Happy Anniversary!!! Traditionally, Third Year is celebrated with gifts of leather, so I'll be looking forward to seeing what y'all send to my inbox. ;) ;)

I just wanted to take this post to say thank you for everything you've all done for the community, the site, and me. Even if you're just a lurker, your continued visitation to the site contributes to a flurry of activity that is keeping this thing alive.

I've been working on an SE v2 alpha (well this is the 4th one) for quite a while now and I think I've finally got it functional enough that it's worth opening up to subscribers for Beta testing. There's a still a ton of work to be done on both in the design and on the server side, but it is usable and I figured this would a be a good stage to open it up to other eyes and get some constructive feedback. Constructive feedback, please. If all you've got is complaints 'because it's different' I will be more than happy to send you a homemade copy of my cock for you go to fuck yourself with. Upon payment, of course. ;)

Screenshots, features, and the future in the extended.

In honor of our second anniversary, I've had a prostitute adopted in your name.

We have a twitter Account and a subreddit /r/SensibleEndowment. Nothing special, I'm just setting up social network accounts in order to get us out there a bit. The subreddit has been going for about a week and is pulling an extra 20 visitors a day. Again, nothing special, but it'll hopefully get us a new user from time to time. And, in case of downtimes you check these spaces ;)

Now that the holidays are over and traffic has picked back up I thought I'd mention a few things and offer up one of many ideas I've had for getting some more traffic to the site to see if there's enough interest to move forward with it.

So this was brought up in the shoutbox, but you may have noticed that I'm advertising a number of quizzes at the moment to test a site I'm working on. The hope is that excitelike.com will become a somewhat viral quiz site so that I can skim new users from it over to here. SE isn't a site that people often want to share and I've found that the best users that come along usually do so by finding it linked from sites they're comfortable with in their day to day browsing.

I'm starting excitelike off with an array of pop style quizzes at the moment but eventually hope to branch them off into somewhat intellectual stuff. Basically take tests from college textbooks and turn them into popular quizzes just to get people thinking. If we're lucky once the site really gets going it will make a few bucks a day that I can put towards getting SE onto amazon's cloud service so things will be a bit more stable and we'll have the resources to do some of the cool stuff (XP, achievements, etc) I've been playing around with in the background, but haven't brought live because they're too resource intensive.

This is basically a call out for people to play around with site, kind of beta test things, and if you guys are down, help kickstart the viral process by sharing stuff on social networks you may be involved with. If anyone has suggestions for quizzes that you think might go over well with their friends, or stuff you might like to see, I'm open to suggestion and would appreciate it. Thank you.

Hey guys, I'm aware the dropbear issues are back. I'm out in the woods right now but doing what i can. Worst case scenario is i'll be shifting SE to a different server Sunday and we'll see if that does it. Please bear with it.

Bear.

Okay, I'm bringing the mentions for comments online. What does this mean? It means that if you put something like <USER>steele</USER> in your comment it will show up in your comment as a link to my profile page and I will get a notification that you mentioned me in a comment. this works with all usernames. Usernames are case sensitive so keep that in mind. It's beta right now so if you have questions or issues put them in this thread. Yes, eventually it'll be an automated thing where you can search for usernames as you type but that'll be in the V2 code. For now I just want to get things working properly on the backend.

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We managed to survive a whole year! Hooray!

Not a whole lot to say. Mainly, just thank you for your support in this endeavour. Thank you to the subscribers that have made this possible. I put far more time into this than I originally planned for so the subscriptions help more than you know. Thank you to the posters, commenters, and modders that are keeping the front page moving and bringing things to life. And of course, thank you to the lurkers that are silently judging us. We know you're out there and we're gonna get you to break eventually.

Okay... In theory, I've got the personalized Gold and Platinum subscriber mod code in place.

Here's the rules:
You can only do it once per account, so make it good.
Personalized mods can be +1, 0, or -1.
When used within an post your mod becomes available for use in that post by everyone making +10/-10 or +5/-5 [Your Mod] possible. this includes comments.
In order to keep the sidebar somewhat clean try and keep the visible size of your mods to between whatever space of about 15-20 characters.
I'm not saying to keep them SFW but keep in mind you'll be expected to be responsible with your mods about what posts you use them in if they are NSFW.
No personal attacks. positive or negative. You want to make a mod about yourself? That's fine. But referencing another person is crossing a number of lines. Not to mention not giving them a say in the matter.
You can be childish but refrain from being total assholes, please.
I'm retaining right to final veto, so rather than automating the process PM me to let me know what you would like your mod to be. I'll allow some experimentation and playfulness as long as it's not too disruptive, so if you've got an idea that you're not sure about, feel free to bring it up to me in your PM. I'll be happy to work with you.

We also still have 2 open slots left for the sub only mods. Just throwing that out there.

OK, clearly godaddy isn't cutting it. I spent over an hour on the phone with tech support and while I got them to admit there was a problem they refused to do anything until their defined limits were tripped. So basically our only choice is to suck it up or find a new host. Unfortunately, as awesome as amazon would be they're too expensive. Anybody have any suggestions for a new hosting company? That they have experience with?

Shared or virtual hosting btw. We're not at a level where we can afford a dedicated server yet.