Coming Down the Pipe from Ye Olde HOP

It has been a whirlwind of activity this week for Lauby and I.  With so many people already in the blog network, we've been furiously working to keep up with an influx of membership submissions and even article submissions (all unsolicited too I might add). 

With this in mind, we at the HOP  have decided to speed up our time line of becoming a full fledged blog and full service blog network.  Starting this coming Monday, we hope to have a number of exciting enhancements made to the site and begin our full hobby article operations.  The short list of things coming for the week ahead include:
  • Database of all member sites, as we have nearly filled the display capacity of the two blog rolls.  The blog rolls will still be up there, but with realistically only being able to show 50 blogs at once, we wanted to make sure that everyone has visibility.
  • Daily (or more) tactics, hobby, list building, and whatever articles from several authors.  Lots of secret plans at work here, you'll just have to tune in to see the end result
  • An army of the week feature, highlighting the behind the scenes process of creating a stunning army and the tactics employed on the field of battle
  • Hobby event pimping.  If you have a tourney, painting contest, paincake eating competition, or other hobby event e-mail us the details at houseofpaincakes.info@gmail.com and we'll be sure to give you a shout out
  • Product reviews for our favorite hobby items.  Un- biased, blunt, and advertisement free, as you would expect
  • Weekly top (insert whole number integer here) lists.  We're reading all of your blogs looking for the best articles every week.  The most enlightening ones will be featured in a weekly post
That's it for now from us.  Thanks again for all of the support and we look forward to bringing things fully up to speed next week.  If there's anything we can do to help you out- blogging advice, tactics help, finding a date for that wedding you've got coming up, or whatever- drop us a line and we'll see if we can help.  Remember, if there's a feature you want to see or an event you want to promote, all you have to do is ask.

14 comments:

Ryan said...

A weekly top (insert whole number integer here) list? Should my Tuesday Top Ten tremble in fear? ;)

Dethtron said...

giving you anything to fear would contradict our goals of advancing the hobby. besides, our wendesday top wen will be way differend ;)

We're actually semni-outsourcing this one and bringing in one of our favorite writers to port over a series that he's been doing anyway, with just a few tweaks.

Ryan said...

Cool, I look forward to seeing it! It actually surprises me how few people are willing to try a weekly community feature, and kinda sad to see how few that do last past the few months.

Lauby said...

Ryan - I am completely pumped that you took the time to check us out and hit us with some great comments. Thanks, man. Stuff like this is one of the big reasons we're doing this.

Ryan said...

Lauby, I may be firmly in the Hobby side of things, but that doesnt mean I cant learn to play better! ;)

Im expecting great things from you guys!

Lauby said...

That means a lot, man. Thanks!

GMort. said...

Just out of interest what makes a blog 'original recipe' as opposed to 'extra crispy'.
At first I thought it was age but after looking more thoroughly I found that some of the blogs in 'extra crispy' have been around for ages and have hundreds of followers whereas there's some 'original recipe' blogs that seem fairly new.

Not that it matters particularly, I was just interested.

Lantz said...

Can't wait for the new stuff to roll in. Doing a damn fine job so far!
/kiss ass
/kiss ass
/kiss ass
You're beautiful healers.
In all seriousness, though. What is that cologne you're wearing? It's the musk of a God.

Lauby said...

@gmort - I have no idea. haha!

Kirby said...

We bribed first, dur =D.

GMort. said...

@ Kirby - There was no mention of bribery in the mission statement!!! Is there a sliding scale or is it a standard fee, lol.

whencannonsfade.com said...

You chaps are doing a sterling job so far. Hopefully I'll be able to get some sweet articles up soon for y'all to check out. I have some hobby stuff in the pipeline, plus some more other interesting stuff that will be announced shortly. Dethy already knows the score on that one.

Keep up the good work, gents. I see great things!

The_King_Elessar said...

I got into original recipe by sending Dethtron a naked pic of Bea Arthur.

Lantz said...

Now that's just cheating..