Hi there!

**Alex** · 12-08-2009 02:53 AM

Hey folks!

First of all I want to thank you for your patience during the transfer and Matt for the kind support. Even though I was reading every single post in the "DV for sale" thread and feeling the overall suspense, I considered it to be more adequate to wait with my official introduction until the transaction was successfully completed.

As to me, my name is Alex, I'm from Germany and I'm in the web-development business for almost 8 years. Since then I've built up a couple of large german forums and other web projects, which I step by step gave up to start working on more international projects like this. At the moment this is the only community I am working on and so I'm ready to spend a lot of time and energy on it.

My knowledge in lucid dreaming is still very limited though two days after the end of the auction I had a dream where I (for the first time) suddenly realized that I'm dreaming and within the dream I thought "ah, that's one example of a lucid dream"

Anyways, I think this topic is very interesting and I'm eager to learn about it.

Since the auction started I've spent several hours a day just reading through the forum and I must admit that the general atmosphere here is like the best I've seen so far (esp. among large forums). This and the fact, that it has never been impaired by excessive ads or other inaccurate monetization strategies, were the main reasons for me to decide to take over this virtual piece of jewelry, polish it up and make it shine even brighter.

Regarding the future of DV: As some of you already correctly supposed, there is absolutely no need to be concerned about the future of DV in its current shape. It will neither turn into an ad-monster, nor will there be any other malicious changes affecting the harmony of the usership. As for now the short term To-Do-List includes a major software update introducing many new features, an individual DV skin (which is overdue imho), a new chat and much much more!

I'll try to realize these and all other ideas how to enhance DV step by step after I had some time to get used to the community and ofc to find out what the users want the most. Some patience will be highly appreciated

You are free to contact me anytime by PM, MSN or Email if you have any questions or concerns. I'll try to respond to all messages but esp. in the first weeks there might be some delays due to the massive upcoming workload.

Last but not least I want to take my hat off to Matt and the other prior admins, the staff and of course all the users for creating such a wonderful community. Great job!

Best,

Alex

PS: Thanks a lot for all the nice welcome messages around the board, makes me feel like home immediatly

**Banana** · 12-08-2009 02:53 AM

Welcome Alex! It's great to have you here!

**Maeni** · 12-08-2009 02:54 AM

o/
Get in the chat, where the party's at! :V

And, NEW CHAT? That would be very awesome!
And yeah, welcome, welcome

Seems like you put alot into this.

**Naiya** · 12-08-2009 02:56 AM

Welcome to Dreamviews!

If you want to have more lucid dreams, just ask and we'll be able to help you.

**ExoByte** · 12-08-2009 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by Alex

As for now the short term To-Do-List includes a major software update introducing many new features, an individual DV skin (which is overdue imho), a new chat and much much more!

You follow through and this place will love you.

Welcome to Dreamviews Alex. Make yourself at home, don't get scared away

**Jeff777** · 12-08-2009 02:56 AM

All issues that need addressing. Look forward to working with you in the future Alex.

**rose_red** · 12-08-2009 02:56 AM

Welcome to Dreamviews, Alex. I'm sure we all look forward to seeing what you will do with the forum. Hope to see you around.

**Lseadragon** · 12-08-2009 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by Maeni

o/
Get in the chat, where the party's at! :V

This is the right thing to do. Be very careful though, lots of immaturity happens in there.

And welcome. It's good to know that DV is in good hands.

**YULAW** · 12-08-2009 02:58 AM

Let me be the first of the Veterans to welcome you Alex.

Originally Posted by Alex

Regarding the future of DV: As some of you already correctly supposed, there is absolutely no need to be concerned about the future of DV in its current shape. It will neither turn into an ad-monster, nor will there be any other malicious changes affecting the harmony of the usership. As for now the short term To-Do-List includes a major software update introducing many new features, an individual DV skin (which is overdue imho), a new chat and much much more!

Now that's music to my ears I am more than sure a lot of other members are going to be pretty ecstatic.

**shinta66** · 12-08-2009 02:59 AM

sweet. can not wait man.

**CarmineEternity** · 12-08-2009 02:59 AM

Ahoy, Alex!

**hellohihello** · 12-08-2009 03:00 AM

I like you, welcome.

**ExoByte** · 12-08-2009 03:00 AM

Holy Exponential Growth Batman.

**Kromoh** · 12-08-2009 03:01 AM

Hmm.. Has Alex seen Senseless Banter yet? His opinion of the forum might change

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Hmm more objectively, thanks for getting involved. I really mean, thanks for taking the time to get to know the place, learn of its qualities and problems. Thanks for giving us a clear idea of what you plan to do with the website. As you might have noticed, expectations around were really high - this is the biggest deal we've had in a good while.

Bear hugs from Krom

**Black_Eagle** · 12-08-2009 03:01 AM

Welcome to DV, jewel of the internet. I'm glad we seem to have gotten a good root admin.

**Man of Steel** · 12-08-2009 03:02 AM

Very nice introductory post, makes me feel much better about this sale already. I look forward to working with you and getting to know you better, Alex.

Again, welcome to the community.

**Maeni** · 12-08-2009 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by lseadragon

This is the right thing to do. Be very careful though, lots of immaturity happens in there.

That was the idea!

**iLight** · 12-08-2009 03:06 AM

Ok finally the skin is gonna change, Alex if you need a Graphics designer I'm here. I was longing for a new skin for a long period of time, I think now my dream is about to come true. I suggest you to wait until the new version of vbulletin comes out 4.0 before making any changes, ...... some addons might be incompatable when the new version comes out.

The new stable version of vbulletin should be out in less than a month, I look forward to it.

Congratulations on acquiring DV, you wont regret your purchase

**nina** · 12-08-2009 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by Jeff777

All issues that need addressing. Look forward to working with you in the future Alex.

Indeed. As do I.

Willkommen Alex

**ninja9578** · 12-08-2009 03:07 AM

I feel better now.

Do you like zlib compression for outgoing pages?

I'm a professional developer myself and I currently work on the web. Ynot is also a computer professional.

**YULAW** · 12-08-2009 03:09 AM

fixed...

Originally Posted by Kromoh

Hmm.. Has Alex seen ~~Senseless Banter~~ R/S yet? His opinion of the forum might change

Originally Posted by Kromoh

Bear hugs from Krom

Wtf? Lmao!

**Trickster** · 12-08-2009 03:09 AM

Welcome Alex! The Future here
Looks promising,

really does.

**Hukif** · 12-08-2009 03:12 AM

So its finally done, I like you already for not being completely out of LD! Hope to see some on-topic posts "bites a bit off of some random member" from you, also like the to-do list.

Welcome to the forum!

And, since I came to off topic, may as well take something from it. "Eats Siиdяed's hand"