MacShrine

Most of you have probably figured that when we meant “November”, we really meant “when it’s ready”. The road has been uberly long, we started development of MacShrine 5.0 in March 2005, re-started in May, re-started in July, stopped in September, before re-starting in November and stopping again in early December. We’ve been quite confused on which direction to take the site, hence all the re-startations (that even a word?). But anyway, that was the past and we’ve got to look onto the future, especially to the new year 2006!

So after a long, hard think, we came to the conclusion that we should stick with the same embodiment that empowered us when we first started the site. Today marks the beginning of MacShrine 5.0. We’re now using WordPress 2.0 instead of our in-house solution iGelato. This isn’t because iGelato sucked, far from it, I thought it rocked and so did the 500,000 of you that have visited us since we started, but because WordPress have their own development direction, thus we then have a direction and a timeline to plan things by. Currently you see a bog-standard WordPress installation. I can assure all our readers, that come February 2006, we’ll have the most freakin’ amazing thing you’ll ever have seen. Not only that, but the site will return to it’s roots and become a lot more personal. We’re not some huge media company, just a group of friends who set out to become a worthy source of Mac-related news, rumors and everything else! With 10 world-exclusives, 6 server crashes, half a million unique visitors and over 13 million page views we feel we’ve accomplished that.

To end this half-rant, half-announcement I once again would like to thank everyone of you who have made us what we are. Here’s to 2006, what a year it’ll turn out to be!