So I decided to do a little blog here and just chat about what's been happening with the site over the last year and to also thank you all for your continued support.

You will have noticed that not a lot of new features were added this year. That was because during the development of certain things I realised that the core of the site was not adaptive enough to hook in with all the new ideas that I had.

When I started this place I really wasn't sure if it wold work out and so I kind of just threw it all together with no real vision or consideration for how it may grow.

This meant that I have spent this last year going back and rebasing a lot of code and making it more adaptive for new things. A lot of this you would not have noticed as it's all background work, but it has taken a lot of time to complete.

No that this is done I can crack on with developing the new things that I had planned, so 2018 should see lots of new an improved features!

Some of these include; a marketplace to buy and sell, community goals, a user dashboard, new menu system, new blog features, new group area, new photos section, better mobile support, site layout redesign more controls and features for stables.

There will no doubt be other improvements and additions too, but those are the main things I want to focus on.

Apart from talking about the technical side of things I also wanted to talk about the community side of things as well.

We have seen more members join this year than any other so far, more content like photos and videos uploaded and more Tips paid out than ever before.

For example:

Tips paid out in 2016: £97,037.23

Tips paid out in 2017: £138,645.74

This is almost a 43% increase!

This place really is becoming such a fantastic community and I cannot thank you all enough for your continued support.

I will continue doing my part to give you all the best possible site in which to have fun and make connections and I hope you continue to enjoy using it.

Thank you all again, and let's continue to have fun together in 2018!