So I have this thing on the backend called goalTracker which I wrote back in 2000. In essence it gives me a bit more useful information than google analytics does in terms of what is actually workingl and some of the insights it provides can be surprising.

Next to major press, the most effective way of sending people to this site is to post honest and conversation relevant links in other popular forums.

For instance, this post showed up in the reports today:



thanks Rob!

The links I posted in Advrider two and a half years ago are still generating traffic.

I have a personal goal of driving at least one net new member to M-by-M per week

"Excellent." I say in my best Mr. Burns voice.

The software is coming together. The backend is pretty much refactored and I've been focused almost exclusively on the front end for a couple of weeks now.

It's already to the point where using the live site feels really old, which is a good sign. I'm not sure if I'm going to make my self-imposed December deadline but if I miss it it won't be by much.

Once I do finally do the upgrade I suspect there will be quite a period of testing and making sure everything works in all the major browsers.

To make it possible to get this stuff done in any kind of reasonable timeframe I'm only focusing on support for relatively modern browsers. IE9 and later, recent versions of FF, Chrome and Safari.

I can't wait to get this new foundation stuff installed so I can start working on the maps. Luckily, now that all the hard work is done, the maps won't actually take all that long.

Well...from a testing perspective I can tell you that just in the past 3 days I've accessed M-by-M from 6 different platforms.

-IE on win7
-Chrome on win7
-Firefox on win7
-Safari on iPad
-Browser on android (Chromium based)
-Firefox on android

and on how many was it horribly broken?

A grand total of...none.