[quote=@vancexentan]
Just wanted to stop by to thank Mahz for all the work he's put into the site along side anyone else who has helped. I didn't have confidence in this site following the debacle towards the end of 2014 with the site constantly crashing and what not but the new improvements are impressive even if they aren't completely finished. 
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Yeah, I feel that. The deletion of the Guild in Dec 2013 kinda forced my hand at the worst possible time in my life.

I had the choice to either restart the Guild on forum software like vBulletin or Xenforo again. But I also had been wanting to run the Guild on my own software for a while. I thought taking two months off from work would've been enough to write a skeleton forum that I could slowly enhance, but it wasn't enough time. I created some software that just couldn't scale with the load. I was also burning progressively more and more time on fixes that weren't really helping.

The Guild's towards the end of last year generated a lot of ill will towards me and the forum which was frustrating, so I took what I learned, bought some stability in my life, and rewrote the Guild again.

All things said and done, I think 2014 was somewhat necessary in a way despite the timing and the failure. If I had decided to just reboot the Guild on a fresh Xenforo/vBulletin installation, we'd probably still be running on it today. Too hard to switch away. Just another clone. But since my failure to scale the forum planted the responsibility firmly in my hands and ended up causing me a lot of stress, by the time I was in a position to stabilize my life, I had (and still have) the energy/fuel necessary to build.

The current forum still trails other forums on some basic features that come for free when using Xenforo. I'm still building a search system. Pagination still sucks. Still can't delete/archive convos. Have to manually refresh the /subscriptions page to see if new posts were made in the topics/roleplays/checks that you care about.

But the upside is that I'll catch these features up within the next couple months. I kinda interleave these boring features with cooler features. And once I catch up, 100% of my time will be spent working on cool features instead of just 50% of my time. :sun