The ponzibot will be free to use, by the way. I'd like to see if mb300sd would be interested in a shared VPS, because I'd like to relaunch in multiple regions with multiple ponzis - bitponzi EU, bitponzi UK, bitponzi JP, etc.
Regards,
Jonathan
I don't think splitting the site into multiple regions would be very helpful, seems like it would be better to keep one worldwide site so that theres a larger audience for all rounds and people have more rounds to choose from. We already have a pretty global presence by the looks of it.
As for VPS, I'm not even sure whether I'm going to keep it at the moment. The university internet had some issues but those same issues also took down our .edu email server for a while, so I doubt that it will happen again. And a it doesn't solve the weekly reboot-for-update problem. (plus, my internet here is faster than the connection on the VPS anyways...)
Ah. You know, it could be as simple as adding German, French, Chinese, Japanese and ? language selection. Little flags, right hand corner.
http://www.donutey.com/translation.phpI've always felt that once people 'get it' they're more likely to play, host their rounds. It can be confusing at first, trying to figure out *what* is going on in these games.
So, how about in the interim, language flags + google translate for the rules, for countries that ping your site the most. I'm going to find a way quickly build out sites to extend on the API, and feed the games that are running. Now that you have exposed the ability to create rounds, the whole feature set is there, ready and waiting for some beautified jquery/css and liberal use of modal dialogs and smart controls.
So feeder sites built on the API, creating rounds, and playing in rounds from multiple portals.
Does everyone like where this is going?
I'm getting interested in taking this to the next level again.
-Jonathan
I'm using the Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) CSS for most of the styling. I wasn't going to reveal it until it was done, but it should be up in a week or so, probably around sunday, as soon as I have a couple hours to dedicate to finishing it.
and a group project building a website, which wouldn't be so bad, except noone else in my group has ASP experience, 1 person has PHP experience, and the 2 others have never done it before...I'd rather do it alone. I wonder if I could submit bitponzi, it fits the requirements 
