Ninja are pretty full of themselves, effortlessly jumping and dashing through death-filled mazes to the exit with a smug, haughty grin.

No more. Here is one deathtrap that no living thing will escape from, ever. Smash your fingers against the keys, trying vainly to reach the exit while pushing down a feeling you've never had before in all your life as a black-clad ninja:

Total crushing defeat. You will not survive. — PALEMOON

Without any pointless buildup: Ska, Onesevennine, spudzalot, CaptainPolio, Slappy_Mcgee, flagmyidol, T3chno, and skyline356.

Congratulations guys, and thank you to all who applied! We've held some reserves in case more are needed, please pay attention to the Featured Maps Queue [forum.therealn.com] for updates.

All new reviewers please report to the above thread and select dates to submit your reviews.

Thanks again to everyone who got involved.

'Results truncated' should now be largely a thing of the past. I've improved how querying works, and also increased the number of results the query engine will process before giving up substantially, from 50 to 500.

I've also separated out delisted maps into a separate 'delisted' page, which can be found under your profile.


-Arachnid

Sorry for the delay. Results will hopefully be posted by the end of the weekend.

Good luck to all who applied.

A couple of the more annoying bugs are now fixed: You can submit level data in the level file format without getting a cryptic bug, and unfortunate users should no longer get "1 map with unread comments" when there aren't any.

As you may have noticed, NUMA's domain has changed slightly. Instead of 'nmaps.net', all URLs are now 'www.nmaps.net'. This is necessary due to some changes in how App Engine handles 'naked' domains (domains without the www. prefix).

No need to panic, though! As usual, all old links will continue working just fine.

There's a hidden bonus, too - many of you may notice that NUMA is actually faster and more responsive under the new name.

Welcome to our newest moderator, Blackson [nmaps.net]. Grats man, hope you enjoy your time on the NUMA staff!

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The closing date for reviewer applications will be Friday the 8th of may. We've already had a lot of interest, and some high-quality submissions, but there's room for more!

Good luck to all entrants. Results will be posted here and on the forums asap.

Please direct all queries related to reviewer positions to my forum account [forum.therealn.com].

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A couple of things to be aware of:

Applications will take a while to process, please be patient. You will know the results when we decide.

If you've already applied via the NUMA email, you'll need to pm your application again to my forum account.

Any requests made on my maps will be deleted and ignored, unless good reason is given (ie: not possible to register to forums due to parental restrictions, etc..).

Thank you for applications so far.

-atob

After a rather disappointing lull in activity, Guitar_Hero_Matt [nmaps.net], origami_alligator [nmaps.net], lord_day [nmaps.net], and myself, have decided to give the list a Spring clean. Inactive reviewers will be weeded out and new seeds planted. Enough with the clumsy metaphors, let's get down to business!

To apply for a position, PM me two example reviews 50-100 words in length (100 is the max the field will accept, so don't go over!), and spell check your text and check your grammar. Please make sure to provide links to the maps you've chosen.

Popular typos/errors: you're/your, there/their/they're, it's/its. If you're unsure of the distinction between each set, you probably shouldn't apply.

Please only do apply if you're willing to maintain an active position. 2-3 reviews a month is optimal. Good luck to all applicants.

-atob

This should already be obvious to everyone, but evidently it's not: NUMA is frequented by many people of all ages, including children. As such, obscene maps - for example, maps depicting male or female anatomy, or similar - are not welcome. Plus, they're incredibly childish.

Anyone posting such maps will be warned the first time, and banned - temporarily, then permanently - for repeat offenses. Help us keep NUMA safe for _all_ our viewers.

Sorry for the extended outage - NUMA ran out of disk space. My fault for not monitoring this, though I'm disappointed that in 3 days of outage, _nobody_ thought to contact me about it even once.

Everything should be hunky-dory now, though.