Hello everyone,

First of, I want to apologize. RL things got crazy on my end starting in August and I've had no time to come on here. I know Christina is also extremely busy with her own RL. With the both of us being unable to be on here even just a little, things have gotten out of hand, and for that I truly apologize. I do want to let everyone know that this school semester is ending early December for me and that next semester I will not have such a heavy workload (unless I get this new job I'm hoping to apply for... but that's another story), and I should be able to come back and hopefully return things to a state of more "alive".

Second, I also want to let you all know that, this past Summer we have been working on some new features as well as bettering some current features. One of the features I am currently still working on is an enormous genetic guide with pictures and calculator app (a more complete version than what is already out there). There are plans to also do such a thing for horse breeds and disciplines but as you can imagine that is a lot of work, so I'm not sure when that will all be realized. I won't be saying anymore about other features until we are sure they will happen. We never meant to get so busy with RL to the point of neglecting you guys, and like I said above, I am really sorry for that.

Third, I really want to thank the members who continued to host shows and participate and didn't give up on ES. I really want things to get back on track and if someone wants to help out with the forum currently (host regular shows, set up the advent calendar and rope in people to help, answer questions, etc), please, we would be eternally grateful! If some people would like to help with the upcoming features, do contact me via email, and we can talk about them and your skill sets to help out.

Hopefully this answers some questions and reassures some of you.

Since I was sort of forced on a break in August when my old laptop didn't feel like working anymore, I've been horrified of the empty echoes that seem to travel throughout this forum. While it's totally understandable that also staff may take longer breaks just as we others do, I too feel like we should have had some kind of notification about it. But well, now we all can just try to activate this forum!

First I got scared about coming back here (I'm buying a new laptop this month, whoop whoop!) because it's so quiet here, but now I know I just have to do my own part to get us where we used to be. I could definitely host a small-scale show at some point!

Part of the activity on the forum, I believe, was in our hands, from all users here, not only admins and moderators, I try from myself to get an activity here but if we all don't help, that's a bit desmotivate. All people here have their lifes and their things with it, but I don't believe that all users has the same issue. Perhaps if we all give a try, we all can make this forum alive again, but we all have to try a bit from theirself.