May 5, 2004

Last month, the website had serious hosting problems... Our host has moved from Paris to Marseille and crashed all its backups in the meantime -- as a result, Kyodai.com was offline for a day. Additionally, the account I use at another host for the older versions of KMJ has been killed on the very same day (the files were offline for several days). This is probably a good example of the Murphy law. Anyway, I was very upset about all of that. I'm trying an alternative hosting service and will decide later which account I'll keep. In the meantime, I've been spending, as usual, most of my time on the new design for the website. I'm trying to do something that wouldn't disorient visitors too much, and that would still look more "modern" that it currently does. I'm currently quite satisfied with the results, and hopefully I'll be able to upload a preliminary version of the new website later this month. It will serve as a basis for the dynamic website, which should be interfaced with the next version of Kyodai Mahjongg (21.00, or maybe 20.00 if I manage to do everything smoothly). I don't see too many people download the new beta version. There are less downloads than for older versions of the game, so I'd like to invite you to try it if you haven't yet. Don't worry, it won't break your machine, actually it's much more stable than version 19.99. As always : have fun