Hey! you probably didn’t think it’d been a month since I last updated did you?
It’s been a month since my last update and 6 weeks since my last Alpha release!
Before I share what happened, I want to say thank you to everyone for their kind messages of support over the last month, as well as the Patreons continuing to support SoSa.
It’s really helped centre me and keep me motivated to working with SoSa!
So what happened?
Being completely transparent, a lot has been going on at work. We’re building something incredible that will change an entire sector – but the team is still growing and with that comes pains.
As their tech lead, I wanted to make sure that we kept things moving even when we were struggling and that meant I was working long days and weekends but at the end of it – i needed some time to recoup emotionally and mentally.
On top of that, not that long ago, I started some life changing medication which has been wreaking havoc with my emotional state.
So I kept my head down as much as possible and focused on doing tiny bits of work to move us forward.
Next SoSa game night we will be playing Jackbox Party 7!
Sunday 29th November 1900-2100 GMT / 1200-1400 PT / 1500-1700 ET
You don’t need to buy anything this time around, it’s free to take part and you just need a mobile phone / web browser.
Games are max 6-8 players but unlimited audience players, so if there’s a lot of us we can either split ya’ll into groups or just take it in turns who plays!
Pleased to say I’m now working with a very talented designer to help me design the Website and Apps, she’s responsible for Botface design that I need to build out and really get’s what I’m trying to build with SoSa so expect great things over the coming months!
We’ve been discussing ideas for the homepage and made a little survey, be great if you could take it if you haven’t already:
We’ve also managed to progress the profile picture generator this sprint, ignore the skin tones…. we’re working on that
Framework Rebuild / Code freshen up
Framework rebuild is finally finished, I went in to this in more detail in my last update but during this sprint i’ve also had to refactor the app and the chat bots to support the new client methodology.
On top of that, i’ve fixed some bugs inside the app that were related to connectivity, I’ve moved the client library to be at the top layer of the app (so it can always be connected and accessible no matter where in the app you are) AND i’ve refactored some parts of the app, cleaning up the code generally as I introduced.
Chat server now supports more than just chat, becoming our general purpose server.
Our Domain authority is up to 27 from 23! Seems Moz found about 100 domains linking to our website that weren’t there before.
A bit unusual so I’m going to keep an eye on that – quick growths can usually be a sign of someone buying links and as I’m not buying links that can suggest an attack and i need to mass disvow to stop google deranking us.
Our average search position has improved from 24.2 to 23.2, our impressions are up from 1.78k to 3.19k and our click through rate has gone down again from 2.4% to 2.2% but more overall clicks!
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Squid James
Guess who’s back, Back again!
Sprint 28 – a New Hope
Sprint 2 – The ummm Foundations?
Sprint 1 – The Foundations
Precursor
