Here are a few updates regarding both my low activity lately and the RGR Plugin.


My Low Activity
A few weeks ago I injured my thumb and the surrounding area on my hand. This had made it difficult to use a computer and after seeing a doctor, avoiding video games and computers was necessary in order for it to heal faster. This is why I haven't made many posts lately and also why I haven't been doing very much coding lately. My hand and thumb is making progress and I expect to increase my time on the site next week and should be back to normal the following week.


RGR Plugin
I had hired the original RGR Plugin developer (Tom) to work on doing the updates and he initially backed out after expressing interest and working on it a little. Then he had contacted me weeks later and expressed interest in continuing so I allowed him to continue working on it. Due to his lack of motivation more recently, he decided again to discontinue working on it so I'm back at having to find a developer. Don't worry, I hadn't paid him anything so I still have the budget to hire someone else, which will more than likely be next Monday. If anyone knows of a good developer, I'd be willing to pay them to help out.


If you have any questions or feedback, let me know in this thread.

Davideo7 : Don't rush yourself and heal as best u can

Take your time, you more than deserve it...

Davideo7 : agreed you should rest your hand and don't rush on anything.

Davideo7 : Yeah that happens sometimes when you overuse your hand. The same thing happens to me when I do it, so totally understand that.

A bit of back and forth with the decision to make the plugin eh? Yep, I've seen scenarios of that every now and then, if only I was good at coding then I would've offered to help and do it but sadly, I'm far from ever being able to.

DrRM :
cafeman55 :
Blazer 31 :

That's pretty much exactly what happened, overuse of my thumb. I work 12 hour shifts 3 days in a row Friday-Sunday and I do a lot of heavy lift at that job, supporting the weight with my thumbs. Then after my work week is done, I go to working on the site for hours at a time on Monday and sometimes Tuesdays and Wednesdays also. The week I overdid it I worked 14 hours straight on a Monday on little sleep (keep in mind, following those three 12 hours shifts) and then went back to it on Tuesday except on Tuesday morning my thumb felt messed up and kept making snapping noises. I disregarded it (I had a lot to get done) and kept working, only for it to keep getting worse and worse to the point where I couldn't even bend it, it was so swollen and just a tiny movement caused pain. And to top it off, I kept getting tingling feeling in my thumb and 2 of my fingers and would occasionally lose feeling all together. I usually don't go to the doctor for things but my hand had gotten pretty swollen and purple.

Davideo7 : That sounds awful, hope you take good care of your hand and rest of yourself ...

I cant say I don't understand why you waited that long, cause I suffer from the same never going to a hospital or ignoring a physical problem until I cant possible ignore it anymore too :|

Davideo7 : wow that sucks hope your feeling better. Don't rush on anything just rest your hand.

Davideo7 : This scenario almost reminds me of the time that Sakurai (The maker of smash bros), suffered some kind of pain in his hand and/or shoulder when he worked on computers a lot of something and that was around the time he was making smash bros 4.

Like what you did to the site Davideo7, very convincing ha ha April fools!

The edits to my previous message made me laugh ha ha!

Just an update. So a couple weeks ago I injured my other thumb due to over using it since I was avoiding using my right hand, which had the thumb which was originally injured. However, it's not a joint injury so the fingers on that hand aren't really affected that badly and I don't really use my left thumb when I'm at the computer so this wont slow me down much. My right thumb I can type with now and can also use a mouse with it now but I'll still be avoiding using the computer for too long at a time. I should be able to go back to 20+ hours week now but I'll be avoiding any excessive computer use.