The Growth of Shadowness #21

Everyday the Shadowness staff and the mods are always brainstorming ideas and finding innovative ways to make Shadowness a continuously great experience with Meng using his quick ninja panda powers to make those features spring to life.

We work on making Shadowness a growing community as you grow along with us, we have votes, discussions and some arguments over what direction is best for the site, and what will help the community thrive. We are always looking for ways to promote you our artists and give you recognition for your amazing talents!

If any of you have any questions, comments or suggestions, this is the place to share them. We are community driven and cannot grow without you!


Right now the Community is exploding with activity!

New Features and News:

Here are the features that we've added in order to optimize your Shadowness experience! We don’t have new features this week but here’s what has recently been added:
- Birthday Feature (go to /settings to add your date of birth)
- City and Country info (go to /settings to add your info)
- the /Staff page has been updated with all the info on our Staff and Moderators (Check it out)
- the ‘Follow’ feature that did not work for some users has been fixed
- the Shadowness landing page has been fixed to the homepage rather than the promote page

Here is what Shadowness Members have helped us to achieve:

- We're now receiving 70,000+ pageviews a day, steadily. That's an estimated 2 MILLION pageviews monthly.
- We broke the Unique Visitors Record with 10,000 unique visitors!
- On Facebook, we have reached 6,131 fans!
- Our daily output of articles are now 3-4 features per day, each article being viewed 400+ times!
- The Daily Inspiration/Daily Feature article is viewed more than 7000 times and shared by over 1,000 people each week!
- So far this month we have had 3,019 Active users!
- Shadowness members are subscribing at a rate of 1-5 per day now! We're so happy that you're happy with the features and the site!

Come Check out our Contests!

The Cardist Custom Deck Contest

The wealth of artistic talent within Shadowness will be put to the test with designing a new custom deck for the vast cardistry collective around the world and onthecardist.net

The Deadline has been extended to October 18th – You can design in any style you wish!
You can take a look at the submissions here

Photo Challenge: Macro Hang Time: Winner Announced!

The Winner of our Macro Hang Time Contest!

New Shadowness Contest Coming Soon!

Promising pieces from our Growing Artists!

- /Famz
Hope you have an awesome week, until next time...keep up the amazing work!

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Sep 20th, 2011