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I could give the icons a shot tonight or tomorrow night seeing as I need something to do for my portfolio. I might go with the blues, maybe? Trying to think of what colors are more appealing: the green, red, or blues...

I completely agree, I really like cool colors or saturated ones. It's really hard for me to pick.
Gradient's not a bad idea, actually. I'll play with it.

Agreed-- especially the olive-y green and maroon-y red we have do not fit together but somehow work with the blue.
I thought about making like a clan sign (symbol?) for here but I'm not sure what shape.. could always use starclan or dark forest to test.

I know the last time I did something with an icon was like a pawprint but I could try the pixel cat.

Oh! I think I missed your edit!

I just came in to start plotting again.

Do you think the Halloween activities with candy hunting would be back? It might be cool to have some other things as well. Sand

I expressed opinions in your poll.

I know that a place I'm in is having a spooky RPing activity - they're characters in a haunted murder. And there's also a topic about costumes/what people are doing for Halloween - which might be fun for OTD.

Glad to hear it!

Depends on the cost, honestly. I’m not sure how they work but I can look into it.
Gotta figure out winter break. Not sure what we’ll do but I know an art contest is a part of it so might as well incorporate writing contests into that.

Alright-o. Back here again.

Just generally want to do some more plot and shop talking, not sure if anyone is around to brainstorm at all but I figured it would be cool. I like how there have been more activities and that had been a joy, but I would be curious about focusing outward now or maybe more activities I'm really not sure. Whatever someone might want to talk about.
But for the focusing outward thing.

Generally, our main selling point is Warriors and our very lovely community. But I'm not sure what actually brings a lot of interest. A lot of people come here for nostalgia. It's a place to talk about the old books they like and that's generally a good time. Is there some way that might be enhanced at all? What do the very large Warrior communities (I've heard Amino and tumblr/twitter?) cater to? Art? Writing? General discussion? Are we not hitting those boxes or are we not upholding that style as much or is their layout better (Proboards never was that decent)? Or might just be because they're the popular sites of the day, but never know. If that's the case, then still might be possible to filter some of that popularity to here if we have something they don't (i.e. possibly the lovely community selling point again, but still might need something else. Decently scheduled and reoccurring activities might be fun.)
We have a fairly decent sized writing and RPing community, which I'm not sure how much of that is being focused on or catered to. RPing in both Fan Clans and OTRP seem to boost activity.

With my limited knowledge of outside Warriors communities, it's usually the writing and the art. As well as a minor in RPing. In which case, for any attempts to promote, those should be highlighted. In the same vain, I believe that the WFF, OTW, Art Forums, and both RP sections could benefit from activities and various hosted affairs.

Art Forums in particular. As of this month, WFF and OTW have a write-in for NaNo with both showing activity. (OTW in particular). That will likely last all month. Later months I could host similar activities. I have no issue with that. But if that's the case I think it might be a good idea to 1) promote the site by focusing on the community and the good boards (as listed) as well as 2) possibly having some scheduled and predictable activities in all of them.

All of which I'd be more than happy to assist with if I had a bit better idea of a game plan.

Also Sand so you can see?

No, I don't see the layout changing much. That would probably be too drastic of a change since, as you said, nostalgia. However, layout doesn't necessarily have to be be about a way things look. How things function was more how I was going. Not like I know anything to compare it to, though I have been attempting to think of some. Sadly, as I said, Proboards isn't that great and the best I can think of as one of those things is the instant message update. Where you don't need to refresh the page. As far as I know, that isn't an option.

There was one thing I noticed with the layout. The little notification button over bookmarks. Though I suppose that the lack of it has been encouraging me to actually check my 13+ pages of bookmarks.
*cough* That aside. Layout. Love the layout, think it should be kept. Maybe adding some things might be an option - a calendar post of some kind might be very cool - maybe some notification in some unobtrusive corner when one is about to happen. So forth.

That's good to hear! I'm glad that it boosted things. I think monthly would probably be fairly awesome, if there was enough variety per month. Then again, that preference might be too much to keep up, while seasonally would be more sustainable. When I think monthly, I think Flight Rising and Dragon Cave. Which has much the same problem. Flight Rising does run some types of monthly contests - art and writing as well as discussion questions. I think that might be a good plan to follow. Usually the art contests have themes, the writing question has a prompt, and the discussion questions are just anything site topic related. Other sites do similar things as far as I'm aware. Tuesday's Challenges were a big thing on the WFF, which always boosted our activity back in the day, but running it is a big commitment that sadly I don't have time for. But writing off a prompt could probably still work and if it was more than just one person I'd be willing to pitch in. Flight Rising has theirs revolve around lore. Often times their writing pieces relate back to a main piece of lore. I also have a Warriors DnD style group that is scary active. Posts are just RPed, but there's dice and things. Having that as an RP option or having a large RP with 'sessions' could possible work out as an activity, with each session perhaps being a one-shot style where no one has to have been part of the previous session to be a member (then maybe have a pinglist of all those interested in being a part of it, a poll before hand to see what days/rough times work for people, and then anything else that people need to know. Calendar's still a main suggestion I have.)

I agree with the ___ of the month would probably be a stellar idea. I think that would be a fun little thing that people could get behind.

Game nights for OTD seems like a fun plan. I could totally get behind that. Movie nights might be fun too - Kast seems to be working-ish.

I continue to be okay with offering art as prizes for completing contests, which should also be sustainable enough considering how often I do art and how I only seem to have motivation to do fan art. It's roughly the only prize I can offer though, unless someone wants writing or something for some reason.

Uh huh! I'm pretty sure you can, yes. I look at today's birthday some times. Do you think that, if there were scheduled activities (e.g. the candy hunt) that there might be a way to have a little notification on the calendar? Though ... that might be a Felix or Roswell question (who I can tag, but not sure which one to do so).

Don't have to tell me twice, honestly. I'm not sure ... we might gain ... something. You're right there. I'm not sure what the something is though. The issue is that for the time being, people are aware or finding this forums in google and the like. I'd worried if we flat out switched domains that we would not also lose members but also the current position we have in how people find us. From what I've seen from introductions, people - new people and old people - have been finding us by google. The platform is horrible, but at least people can find it without having to 1) get used to a new URL (possibly? Not sure how it would work), 2) lose the ability to find it easily via google/search engines. If the change over was directly to a new forum host with those sorts of updates was as easy as possible, I think that maybe less members would be lost in the change over. But there are other problems which arise from that possibility. Weathering out ProBoards might just be better. I think the technology baggage associated with moving would be far too great.

That's fine! I don't know who to ask the questions to, so I'm glad to be able to refer it to someone.

Ye. I know what you mean by that. I swear there's probably a way to have some way to have a forum notification other than pinning, but that's probably Felix/Roswell question.

Any thoughts on this?


Yeah, monthly and seasonally. I think that would be fun.

I mean, best I know for games is a one-on-one chess game that other people can sit in on and watch. Not exactly the same idea (Wouldn't say I wouldn't love to see the various mods go head to head in a chess match. Just saying.)
*cough*
But yeah. Kast is almost functioning just like Rabbit now? Almost? It's been a couple months since I checked it out and apparently each version is working out the major bugs. So there's that. Otherwise there's this thing called Metastream that works as well - but only if the person using it has an account with the place you're streaming from (e.g. everyone has a Netflix account).

I think Shiningdiamond mentioned she'd found something in regards to prizes last night, since I was chatting with her in Discord, but not sure if it would work (nor did I hear the specifics of the ProBoards plugin(?) she found) but it's also probably another Felix/Roswell question.

I mean ... not sure if you're able to accept but I could possibly put forward a little for a pool? I'm a college student saving for Uni though ... so can't say much about that.
Next time I saw one of those forum ads though (Dragon Age and Gotham Nights were two?) I was intending to go see if they have any plans or promotional type things going on, since they seem to have ads running. Worth a shot on my end, just to see what's up. ^^ Dragon Age seems to manage ads fairly regularly too.

I mean, it sounds good to me (D&D style group) and no harm in getting the idea out there.
(I thought I was good until I went up against my friend. Now I'm attempting to improve. Battleship I like! I like tricking my sister into hitting the wrong places. Catan is fun too.)

Awesome! And speaking as an English major, I say use the word. English constantly changes and it'll probably be a word in 5 years if it isn't now. You'll be ahead of the time.

Please don't be sorry! I'm very appreciative of your input and willingness to read my suggestions!

I have no idea, but I plan to look next time I see.

That's true!
(I've never played Catan before-- is it fun? My sister tends to use the same patterns when she plays Battleship with me, so it's predictable.)

I'm good with being ahead of time then.

I'm glad you're willing to suggest and give us inputs, it's always great to have feedback. I don't think I'd be able to do it without feedback.