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I’ve decided, after this good half-year of a break, to return to FlashStuf and continue updating– even go through with the changes I was at one point trying to make to it.
This is where I need your help. I’ve run this website for over six years now, starting in middle school until now, in college. Obviously my priorities, interests, et cetera have changed considerably in this time. I feel like you could learn most of my adolescent years by reading the archives of updates on FlashStuf.
Regardless, I want to continue to use the FlashStuf name. I’ve built a Facebook Application around it, there’s a Facebook Page, forums, over 800 members, more than 200 flash movies, games, downloads, and web tools, just to name a few. And that alone is enough to keep me from simply throwing it all away. So my question is this: what would you like to see from here?
I’ve already started development on a FlashStuf Apps platform (mostly for myself), for creating small web apps based on your FlashStuf user account. Profiles are still under construction. It’s becoming a more user-centric site. So if you have any ideas, give me a shout– on the blog, on the Facebook page, on the website, wherever. Let me know what you, the users, think.
We are bringing two new FlashStuf sites live this week, Blogs and Hosting.
Blogs are available to anyone who wants a free hosted blog. It has the FlashStuf name on it because we hope for artists and members to use it mostly, however it is open to all members.
Hosting is currently available only by request, as it isn’t completely ready for the public yet. There also isn’t a set date for when it will be open to the public. However if you visit the hosting site and submit a request for a site, depending on your intentions for the site I might create an account for you. As you can tell, registration is currently very selective.
So check out both the sites, and if you’d like a blog feel free to sign up because registration takes a minute and is open to all.
FlashStuf will be undergoing a fourth redesign in the next two months. It’s going to improve more upon the backend of the site and include some new features.
When FlashStuf version 3 (the latest redesign) was unveiled earlier this year, there were a lot of sections and new features left unfinished– sections such as the polls and downloads were put on a lower priority so that the site could continue running as normal, with the main content still intact. This update’s purpose is to make the site complete again. Here are some of the changes that are coming.
New Features
It’s also going to be more interactive and community-driven. Users can earn points by playing games and participating in the site, raising their status.
Profiles
FlashStuf Profiles are going to be more of a way to show your activities on FlashStuf and interact with other members. The purpose won’t be to replace a profile you have on another site anymore. Privacy settings and more customization will finally be added here.
On another note, the current Favorites system has been updated, allowing you to display your favorites on the home page again. Non-FlashStuf members also won’t see the FF+ links on the home page anymore. Many more small changes like this will follow as we get closer to the redesign.
The polls section has been updated with an archives section to view the results of past polls. Ever since the latest redesign this section was down (and harder to update), so it has been updated and automated. We’ve also managed to keep the old poll results intact.
Soon we will be adding the ability to add comments on archived polls and even the latest poll. They might feature some historical commentary from yours truly, as well.
A minor update, but today many ads on the site were updated. However, most importantly, Google Search in the search section of the site was updated. It now opens in a different window, which should cause less display problems. All FlashStuf sites, even the Chicken Cheese Productions site, is included in the search results now. If you want to see this change the most, search for “slippery slide” and you’ll notice results from a variety of sites comes up.