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Michael - please take this as constructive criticism. This is not meant negatively, as I and others appreciate what you do.
Is there anything in your work plan for the new site that you could have others help you with? There are several talented and trustworthy designers and programmers here on the site whose expertise can be tapped. (I'm not one of them; my skills end at 1999-era HTML!) Are there any blocks of work that could be handed to someone like Dinkeldog that he could take care of, and hand the finished work back to you? In a sense, you'd be like the project manager - one who does most of the work himself, but delegates portions of it to others.
I think this would help ease your personal stress and self-directed frustration. Consider this metaphor: you've built the house, installed the wiring and plumbing, and now you just need a few people to put up some drywall and paint the place. No one will look down on you for asking for help; everyone will know you did the bulk of the work.
Just a suggestion.
This is good advice. ENWorld would benefit from more hands on the dev team, and it would be a great leg up in your chosen career - at some point you'll need to build up demonstratable project management experience if you want to step up the career ladder.
Bringing a real team on board (an OS support resource, another coder or two) would be a win/win.
I don't post a lot but this made me stop lurking. It's no problem Morris. The boards are still working and producing good discussion and good ideas, if they get updated a little bit later, that won't change. You tried to succeed, and you didn't Mike. That's not a problem to me, and it probably isn't one to anybody here.
__________________ "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
About 2 hours ago I got chewed out over a project at work that is running months overdue and I have to work 14 hours at it or more (if I physically can) to try to get it completely wrapped up by weeks end or I may lose my job.
There are no longer enough hours between now and Friday free to complete what must be completed before I can convert the boards. I have failed everyone here, starting with Russ and working down to the newest member. I am a total and complete embarrassment to the staff.
I disagree. Your dedication to releasing a non-buggy ENWorld v2 is a credit to the site. As others have said, take all the time you need - many of us would rather wait a few extra weeks under the old codebase rather than wait on site-crashing bugs!
Go easy on yourself. You've done far more for the site than I ever will.
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I prefer delayed releases which are solid and working when they do get released 
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