Today is a very special Saturday, yes.
CS-Nation turns three
Three years ago today a small CS fansite was launched on Planet Half-Life. Planet Counter-Strike and CS-Legacy were passed up for the name CS-Nation. A construction-site themed design exploded on to our 3,000 viewer's screens. Fragmaster welcomed us. Synax greeted everyone. We bragged about being "official," which we weren't. Such a great first day. If you want more of our amazing history, you'll have to read the about CS-Nation page.
Obviously a lot has happened since our launch. An obvious one is our large following: yesterday we got 67,000 uniques and over 170,000 page views. That still floors me, and the rest of the team. We're also a very strong content site now. The combination of great content and some of the best news coverage out there makes me incredibly proud of the site. Here's to hoping that we can keep up the great work.
There's plenty of thanks to be given. I'd like to thank Gooseman and cliffe for creating such a great game. The original reason for joining the CSN team was to give something back to the CS team. Another thanks to cliffe for inviting us to join Counter-Strike.net as their second hosted site. I'd like to thank STEM and GameSpy for giving us our own Linux server with PHP: they're fueling my hobby! My deepest thanks to all of our current team members and those who have left the team. Thanks to our thousands of visitors and comment whores, whom all have very good taste.
We're very pleased to be the oldest CS fansite out there. And very happy that so many CS fans out there have chosen CS-Nation as their destination for news, features, strategies, and all that other good stuff.
this week in content
Last Sunday I posted mailbag on nickname stories. On Wednesday we posted two new user strategies. Yesterday we posted great de_dust and de_chateau map strategies.[break="news, coding, and weekly wisdom"]in the news
Militia2 released (map). CAL-i results (Monday). US clan WEW wins $20k in Taiwan. UKT interviews Angel Munoz of CPL.
coding fun
A lot was actually done this week (in other words, I actually made a changelog). I've coded a new PayPal interface system, so CS-Nationalist upgrades are instant. I've also established set prices for the CS-Nationalist service: $2.50 for you or your friend. Yep, you can upgrade a friend.
I've added a formal comments page. Here you can review the rules, search comments, track new comments, and follow hot topics. You can limit comment searches to a specific user (suggested by Paul Shuttle, I believe). The search now displays a preview of the matching comment.
Minor things: Your user preferences are now stored in the session, meaning there will be a little speed increase in the site's performance; searches now show output concerning what range of matches you're viewing, now have a different highlighting style, and no longer screw up the design by highlighting actual page code; the Skin of the Day page has links to search for other skins of the same type, other author works, and other submitted skins by the user who submitted the currently viewed SOTD.
weekly wisdom
Two teams of two is better than four of one and one of four.
CS-Nation turns three
Three years ago today a small CS fansite was launched on Planet Half-Life. Planet Counter-Strike and CS-Legacy were passed up for the name CS-Nation. A construction-site themed design exploded on to our 3,000 viewer's screens. Fragmaster welcomed us. Synax greeted everyone. We bragged about being "official," which we weren't. Such a great first day. If you want more of our amazing history, you'll have to read the about CS-Nation page.
Obviously a lot has happened since our launch. An obvious one is our large following: yesterday we got 67,000 uniques and over 170,000 page views. That still floors me, and the rest of the team. We're also a very strong content site now. The combination of great content and some of the best news coverage out there makes me incredibly proud of the site. Here's to hoping that we can keep up the great work.
There's plenty of thanks to be given. I'd like to thank Gooseman and cliffe for creating such a great game. The original reason for joining the CSN team was to give something back to the CS team. Another thanks to cliffe for inviting us to join Counter-Strike.net as their second hosted site. I'd like to thank STEM and GameSpy for giving us our own Linux server with PHP: they're fueling my hobby! My deepest thanks to all of our current team members and those who have left the team. Thanks to our thousands of visitors and comment whores, whom all have very good taste.
We're very pleased to be the oldest CS fansite out there. And very happy that so many CS fans out there have chosen CS-Nation as their destination for news, features, strategies, and all that other good stuff.
this week in content
Last Sunday I posted mailbag on nickname stories. On Wednesday we posted two new user strategies. Yesterday we posted great de_dust and de_chateau map strategies.[break="news, coding, and weekly wisdom"]in the news
Militia2 released (map). CAL-i results (Monday). US clan WEW wins $20k in Taiwan. UKT interviews Angel Munoz of CPL.
coding fun
A lot was actually done this week (in other words, I actually made a changelog). I've coded a new PayPal interface system, so CS-Nationalist upgrades are instant. I've also established set prices for the CS-Nationalist service: $2.50 for you or your friend. Yep, you can upgrade a friend.
I've added a formal comments page. Here you can review the rules, search comments, track new comments, and follow hot topics. You can limit comment searches to a specific user (suggested by Paul Shuttle, I believe). The search now displays a preview of the matching comment.
Minor things: Your user preferences are now stored in the session, meaning there will be a little speed increase in the site's performance; searches now show output concerning what range of matches you're viewing, now have a different highlighting style, and no longer screw up the design by highlighting actual page code; the Skin of the Day page has links to search for other skins of the same type, other author works, and other submitted skins by the user who submitted the currently viewed SOTD.
weekly wisdom
Two teams of two is better than four of one and one of four.
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