I’ve rarely been as satisfied with this site as I am today. You guys are incredible. A true blessing to this arrow smashing shenanigan! Thank you!

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- An attempt at creating an environment for the coders was taken. Yes, a failed one, but it was actually done and also effectively communicated out by staff. The site is also now running blazing fast thanks to the database structure change. Yes, it’s a larger DB and is tougher to back up according to Zageron, but this is not something that users will have to deal with (yet, presumably).

- Social media is being headed up by the events manager, and they’ve taken the time to not only update that on a regular basis, but also have started rallying users into getting FFR merchandise, to support the game a bit more. Posts have been put out talking about what’s going on within the community.

- The situation with the batches is slowly becoming resolved with new judges and now, a new, much more flexible system that allows for judges to work in much smaller sets, rather than daunting and larger sets, making the job much easier to handle. As someone who was previously heading up the game management side of things, I am really happy to see a radical and well-thought change that I lacked the creativity and mindset to think of. As long as there will be solid judges around, I will have no issue with staying alongside of the judgment team to help get things done.

- On that note: Dossar is absolutely killing it as of late. Don’t get me wrong, the other GMs deserve credit for keeping things alive and actually working alongside of him, but he has been an absolute machine when it comes to organization as of late. His concept of distributing tasks and organizing them into really detailed sub-structures and time periods looks to be making a real difference. Even if tasks are not done on time, there is an unparalleled level of visibility, and absolutely everyone outside can look in and see how things are going. The batch search engine was a huge step in the right direction, and these weekly updates pertaining to the site’s internal happenings from his view is proving that things are happening.

- New developers were just added. Yeah, it’s a small time thing — for now. These users are going to likely gain some knowledge as long as they are tasked properly with things to do (and learn).

- The engine was recently updated. Yes, it’s a trivial/minor thing, but it’s something. Heck, thanks to badman’s most recent video, I just realized that I could have my noteskin monochromatic, which is great because I’ve been playing a metric fuckton of osu!mania lately, and have my skin one color — it’ll help me transition back from seeing a crapton of colors again (I played last night and holy hell I was barely at D5 level, aha)

- Skill rating formula was recently recalculated to be more accurate. Players had been asking for that for quite some time after the conception of the original ranking system.

… smell that?

… it’s the smell of a well-oiled machine running again.

Seriously, keep up the awesome work. Keep users informed and engaged like this, and they will continue to stay happy.