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Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:26 am
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Snoink says...



I completely forgot that I ran featured poem...
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.

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Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:27 am
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Demeter says...



The staff picks were so fun!
"Your jokes are scarier than your earrings." -Twit

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Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:21 am
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Nate says...



Updated the original post to fix two broken images, and also to add in an image for the current version of Apollo.

Also, here's a bonus image of the initial mockup for YWS 4.0, released in August 2009:
home2_254.jpg
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Of all the homepages, the current one seems to do the best job at engaging users. On average, a user will spend about 2 minutes browsing the front page. The bounce rate is 20% (percentage of visits that only visited the homepage) and the exit rate is 14.4% (percentage of visits that viewed more than just the homepage, but the last page they saw was the homepage).

That compares against an average time of 1 minute and 36 seconds for the final version of YWS 4.0, although the bounce rates and exit rates are pretty much identical (Apollo's is lower, but by a very negligible amount).

For me personally, I do like the current one the best. It's really interesting though to see the past versions -- YWS' visual progression is a mirror of my own progression in administrating and developing YWS. It's like seeing the rewrites of a novel.

Regardless of my lack of web skills early on, though, I have no idea what I was thinking with the August 31, 2007 version. Even back then, I remember wondering what I was thinking shortly after that design change (it didn't last long!).
  





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Tue Dec 24, 2013 9:23 pm
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malachitear says...



Wasn't here for most of it, but this still feels pretty cool!

I occasionally stalk older user's works and the leftover forums and it's all pretty
darn amazing :>
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.


And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.


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Anyone wanna bring back elements of the notecards?
  





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Sun May 03, 2015 5:39 pm
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@Nate, do you have any screenshots of the chimped out dark version?
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Sun May 03, 2015 9:28 pm
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@Snoink, I do! In fact, I can do you one better. First, here's the screenshot:

chimped_out.png


Second, here's the link:
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/2009

You should be able to log in fine with your 2009 account info, but if you need me to reset your password, send me a PM. After logging in, you might need to change the template, which you can do by going to My YWS ->> My Preferences.
  





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Mon May 04, 2015 2:17 pm
Twit says...



The 2008 version!

...so technically I should also remember the 2007 ones, as I joined in February 2007, but the 2008 one was the one that leapt out. Old friendly there. ^_^
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Mon May 04, 2015 2:44 pm
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Hey, @Nate. What was the theme for 2010? It's missing from the main post and I don't think it's on all of the other pages.
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Mon May 04, 2015 5:02 pm
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Nate says...



@ScarlettFire ->> The theme for 2010 would've been pretty much the same as the one you see listed for January 16, 2011. Back then, themes changed around quite a bit so it probably was not exactly like, but there wouldn't be any major differences either.
  





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Tue May 05, 2015 4:54 am
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@Nate Aaah, I see. Yeah. I thought it was familiar.
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Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:06 am
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Updated the first post with a screenshot of the special, temporary Chimped Out theme.
  





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Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:51 pm
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This is so cool!! I'd completely forgotten what YWS looked like back when I joined. *memories* :)
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