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I really do have good news. I have made some allusions to it, but not directly said before, that things needed to go well with some work with HAJ or the game would be on the end of life track. In other-words if membership enthusiasm and interest did not pick up with new updates then it would be time to end all work on the game and just let it sit. (As I unfortunately had to do with WHG and Hue Horse as there was not enough people on it to justify working them). It is totally normal for games to hit an end of life point and for support to end on them. Heck HAJ is almost as old as Windows XP and not even Microsoft supports code that old anymore even with millions still using it.

But the great news is not only did the updates work very well but worked much better then we expected. That showed us that HAJ is still worth putting work into. The timing has worked out great too. Haystack's job with the other game is done with its big push and he has a big time slot empty right now. (He went from 50+ hours a week on it and is now only do 10/15 hours a week with it) That means all the rest of his time is going to us! Haystack is a much better programer and UI designer then I am. You can thank him for basically every slick JavaScript part of the game from the no page reload testing the tattoo maker the horse pages etc. (You can also thank him for the pasture breeding idea) Starting in the next few days here he is going to be sitting down and making a master plan to update clean up and otherwise shape up the site. I can't wait to see what he comes up with.

You can look forward to lots of work being done on the site and I am sure new features being added as well.