From the whole Jaaj.Club team we wish you a Happy New Year. Health and a peaceful sky above your head, and everything else will work out.
Today we will summarize the outgoing year 2024, what was done, how successful it was and reveal plans for 2025.
For those who follow the life and development of Jaaj.Club, probably already know that Jaaj.Club is now not only entertaining author battles, informative articles, but also real books.
Books
Jaaj.Club Collection Publishing and its founder, Andrei Khmelev, is an official registered Canadian publisher with the right to generate ISBNs, distribute and sell print and e-books.
For 2024, we have managed to collect
10 books in our collection of sci-fi, mystery, love affairs and adventure. Any book will be of interest to the reader. All books are available in our online store and are available in ePub format. Also Jaaj.Club is not limited to contracts with authors on exclusive terms, now anyone can publish a book and put it on sale. Read more in the prepared article
Questions and Answers.
In 2025, we will continue to deal with books. Moreover, we plan to publish our authors in English. We will start with one book, and then others will follow. Stay tuned!
Interface
The website interface has been redesigned, the navigation has been improved and the old navigation has been retained. In the interface we are trying to keep three areas - bookstore, articles and author battles, which is challenging with every change. What came out of it, you can see for yourself by clicking through the pages of the site.
Tournaments
Tournaments are likely to be replenished, a lot of topics are not touched. Keep an eye on the news and periodically check the page with the list of tournaments.
One more change in the tournaments - Jaaj.Club member, will now go to the standings. This is more of a technical character, so we don't think that he will be able to change the podestal picture significantly.
Judges' voting for tournament battles has been disabled, as it turns out to be unfair for a participant if their opponent hasn't posted a battle.
The tournament jury (users with level 25+) will now be able to choose a winner even if there are less than 5 participants.
Now for a slightly sad change. We have decided not to hold the Writer's Retreat Tournament in January-February this year. We are preparing changes and maybe the tournament will be held later.
Club Items
There are no particular changes expected for club items. The only thing is that their prices have increased a lot in 2024.
In 2025 we will revise them and match each club item to its rubric, already pushing back on the favorite rubric and the item will have some bonuses.
Payment for articles
The question on everyone's mind is when will payment for articles that have a club item attached to them be refunded? At this time there are no visible plans to refund this agreement. A great deal depends on the success of our book sales and other financial areas of the club. If funding in 2025 is established and stabilized, payment for articles will be turned on instantly.
English-speaking segment
The idea of going to the English/Francophone segment has been in the minds of the creators for a long time. About 5-6 years ago, an attempt was made to make both versions, but at that time it did not find favor with users.
In 2025, as written above, we will translate into English one of the books by author
Katerina Popova - a master of fantasy adventure - and try to enter the market in North America with a name and a book.
In addition, there are plans to create a multi-lingual platform for the Jaaj.Club website - Russian, English and French. We already have all the tools in our century, and the help of AI accelerates the development process several hundred times. We plan to translate not only the site interface, but every user will be able to instantly translate their story or article into English online. In this way we will start the integration of Jaaj.Club with the English-speaking segment of the Internet.
Top priorities in 2025 will be to promote our favorite authors, the bookstore, and English integration.
Happy new year 2025 everyone!
Respectfully,
Andrei Khmelev
Jaaj.Club.