Hey everyone, just a quick note to the community! First of all I’d like to say THANK YOU to all of our loyal visitors and commenters who make updating and searching for Pokémon news worth it 😀 Very soon I will be overhauling the site’s design to be more in line with what I think the site should be focused on: getting you news. Currently the layout I’m using, which I’ve never been particularly happy with, utilizes a chronologically ordered list of news which can easily bury important articles if we publish too often. That needs to change. The new design reflects our focus on different aspects of the fandom, such as gaming, anime, etc, in a more easily read manner which is conducive to frequent updates. This will allow us to publish news that is of smaller importance without worrying that monumental story breaks will be pushed out of site.
Since I relaunched the site on WordPress in June 2010 we’ve now surpassed 5,500,000 visits in under three years. For a site that I opened in 2004 (9 years old now!!) that never garnered a large following, it’s been a great journey to build up the blog and to meet so many wonderful people through it. Again, thank you to everyone. We’ve already seen a tremendous pickup in traffic since the announcement of Pokémon X & Y and expect to see a continued trend of people discovering the site and realizing that we offer fast news along with a selection of original Pokémon-related articles that no other site produces.
Unfortunately, this success does have a consequence. I had continued to provide a ‘social’ atmosphere here which included user profiles and messaging on the main site, but that will be discontinued in several days. Please go through your messages and save any text you need to an editor such as Notepad or Microsoft Word. If you need help checking this please ask in the comments, but if you don’t know what I’m talking about… you probably didn’t use this feature :p Commenting will not be affected, don’t worry!! This is a last ditch effort to dramatically reduce server resources that the site is using and avoid having to double my hosting costs to switch to a larger server. Sorry 🙁
If you’re interested… please follow us on TWITTER and “like” us on FACEBOOK! We also still provide a very social Pokémon forum which will be where you can message each other and keep a public profile 🙂
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ps- We’ll also be launching a new Twitter service soon! Love you guys!
pps- Hope to have our PokéDex finished by May!! Have always always always wanted to add one and my staff and I are plugging away on it. Our project name has switched from Prof. to Leavanny’s Library which was the original name which site visitors chose originally 🙂
Does this include chat?
The chat is a separate thing, doesn’t include it 😉 I’d like to make that more visible so it stays active 🙁 Let’s brainstorm!
when will the changes happen?
New layout coming in a couple of days probably 🙂
Good to hear man! I do remember a couple months ago saying that changes were coming but didn’t know when.
Been visiting off n on since ’10 but finally joined not that long ago n excited to see what else is in store 🙂
As long as the site isn’t going away I don’t care what u do with it. Work your magic Pokejungle and I will Follow!!! XD
Change is always for the better! I love visiting pokejungle because it offers a variety of articles different from any other site. First place I visit when looking for pokemon news.
Pokejungle till the death ! <3 !
We have your soul, so you’re with us after you die too!
But yes, I’m pretty excited to get all the new stuff out. And we’re still all trying to think of new things.
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Yay, can’t wait to see the new layout :3
How about a tumblr blog about the site?
I was thinking about asking the others about this. The only thing is, I think it would draw away from the site. Perhaps having it solely just posting all sorts of Pokémon stuffs and avoiding news would be good. But hmmm.
Social domination?
Hey! I just heard about your new Dex. What kind of Dex is it going to be? Moves? Locations? Trivia? History? Stats? EVs/IVs? I’ve been working on a Dex myself, with Locations, History, and Trivia.That’s my specialty.
Lightweight wiki dex. Mostly stats, moves and locations. The rest can be added in by the users.
I know where I’ll be spending my time. I am the expert on Pokemon Lore.
maybe have a tumblr for the site posting the smaller side news (for example the posts about the fake scans)
It would be awesome if there was a Pokejungle App for IOS and Android devices, lol. One can only dream… haha
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I love how the new comment pannel looks.
Whoa… This is cool, but it’s different. Will take time getting used to. Love it
Im just gonna be the first to say this new layout is really hard to navigate, the links send me to different stories sometimes and its very hard to sort through the news articles with this new banner like design. It’s cute; but really not user friendly at all
just an opinion from someone who checks this site frequently; but the main reason i come here is for the pkmn news, and when thats difficult to sort through/ find, it kind of takes away the appeal of the site a bit
Thanks for leaving some feedback 😀 Right now the layout isn’t functioning 100% because it lacks images on the front page, which I’m working with the theme creator to fix, and I have yet to fine tune the navigation.
Give me a chance and I think you’ll like it 😀
Where are the previous comments?
I’m not a Chespin?!
Working on getting them imported into Disqus 🙂
I like the new update but being in the homepage i cant but notice the lack of images featured.
It’s a glitch ><
Missingno. strikes again.
This will take some getting used to, but I like it.