Spring is here! And not a moment too soon - it really felt like that Winter season was not letting us go, right? But now is a time for Easter (which is this weekend - eggs-citing!), a time for lunchtime picnics in the sunshine, a time for trying to re-grow that blasted garden lawn and a time for seeing how soon we can get away with running our first outdoor barbecue of the year (I may or may not have tried to do all of these things already).
For us, and most people I imagine, this time of year also brings with it a round of Spring Cleaning - an opportunity to clear out old stuff, tidy up the leftovers and to bring in the new. And with that in mind, I'd like to take a moment to welcome a new member of the Sonic News writing team to our community.
Please congratulate/welcome/enter appropriate greeting here @Failinhearts, who has been a member of the SSMB Forums for many many years and will now help formally cover news for the Sonic News side of the site. He has contributed a lot to our Sonic News tips forum over the months (as have a number of other SSMB users - we see you, and we appreciate you!) and his writing style seemed like a natural fit for our team.
Crucially, Failin is a massive nerd for Sonic merchandise, which is something we've been missing a beat on with our coverage, so having an expert in the field here will go a long way to building our community's content back up. You may have noticed some news he has already written up since he formally joined in the past weekend, so he's already hit the ground running. And I'm looking forward to seeing him and the rest of the Sonic News team grow as the site evolves.
Speaking of evolutions, this segues nicely into the earlier Spring Cleaning metaphors that I used - metaphors that I am obviously still so very proud of using two whole paragraphs in.
To give you a brief update, work is still ongoing with our restoration project - the seemingly timeless goal of importing all of our old content from Wordpress (and beyond) into this new unified platform. So far, we're up to late 2003 - which really doesn't sound like much, I know, but you have to understand that there really was NOT a lot of archived material for the Sonic Stadium site between 2000-2005. Everything we've pulled together has been found scattered across the four winds - something of a miracle.
Most recently, you can check out a couple of reports from SAGE 7 (waaay back in September 2003), see how many people who used to read the site didn't initially believe reports that Sonic was going to feature in Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, and watch me in particular respond rather negatively to news that Sonic X was going to air in the UK some seven months after its US premiere. Ahh, memories.
Elsewhere, I'm plotting new features for the site... which I'd love to talk about with you but unfortunately things happen to be in a little bit of limbo as we await new technical updates to our community platform. You know how it goes.
Thanks for reading, as always, thanks for checking in, and I'll be back with more site updates for you very soon!
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