Reaching For The Defibrillator…
Seasons Greetings,
Usually I don’t give status posts on site projects, however, the FrontPage has been dormant for so long now that it seems necessary. Firstly, I’d like to apologize to our userbase for the sparse activity on the FrontPage. We originally thought that adding the “Quick Picks” section would help bring a breathe of life to the FrontPage, but we have realized that in order to make this section of MacThemes as viable and vibrant as it’s “communal” counterpart (see: The Forums) that a greater amount of end-user integration is desperately needed. We’ve been busily toiling away at an update that we hope will bring the FrontPage back to life, creating a steady flow of traffic and more areas for end-user interactions to take place. We won’t be committing to any time-tables, however, we hope this post amplifies some key points:
- 1. We aren’t dead… Yet - While death is an inevitable epilogue to life, MacThemes isn’t going to “flat-line” anytime soon.In fact, we have seen tremendous growth in both our monthly traffic as well as in our forum user-base, the latter of which is close to breaking 30,000 members!
2. Registration WILL reopen - Though ample reason has been given regarding our decision to temporarily close forum registration, I just wanted to reiterate that this situation will not be permanent. While we’ve enjoyed tremendous growth in the past year, we have always strived to maintain a healthy and enjoyable community environment for both GUI enthusiasts and designers alike. As a result, we felt it would be best to temporarily halt registration as we delineate the most appropriate way to manage such a large community (Not too long ago, MT merely catered to 8,000 forum-users)
3. Insiders are coming - Luis and the writing staff are hard at work creating a slew of wonderfully insightful articles for all of our design enthusiasts that they hope will satiate your aesthetics appetites.
4. Greater Transparency - While we have multiple avenues through which you can voice your suggestions, critiques, or slander, such as email and/or through the forum “Site Feedback” subsection. I want to stress that MacThemes is first a foremost a community. You, our readers and forum members, have helped create an extremely unique community that will continue to evolve as we near our 7 year anniversary and enter a new decade. Though we’ve already decided on our feature set for our imminent site update, we have started to create a list of long term goals to make MacThemes into the go-to site for everything GUI-related (both Mac and iPhone). That being said, our eyes and ears are at full attention - so please, once again, do not hesitate to email us! We will also be making more conscious effort to communicate any site-related developments as they occur.
5. Supporting MacThemes - Though site downtime has decreased tremendously since our transition to MediaTemple from Blue Host during our “Theme For A Week” contest several years ago, we have not managed to completely quell it. MacThemes averages over 1 million sessions a month, a 400% increase in the past 2 - 3 years. Keeping MacThemes afloat requires both time and money. While ad revenue has managed to alleviate any monetary stress, we appreciate any and all donations. Our moderators and writers work hard and receive little compensation for their endless hours spent working on creating such a wonderful community. And, of course, our server can always use a little extra memory to further decrease downtime! [Of Course, if you are an independent Mac or iPhone software developer, MacThemes is a wonderful source of exposure - check out our “Advertising” page in the “About” section.
To all of our users - Thanks Again! These first 6 years and 335 days have been an absolute blast. Heres to another 7 more! And of course, Happy Holidays!
Sincerely,
Jonathan Komisar and the MacThemes Staff
December 1st, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Good to hear that MT is still alive. Well atleast the forum is the main attraction het MT.
Here is to another 7 years of icons, wallpapers, modding and GUI tweaking.
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:16 am
Recent posts hasn’t done anything for the past few months, I really used to enjoy that feature.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:45 pm
What? Are you saying you haven’t enjoyed the constant reminder of how to say magnificent in French?
December 4th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
We forgive you. I’ve always loved the forums anyway and although its nice to have some life on the homepage I find the real life is in the forums.
PS. have you being playing left4dead a lot recently?!
December 5th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Can i ask an off topic question?
When will registration to the forumes be open again? I really want to be a part of the forum, and i have been checking back for a while. An answer would be appreciated.
Thanks.
December 5th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
So Say We All!
(I couldn’t resist. I’m sorry (not really), and yes I miss BSG)
December 6th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Good to hear!
December 8th, 2009 at 4:37 am
It’s good to see something on the front page! I hope that MacThemes becomes the amazing community it was before theming died. It would be very saddening if the steps you’ve outlined turn out like the past ones – a big push, with no follow-through.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:22 am
The percentage of children classified as special education continues to increase. Does anyone know why?
December 30th, 2009 at 2:28 am
Sushi tonight?
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I’d love to see a new release preview page. It’s a pain weeding through the forums to find new work and releases and tweaked work.
One of my recent favorites is iconpaper.com. That may be a bit ambitious for MacThemes (you folks do do other things, no?), but worth a look.
January 7th, 2010 at 1:22 am
That’s good to hear!
Wait… There’s still a writing staff? O_O Where have they been for the last umpteen months?
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:48 am
Been checking the registration daily… waiting… I really want to show some of the projects I have been working on. On a real(Or at least so I think) GUI site :)..
January 25th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
HOOOOOOO.. Good
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:57 pm
yes!
bring back the front page articles (or something…)
March 6th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
thats weird….i just signed up on the forums like two hours ago…
April 17th, 2010 at 9:15 am
it is awesome, and really great. Thank you a lot…
April 17th, 2010 at 9:16 am
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April 27th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Right… so… whatever happened to this? Maybe he wasn’t serious?
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
I have been to your blog before. The more I visit, the more I keep coming back! ;-P
May 19th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Defibrillator?
I dont think you can bring things back from the dead…..but nice to keep everyone strung along….
May 27th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Four. That’s the number of times you repeated “Frontpage” within one paragraph on the FrontPage, and the first three were used in one sentence after another… on the Frontpage. You really ought to work on your FrontPage, and maybe your writing will improve on your FrontPage. FrontPage.
June 4th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Hmm… going on 6!
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