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July Update

Happy summer and happy 4th of July! 

This month I won't be able to do much work on the forums as I am going to be traveling for almost the entire month for work. The forums are still in good hands and running smoothly.

We recently moved to a new server provider to increase reliability and backups. However I am still having to pay for our previous dedicated server until February...

November 2022 Update

Hello Paterons! 

Happy late Halloween! 

This month I made some slight changes to the website and would love to gain some feedback! The big change was the sorting of the "Stories" forum area. Instead of sorting by the last time someone posted on the post it is now sorted by when the post was started. My idea here is to increase discoverability of new s...

October 2022 Update

Hello all! Thanks again to all the Patreons who are supporting the forums. 

I don't have much to report in terms of added features to the forums from this last month. Right now I've been playing around with cost savings to the infrastructure that hosts the forums. In recent months our providers have increased costs of a few of the products we use and for the moment we are forced to e...

September 2022 Update

Hello all sorry for the long posting delay! It has been quite the last few months as I started a new job and have been forced to travel a lot. I have not had a lot of time to myself and at least for the near future I will be traveling a lot. However my commitment to the site has not changed, I will still be here to maintain the site. 

Since we last talked I have made some major upgra...

October 2021 Site Update

Hey all! Nothing real new to report for this month. 

I've been busy moving and haven't had the chance to work on the site other than some minor bug improvements and security updates. 

Image Credit: https://musclegrowth.net/...

August 2021 Site Update

August is here already, time is just flying by and Fall is almost here! 

This last month brought a big change to the site, we upgraded the site with new features including trophies that we plan to build out to reward all of our members. The Discord continues to grow massively and we're in the finalization stages of rolling out a new member verification tool for those who wish to part...

July 2021 Site Update

Wow we're already halfway done with 2021!?!

Hope all is well with everyone and that you're staying safe and protecting yourself. 

I realize that I haven't kept up with our monthly updates, my 9-5 job is severely understaffed and I've been having to work forced overtime to pickup the slack. I'm hoping that next month everything will smooth out and I can jump back into...

December 2020 Update

Howdy all, thank you for another month of support it really helps out!

There is not much to report as I've been slammed at work, with a lot of furloughs my workload has increased exponentially and I haven't been able to work on the projects I want to yet.

However we are still going strong!

Have a Happy Holiday! Stay Safe!

Pandemic Update 2020

Hello Paterons, it's time for another update!

This year has been hard on us all and I thank each and every one of you for continuing to contribute and support this awesome community. Here's just a bit of what has been going on:

• We've been able to break even most months for our operating costs
• Recently the forum has seen a major upgrade that brought with it security im...
  2020-11-12 18:43:31 +0000 UTC View Post

First Half of 2020 Update

Well I clearly have been slacking on updates through Patreon. I appreciate every single one of you for helping with the costs it takes to run the forum and keep it kept up in working shape. 

During the first half of the year we made what I hope to be the last data migration for awhile. Again...

Happy Holidays! (Winter Update)

Happy holidays everyone! Just a short update post for everyone. 

There weren't any huge changes to the forum this time around, in the backend I've been messing with our content provider and backup solution doing some testing and making sure that I always have a fully working backup if anything ever happens. 

We did make our official "dark" theme the t...

September/October Update

Hello Paterons! 

It has been a busy last two months for me. Work has me traveling a lot and as such I have not been around much to monitor the community. However I do want to thank our admins and moderators who have been working incredibly hard to assist the community. Their time is all volunteer but very important to the community. 

So if you happen to see the following p...

August 2019 Update

It’s time for another monthly update on what’s going on with the forum. 

Last month we fell short of our $200 goal that keeps our costs break even. 

I’ve been making changes in the backend to strengthen privacy and security. Encryption end-to-end is now in place to make sure information is secured, and nobody except you can interpret what you’re doing on the site.&...

July 2019 Update

Hello Patrons~

It's been awhile, it's a very busy summer with me but I have a huge laundry list of improvements and to-dos for the site and the community. 

I'm excited to share with you these changes but not quite yet. I hope to have everything setup September. 

Currently I'm going through the entire community and ensuring we're on the right track. As you may notice ...

June 2019 Update

Hello! 

Long time no talk. I wanted to give a quick update on what's going on and things we have in store for the future. Since my last update we've done a lot to improve the community and expand our features. 

Recently we've moved to a new web server that required a bit of downtime but allows for almost unlimited expansion as we grow bigger. We've also recently enabled a ...

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who has been donating and supporting the community. You've been running this community and keeping it alive. 

I'd like to use this post to get feedback and suggestions from you on what we can do to make the forum better. 

October 2017 Update

Hello everyone! Sorry for the long delay between posts. 

I try not to let my personal life interject with the forums but I'd like to update you on some things about my life and explain why I've been mostly away for the past couple of month. 

I'm currently in the process of finding a job and its been a tough road to go down. I had a great job opportunity lined up ...

Three Years And Counting

Hello Patreons, 

We haven't talked in awhile, my personal life has been extremely busy but I've still been monitoring the forum and keeping up on everything. 

This month marks the third year that we've been in operation. In those three years we've grown to 13,000 member, made 130,000 posts, and millions of pageviews. 

All of you, all 26 of you, are personally responsib...

2016 Wrap Up & January Update

Hello Patreons!

2016 was a great year! We're over 10,000 members strong and still going.

I've been working on updates to the forum and the server to continue speeding it up and adding more features to the forum. I have an upcoming feature I'm working on releasing soon, blogs. 

Each user will have exclusive access to create and post to their own personal blog, no more posting in ...

November Update

Hello supporters!

I've skipped out on the last couple of updates as I've been very busy with work and haven't had too much time lately to really continue the development of the forum. However, I have been keeping up on forum updates, security improvements, and keeping it sane in the forums. 

I have some ideas that I plan on debuting this new year to help engagement and help those who ...

September Update

Hello all!

Its been awhile and I've been busy all around with both the website and other life things. I've kept tweaking the backend helping speedup the site more and have been looking into a new feature for the site. 

In an effort to assist others with more user engagement I've been beta testing adding a blogging feature to the site that will allow users to curate their own blogs ins...

July Update

Hello Patreons!

Last month was a busy month for me and was not able to work on the site as much as I'd like to have been. 

However I did make one large change, I moved the database that runs the website to a separate instance. This helped with reducing the load on the current server allowing for faster page response times. 

Thanks for continuing to contribute! 2016-07-14 06:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post

June Update

Hello Patreons!

Thank you for another successful month of funding for the site! This month I've spent many hours trying to get the website loading faster. A new caching method was put into place that seems to be returning some good results with load times although I'm still not happy yet. 

I've also taken the last two weeks to work on the server itself by fiddling with the sof...

Happy May 1st and another awesome month!

Thanks to everyone once again for keeping their contributions and a big welcome to everyone who pledged this month. 

This month was the big cache update that I've been wanting to do for awhile. You might have seen that most of the images from the site are now being served via cdn.muscle-growth.org, this sub-domain is apart of the caching service that I've been wanting to implement for a...

Another awesome month!

Thank you everyone for another awesome month of support. I do see that we added some new Patreons, I'd like to extend a welcome to you and a thank you to everyone who has been contributing already. 

This last month was filled with great things, including an upgrade and new chat services for you!

The big change this last month was an upgrade to the chat room. While we had one b...

Thank You!

Thank you to all our Patreons who help support the site month to month, you are keeping the site running and alive!

I want to extend a the warmest thank you to all of you!

Getting your forum tags and access to donator forum

If you have not gotten a donator rank yet on the forums please send me a PM by using the link below. I will have the first AMA next Saturday in the donator forum area. Use this to send me a PM: http://muscle-growth.org/index.php?app=members&module=messaging...