27. ANNOUCEMENT

27. Announcement

August 9th, 2013

Dani here, it's been a while since I made an announcement, but generally when I do make one, it typically means it's time for a new skin. Well, this is a doozy.

Activity Check

First and foremost, we have our monthly AC running, please make sure you're on it here. All special information pertaining to it is on on that thread – it's mostly normal, but a few big things are tied to is, as explained in the next section.

Contest

So this doesn't get lost in my incoming wall of text, please note we have a NEW CONTEST! Located here, all information and details can be found in the post itself.

Upgrade Time

V5 will be coming on the 17th. I'm going to give you a rundown of what will happen.

We will be setting the site in the queue to to upgraded the night before, so it is very likely the site will be a default layout for a time. Don't panic, we'll get it fixed up once we're all online. Take the time to get acquainted with the new setup and coding until then. Once the staff starts to get on the next day, the site will go down for maintenance. This could take anywhere from an hour to a few hours to most the day, as we need to install the theme and move pretty much everything and redo several others.

All current and past threads will be moved to a new board area holding V4 coded things, as will character profiles. Don't worry, you can drop us a line once the coding is fixed and we'll restore it (though if it's not a character profile you may need to take note on where it was because we likely won't remember), we simply want to isolate things that will fuck the skin over and we have no way of knowing what threads are updated or dead to make good estimates.

There's a ton of new features that are fantastic in V5, and the staff is excited to implement them, so we hope you are too. As Dani likes to make preemptive strikes against coding that eats her layouts, I'll be leaving the coding setup for the next profile templates here NOW, and you all can begin to transfer your information to it ahead of time – DO NOT, however, put it on the V4 version, because it will have a panic attack – the coding is not made for V4 at all, and it won't work even slightly close to as intended.

V5 Profile Code

I'll say it again: DO NOT IMPLEMENT THIS ON V4. I'M GIVING THIS OUT SO PEOPLE CAN HAVE THIER PROFILES MODIFIED BY THE TIME V5 ARRIVES. THIS IS NOT TO BE USED ON THE CURRENT SKIN! Also I sincerely apologize for how code heavy this template is – there is no way to simplify it without classy tags (or anything similar) for V5. Should something like that ever be released, I will be simplifying this template.

DUE TO THE CODE BEING FUCKED OVER BY SOMETHING IN THIS SETUP, I HAVE MOVED IT TO A GOOGLE DOC FOR EVERYONE. SORRY 'BOUT THAT.