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    As I've previously mentioned I think we need to make it super simple for users to post (I know you've addressed a couple of points here and in our discord already) complication only works for larger communities, we do not do any favours by having intricate rules that users must follow to post content (however some rules do need to exist for obvious reasons) I want it to be a case of if someone wants to do discuss something they can just post a thread in a few clicks rather than adhering to a check list, not that we've been particularly strong with the rules thus far but I digress.

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    Good morning/afternoon/evening all,

    Im happy to announce Yemachu accepted a position of administrator for the site! He'll be focusing on development of the card maker within the site itself please keep all site requests and support queries in mine and the other members of staffs direction (unless of course it relates to the card maker)
     

    I think I speak for everyone in saying that the work Yemachu has done for this community and the last up until this point has been nothing more then incredible. We look forward to working with him moving forward.

    Please use this thread for any questions you might have for Yemachu.

    @Members @VIP

    @Yemachu

     

     

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    13 hours ago, Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd said:

    I guess I got too used to the idea of people only appointing moderators to handle flooded areas or work as damage control. Since we're not really experiencing problems of either sort, I figured we didn't really need more. Though, as a newer site, that comes with a different set of problems, so I can see why expansion might be a good thing there.

    I don't use the card maker myself really, so take this with a grain of salt, but yeah, that's the main thing I noticed. That the background and style were always that one shade of dark gray, so it always seemed a little detached from the main site. I don't have any ideas on how to fix that though.

    Again, I'm super happy with this place and how it keeps moving forward. Hopefully the good stuffs continue.

    It's because it is detached from the website, it's just an embedded web page of the card maker itself.

    I'm glad you're happy, and that makes me happy ?

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    Would love an event where people vote on the best thread of a period of time, perhaps it's something retroactively that we do in 2020 looking back on 2019, and we can use it to kind of promote what sort of content people like and what we as a community want from threads.

    How this would be done I'm not sure, perhaps you had had a line up of certain threads and you give people the capacity to vote on options rather than an open-ended choice but I guess that'll be for the host to establish, would also fit in with the theme of vision (also just now noticed the joke, great job @Yui).

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    5 hours ago, Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd said:

    Not so sure if we really need more mods, but I suppose if it's to help make new stuff or breathe new life into existing stuff that could be a good reason.

    Yeah, this is one that I've brought up a couple times this year with the mod team and certainly I think it's something that needs to be trod carefully. I think my goal really is ensuring that we have the best people in the best places to support and develop sections of the site, fundamentally I don't think we should be afraid of adding too many members of staff, In my opinion if a staff member is there, and they are providing a benefit to the site them having a title makes no difference to things but again I want people to voice their concerns and I'll take everything on board.

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    NCM (nearly) a Year On

    I think I speak for everyone in saying that it’s certainly been an interesting year, from what feels like unending down time to what now feels like a new lease of life, communities are born and bred by people alone and you can’t force something to stick together when the cracks have already shown, and I think we’ve showcased that now more than ever, you’ll just continue to stick things back together as best you can in hopes that it will remain but, sometimes in life you need to move on and build something new up and that’s OK, nothing lasts forever but everything worthwhile only lasts for a period of time, and whenever this comes to an end I can only hope it inspires someone to pick up the mantle where it left off.

    That got a little… philosophical didn’t it? My fault, apologies, I just wanted to open a document and write down my thoughts and feelings with you all – bare bones you know how that stuff goes anyhow I think it’s important to reflect on how we’re doing and where we can go from here.

    So, how are we doing? That’s a great question and thanks for asking Torm! Fundamentally the site is stable, and activity is at an appropriate level, people are posting, RPs are… RPing? I guess you do roleplay in a roleplay so… ANYWAY things are good! There are some sections that have very little to no activity and I guess that’s something for me and the staff team to figure out together. I imagine it’ll be along the lines of consolidating “deader” sections together and making posts simpler to post but we’ll work on that.

    In fact, at the time of writing this we are roughly averaging 20 registrations per month, which are healthy numbers! It’s also probably a little more but I’m terrible at Math so… 20 sounds like a good enough number.

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    There has been some considerable content committed to the site by many of our great users. I won’t go through all of them because honestly, I’ll be here all day and I think a couple of the staff team have ideas on events of their own accord for celebrating good content but stuff like .:Alive:. by Dad in the creative writing section, the NeoCardMaker Holy Grail War by Yui (whilst young, is a very creative take on the forum game genre) and RPs like Fire Emblem Curse of the Goddess which is so intrinsically Fire Emblem it’s great.

    So where can we go from here? Well personally I think I need to take on the leadership role a bit more, I just need to understand where the line is drawn with that and the like as we have a nice status quo going on and rocking the boat too much might cause us to get water on board when it isn’t necessary but I have ideas and thoughts for the site that I think will be healthy for the place.

    I would like to see a member of staff or two added to team at some point to help develop certain areas of the site, and perhaps cultivate new life and ideas into parts of the site but again it’s all about balance and that’s down to me to find that middle of the line, so please bear with me and provide criticism as and where it’s needed.

    I’ve yet to explore these ideas with Yemachu but getting the card maker more built into the site rather than relying on GitHub might allow for us to provide a better user experience for those of us who use the card maker on the regular, of course again I’m just vocalizing my internal thoughts so don’t take this as a “IT’S HAPPENING” (Yui please insert the appropriate gif in a reply thank you).

    It also seems the site is still struggling to send activation emails to gmail accounts… It’s something for me to look at as we are potentially missing out on active users, I’d rather publicly state this is an issue than it not be forgotten about (although I have mentioned it in the past).

    As for you guys? Keep doing what you’re doing. Maybe revive showcase for me I don’t have anything negative to say about the lot of you really, you’re all cute – except Cow, he’s a cow I mean they ain’t that cute maybe calves but like they don’t last very long in that state.

    So, thank you, for making this place what it is, and I wish you a fantastic Christmas, here’s to 2020 (we all legally have perfect vision now)

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    @Members @VIP

  25. Posted

    "Well, this... gentleman in front of me seems far too dignified for a berserker" Contemplating the Servant's question... "We must indeed betray one another at some point, unless of course one of us falls before this moment in which case no betrayal will occur besides is it a betrayal if we all know at some point what must be done?" I turn back to the door "Lancer, we are done hiding. Show them you can pull your 'weight'" I let off a smirk.

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