UPDATE - New staff and more

[matt]

Hello all,

As you've hopefully noticed, we've been trying to get back in the swing of things around here. Scott and I are back to our weekly VGCollect work nights each Wednesday which will allow us a dedicated night to knock out a ton of updates and maintenance items. I'm working through a back log right now but we have a bunch of features / fixes and updates in the works that we'll be slowly rolling out.

VGCollect is continuing to grow at a great rate. In order to help with these, we've decided to promote pacpix to a staff position. Believe it or not but he has had an account with VGC since August 21st of 2011. He will be helping us with approvals, forum moderation and other site duties. Please welcome him aboard!

We'll be pruning the admin positions in the coming weeks and hopefully adding another new face to the team. Stay tuned...

As for other updates my current focus is on 3 items:

1. New grid/shelf view
2. Reimplementing devs and pubs
3. Better category organization

More news coming on those fronts within a week.

Thanks!
Matt

[badATchaos]

Awesome to hear. Great job Matt and team. Congratz Pacpix my man!

[scott]

I do believe he's the youngest staff member now too.

[stethebubble]

Congrats Pacpix.

This place just keeps getting better.  All your hard work is very much appreciated

[pacpix]

Thanks everybody!  Excited to join the staff!

[stuntman64]

Hey pacpix. Make 2015 the best year ever at VG. I should become admin. Than I would be youngest on the team. That would be an honor. 

[stuntman64]

Kudos to pacpix. *sets off fireworks* Make 2015 the best year ever at VG. I should become admin. Than I would be youngest on the team. That would be an honor. 

[scott]

Alrighty. I went through a list of things and tonight I've added these to the categories. There is still a lot left to do, but hopefully these will tide you over for a bit.

New Categories Added!

Interactive Figures (Skylanders, Amiibo, Disney Infinity and their accessories)

- Interactive Figures [AU]
- Interactive Figures [EU]
- Interactive Figures [JP]
- Interactive Figures [NA]

Dedicated Console (Pong Consoles, Plug & Play systems)

- Dedicated Consoles

Amstrad CPC

- Amstrad CPC Hardware
- Amstrad CPC [EU]

Game Boy

- Game Boy [CN]

Super Nintendo/Famicom

- Super Nintendo [AU]

Arcadia 2001

- Arcadia 2001 [EU]

CD-i

- CD-i [JP]

Atari 2600

- Atari 2600 [AU]

Intellivision

- Intellivision [EU]

[critter7405]

Congrats pacpix!


I noticed that interactive figures have been added...

The figures are posted differently ... For example ...
 Skylanders have the name of the Skylander then the series they are from...
It would be easier to search if everyone imputed them as Skylander game first then actual name of Skylander ... Same with the rest...

I just think you can look and add them faster if the figure names were listed second and what they actually are was listed first...

Thanks let me know what you think...

If this was already talked about disregard

Thanks again 

[MJMaranan]

Congratulations, pacpix.  Really looking forward to the upcoming projects for VGCollect.

[disgaeniac]

Good stuff!

Gratz' pacpix!

[campercarl]

"Reimplementing devs and pubs"
Oh god can't wait. How many years has it been since that got removed?
Appreciating all the hard work you guys are putting in!

Oh while we're on the topic of new categories, we need a N64 [AU] category.

[stethebubble]

Congrats pacpix!


I noticed that interactive figures have been added...

The figures are posted differently ... For example ...
 Skylanders have the name of the Skylander then the series they are from...
It would be easier to search if everyone imputed them as Skylander game first then actual name of Skylander ... Same with the rest...

I just think you can look and add them faster if the figure names were listed second and what they actually are was listed first...

Thanks let me know what you think...

If this was already talked about disregard

Thanks again 

Makes sense to me

[scott]

Oh while we're on the topic of new categories, we need a N64 [AU] category.

Added!

[bobster]

Yay Matt! Glad to see you're back around and gearing up to get back on track! Hopefully that means your life has settled down a bit. Congrats Pacpix!

Really looking forward to seeing the site grow even more.