One of PG-13′s chief tragedies is the failure of its innovative updating system. When we started out, the system was set up to split the workload with the viewers: you send me a picture, I post one of my own as well. This idea might work a lot better in the Web 2.0 era, but working with plain HTML, I inevitably buckled under the tedious pressure of twice-weekly updates in such small chunks. Updates became basically quarterly for a while, and they became special events unto themselves– every update was a new artist’s coming-out party. Though the share-the-load tactic may not have panned out, its ultimate goal was achieved anyway. So many of the greatest artists and writers of this community are ‘graduates’ of PG-13– no other website besides DeviantArt has come close.
July 2010
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It may be unwarranted, but I’m vain and have a huge ego. PG-13 is actually one of the things I’m pretty modest about, because I’ve always kept one thing in mind: if I hadn’t done it, someone else would have. Heck, someone else DID, and he even beat me to it. It was simply something that the time was right for. This being said, whatever it was I was doing, people must have liked it a whole lot for PG-13 to have gotten any fans at all in its first few months of existence.