Updates coming soon

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Very soon I will be making large-scale changes to the website that will make it run a lot faster, look much better, and will make it a much more useful resource for your CycloDS needs. Also, a skin competition winner will be announced… see below for details.

Twitter

No official announcement has been made yet, so count this as being it. CycloDS Revolution now has a twitter account, and tweets can be accessed by either viewing them on the homepage or by visiting our twitter page. Twitter will be used for mini-updates that will appear more frequently than news or blog posts, particularly when I don't have the time to write something as long as this :)

Competition update

On August September 15th I will announce the winner to the skin competition… approximately a month after the contest began. Feel free to submit more skins in the meantime, as I'm considering a more relaxed system from now onwards.

This relaxed system will mean that no formal competition will be held, but instead just by submitting skins the usual way, you have the chance of winning a prize. Details are yet to be determined, but it's likely that they'll be worth significantly less than the skin competition voucher, and will be handed out much more often.

Upcoming changes to the website

Speed.

Recent changes made by our wiki hosts have given me the ability to make parts of this website a lot more dynamic (changes of it's own accord), which will lead to faster updates and ease of accessing those updates.

Excessive use of caching will also be used for all anonymous users, as part of a system designed by the Wikidot team to prevent website downtime. Some of you may have noticed that about a fortnight ago, the website was reporting several errors for a few days in a row. Additional caching will solve this issue by showing all non-logged-in users a page that is a few minutes older than the page that registered users see. It's not enough to cause problems, but will just mean that you'll find out about the latest firmware about 5 minutes after everyone else :D

Design.

The cheats section will be redesigned slightly, as that was just slapped together quickly about a week ago. Both moderators (Gariscus and ProtoKun7) and users of the cheats section will see the advantages of those changes very soon.

After that section of the website has been fixed up, I will begin work on the blog, skins and firmware sections. Particularly with skins, the current problem is the loading time of images. This has been partially fixed by the use of thumbnails, but again — this was a solution that was slapped together rather quickly, and it doesn't do the job as well as it could.

Content.

We're looking for more content. Part of the revised idea surrounding skin competitions is that more people will be encouraged to share their skins, instead of waiting for a new competition. Because, there will be no more skin competitions as such from now on. Just mini prizes handed out to worthy individuals.

Additional content will be added to the site about the CycloDS, and the Nintendo DSi cart section will be designed so that users can discuss the cart and add their own speculation about what it might be able to do or — after it's release — what they think of it's features.


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