June 10th, 2011

Well, the weather has been amazing the past week or so, and I have been extremely busy! I will be moving the website to the updated version here before long; I hope. I have been putting together a great deal of files, and am still working extremely hard on getting things back in order. I have decided to remove a couple people from the team, there are a couple reason(s) as to why. The first being, well some just weren’t needed at this point. Second being, with things lagging around here, and taking more time than anticipated, they just merely have lost touch, and I need staff who will & can keep in contact with me, even if it’s just a quick email, memo, or what-not. The third being, I’ve decided to just go with a couple great, hard-working, kind, and most of all knowledgable staff members. When the time is right, I will add new staff members, however they’ll be chosen based on activity.

A couple of the members who I had working with me have been promoted on Webchat’s chat network. Though they show constantly above 15,000 users, I know from being a CSOp for quite some time, that it’s a lot of idle bots, and what-nots. They seem to want to improve themselves on the network and work their way up the ranks there. I have nothing against that to be honest, and I wish them all the best of luck. However, with that said, I have been through the ranks, and I consider getting this website completely finished as my ‘project’ and reputation. Once everything is going well, I know that they’ll regreat, or even attempt to start putting in the time to become apart of our elite team, but this time, it’ll be too late.

Okay, now some quick news.

1. I am going to do a twitter account for IRCNewbies – this way people can follow easier. I have to admit, I am probably one of the only people who have never used twitter, but I am going to check it out. I have heard good things about it, and millions of people use it. I just never had a reason to, so now that I have one, I’ll get to it.

2. All the channels on webchat (webmaster – irc.webchat.org) are now back to normal help & chat channels. I have decided not to use them as a linked help channel to IRCNewbies.com – mainly because they’re slower since we’ve not set everything up, and second of all I just don’t have the time, patience, or dedication to training and getting the ‘Chat Operators’ all registered and what-not on the site. It was more of a pain in the rear, then something worth finishing. So there ya go, you can chat, op, etc in the channel(s) without even dealing with this site.

I personally haven’t even been on the forums for a couple of weeks since I don’t know what I want to do with them. I’m thinking of running the forums directly linked to the webpage, however I’m not quite sure if I can just transfer all the current accounts to the new one, so I’ve layed back a little on em. We’ll see in the future. However, you can & should still register at our forums, we’re growing in the numbers, and they can be beneficial & helpful to you.

Okay, now something I am excited about. I was checking the stats & such (through wordpress) and I was surprised to see how many unique hits IRCNewbies.com had got for the month or July. The only advertising of this website is through dalnet & webchat. I keep it in my ‘real name’ section of my whois, and word-of-mouth. With that alone, this wordpress site had nearly 1,900 unique hits for the month of May – like I said, kind of exciting. When I purchased the domain (after waiting years), the site really didn’t have a value, and wasn’t worth much because of how long it sat, and the hits were down. I did a little searching, and got the site appraised – IRCnewbies.com is now worth a little over $1,000.00 if I were to sell. (That’s one thousand, not million!) Though a thousand isn’t a lot of money, it shows me that I am slowly getting everything in the right direction, and if I can implement everything I would like to, who knows where the value would go!

However, just because it’s worth that much money doesn’t mean I am going to sell it. I didn’t start this project to become ‘rich’. Yes I see/seen how much the owner of webchat (webmaster – irc.webchat.org) makes, and seen his private plane and such. Though that was part of the reason I wanted to start my own project; but not for the money part. I was tired of volunteering countless hours to a network that paid me nothing, not even respect. Even if my project was worth millions, I would never sell. Like I have said from the beginning, once everything is in place, and I do start to make some revenue from the domain and such, I will not ‘profit’ the benefits. I promise (and still do) that the revenue would be used for hosting, extra pop3 emails accounts, etc. Any money that is left over will be given away in several ways (gift cards, contests, etc).

I appreciate everyone who continues to visit the site, I absolutely respect those who are helping me out and expecting nothing in return. Hang in there all, there is a light at the end of this tunnel! THANKS!

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