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We constantly get "suggestions" that we add a search feature to the main site.
For those that aren't aware, we've been working very hard at developing a full tradeskill database containing all the tradeskill stuff we could thing of: recipes, raw materials, final products, vendors, mob drops, forages, fishies, etc. This has been a very long and time-consuming project, as we've wanted to have it as complete as possible before launching it. (And every time we thought we saw a light anywhere near the end of the tunnel, it turned out to be the light from an oncoming expansion, adding yet more mobs, ingredients, recipes, trivials and vendors that needed to be nailed down and added to the database.) We've also been hit hard by real life on more than one occasion, as have several of our hard-working database volunteers.
However, at long last, we're in alpha testing for the durn thing. No, we don't know when we'll announce beta launch. No, we're not sure when/how we're going to take volunteers to help with the beta phase. No, we don't want you posting, sending PMs, or worse, sending in-game tells about it right now. It's NOT that we're not grateful for help, and we KNOW we'd not be where we are without all you wonderful folks volunteering a ton of information that makes the site better. It's that I'm, frankly, beyond overwhelmed, and I simply cannot take even MORE folks clamoring for my attention right now.
Please take the following, taken from the May 1 update on the front page of the site to heart:
For those that aren't aware, we've been working very hard at developing a full tradeskill database containing all the tradeskill stuff we could thing of: recipes, raw materials, final products, vendors, mob drops, forages, fishies, etc. This has been a very long and time-consuming project, as we've wanted to have it as complete as possible before launching it. (And every time we thought we saw a light anywhere near the end of the tunnel, it turned out to be the light from an oncoming expansion, adding yet more mobs, ingredients, recipes, trivials and vendors that needed to be nailed down and added to the database.) We've also been hit hard by real life on more than one occasion, as have several of our hard-working database volunteers.
However, at long last, we're in alpha testing for the durn thing. No, we don't know when we'll announce beta launch. No, we're not sure when/how we're going to take volunteers to help with the beta phase. No, we don't want you posting, sending PMs, or worse, sending in-game tells about it right now. It's NOT that we're not grateful for help, and we KNOW we'd not be where we are without all you wonderful folks volunteering a ton of information that makes the site better. It's that I'm, frankly, beyond overwhelmed, and I simply cannot take even MORE folks clamoring for my attention right now.
Please take the following, taken from the May 1 update on the front page of the site to heart:
I'm sure the skeptics among you had long given up on this following annoucement, but we're finally ready to announce that our database is ready for alpha testing. (Sometimes, even <em>*I*</em> wasn't sure we'd ever hit this point, as it has been a very overwhelming task, and real life has thrown us many curve balls since we started this project.) We are NOT looking for added volunteers at the moment, so please, don't join the folks who have already swamped me with private messages containing well-meaning offers of help. I've given up even attempting to respond to them all at this point, as they're eating up far too much time that I <em>need</em> to be spending on the current site and on the database. When we are ready to announce beta (we have no ETA), we will either have a post asking for volunteers, or we will be contacting folks directly.
<p>I can't stress this enough. Don't swamp us with tells. Don't send us private messages offering to help. Don't make unsolicited posts offering to help. Please, such "help" will only add to our workload instead of helping us. <i>(And it's very likely that we'll totally ignore you and that folks on the board will start quoting this front page update at you, since we want folks helping us that are willing and able to follow instructions, and if you're bugging us after seeing this post, you're NOT going to be someone we'll choose to help relieve our workload, hm?)</i>
I truly don't want to seem ungrateful, as without all you wonderful folks that have volunteered information and encouragement over the years, not to mention the dedicated moderators and database volunteers who have kept me from going totally insane, but I'm a very overwhelmed redhead right now, and until this thing is fully launched, I'm fighting a very strong urge to hide in some deep dark corner and tell the world to go away. Of course, if I did that, I'd never get the durn thing launched, <i>despite</i> all the hard work done by my husband and others to get all the technical requirements and searches sorted out.
<p>I can't stress this enough. Don't swamp us with tells. Don't send us private messages offering to help. Don't make unsolicited posts offering to help. Please, such "help" will only add to our workload instead of helping us. <i>(And it's very likely that we'll totally ignore you and that folks on the board will start quoting this front page update at you, since we want folks helping us that are willing and able to follow instructions, and if you're bugging us after seeing this post, you're NOT going to be someone we'll choose to help relieve our workload, hm?)</i>
I truly don't want to seem ungrateful, as without all you wonderful folks that have volunteered information and encouragement over the years, not to mention the dedicated moderators and database volunteers who have kept me from going totally insane, but I'm a very overwhelmed redhead right now, and until this thing is fully launched, I'm fighting a very strong urge to hide in some deep dark corner and tell the world to go away. Of course, if I did that, I'd never get the durn thing launched, <i>despite</i> all the hard work done by my husband and others to get all the technical requirements and searches sorted out.
Ngreth Thergn
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