Hey guys, it’s been a while since an update. Got lots of stuff to talk about, so let me break it down into categories.

Why is was the website so slow?

So Stick Nodes is a pretty popular app. Apparently, it’s more popular than my hosting plan could handle. Around the beginning of December this website began to slow to a crawl due to the number of visitors per day, it was using up too much CPU power.

I’m glad to say that as of right now, I’ve upgraded the hosting plan and things seem to be great. I will be monitoring the performance of the site. Right now things are blazing fast, but that’s because many of you are still not able to access the new site (it’s no problem, your browsers will eventually be updated in the coming hours). If things slow down again, I’ll be forced to make a bigger hosting plan upgrade, but that’s for me to worry about.

Where are all of the new stickfigures?

I haven’t uploaded new stickfigures in over a month, and I’m sorry about that. I have all of the stickfigures you guys have been submitting, all 383 of them, I just haven’t manually gone through them and approved, screenshotted, and uploaded them yet.

I was waiting for the website to be fixed, as uploading stickfigures where each page-load took 10+ seconds would have gotten old really, really fast. My plan is to upload 20 new stickfigures every day until I’ve gone through the entire backlog and caught up. I will start uploading new stickfigures tomorrow.

What happened to the giveaway?

This is my bad.

I was following through with the giveaway, and actually contacted three of the winners (two of which I still need to get in touch with), but then things got hectic for me.

To keep a long story short, the craziness of the holidays coupled with personal family issues prevented me from keeping up with the giveaway, so please forgive me for the lies. I will make it up to you and hold some type of similar giveaway in the near future.

Where is the iOS “sounds” update?

I have to be honest, I haven’t worked on it for a few weeks. This is again due to the same reasons that prevented me from following through with the Christmas giveaway.

I will get back to work on this update this week, and am already very far into getting it working. I will have new updates within a week on an ETA for release.

What now?

Okay, that’s all for now. I’m sorry for the absence these past weeks, but a lot of crazy stuff just came out of nowhere all at once and I was in no position to keep up with the demand of managing the Stick Nodes community.

Things should be returning to normal now, though.