Back in September, we install our new design for four days. The results fell short of your expectations and our high standards. We went through the coding, fixed errors and changes items you noted. With that said, we are going to reinstall the new design again. This will happen in a matter of days.

We heard the comment - "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". There were things within the site that was broke, outdated or didn't function to our standards. We take much pride in having the best hybrid website/search engine on the net.

The biggest of the improvement was for mobile phones. When ST went online in early 2004, internet on mobile phones didn't exist. Desktop and laptop ruled the day and had dialup or cable internet service.

Twenty years later, many people have "cut the cord" and are using mobile phones for their internet needs. This is what ST needed the biggest improvement.

Within the new design and coding, we made it much faster. This is due to improved coding and changes within the database.

For you the members, the first new addition is Ranked Sweeps. Many of you will only enter the high star rated sweeps and by pass the smaller sweeps. This will be a benefit to you.

We will be adding a Forum under "MyWins" sometime later. We have one in mind but we need to get a deal done on acquiring the programming.

we will also being adding additional new features like more categories to the sweeps or about prizes. Some of these new features will take time because of the backend programming changes. So I ask you for your patience.

Last, we will be doing a emailer to all members. This will be a simple Admin emailer primary to find dead email accounts in our database. Many of you have more than one account for a variety of reasons. We hope to eliminate accounts no longer in use.

Thanks as always,

Craig McDaniel
aka - Mr. Sweepy

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