Happy New year from the Admin team at TSR.
The year has started well, already we’ve been breaking records. The busiest day ever was on the 14th of Jan when we had 128,000 visits, 94 unique users in a single day. That’s 282% growth compared with the same day last year!
For those into their stats The Student Room gets about 1.5million unique users a month now 
Lots of stuff going on at the moment…
We’re working with DIUS (Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills) to put together a page of resources on TSR for people considering going into education as a mature student. This will be live early in Feb and we have been consulting with TSR users in our mature student forum to make sure we get it right.
If you have other suggestions or pick up the discussion here
The TSR test team have been crawling all over the development site trying to find problems that we can get fixed before we go live with the new site updates.
all things going well we plan to make the latest site update in the middle of next week. The site will have to be down for a while (probably wed evening) to make that update.
The feedback we’ve had from the Test Team has been very positive, especially the ability to switch template colours. It will be interesting to see which the most popular colours turn out to be.
We have restructured the About forum, splitting it into two. One forum is now for questions about Rep and TSR, the other forum is for making suggestions about TSRs development and reporting bugs. This should help us really keep on top of those issues and requests.
Congratulations to the winners of the end of year TSR awards! While its fresh in peoples minds make suggestions below if you have ideas for how the awards could be even better next year.
Finally just a quick note to say thanks to +epic for getting a ‘TSR welcome pack‘ started. It’s got a way to go but the idea is that this could become a simple guide to TSR for newcomers and we can link to it from the email that people get when they register. Its a wiki page so feel free to add anything you think could be useful that perhaps confused you when you first came to TSR.
Good luck if you have exams and essays to write at the moment
-J
