Sexual Deviants Living In A Web 2.0 World

At the beginning of every month I like to reflect on what was accomplished during the last month and look forward to the goals we are setting for the upcoming month.

What did we do last month?

We added a writing section so that people could blog or share their erotica with everyone on FetLife. We deployed the first basic version of groups. We put the proper precautions in place to prevent people from turning FetLife into the next mySpace. We added the ability to search on almost anything from every page i.e. added searc to the navigation bar. We added the ability to archive conversations, view every single conversation you started or had with a member of FetLife as well as view all your conversations you have been having with one specific person. We created the friend finder so you can see which one of your friends are already on FetLife and invite the ones who are not on yet. And unfortunately, we created the blocking feature for those who just don’t get along.

I really had no clue how much we accomplished in the last month. Times they are a changing. But last month is now over and all that matters is what is planned for next month.

What are we planning on doing this month?

We don’t have any new sections planned for this month. This month is going to be devoted to taking everything we already have and just make them better. We are going to push the groups, pictures, fetishes and sign-up to the next level.

I am a numbers geek, give me some numbers!

Here is FetLife by the numbers:

• 2791 kinksters have signed up to date from 51 different countries (we averaged just over 50 new members a day in the month of March)
• 4139 pictures have been uploaded to date with 2415 comments made on those pictures
• 10551 links have been made between people as friendships
• 6087 conversations have been started with 18,175 messages being sent to date.
• 187 blog posts have been written to date with 187 comments made on them (started 7 days ago)
• 1546 wall posts have been written to date
• 575 fetishes have been entered on the site to date with the community being into or curious about 39,659 fetishes
• 39,025 actions have been logged which results in 325,695 items placed into people’s mini-feed

A lot of these numbers might not mean much to most people here so to summarize: people seem to be enjoying what we are doing here at FetLife but we are far from what our vision for FetLife is.

A toast

So cheers my friends for helping me push the experience that is FetLife further with all your great feedback and support and thank you for helping me in my quest to take down the bondage.com and alt.com’s of the world that don’t give a shit about us other then our credit card number.