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In a recent blog post when I analyzed how well I was doing so far with my New Year's resolutions for 2026, I said that I was adding two new resolutions, one of which, a worldbuilding challenge called City '26, I planned to make a place for on the Wongery site within the next week or two. Well, that place has now been made. My work on the City '26 challenge now has its own dedicated blog.

But before I get further into that, what is City '26? I did describe it very briefly in the first post linked above: it's a challenge where "participants create a fictional city over the course of the year, focusing on one area of the city each week, and adding a little information each day according to the prompts provided". Here's a graphic by Pete "Garblag" Lattimore, one of the creators of the challenge, that summarizes the whole thing:

You can also see more information about the challenge and its participants in...

For most of the first ten years of the Wongery's existence, the forum was getting constant spam posts. Dozens a day, from myriad users with gibberish usernames. The posts were held in moderation before being made public, so nobody but the Grandmaster Wongers ever saw them, but still, they were cluttering up the databases and made it hard for the Grandmaster Wongers to find the non-spam posts hidden among all the spam... or would have, were there any non-spam posts to be found, but it's the principle of the thing. So, in April 2023, I did what I should have done years before, and finally implemented some anti-spam measures, enabling a plugin that would require users to answer a question before registering. And it worked... apparently. Since I enabled that registration question, the forum hasn't been getting any more spam posts.

But it hasn't been getting any legitimate posts, either.

Okay, that's not entirely true. The forum has, in fact, received exactly five legitimate...

So, we're two weeks into 2026, and I had... kind of a lot of resolutions I'd been hoping to keep this year, so I figured I'd check in and analyze how I'm doing so far. Yes, I said I was going to do quarterly check-ins, and two weeks is not a quarter of a year—it is in fact approximately one twenty-sixth of a year—but I figured I'd do a check-in now for a couple of reasons, one of which being that I kind of added two new resolutions that I also wanted to discuss.

But first, how am I doing with the existing resolutions? Well, it's a mixed bag. A few of them I'm doing very well with so far; with others I'm not really on track. Unfortunately (for the purposes of this site), it's mostly the resolutions least related to the Wongery that I'm doing best at, and the ones most related to the Wongery that I'm doing worst at. But let's take a look at them one by one:

Get regular exercise

This one I have been doing!...