Posted by Kim on December 31, 2011, 2:20am
Sometimes, I get frustrated when I have to spend so much time doing client work that I can't work on new features for the RPR.But looking back on this year, I'm proud of how far we've come. I'm so used to Forum Chat and dice on the forums, it's hard to imagine they're both less than a year old!
January 10
- We move to our new server.
- Number of gallery images allowed increased from 20 to 50.
- Green Aracana template (provided by Sanne) released.
- My development log gets digitized to make it easier to keep track of what I'm working on and planning.
- Groups are first released in alpha
- The site's first real controversy gets turned into an opportunity to talk about how to make the community stronger.
- Accolade bling gets displayed on user profiles for the first time.
- Notifications completely rewritten to be much more flexible -- we think. Oh how naive we were then about what they would eventually have to accommodate!
- The forums get moderators for the first time. I breathe a huge sigh of relief, and resume leaving the house and sleeping without the intense fear something will go wrong I won't be around to help with. Thank you for keeping me sane, moderators!
- First annual Epic Celebration begins
- The first official RPR song is released
- Cityscape templates are added
- Dice are added to the forums
- Ancient Vineyard and Strawberry Patch templates are released
- Justify and Collapse BBcode tags are added
- Submerged and Orion Nebula templates are added
- An option is added to gallery widgets to display full-size images right on profile pages, instead of as thumbnails
- Super computer templates are added
- Recent activity widgets are added
- Orchid templates are added
- New England Ivy template is added
- Forum chat is added
- Bright vineyard, pale moonlit forest, no-scrollbox orchids templates are added along with two new colors of the super computer AND the victorian lace templates
- Epic celebration ends.
- The site escapes any april fools pranks from its admin, because I passed out and slept for a week after the epic celebration.
- Search upgraded
- Character and group management pages added
- The site is brought down for a few hours by its first cyber attack
- The site moves to another new server to accomodate its growth.
- Printable character sheets are added
- It's decided that forum chat will remain free for everyone.
- The battle of error undefined occurs; generates fan art
- We celebrate our first nerdiday: The 42nd anniversary of the moon landing. Three new lunar-themed templates are added (cursive moon, blood moon, moon walk)
- Epic members are allowed to customize their player profiles for the first time
- Waning moon template added
- Top Secret groups are added
- Group customization is updated, modeled after the point and click interface that was originally developed for epic members to mod their profiles
- We celebrate our second Nerdiday: We still miss you, firefly with a new emoticon
- We celebrate our third Nerdiday: The eruption of mount Vesuvius with two new templates: Burnt Offerings and Phreatic Eruption
- I blow up the site layout by accident
- We simultaneously experience a massive sign-up attack from Chinese robots
- The site breaks even on its operating costs for the first time ever!
- Another animated short is released, this time a prequel to the very first one.
- I announce that I am beginning a long and arduous quest to completely redesign the site
- Some of our RPR animated shorts are screened at DragonCon
- I am once again called upon to do battle with the Chinese robot army, who try to invade our forums with spam. Several days are required to fully quash the uprising, and new security is added to prevent anything else like it.
- The site celebrates Talk Like a Pirate Day with a poetry & limerick contest
- The site celebrates National Ask a Stupid Question day by asking me dozens of great questions
- MASSIVE REDESIGN of both aesthetics and inner workings. Probably the largest single update the site has ever seen.
- Too much new stuff to list here. See the change log
- The ability to purchase gifts for friends is released
- Nerdiday: 4th anniversary of the Mass Effect games, complete with another short film
- Keri becomes our 3000th user
- Code that handles templates is rewritten to prepare for new features.
- 2 new template colors: Road Kill and Red Victorian Lace
- The site observes the Festival of Being Excellent To Each Other
- Kudos are officially announced, although a few users found the features a day early and gave out 50 kudos before it was even officially announced.
- Nerdiday: Happy birthday daleks, complete with yet another short film
- I go caroling around the RPR
- First snowfall template released
Comments
Thanks everyone for your kind wishes. I have love love loved knowing you all this year. It's been fantastic. I so look forward to 2012 with you guys! 
Lemme answer some specific stuff, too...
@Hikaru: Don't worry, we'll keep on being awesome next year, too. There's plenty of stuff still left to watch unfold!
@Earendill: Kudopocalypse has been SO amazing so far! But it's not yet over. We still have until midnight tonight. Then I'll know how many kudos to report! You guys have just waltzed right past my original goal of 500. In fact, you waltzed right past it in the first hour of Kudopocalypse. We're closer to 730 now. What do you think we will end at, 800? 1000? NONE SHALL STOP OUR KUDOS! 
@Bonebag: Actually, we're only about a year and a half old. We'll turn two in late April 2012.
Lemme answer some specific stuff, too...
@Hikaru: Don't worry, we'll keep on being awesome next year, too. There's plenty of stuff still left to watch unfold!
@Earendill: Kudopocalypse has been SO amazing so far! But it's not yet over. We still have until midnight tonight. Then I'll know how many kudos to report!
You guys have just waltzed right past my original goal of 500. In fact, you waltzed right past it in the first hour of Kudopocalypse. We're closer to 730 now. What do you think we will end at, 800? 1000? NONE SHALL STOP OUR KUDOS! @Bonebag: Actually, we're only about a year and a half old. We'll turn two in late April 2012.
Aw man, we've been busy this year!
Ohohoh also I see we have a fancy BIG FAT PREVIEW BUTTON huzzah! *clicks it forever with joy and lovelies*
Er, um, my love of the preview button aside, seriously, we've gotten so much accomplished this year! Huzzah! Go RPR!
Ohohoh also I see we have a fancy BIG FAT PREVIEW BUTTON huzzah! *clicks it forever with joy and lovelies*
Er, um, my love of the preview button aside, seriously, we've gotten so much accomplished this year! Huzzah! Go RPR!
How long has rpr been around now? Two or three years?
So glad to see how far the place has come!
Congratulations on the amazing lot that has been achieved!
RPR has come a very long way. It's something else to list everything that's been accomplished here within the last year.
It has been a busy year, hasn't it?
I look forward to seeing how RPR develops in 2012
I look forward to seeing how RPR develops in 2012
You totally forgot to mention the Kudopocalypse, which is a huge succes so far!
By the end of next year we'll look back at this list and laugh at how naive we were back now and how little awesome features we had. At this rate we'll have an army of nanobots scouring the servers, all in service of the great RPR entity that became sentient the 21th of December 2012.
By the end of next year we'll look back at this list and laugh at how naive we were back now and how little awesome features we had. At this rate we'll have an army of nanobots scouring the servers, all in service of the great RPR entity that became sentient the 21th of December 2012.
I should've joined earlier. -3- That's all I can say, really.
It's pretty cool to read all of the stuff that this site has gone through this year. Wonder how 2012's gonna turn out? Hopefully I'll be here long enough to see it all~
It's pretty cool to read all of the stuff that this site has gone through this year. Wonder how 2012's gonna turn out? Hopefully I'll be here long enough to see it all~
Mermaid
December 31, 2011
2:44am
It's so awesome to see RPR grow. I love you, RPR. And you, Kim!
I just woke up, got on here, and saw this. This is great for me because I came back AFTER all this happened. It is, however, missing one thing: it doesn't list the day I joined the site, Kim :l.
Andryn
December 31, 2011
3:11pm