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Friday, February 13, 2004
OMFG!! I can see V7!!!
Yeah, so...if you've been reading my comments or you've visited various pages, I'm sure you've already seen at least some of V7.
Right off the bat, I'm going to say that I'm pretty displeased with those who went around revealing the specifics of what they saw. Afterall, I don't spend a month working on it behind the scenes with Justin, only to have its cover blown at the last minute.
Bear in mind also, this isn't just secrecy for secrecy's sake. There are two very good reasons why OtakuBoards hasn't been open while we work on it.
Firstly, people spread rumors. There's a lot of gossip and discussion going on about the new site, which is understandable I guess. The problem is that someone may see something that is unfinished and they might go around telling others what they saw. So what happens? People start to get a false impression, en masse. And then when things don't turn out as they had expected, they think something went wrong.
On principle, I don't like revealing a big project before it's complete. People's first impressions are important -- and I don't want to show something that isn't yet ready for public consumption.
The second point is a really basic one. V7 is one of only a handful of forums (or perhaps the only one so far), which is using a heavily modified vB3. The work we've done on this software is proprietary in nature. That is, we haven't gone out there, taken someone else's template and used it. We've engineered our own templates and setup, from the ground up. Although our proprietary design will be out there eventually, I'd rather that it wasn't leaked beforehand. It would truly suck if another site decided to match their site to our template and launch before us. That'd really hurt all the hard work we've done.
For those of you who haven't seen it, I'm asking you to be patient. I expect OtakuBoards to be online later today/this evening. I'm going to be working with Justin to ensure that it happens.
For those of you who have seen it...I'd ask you not to spread things around. Just be patient. Wait until it's launched. And at least be thankful that you've seen a little snippet of what's to come.
Edit: I'm thinking of holding a "launch chat" for V7. Do you think that's worth doing?
Edit 2: We're very very close. I will open a launch chat very soon -- as in, within ten or fifteen minutes. ^_^
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