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[Laserhead]

Somewhere, a high school English teacher wakes in a cold sweat.

[smjjames]

Huh?? If you didn't have over 100 posts, I might have thought you were some wierd spambot.

Also, context?

[Knight Otu]

He's referring to the first sentence of the most recent devlog entry (11/09/2013), which admittedly is a bit awkward.

[Cobbler89]

There's nothing technically wrong with it, once you realize that it's not really a hanging preposition, but rather "continued along with" is the whole verb. Latin does this (substantially changing verbs by putting them together with other words) all the time, and gets away with it only because nobody ever mistook a prefix (which is how Latin tags those sorts of additional words onto the verb) for a separate preposition; I don't see why English can't do the same using a different construction, especially as language teachers are the ones usually telling us that different languages do things differently. (And if you don't think that it's a legitimate construction in English to begin with, I want to know the last time you used the verbs "blow up", "wake up"... and I'll stop myself before I go hunting for every one I know.)

Now, would this particular case be more graceful in the active voice? Probably; but that's just style, which, however important, seriously shouldn't be a cold-sweat-breaking inducer of panic for teachers of language proper.

[Manveru Taurënér]

The list is being continued along with. 11/09/2013

We've been continuing along with the list. 11/05/2013

I took is as a humorous remark by Toady to the fact that it's still just a bunch of fixing going on and not all that much to update about :>