If only maintenance could be achieved through passive activites.
Alas, it cannot.
For some, Sunday mornings may be easy. For others, pie is the only thing that is easy. For us Trustees, though, we will be hard at work for a couple of hours this Sunday morning (9am – 11pm GMT, 1am – 3am PST).
You may experience some interruptions to your normal Pmogian existence, and for that we are apologetic. You should stay in bed, though, you really should.
We update PMOG every few weeks (check our version history, no lie!). So it’s not normally a newsworthy item. But this latest version, version .415 is exciting.
Too many folks were having login issues. Working with Mark Daggett we looked at some awesome extensions like Twitterfox to see how they handled multiple users. Now the PMOG toolbar shows you your last successful login, it makes switching easier, and you can clear out previous records so PMOG logins don’t get confused. All of this means fewer folks should ever notice logging in to the PMOG toolbar!
We integrated a bunch more help. Now, right-clicking on a tool give you a “Learn about…” link. There’s a Help menu with a Reset command, handy for switching skins after changing your preferences. There’s a Report a Bug window, so anyone having trouble can help us tease out their PMOG’s confusion. And, you can browse deep into the Codex, discovering the difference between a bedouin and a benefactor, a portal and a lightpost, and a ready link to the Appendices for even more strategy.
And, there’s more icons in our toolbar, courtesy of the skilled cursors at Turbo Milk in Latvia.
As of today, we’re listed publicly on the Mozilla site for extensions: Firefox Add-ons: PMOG – out of the sandbox! Alex Polvi sighted a final bug – players who are veterans of the February and March 2008 PMOG wars who have been away from the toolbar for a while would find a preference error. Fixed now in .416!
Polvi has been working on favicoop:
(give it a second to load)
favicoop – an extension which collects the tiny little web icons from each site you visit and contributes them to a shared mosaic. A Mosaic of the web! It’s about time.
Greetings Passive-ists!
We at GameLayers wanted to give you an update as to what is happening behind the scenes of PMOG right now.
To start with, we greatly appreciate everyone sticking with us through this growth phase! We are working daily on optimizing our code for faster page loading times, and providing greater overall stability and performance.
We are working to resolve a number of gameplay issues: bugs with mission making, editing and taking, and a few issues with badges. For an updated list of top known issues please see the 16 May Top Known Issues Forum Post.
Additionally, thousands of badges will be being issued over the next few days. Another batch of badges has been added for your earning pleasure including rewards for visiting Digg, Reddit, Massively, and keeping up on World of Warcraft.
You might have also noticed a recent increase in your level, too. We have readjusted levels to reward you for your hard work and for the leveling experience to be more of a gradual curve rather than a steep climb to the top.
To keep up to date with news from the development team check: http://pmog.com/forums/pmog-news
If you’re having any issues, check to see if you have the latest version of the extension. We release an update every few weeks which tends to solve more bugs than it creates. Soon we’ll be serving up PMOG from addons.mozilla.org.
A big thanks to those of you who have submitted bug reports and have helped to get a number of issues quickly resolved. If you ever need assistance, find a bug, or want to provide us with your valuable feedback, please use the contact information listed on our Contact page.
A game is nothing without its players; a heartfelt thanks from everyone at GameLayers to you.
Yours,
Joe Wagner
Player Support Liaison
@burdenday
Great news, there’s more maintenance on the way!
On Sunday 25th May PMOG will be down for some routine maintenance between 9am and 12pm GMT.
On a Sunday, mind, you should either be asleep in bed or asleep in church, so missing out on all those datapoints won’t hurt all that much 
Hello,
We’re going to run some general maintenance tomorrow at 10am GMT for 1 hour.
During this time, PMOG will be offline.
Never fear, you’ll be earning valuable datapoints shortly after!
We pressed the big red “launch” button that’s been staring us in the face. Hurrah!
PMOG is open for play by anybodies now. Come one, come all, let’s game together online!
We wrote up a press release: “GameLayers Launches PMOG, the Tools of the Playful Web” and we created a 70 second video PMOG experience as well:
We were fortunate to get a number of inbound links from top shelf weblogs. That much excitement in a short amount of time briefly staggered our servers. With help from our hosts at Engine Yard, we were able to allocate appropriate brainspace so PMOG can continue to think and play the web with yew!
If you’ve ever had trouble logging in to PMOG, hopefully you can access the site now and play PMOG whenever you feel like it 
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: that's the last gamelayers game I'll be playing. It sure shows reliability...
: I really don't understand why they "retired" it. But then again, they do have real lives as well. I don't know the whole story.
