Webmastering

Since I am Stencyl’s webmaster, I like to think that I get the fun of really knowing what’s going on when we get big traffic spikes to Stencyl. Everyone else can guess, but I can pull out the logs and, in real-time, post links to sites that know us. When our traffic spiked (see graph below), Jon and the rest of the team went into a tailspin cause they didn’t know where any of these visitors were coming from - only I held the power to check over our actual logs

In essence, that really is my job - I’m in the background making sure that Stencyl runs smoothly even when we receive unexpected spikes in traffic. Everyone else has to go out into the public IRC channel and talk with the visitors, while I only have to sit in the staff channel and make sure all the staff are well-tended to. On that note, it must be freaky for some other sites to suddenly receive Stencyl team members on their forums, calling them out on some facts that they have been spreading (someone from outside said they had tried Stencyl when they hadn’t, one of our team members put the kibosh on that.)

On the technical side, Stencyl’s server is holding up no problem. Since the forums aren’t open yet, I do have the opportunity to just shut them down for updates without 24 hours’ notice, a luxury I will miss. The entire Stencyl team has been awesome these last few days, handling issues and providing feedback on threads in the forums as Jon and I dictate. I also want to extend another thanks to Sephiroth - he has been awesome, taking care of public page changes while I handle server administration. It’s a novel experience for me to be able to say “/me pokes Sephiroth - go update the blogs and take care of the page changes” and he says “okie doke!”

So, kudos to the Stencyl team, and here’s to the bright future ahead!