I said I would take it down, I never said for how long. Thank you to everyone for taking a little time out with me in celebration of the big day. I was as surprised as everyone else, and watching the reactions come in was pretty interesting. The emails ranged from shocked to congratulatory to incredulous to angry. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Many people linked to the site being down which should help solidify the #1 position in the eyes of the fickle mistress Google. Thank you all as well.
You’d think it would be cooler here in Houston, with hell freezing over and all, but it is as hot as ever. At the same time I’m told in San Francisco I need to dress in “layers.” I packed all my layers up months ago! Might have some <div>s around though…
I was able to get some of the work I was planning to do on the site done, mostly tweaks to the look and layout of things. I wouldn’t call it a redesign, more like a summer variation on a theme. Many of the changes are very subtle, but in my eyes important. The most obvious change, the sun in the corner, looks nothing like I want it to, so I’m not sure what will happen to that. (If you have any ideas, send them in.) Many other things still need attention, so expect to see occasional breakage and constant tweaking over the next week. I finally closed the comments on the mosaic. So it will stand at 1,017 comments,. The page is still huge, so I’m going to move the comments to a separate page just for that entry. The jazz quotes need some cleaning up, and I’d like to add a little information about each player to each page, including at least a picture. The photolog is being overhauled, and the long-promised classics section is almost done. Finally I promise that photo will be random again, any day now.
It was just a little over a day, but it feels good to be back. Let’s not do that again though. I really missed writing here.
I’m going to be in San Francisco next week, so if you are too I’d love to meet up. Drop me a line.
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Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
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seriocomic | June 19th, 2004 @ 5:59 am |
Congrats Matt.
11,000+ WordPress blogs linking to you might have helped. Glad to say I’m one of them
Elaine | June 19th, 2004 @ 6:47 am |
Very pleased to see that your takedown was short-lived.
Lars | June 19th, 2004 @ 7:02 am |
Echo Comment #1.
Good call with the downtime loophole. I bet a lot of people never thought of that.
But you’re still only number two for “Matthew“.
I like the subtle changes you’ve made, including the sun. I hope you keep it. The tab font looks better too.
Only thing though: you should try and make sure the header photo always matches the header. The one currently on display does a good job of that, but with random photos it’s anyone’s bet. But you have color meta data for all pics, right?
MaThIbUs | June 19th, 2004 @ 7:57 am |
I thought I lost you there for a second…
Glad you’re back!
Kevin Francis | June 19th, 2004 @ 8:55 am |
Haha. That was really funny Matt. Oooh! Will that add to pagerank? Have fun being the #1 Matt. I was just knocked down to the #2 ‘Kevin Francis’
Simon Jessey | June 19th, 2004 @ 9:05 am |
Very funny, young man. I knew your stunt would be shortlived, but you were as good as your word. The success of WordPress is probably mostly to blame for your elevated status, and you should feel justifiably proud of yourself for that.
Hanni | June 19th, 2004 @ 9:07 am |
It’s nice to have you back. Good one!
nikkiana | June 19th, 2004 @ 9:28 am |
Yay! The tickling worked!
MtDewVirus | June 19th, 2004 @ 9:30 am |
Don’t ever do that again!
Congrats on #1!
Mo | June 19th, 2004 @ 10:27 am |
I told them He’ll be back! Congra !
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Jeremy S. | June 19th, 2004 @ 1:08 pm |
I would have to say I linked him as well. That’ll help keep you #1. =)
Dave | June 19th, 2004 @ 2:44 pm |
Glad to see you back… you had me worried there for a bit.
Geof | June 21st, 2004 @ 3:16 pm |
What’s amusing is that I didn’t get to see it … thanks for preserving the page for eternity’s sake.
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Jonas Rabbe | June 24th, 2004 @ 3:19 am |
Well, what can I tell you, you have been bumped down to the second spot after the Drudge Report. I guess you just have to get even more links.
Mark J | June 30th, 2004 @ 5:25 pm |
And, back to first as of this comment’s posting. Seems to be a close Drudge/Mullenweg battle!
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Observer | August 6th, 2004 @ 1:15 am |
Back on 2nd place as of 6th of August 2004.
Shame on you!
Observer | August 7th, 2004 @ 5:52 pm |
U R dropping!! 3rd place as of 8th of August 2004.
How worse can it get?
Observer | August 14th, 2004 @ 3:40 pm |
And back as no. 1!