Helloo

Right, I've just added a countdown. I meant to do one yesterday but there are "backstage" problems with this that you guys are unaware of, so I thought I'd tell you. Plus there are issues that we all discovered during the last event!

These widgets create lag and other problems, don't they. I found a pretty one that fitted the Winter Nights theme just right, but it caused a bunch of issues with the event store. So I hunted for a plain one instead. That seemed to be ok, so fingers crossed this one will be as well.


The behind the scenes problem is this...I have some AA help now, yes? It was just me for a long time, and to be frank it was too much for just one person. So after much nagging I finally got Inso to promote Knerd and Iku so they could help me. The problem here is, they might be the same rank as me, but they don't have all the same permissions. The AA rank was created by Kenny for Juru, Yan and myself. When CK joined our ranks we discovered she didn't have all the abilities that we did, same for Chi. Inso owned Mene by then and he went investigating, but couldn't find why. Iku and Knerd have the same kind of problems, it seems Ken expected me, Yan and Juru to be immortal and no more AAs would be needed, ever...

Right now I'm the only one who knows how to open/close events because I have no means to let the girls try it out. We have a test site where they could learn to do it, but hey, it's down and has been for months...It's not hard, but I'm not going to dump it in someone else's lap and expect them to do it solo, when they've never done it before. That would be utterly stupid of me. So for now it's only me who can shut down events, and I'm in an entirely different timezone to most of you.

Luckily for you lot, my sleep cycle is pretty F'ed up at the moment, so I've set the timer for 4am my time. I apologise to people who wanted way more advance warning, but the timer is something that just didn't get thought about until now, and the problem of who could shut the event down would always have been there. One couldn't really go up until the last day because of that. Shut down is done manually you see, there's no automatic function for that. Not much use having a timer if it runs out and the event keeps going because the necessary person can't get online for whatever reason.

I'm not sure if this is going to explain anything to anyone >< But it's here for you! Feel free to ask any questions etc.!