Hello everybody, high time for another entry to the captains blog on wikiloops :)

As some of you may have anticipated, when the developer stops to blog, hes propably overly busy on the development side. That pretty much nails the state of affairs of the last weeks, peaking the very moment wikiloops was updated to the 6.4 version on monday, 25th of august 2014.
With the help of many it was possible to finally get all four currently available language interfaces updated at the same time, with the spanish interface catching up to the latest version after half a year of lagging behind.
Credit goes to OliVBee for the french update, and to Leonardo, Frederico and Brittany on the spanish side. I am aware that there are propably some language issues left to improve, but we felt it was OK to go ahead with the current state of affairs.

The new wikiloops you are looking at today is the result of a long-going process. In April, there was a long and intensive discussion involving about fourty members in which several ideas were discussed, investigated, dropped or negotiated. The new interface and the changes you will notice are a result from that discussion.
Besides some technical changes which impact the way pages are loaded and the re-worked messaging system, the one change you will hopefully not have missed is the way the need for community support is advertised and even rewarded by the new "supporting membership"-status.
This has been one of the major points in the member discussion we had:
How to ensure the future of wikiloops without taking the commercial route or spoiling the fun on this platform - and I hope you will agree the approach we are taking now is still a transparent & fair deal.
To me, the adventure starts here, because I am fully aware that only because I have spent five months working on this update and developing the supporting membership idea, there is no guarantee that there is enough people out there who understand what is going on. I have tried to give as much background info about wikiloops (think about the new notices displayed in the download dialogs) to let people anticipate why I am asking for support, now all I can do is sit and wait if the "crowd" will back this project... so these are interesting days :)

To get back to the idea of the development blog, I'd like to add that there is still a lot left to do - I have been receiving several bug reports since the update and pretty much spent all week fixing things that were reported by some helpfull people (special thx to Hurzel, Uloisius & jmrukkers).
After a 72hour battle with PIWIK, Adsense and the re-designed upload processing, there are still some things left to take care of, but I am slowly starting to believe that the major bugs have been worked out by now.
Looking at the page statistic, a very first analysis looks like the number of page visits has increased significantly since the update, which is also backed by the fact that we are seeing around 50 new members per day for the last couple of days.
I am looking forward to taking a few days off after monitoring the new site for a few more days to make sure everything is in shape, feel free to contact me about any strange things you might come across. And dont forget to have fun on the loops, right?

todays stats:
15.961 members
19.899 tracks up