PixlBit

So, it's been about a month since I announced my plans to develop forums for PixlBit and I figured I'd provide you guys with an update so that you don't think I got your hopes up and bailed. Things have been coming along, albeit a bit more slowly than I hoped. For one, there's a lot of engineering required to get them built. Lots of scenarios to consider, lots of functions to create all from the ground up.  Two, I've been a bit busy in general and it has significantly slowed my efforts. Compound that with having the flu for around a week and my forum development effort was slowed much more than I planned.

If you go to add or update a blog today, you'll notice a new feature that I just added. The dropdown "Link to Series..." will allow you to tie your blog into an article series that we're running on the main site. For instance, if this were E3 and you wanted to write a blog about E3, you could choose to link it to the article series and under the designated "Event" page, your blog would show up there!

Still actively developing this, but see below for a concrete idea of what's on the way!

Shortly before starting PixlBit, Chessa and I had the opportunity to go to our very first E3. At the time, both of us were a part of Nintendo World Report, and between our many appointments and various write-ups, I had the opportunity to make a pit-stop at the Atlus booth to check out their goods. One game in particular caught my attention and had stirred up quite a bit of buzz in the media - it was called Demon's Souls. The demo started you right in the beginning of the game and you had an opportunity to test the combat, the messages, and you could even see the silhouettes of other warriors slaying the demons in their realm. Needless to say, I was fascinated.

Anybody here into Penny Arcade's Strip Search reality show? I can't say I'm a big fan of reality TV, but they really did this one right. In any event, if you're up-to-date on the show, will you be checking out the finale tonight? Any one in particular you're rooting for? Was there a contestant who already lost that you were really bummed to see go? (If you're not up-to-date on the show, you might want to stop reading here).

Just an FYI - I think I have blog autosaving fixed up nice and proper now. I spotted a bug in the backend that I think was causing the failure. Now if a failure happens, you'll be alerted and given the opportunity to copy-paste your work into another editor. If the save process is successful, it'll update the "Last Saved" date in the upper right hand corner. Even if you don't get the alert, you should see a last saved date/time that's very close to the current time.

You may have noticed that things around PixlBit have been a bit quiet lately. Though life has been generally crazy, I do have some big changes going on in the backend of the site. I've made a few stealth updates since the last Changelog post I've done and this new one is going to be a doozy.

Hey everyone! So this is something I did in the past with our then much smaller fan base, but I figured it would be fun to do it again with everyone that's new here. Straight hi-jacking the text from my last blog entry on this:

How have they been working out for everyone? Any issues? Any complaints? Any proposed improvements?