Me too

Doing a bunch of speed improvements today. Will get to notification bubble issue a bit later on!

Doing some heavy database conversion work today. May be intermittent a few times. Really trying to speed this heap up

Hmm, now the notifications page, forum pages and "My Scenes" opens very quickly, just like in the good old days. There are still difficulties in accessing sales statistics.

Thanks for your great work!

Converting a bunch of databases and reworking queries so they can actually use our damn indexes and be fast again... might have to take us offline tonight so I can get the big ones (yall's inbox messages are HUGE) lol

Site is working very much like it once did for me here, great response and loading times.

Hmm... Well Derek was it by chance something I said to the web hosting guy?

Nah, basically me getting my ish together. I live here too, and the slow loading kills me. Still much to do!

I just sit and refresh the notifications page continuously, enjoying the lightning-fast refresh rate. Sorry for the extra traffic, I'll play enough and stop.

Web Hosting Guy here, lol. Wish I could take credit for it, all Messmaster this time.

Introducing Stark, my best friend since we were like 4 years old. We grew up 3 houses from each other. We've been working together for years, and finally, I've put all of UMD's physical servers are under his personal care.

He's stuck with me through the entire server move into Vegas day and night, fretting over everything just like me. He and his team really know what they are doing, and we are supporting a great guy who runs his stuff with integrity and love, instead of some faceless corporation. I don't know, to me that makes all this that much more pure.

He is a very busy person but I begged him to come, and he made it happen. It was symbolic to me that he be there with us to celebrate with all of us, only a block or two away from the new physical UMD. So many layers of happy, for me.

Everybody please give Stark your highest regard and respect.

P.S. I wanted to clarify that me saying the site being faster was me getting my ish together was in reference to the slowness being my fault in the first place, and me fixing that. Web Hosting Guy Stark absolutely has sped this site up, in many REAL ways. He's given us server memory and resources and firewalls and security and backup revisioning systems that we never had before. He gets alerts too when the site is slow

was awesome getting to meet you in vegas, despite it being a super brief introduction. In my vanilla day life I work work in the DC environment too. It would be awesome to get to chat sometime for a little longer. Im in AZ mostly but make it to the east coast from time to time.