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New Mods! And Other Wonderful Updates!
Hey guys! We've got a long list of beautiful updates for you all~
First off, time to introduce our new mods!
First up, we've caught us a Nino [mun of Tavros Nitram/commune] and a Mei Zhu [mun of Maes Hughes/derpsaboutfamily, Ouka Sakaki/worththeclub, Gluttony/mayieatthat, and Caster/wheresmyholyvirgin] and equipped them both with nice little Assist TMs, enlisting them for technical work as well as smaller side projects and organization!
And our new full timer is Professor Din [mun of Tulio/greatbigrock and Dale Cooper/tapestodiane], taking on just about everything, as a Professor of Route 29 does!
Please give these three lovely young souls a wonderful welcome, and treat them kindly! They're already doing their best! With this month's HMD meme, they've already been on board helping with deciding what comes next.
Which brings us to what comes next!
In regards to this month's HMD, we've got a few changes to implement, and a few concerns to address.
When it comes to gym badges, we've decided to revamp them: instead of having to IM or PM a moderator, you will just need to Post to the Gym Badges Page! There's a new form down at the bottom, so whichever moderator is around will just swing by to respond! That should reduce on any sort of lag from communicating via PMs. For those who don't want to come to us directly through plurk or AIM, and to make things go more smoothly, the post should assist in making it easier for everyone in general.
Second: We're introducing a Calendar! This is where the Weather Reports and Swarms will go from now on, as well as upcoming plots and moderator posts. As you can see, it's already got a few updates on there! Please give it a looksee, and give Calender Maintainer Mei a round of applause for the pretty color coding. The main page and navigation have been updated with these changes.
Third: Rockets! Seeing as this is our #1 priority at the moment: Don't worry guys, we're currently working on a few things to alleviate the lack of Rocket presence. So far, we're aiming to have a mission every two or three weeks, and a plot or an event fairly Rocket-heavy every month or two. Unfortunately, the details, as well as the next plan of action, are not quite ready for unveiling just yet, but they will be very shortly! We're tweaking a few things to make sure everything's plausible and Route-friendly before we go ahead and air that to the masses.
Fourth: the only downer point. For right now, we have unanimously decided against having a Route Mod plurk for now. We aren't against the idea at all! In fact, we would like to have one, but with our current list of things to fix, we realized that adding the checking and maintaining of a mod plurk would only add more chaos for us. We're going to keep this in mind for when we are able to maintain it without the risk of neglecting it. Until then, we're going to worry about other things for now.
HOWEVER, we're going to start having Monthly Plot Posts over inslowpoke_gif to encourage group discussion and the sharing of plot ideas, as well as talking with us on ideas! We'll be sure to link them during the junkdates on the week they're posted so those can notice it easier! We're going to try and interact with this one a bit more, so you can often bounce ideas off of us in this, as well as figure out if we have something planned that won't overlap with an idea of yours. After all, we know that none of you are mindreaders (unless one of you is hiding some psychic-type that you're not telling me) so we can't expect you all to know when we have something planned or not. We're hoping the calendar helps with some of that - and for other things, there's this post! We know it's not much but it should still be a way to share ideas and talk and plot with one another.
That concludes this week's long list of updates! I hope everyone had an awesome Friday! Are you all excited? I'm excited!
First off, time to introduce our new mods!
First up, we've caught us a Nino [mun of Tavros Nitram/
commune] and a Mei Zhu [mun of Maes Hughes/derpsaboutfamily, Ouka Sakaki/worththeclub, Gluttony/mayieatthat, and Caster/wheresmyholyvirgin] and equipped them both with nice little Assist TMs, enlisting them for technical work as well as smaller side projects and organization!And our new full timer is Professor Din [mun of Tulio/
greatbigrock and Dale Cooper/tapestodiane], taking on just about everything, as a Professor of Route 29 does!Please give these three lovely young souls a wonderful welcome, and treat them kindly! They're already doing their best! With this month's HMD meme, they've already been on board helping with deciding what comes next.
Which brings us to what comes next!
In regards to this month's HMD, we've got a few changes to implement, and a few concerns to address.
When it comes to gym badges, we've decided to revamp them: instead of having to IM or PM a moderator, you will just need to Post to the Gym Badges Page! There's a new form down at the bottom, so whichever moderator is around will just swing by to respond! That should reduce on any sort of lag from communicating via PMs. For those who don't want to come to us directly through plurk or AIM, and to make things go more smoothly, the post should assist in making it easier for everyone in general.
Second: We're introducing a Calendar! This is where the Weather Reports and Swarms will go from now on, as well as upcoming plots and moderator posts. As you can see, it's already got a few updates on there! Please give it a looksee, and give Calender Maintainer Mei a round of applause for the pretty color coding. The main page and navigation have been updated with these changes.
Third: Rockets! Seeing as this is our #1 priority at the moment: Don't worry guys, we're currently working on a few things to alleviate the lack of Rocket presence. So far, we're aiming to have a mission every two or three weeks, and a plot or an event fairly Rocket-heavy every month or two. Unfortunately, the details, as well as the next plan of action, are not quite ready for unveiling just yet, but they will be very shortly! We're tweaking a few things to make sure everything's plausible and Route-friendly before we go ahead and air that to the masses.
Fourth: the only downer point. For right now, we have unanimously decided against having a Route Mod plurk for now. We aren't against the idea at all! In fact, we would like to have one, but with our current list of things to fix, we realized that adding the checking and maintaining of a mod plurk would only add more chaos for us. We're going to keep this in mind for when we are able to maintain it without the risk of neglecting it. Until then, we're going to worry about other things for now.
HOWEVER, we're going to start having Monthly Plot Posts over in
slowpoke_gif to encourage group discussion and the sharing of plot ideas, as well as talking with us on ideas! We'll be sure to link them during the junkdates on the week they're posted so those can notice it easier! We're going to try and interact with this one a bit more, so you can often bounce ideas off of us in this, as well as figure out if we have something planned that won't overlap with an idea of yours. After all, we know that none of you are mindreaders (unless one of you is hiding some psychic-type that you're not telling me) so we can't expect you all to know when we have something planned or not. We're hoping the calendar helps with some of that - and for other things, there's this post! We know it's not much but it should still be a way to share ideas and talk and plot with one another.That concludes this week's long list of updates! I hope everyone had an awesome Friday! Are you all excited? I'm excited!
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OH MY GODS WHAT ARE FEELING FZXDJSFXCSMXDBCJKd zsxc
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I really like the calendar, and the plot suggestions post idea too. Pretty much this whole update!
And I’m definitely looking forward to the Rocket stuff!
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And I am really liking the calender addition! Especially as weather updates are a big thing for me personally as I like to tailor my posts to the weather when it's different. And having them tied to the same place we can see when events / swarms will be means more people may pay attention to the weather changes as well...
SLIGHTLY SADDENED by the mod plurk choice, but I can understand why you want to put it off for now.
And I'm glad about the plot posts as well! I've obviously been putting them up myself for the past two months and I'd have kept doing so if you guys hadn't made it an official thing, aha.
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That calendar looks awesoooome. And I really like the badge post idea.
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(Also I just squee'd over seeing the Beltane festival stuff on the calendar already. You guys rock!!)
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This could just be my computer being fabulous, but is it just me or can we not comment on the badge page?
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And we'll change the Strength number! I think we typo'd. Thank you!
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I absolutely love the new calendar! It will make my life so much easier YOU HAVE NO IDEA. The rest of the post is just as beautiful YOU HAVE ALL OF MY EXCITEMENT.
... P.S. You might wanna enable comments on the badge post, by the way.
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I for one am very happy about the calendar.
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Also, the calendar page looks fantastic :) And I like the idea of the monthly plot post, too.
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congrats to the new mods! the calendar and gym badges pages are fantastic. ♥