I was going to post this last night, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to stop weeping after that heartbreaking Twins loss at Yankee Stadium. After regrouping, I am ready to share some pretty cool milestones. Even if the Twins can’t beat the Yankees and leave 17 men on base, at least Zistle is still going strong.

Milestone #1 : Shoeboxlegends reaches 1 million contribution points!

Ok, this is a little crazy. I mean 1,000,000–that is six full zeros. And this happened a while ago because his current points are actually at 1,121,489. I am not sure how we should award this type of dedication. Your own custom status? Good work Shoebox, you are an inspiration to card scanners everywhere.

It is also to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who contributes to Zistle. You many not have 1,000,000 points but you still make a huge impact on Zistle.

Milestone #2 : Zistle reaches 600,000 cards

Over the past few months, we have over doubled the Zistle library. We are growing little by little. We are working on some tools that will help make it easier to add cards more quickly. We realize how much work everyone puts in to add these cards and you are doing a great job.

Milestone #3: Zistle has 50,000 user-added images

This is really the milestone that is crazy to us. I mean that is A LOT of images. That isn’t the total amount of images grant you – just the ones added by our users. As we continue to grow in membership, we are starting to get really great photo coverage.

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Yes, we are finally launching this beast of a project. The new Zistle is live and ready for your enjoyment. Woo hoo! From the moment we launched our beta prototype a few months ago, we have been working on building this next iteration and it is finally here.

The New Zistle Homepage

The big deal for this release is, of course, trading. You can search for trading partners based on the content of their WantLists and TradeLists, you can see what matches you have between you and another member and you can completely negotiate and track trades. Please encourage those in your trading circle to give it a try and give us feedback.

I think another one of the major improvements is the dashboard. Not only is it a lot easier on the eyes, you can now add a photo, add a website, propose a trade and edit your box breaks from your dashboard.

New and improved Profile Page

In addition, we are saying goodbye to our beta site (http://beta.zistle.com). Moving forward, that url will redirect to the main site.

You may notice that we had to scale back our functionality slightly for this release but we are extremely pleased with the product overall. Josh and I are really looking forward to hearing your feedback about this launch. We think the interface is much cleaner and more intuitive and fingers-crossed we aren’t the only ones.

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Photo Credit: Robert Holmgren

You may be wondering where in the (fill in the blank) we have been hiding. We have officially crawled out from under the rock we have been hiding under and promise things will be back to normal. We are hard at work on getting the next version of Zistle up and running and you should be able to check it out very, very soon.

Thanks to everyone for your kind words and  thoughts and of course your understanding. A special thanks for continuing to work on Zistle while we were away. Seeing all the cards that were being added to the library really lifted our spirits and gave us something to look forward to. You guys are awesome and we are really excited to be back in action.

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