It has presence

Today marks the first time in history that World of V is available to the public.
Last night I signed up for hosting on WebFaction, and today I loaded up the code and got it working. Normally, such a step would require a few blog posts about the steps I had to take to get everything up and running, but with webfaction I don't need to!

Everything works exactly the same, although I cutely disabled registration for new accounts. The nice thing is that I can now get a feel for the lag while moving and interacting with the site. I do need to put something in to discourage people from clicking and not waiting for the lag, since it is AJAX, you don't notice that things are going on behind the scenes.

So that's very cool.

I still have some work to do with abilities, security, interface, and clean-up, but it's a damn good start. At least I know it will actually work.

And so the countdown begins: 45 days until alpha-launch.