Our crummy little site hit the front page of joystiq!

[mormonrage]

Not exactly my life's greatest accomplishment, but it was pretty exciting--and quite an IT challenge for us to quickly--very quickly--scale up to accommodate all the hits.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/01/wishful-tinkering-redesigning-the-360-dashboard/

Wishful tinkering! ;)

[scoobydiesel]

I like them idea's i wish we would have gotten the spring update to the dash like what was rumored or whatever.

<3 joystiq

[nshady]

Nice job. I always dream of my website hitting the front page of digg or something, but I don't know if it will ever happen.

[mormonrage]

It hit the front page of digg this morning. I'm pretty sure our server is going to implode. It's kind of stupidly exciting though.

[absolutemayhem]

Mormonrage you deserve all the publicity you get! Absolutely great dashboard artical! Gratz on the coverage .. well done sir!

-MayheM

[summx]

nice dash concept, definitely more refined than the bubbly and ad intrusive current dash

[books]

Shit, you made that? I LOVED the concept man, and you're so right. The dashboard is awful now, so much wasted space. That and a fucking web broswer already...

[ryudo]

A proud day for Utah!

[books]

It hit the front page of digg this morning. I'm pretty sure our server is going to implode. It's kind of stupidly exciting though.

This is kind of like the time when me and my friend posted the first teaser for Star Wars Episode III, and it turns out we were the first ones. Our site and server got absolutely destroyed.

R.I.P. GenerationXReviews.com

[mormonrage]

Yeah, one of the other guys who does the blog/podcast with us is also our sysadmin and he had two days of hell trying to keep the thing afloat. (I think he secretly enjoyed it though--it was a fun little experiment for him) We almost made it to 1,000 diggs. Thanks for checking it out, y'all.

[summx]

not sure if your work was stolen or not but this just hit kotaku and it's not referring to your site. Might wanna send them an email or something

[joedubbs]

yeah I was going to say - just saw it up on kotaku. they have the link though.

[harryaka]

Congrats on all the attention. Great article btw

[fashiondr]

I saw this go up on Kotaku last night too and got all excited for some reason. I don't even own a 360, but your idea looks awesome, mucho congrats!

[mormonrage]

Thanks all. Fun times. :)

[mormonrage]

Last shameless spamming (I swear): story went up on 1UP today:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168574

[apswesthome]

Not exactly my life's greatest accomplishment, but it was pretty exciting--and quite an IT challenge for us to quickly--very quickly--scale up to accommodate all the hits.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/01/wishful-tinkering-redesigning-the-360-dashboard/

Wishful tinkering! ;)

Wow!!! I had no idea any one even heard of 'The Fanboys' on these forums let-alone one of THE Fanboys is here on the forums...

I love the site and I listen to the 'Cast a lot! Some guys at told me about it -- I love internet programing, podcast and sites with good blogs [and i guess i am a fanboy] so they told me it was show for me... and it WAS!!

[mormonrage]

Rad.

:)

[zomgorly]

I doubt they will ever only want only 8% ad space. But its a great concept like the search and hot keys feature. Hopefully MS Xbox guys will take a look at this.

[dolson]

Here's how I would change it.

I'd go from this:

http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/7/0/lg/767.jpg

To this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/XMB_of_PS3.jpg
0% Advertising
100% Sexy

[darksydeavenger]

Yeah, congrats on the write ups on these sites. I don't have a 360, but I'm guessing if I did I'd agree whole heartedly.