More than 3 years after my abrupt departure from NESR I reluctantly returned, with a plan to breathe some life into a project I'd once held dear to my heart. With Stoneman's seal of approval on my plan, I began my work.
What was done:
- Bring the forum up to the current software version.
- Add some new style/theme options.
- Install some search engine optimization software.
- Install some goodies for the people (gallery, arcade, etc.)
- Server stability and performance optimizations.
- Set up advertisements to help move NESR towards being a self-sustaining community.
Now it's a year later, and except for a server hardware problem and a few bonehead tweaking mishaps on my part, it's been a pretty smooth year for NESR. So now I bring forth the evidence that my return was at least in
some way beneficial to this community.
Traffic from search engines is WAY up (this was goal #1):
Traffic from other sites is up:
Visitor trend shows a steady increase:
Anyway that's all. I'll continue to do my thing behind the curtain, and I'll love ever minute of it because I'm a fucking dork.
