Mod Development Continues
Hello again everyone. Over the last two and a half weeks, I have been able to mostly de-stress and stave off burnout. I didn't completely stop working on my mods, considering that I released SLSF Reloaded v4 publicly just recently, but I was able to take my mind off of things for the most part and that has helped a fair bit.
With that being said, I'm probably going to adopt a slower development pace compared to before. I will be spending a bit more time doing other things than working on my Skyrim mods, and I believe that will be good for the longevity of my mod development and further preventing burnout and stress.
Additionally, I'm going to try to take a step back and let my community begin to support itself, so to speak. What I mean by that is, up until now I have been extraordinarily attentive to every comment and question concerning any of my mods, and have responded to nearly all of them personally. This was probably unwise in the grand scheme, at least beyond a certain point. There are plenty of people that understand how my mods work well enough to lend a hand to others that are confused, and I hope to see more of my community help each other with such things. Obviously, bug reports will still need my intervention on some level, but if I focus primarily on bug reports then that should be a much easier load to carry rather than trying to respond to every comment that ever gets posted. My user base has simply grown too large to reasonably do that.
I want to take a moment to thank everyone that has given me support and those that use and enjoy my mods. When I look at how many people are in this discord, and do the math on generally how many people use and enjoy my mods, it reminds me how much I have accomplished, even if it still feels like I have a lot on my plate. I never thought I would become a well known mod author with a community of users numbering in the thousands, but here WE are. I might have been the one to make the mods, but a mod author is pointless without a mod user and mod users cannot exist without mod authors. We are dependent on each other.
Thank you for your patience with me and your continued support.
Finally, I am currently pushing forward with development of Mammaries And Lactation v2 (the SKSE update). I am still very early in the code migration phase, and will need to do a number of personal tests after migrating the code to SKSE before a BETA can be released. The original version of MAL was a performance nightmare, and I need to make sure that doesn't happen again.