Hello again! 
I wanted to announce a new option for your blogs today.  We have added a way for you to view all comments made to your blog posts.  This makes it easier to find comments to your posts (and is much better than having to hunt through post after post to find comments to reply to).  You can access the View Comments option by logging into your Blogagotchi Control Panel and going into your each blog's area.  You will find View Comments under the My Entries tab.  Please check it out and let us know if you have any suggestions!

Also (in case you haven't already noticed) we have a new character to choose from.  Check out My Blogagotchi to see our newest addition!  Speaking of new additions...  Any artists out there interested in creating new character for all of us to enjoy?  We haven't found enough free time to keep creating these and have noticed a ton a folks out there with artistic talent.  Anyone willing to share the that talent with the Blogagotchi community?

Blogagotchi has been changing and evolving lately...  Many have noticed the changes to things over the last couple of weeks...  Some highlights:

- Smilies - Gotta address the smilies first!  Many have complained that the upgrade also brought in smilies that...  Well...  Sucked.  Those are on their way out.  Many have already been changed and eventually all of the ugly ones will go.  Sorry about that!  Oh...  And you may have some cached on your browser so please refresh the pages you have smilies on if they aren't displaying correctly.

- Blogagotchi Health at-a-glance - Those who have logged in to their Blogagotchi Control Panel may have noticed the small addition of a smiley face to the side of your blog's name.  The smiley is an indicator of your blog's health levels.  The idea of using the same quick glance on the profile pages was also considered.  Any thoughts on if this is a good or bad idea?

- My Blogagotchi > Blogagotchi Health is *FINALLY* shaping up.  That page will be evolving over the coming weeks to give you an better idea of what keeps your blogagotchi happy. 

Other things aren't as obvious such as menu tweaks and information on your Blogagotchi Control Panel pages.  Over time, we hope these small tweaks and changes will  really add up.  Please let us know what suggestions you have!

One of the benefits of the (forced) upgrade to the system is the ease in making the Blogagotchi pets (the ones that show up in the top corner) smarter.  The pets now take more into account such as frequency of posts, logins and other activity. Gone are the days in which one post made a dead blog happy...  In the future, other things will be added in/taken out.  These will be tweaked and change as feedback comes in...  So please let us know what you think!

The work in restoring Blogagotchi is progressing wonderfully.  There are smll things here and there that many of you noticed are different.  One of which is the slightly different editor for writing blog posts...  Ad yes...  The smilies are different too.  These are the defaults but I hear some complaints about them.  Are they really that bad?  Do you all want some work to go into replacing them?

While on the ubject of replacing things...  What other things would you like to see change?

Many of you may have noticed that the site was not available for the past 5 days or so.  Reason?  We were the unfortunate victim of spammers who maliciously inserted spam/garbage into blog templates using a vulnerability in the software used to power this site.  All the blog posts and data were untouched...  Just spam links inserted into the templates themselves.  The garbage has been removed and templates cleaned up.  Actually, the tedious clean-up took a LOT longer than expected and so apologies go out to those who couldn't access their blogs during this time.  So now what?  As mentioned, the templates were cleaned up and we went ahead and moved forward with an upgrade to the software.  Things will be moving around and shifting a little as we make changes back to what is wanted.  There are some back-end changes with this upgrade that benefit us all so (silver lining) it actually works out better once its all said and done.

Please be patient over the next week or so as the changes are made and please share your thoughts along the way!  Your voice matters here.

The site continues to hum along.  We now have reached our 5000th blog post on the site which is exciting and amazing to me.  I realize 5000 posts may not seem like anything to celebrate for the big blog sites who probably receive that much in an hour.  But for a small site it is something to marvel at.  Besides, those big sites started out small too!   Anyways, we have some work being put in behind the scenes to clean up a few things and fix a few bugs.  Please continue to share any problems or suggestions you may have for Blogagotchi.  We LOVE suggestions!

Keep on bloggin'!

Blogagotchi's growth is continuing...  Slowly but surely.  Today we hit our 2000th post made to the system (the first 1000 took almost twice as long).  Is this all about how many posts we have?  Nope.  That would be silly.  Instead Blogagotchi needs to evolve into something bigger and better.  Ideas are being floated around and we remain to be open to suggestion as well.  I know...  I know...  more claims of "changes are coming" BUT WHEN?!  Not sure really.  I'd like to continue working out some of the existing kinks before adding in new features.  Problems?  Suggestions?  Gripes?  Let me know!  Log in and send me a message!

Well we have now passed the 1000th post made here on Blogagotchi...  And we have over 240 verified bloggers on the site...  Not bad for being open for under two months!   So where do we go from here?  Naturally, the hope is that the site continues to grow.  There are plans to update the Blogagotchi on each blog to a newer version 2 that looks at more than just when your last post was made to keep it happy.  This will also coincide with some tweaks to how things appear and where somethings are located.  It should always be in a state of constant change (I think) as new things come up or needs change or (more importantly) your suggestions are heard.  Expect some change over the summer months as this site continues to evolve. 

So now the question for you is this...  What would YOU like to see change or be added?  What would make things more convenient or enjoyable for your blogging and for your blogagotchi?  We need your suggestions! 

As part of our preparations to open Blogagotchi up to more users, we are getting moved to a new server.  This will take place sometime this week.  While the site is being moved to the new server you will not be able to access Blogagotchi.  The reason for that is we do not want to risk you posting something and it being lost due to the move being in progress.  It is better to lock everything down, back it up and move the site...  Then a quick test of the site will preceed the doors opening back up.  What are the benefits of the move?  The new server is faster, gives more space to grow, is faster, has redundancy (so that if the drive crashes nothing is lost) and did I mention it will be faster?

So if you stop by and can not get on to the site, please don't worry.  We'll be back!

Wanted to pass along some info on the latest developments here at Blogagotchi.  Did some reading through on our blog post asking 'What would you change?' and implemented one of the options mentioned.  Bloggers can now select to have their blog NOT show up on the front page LATEST BLOG POSTS section and the random blog link.   This setting can now be accessed by going to your blog Settings => General Settings => 'Available On Main Page and Random Search?' and selecting Yes or No.  The default is Yes (surfing random blogs can be lots of fun!) but we understand some may wish to not be found this way.  The other big suggestion is for more templates...  More are coming!  The plan is to keep designing additional templates to give you quick access to new looks or to give you a good starting point to customize your own.  Also on the templates front is emos members of the Blogagotchi community who are beginning their own template designing (WONDERFUL news in my opinion).  Additional work was also done to smarten the Blogagotchi up a bit...  That is shaping up nicely but not yet ready for beta.

UPDATE 4-30-6 - Oops!  Fixed the bug which showed most active blogs including those who selected NOT to be shown.  Corrected.  Sorry for missing that one!

The process of adding new Blogagotchi continues!  This time we have some help from members of the community...  Check out the new additions and look for more to come!  Many thanks to Jappyx, TrickerTreat and Haze for helping with the creation process.

Our doors are finally starting to creep open...  Earlier this week we invited the TamaTalk Guides to check out the site and pass along their thoughts.  Today an invitation to the TamaTalk Angelgotchi members was sent out inviting them in (but asking to keep it a secret for now).  This site was birthed from the suggestions area of TamaTalk.  It is only fitting that TT hears about it first!   Thank you TamaTalkers! 

Testing will continue as we sowly add more people to the system to make sure it handles everything unchanged.  The last rough edges will be slowly smoothed out over the coming weeks as well.    Longer term...  The Blogagotchi will become more complex in how it shows when it is happy or sad.  Who knows where it will go from there!

Fingers and toes are crossed...  Heart is beating rapidly...  Anxious to see the reaction to a project that has consumed man hours worth of time and thought.  Hope Blogagotchi is something you enjoy!

It seems like the opening of Blogagotchi will never come soon enough...  Few more things to work on before we start official run up to our release.  Added a couple more Blogagotchi...  We now have the cute new Baby Girl and Baby Boy (awww!  How cute! ) . 

The process of adding new Blogagotchi is beginning. Added the 3D Smiley today... Many more to come... But they take time to create. Your patience is appreciated!

After MANY months (close to a year actually) of changes, tweaks, redesigns, updates, hard work and frustration Blogagotchi.com is almost ready to launch.  It has been quite a learning experience and the hope is that when people see what we have to offer they will really enjoy the fruits of our labor.  Only time will tell.

Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.  The only way to improve is to listen to the users of this service...  We know there is always room for improving the site.  There are some cool plans for the future.  Stay tuned for developments...

Now everyone together...
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