Site Post » Auld Lang Pone · 12:31am Jan 1st, 2014
Greetings from 2014! Yes, it's just ticked over to 2014 here in the sunny ol' United Kingdom and that means it's time for a 2013 wrap up post! This year sure has been busy. I attended my first con ever (BUCK) and the site went through a myriad of changes as it constantly does, and I think again we're in a stronger place than ever. Growth has been consistent throughout the whole of 2013 which saw us break the 100,000 user barrier and very very nearly smash through the 1 billion word one. We're now averaging nearly 2 million hits a day from about 60,000 unique users. Of course there are many people to thank for this.
Xaquseg: Forever keeping the site from falling apart and forever behind the scenes, except for new years when I get to thank him for all his great work. Xaq is now going to be taking a more active role in site development too rather than just server maintenance.
Meeester: The approval bot himself. Without him we'd certainly have a lot more issues with getting stories up on the site, so thanks to Meeester for making sure the average time stories sit in the queue is probably under an hour now.
Obs, Cynewulf, El, Alex and Wanderer D: These guys all contribute towards clearing that queue too as well as dealing with the many hundreds of reports we get, making sure the site stays as friendly as possible. Thanks guys.
ShadowFlash and RazedRainbow: The two newbies. Thanks for stepping up to the task and doing a fine job of approving stuff!
What's in store for Fimfiction for 2014? Well actually I have a lot of big jobs I want to work through in order to do something very big that will change the site forever..... So here's what's on the cards as far as big jobs go
Android App: I already have most of this done so it's just a case of finishing it off and testing.
Tags: Probably the single biggest change in the site's history. We will be implementing a proper tagging system which will be a lot more powerful than the current genre/character tags and really help the site in the future in regards to searching for stories. It'll also facilitate site-wide blocking of any content you want.
Language Support: It's been on my list of things to do for a long time but in 2014 I really want to sit down and tackle this issue. When it's done the site will have translations of the UI for multiple languages and support language tagging for stories.
Uploading: I would also like to support better uploading procedures this year, which means uploading .doc files and the like instead of having to import from gdocs.
Multi server support: This is server side but something that will need doing to support further expansion in the future. We've made good headway in this area but there are a few nuts to tighten still before we can seriously deploy across multiple servers.
API: Like the app, this is already in full swing but needs completing. When finished, the API will support OAuth access to most of the site's core functionality.
Bookshelves: An idea I had some time ago but haven't had time to work on yet. Think of bookshelves like playlists. The existing favourites system will become a user-default bookshelf and you'll be able to create your own bookshelves to store collections of stories to show to others or for your personal use.
Here's to another great year!
We love you, knighty and Xaq. Your constant work to keep everything running is and always will be truly appreciated.
tfw I haven't even been in this seat for a full year
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Enough Flutterbat, we get it.
Yeah, but Britain time isn't real time, so it isn't 2014 yet.
1668812 But....but....
Flutterbat is best pone
I am super super super excited for the bookshelves feature. And more tagging. Happy New Year to you as well, O Supreme Leader!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Rock on Knighty and all the long suffering FiMFiction Staff!
Yaaaaayyyy API!
New year means I ought to make new resolutions.
Which'll join all the old resolutions in the trashcan 'round February.
It's 2014 there? What's the future like? Do we have flying cars yet?
1668830 Yeah and talking colourful ponies.
2014? Time-travelling bastard...
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Happy New Year, everyone! Glad to be a part of the team and
gather tons of knightycoins for my personal gainhelp out the community!Will we ever get an iPhone app perchance
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Dat honesty.
Join the club. Who else is hitting the gym for three days?
To the FiMfiction.net team. Happy New Year, and thank you for giving us this site.
Happy New Year to all the fimfiction staff, and thanks for all the amazing work you guys do!
Happy New Year everypony wherever you are in the world.
Also looking forward to getting my hands on the API.
Here's to another year of Fimfiction growth as more people discover the site and old ones come crawling back on all fours because Fimfiction is THE site for pony fanfics.
New Year resolution - become the next RainbowBob.
That bookshelves idea sounds like something I've been tempted to request in the past. Please do this! I will have your manbabies.
Or draw you porn.
Or something.
In the meantime, here's a glass of cheer well raised.
Woo, Happy New Year Knighty and FIMFiction...
When midnight strikes down here. It's not midnight yet, silly Knighty.
Well, not for me.
Also, I don't speak British, so please translate the title.
Color me excited and curious about what the future holds. Thanks for being awesome, and happy new years Knighty!!!!
My resolution for tomorrow? To find something wrong with this site post.
Everyone knows that resolutions never happen anyway.
To the admins of Fimfiction! Steadily ruining their own creation for months, now! Happy new year!
That stuff looks like a lot of stuff I am SO looking forward to. Thanks for your hard work!
>100,000 user barrier
>60,000 unique users
2 out of every 5 users are sockpuppets? Yeesh.
I can't wait for Fimfiction 3.0. Haven't had a Category Five Shitstorm here in a while. Bet it'll be fun.
And here's to another year of fanfics, drama, debates over foalcon, and finding those excellent stories buried in the piles of crap.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne
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No, Bat Pony is best bat pony!
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In all seriousness though, thank you for keeping this site afloat, knighty. It is always refreshing to come here to read and/or write.
Changes I can actually look forward to!
Android App?!
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ANDROID APP?!
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YESSSSSSSSS-
Did poultron just disappear, or something?
Haven't heard from him in ages.
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Given that, outside daylight savings time, Britain is basically operating directly on UTC (the international standard reference timezone), a strong argument can be made that British time is the most real time.
Knighty, I love you.
1668929 4.bp.blogspot.com/--ekR6jG4Iwk/Tw4zvKN4RCI/AAAAAAAAAn0/IX-VBCUOUvs/s1600/didnt-read-lol-chicken-gif.gif
1668949 I think you're lying.
I'm glad 2013 is over.
It sucked.
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This bookshelf idea intrigues me. Do I dare hope this means we'll finally be able to follow and get notifications of updates to incomplete stories without favoriting them?
Here's to hoping the new updates don't make the user base explode into an outrage again. Although... it was pretty fun to rip apart an argument or two...
On second thought, go ahead and explode, user base.
Guess that's my new years resolution: turn the dial up on the snarky comments I leave.
I wonder how fast we'll get to 10k Flutterbat stories in 2014...
I can't wait!
2014?! That's going to run the site! I liked it better when it was 2012. Go back to that.
Cant wait to see all this cool new stuff come to fruition, keep up the great work guys
Thank you everyone for making 2013 such an amazing year for me!
Yeah-hayah! I can't wait for the app. I Hope it's good! Enhanced tagging and filtering will be really nice too.
Cheers, to all of FIMFiction. Have a good one.
Keep up the good work!
New Tagging system, Bookcases, Language Support, new ways to Upload. Holy crap sounds like a big year.
But honestly, you guys did some amazing work. Gave us writers a much bigger voice in the fandom by forming this amazing hub.
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Yeah. Where is he?
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Didn't read what? I read the post as well as every comment that had been posted at the time I replied. Was it a reference to some meme I considered too pointless to become aware of?
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I'm feeling on top of the world after just finishing a crushing pile of coursework, so I'm not only going to tell you to take it up with the standards bodies, I'm going to give you a logical syllogism, with citations, instead of putting in the effort to be witty. (Logic? That's easy. Humor? That's hard.)
Given: Daylight Savings Time (DST) is not in effect at New Years.
1. Britain uses Western European Time (WET)
2. British WET uses Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) when DST is not in effect
3. Modern GMT is just UTC
4. UTC is the world reference standard for clocks
∴ At New Years, Britain's civil time matches the official international reference time.
What the shit?!
Where the fuck is Poultron?!