Hello all,

I'm just curious to hear from people, if everything has come to a halt at TBS - since I haven't seen any new challenges since weeks. Furthermore, I'm curious, if people have stopped to submit new challenges.

Reason why I'm asking - a lot of "long-timers" (people which came to TBS very frequently) all of a sudden stay away.

Just curious

To tell you the truth - the reason why I'm asking is very simple: mips and myself spent a decent amount of time on a new challenge, which I would not submit to TBS, if there would be NO new challenge hosting at all - then I would either submit it to a different site - or not at all.

Cheers
relee

Hi

There are also new user in TBS (like me). There are some new challenges too. The last one was flash2 in the internet section.
I suppose that theblacksheep and Erik haven't as much time as before to admin the site (?) but it is always living. I'm pretty sure these guys do their best to upgrade the site as much frequently as they can. And it is also our job to make it live.

If you have a new challenge, please submit it. I don't know which type of challenge it is but I'm pretty sure it must be a great challenge (like treasure your smiley one) and we'll be glad to try to solve it I'm pretty sure everyone is OK with me. New challenges are always welcome

What others here are thinking of this ?

Well, as I understand, Erik is the one who posts new challenges. Also, I have heard that Erik only posts new challenges when HE feels like. Zerocoldn I have had a really good idea for a challenge, but I don't know if we'll make it though if it's not gonna get posted. So Erik, if you're reading, please take the time to answer this question:

"Should we be expecting any new challenges any time soon?"

I don't mean to be a bother, just curious and so are many other people at this site. Figured I might as well just ask it. Thanks.

> Sunday, 25.7.2004: <-New challenges-> by theblacksheep; 12:51:50
>In the past erik and I had a lot to do and not always time to update challenges as fast as you wanted us to. We still get so many challenges which you want >us to upload and we really try hard (specially erik) to do it as fast as possible.
>It is really cool that you guys do it but we also have to select the challenges that are good and the one that aren't. That's why I add this rule for submitting :
>
>1. If you send us a challenge add some words about how the challenge works. Often we just get cryptos like this:
>"dfdfdizooooooifiobb" and we have no idea if it is a good crypto or just a mistake
>
>Erik did really a lot the last month and it would be nice if you guys/girls would show him your support buy just visiting once in a while our "sponsors" google add links).
>
>theblacksheep

This is the "new" section, maybe some thoughts are explained .

Don't get me wrong, I know Erik really works his ass off to make this a better site. I'm not trying to bad-mouth him (which is what I mean by the last few sentences of my last post). I just meant that there are definately a lot of challenges available to upload and any day now there should be more on the site (seeing as how Erik realy tries to upload them as frequently as possible). Sorry if there were any misunderstandings, but I did not mean anything bad by my last post.

Don't worry pjsk8,
It was not a direct-response to your post ... It is just that on + - 4000 challengers, someone could reread this part...
I sent another challenge, too. But perhaps it was not interesting enough (ok, will try to do something better)

Hi,

I'm really sorry for this delay but I have just too many work to be done. Next week I'll have holidays, so I will try to do something then.

Cu, Erik

Erik and I are both students in 12th grade. There is really a lot of stuff going one right now and time is rare. I don't think that Erik even knows what spare time is. He really works his but of. We are really sorry that we haven't uploaded any challenges lately.

But if you have a really really great challenge don't be scared of sending it to either Erik or me.

tbs

got convinced today, that the "TheBlackSheep-website" is still alive and kicking (thanks to Phas and TBS)

I just submitted to Erik & TBS a new special - admin friendly so that you guys don't have too much work with it - unless you want to

Cheers
relee