygoons, we salute you.
ReplyDeleteCongratz from the DerpyHooves gang! You do an outstanding job.
ReplyDeleteNice Fluttershy yay. here's my Rainbow Dash cheer.....
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm against deleting stories that get lower ratings, unless they're crap, but that's just me - simply because it's too easy to abuse (although most people won't bother to abuse, it's also easy to just have somebody click 4 stars for everything they read).
ReplyDeleteanyway, 500k for ponies. oh em gee.
@Dragonkind
ReplyDeleteIf I do go that route, it's going to be based off a lot more than just the stars. I will see if it's even required though.
I check this site so many more times a day than facebook. Is that wrong? Cause if it is i don't wanna be right!
ReplyDeleteAnd i just wanted to say the FiM community has some of the most creative minds behind it, driving its success to the mainstream internet media sites. I honestly cannot say that i know of a show or video game that had such a creative fanbase!
Also, i just want to see if im the only one: has anyone else noticed they are more happy and cheerful since diving headfirst into the community? I used to be on antidepressants (for a completely unrelated condition) and yet even though i ran out, im much happier and cheerful than when i was on them. Ponies just brighten my day!
It´s awesome to be able to say that MLP is so famous, that a fan-blog has already reached 500.000 pageviews.
ReplyDeleteAnd you get every second another one :D!
500.000 pageviews! You know what this calls for?...
You know, it's funny how simple things like trying to organize the /co/ threads leads to something as this epic.
ReplyDeleteHope to still be around when this baby hits a million, Sethisto!
Once again, with feeling: would it be asking too much of you to include Fluttershy in the logo? It's really weird to see everypony there except for her.
ReplyDeleteDeleting stories? That's a bummer.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, you should put some «specific» people in charge of quality control. You know, contributor emails to quality control, quality control sends it to you. Kinda like a board of executives.
Figures it would spare you a lot of time and there are plenty of people who love reading fanfictions (myself included).
It has also surprised me you haven't asked for donations yet, but I can sort off see why you haven't done that yet.
Postscript: Me and some other /co/mrads (/co/lts?) were discussing the possibility of the next next friendoff focusing on side-characters. That might be an idea?
Congratulations on the staggering number of page views. Extensive knowledge of html or no, you do a lot of great work giving everypony a place to come together and share their love of a wonderful show with each other. Friendship really is magic, and this place is a shining testament to how awesome that is.
ReplyDeleteTo a certain extent I still can't help but feel like an outsider on the fringes of the community, but it's not because I'm being pushed away, and as I get around to contributing more content, hopefully that feeling will disappear. Either way, EqD continues to improve by leaps and bounds, and I'm excited to see where it goes. Ramble mode turn off. Good job and keep up the good work!
I completely forgot to congratulate you.(Where are my manners?)
ReplyDeleteCongratulation on the 500.000 view on your website.
Hehehehe....*deletes email consisting of youtube links* nothing to see here, you can't prove anything!
ReplyDelete@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteI do that already usually. I bug people on steam about stories all the time.
@Myke Greywolf
ReplyDeleteahh about that...
I didn't actually create the logo, someone did it for me.
And I don't have the PSD file to really do it cleanly.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteThis. Have a tryout for a couple of QCs. Some bronies who can stay objective and put forward some good points as to why submitted work should or shouldn't be approved. Must be quite a few out there who'd want to help you out.
Also, congrats at your success with the blog and thanks for making it!
Thanks for everything, Sethisto. I certainly wouldn't be able to keep doing what you do what with the staggering amount of new stuff, wars, spam and really stupid, waifu-stealing commenters. Keep your spirits high and here's for 2.000.000! (srsly, 1 mill is just a week from saturday or something, let's set our sights a little higher :D)
ReplyDelete@Windchaser
I've never been on ad:s but I was pretty damn low just before I found ponies. And now I'm certainly not. There seems to be something going on, that's for sure.
500,000? THAT'S A LOT OF VIEWS!
ReplyDeleteEr, sorry, latest Madmax comic put me in a Kung Pow state of mind...
Congrats, and thanks for the great blog. 1 MILLION VIEWS HERE WE COME.
ReplyDeleteWow, grats. This has become my base for checking out if there is anything new regarding ponies. /co/ for new pictures and random discussions.
ReplyDeleteHere's to half a million more!
ReplyDeleteNeigh! A million!
NEIGH! A HUNDRED million!
Thanks for being the sun that my daily life revolves around!
Well, i am a Systems Developer, perhaps i should take up the role of creating an archive of some sorts for the stories.
ReplyDeleteI would hate for anyone to be denied there "creation" being seen no matter how terrible others may find it.
I'm sort of addicted to drawing ponies in my spare time atm though..
I would say a good 200 page views a day are mine.. I love this place.
Mwuahahahah, first 4chan. Next, the world!
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I am about as apathetic and cynical as you could get and after watching the show, amvs, reading stories, and scrolling through posts for the last week or so I actually gave a crap about what was going on with someone else!
This show is changing me.
How about trying to arrange a interview with Lauren Faust about the show?
ReplyDelete@ChJees
ReplyDeleteI don't think she would want to talk to a blog that has a 20 story rainbow dash shipping section ;p
Congratz!! Its so nice to see pony fans getting together.
ReplyDeleteLet's just say that all is forgiven. You have achieved redemption and history has been erased.
ReplyDeleteAww yeah mofos 500,000 pageviews, last 100,000 in under what? 2 weeks?
ReplyDeleteShit is accelerating towards the fan at an alarming rate.
How did it happen?
ReplyDeleteTo put it quite simply:
LOL Poniez :P
@Sethisto
ReplyDeleteI'd be more than happy to offer my services, if you need a helping hoof. As a writer, I could help organize and tag...
Also, I'd vote against deleting stories... They may not be great and poorly rated, but with so many bronies out there, there's bound to be several someones that appreciate it.
Sethisto, thank you for creating this place for us ponyfans to talk, share, and enjoy the show and characters. You have done something great here, so congratulations on unifying us.
ReplyDeleteEven if the majority of views are due to the multiple links, it just means that the suff here is so good that you have to look at everything.
~p.s. Holy crap another 30k already!
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ReplyDelete@Sandman
ReplyDelete(stuff)
~p.s. I blinked and there were three thousand more views. O.O
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteEverything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
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500.000 views per DAY now (almost)
ReplyDeleteFrom half a million to one hundred million...
ReplyDeletehahaha now look at all the views
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