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Hello.
Just to keep everybody informed about what is happening, my friend the entrepeneur is currently hard at work doing his best to plan and coordinate our upcoming necessary move to an external forum by talking directly with the official Fandom staff, Community Hired (the company that Fandom recommended for setting up the new forum), and a few highly skilled technical expertise programmers that he knows since previously.
However, this forum will most likely be shut down sometime in May (unknown exactly which week), so we only have limited time left until time runs out.
As I have told the community previously, it is absolutely crucial that all of our active members get an e-mail address that they use confirmed for their current Fandom accounts before this happens, as the Fandom staff will hopefully be able to send out invitation login messages to the new forum to these e-mail addresses.
If you do not do this, you could end up not being a part of this community anymore, due to not receiving an account with your previous username in the new external forum.
For instructions regarding how to set up a confirmed e-mail address, see here: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Community
In addition, the new forum will initially only feature backups of discussion threads up to November 12. the installation of a second backup batch from much closer to the shutdown of this forum will likely be converted and installed later, if nothing goes wrong with communication with the technical Fandom staff responsible for providing such an archive. I really hope that it won't.
Anyway, my point with this is that there will be a sudden massive gap in the progress of our ongoing discussions in connection with moving to the new forum. Hopefully a temporary one, but our then current discussions will still come to a halt for quite a while. This means that we should preferably try to wrap up our current major revision projects before that happens, and not start any major site-wide new ones, before the move, so there will be as limited wasted energy and general confusion as possible.
In order that I and the rest of the staff can entirely focus all of our available time and energy on helping with organising the transition of our at least 1273 active members, rather than the very time-consuming regular wiki maintenance tasks, I also think that it seems like a very good idea to ask the Fandom staff to disallow editing of our wiki profile pages by regular members for a few days while this is going on (Staff members should obviously still be able to do so). Otherwise I would be rendered almost completely inefficient and unable to help for one thing, which would likely end up as a disaster. My apologies for the inconvenience, but the semi-lockdown would likely only last for a few days or so.
Here is how you update your email if needed:
Go to "My Preferences" in the upper right corners of your screens, then click the "Email" tab, and go to "My Email Address", in which you write one that you use, preferably one that does not reveal your real name, and check for the confirmation email, which should arrive quickly.
Under the "Message Wall and Forum" section you can also select to never send you notification e-mails for new responses/edits to the discussion threads and wiki pages that you subscribe follow/subscribe to, as you will easily get swamped otherwise. Just make sure to NOT select the "Disable all emails from FANDOM" option further down the page, as the invitation email will likely not work in that case.
Here is what your email settings should preferably looks like:
Further extremely important information is available here:
https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/4208849
Just to keep everybody informed about what is happening, my friend the entrepeneur is currently hard at work doing his best to plan and coordinate our upcoming necessary move to an external forum by talking directly with the official Fandom staff, Community Hired (the company that Fandom recommended for setting up the new forum), and a few highly skilled technical expertise programmers that he knows since previously.
However, this forum will most likely be shut down sometime in May (unknown exactly which week), so we only have limited time left until time runs out.
As I have told the community previously, it is absolutely crucial that all of our active members get an e-mail address that they use confirmed for their current Fandom accounts before this happens, as the Fandom staff will hopefully be able to send out invitation login messages to the new forum to these e-mail addresses.
If you do not do this, you could end up not being a part of this community anymore, due to not receiving an account with your previous username in the new external forum.
For instructions regarding how to set up a confirmed e-mail address, see here: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Community
In addition, the new forum will initially only feature backups of discussion threads up to November 12. the installation of a second backup batch from much closer to the shutdown of this forum will likely be converted and installed later, if nothing goes wrong with communication with the technical Fandom staff responsible for providing such an archive. I really hope that it won't.
Anyway, my point with this is that there will be a sudden massive gap in the progress of our ongoing discussions in connection with moving to the new forum. Hopefully a temporary one, but our then current discussions will still come to a halt for quite a while. This means that we should preferably try to wrap up our current major revision projects before that happens, and not start any major site-wide new ones, before the move, so there will be as limited wasted energy and general confusion as possible.
In order that I and the rest of the staff can entirely focus all of our available time and energy on helping with organising the transition of our at least 1273 active members, rather than the very time-consuming regular wiki maintenance tasks, I also think that it seems like a very good idea to ask the Fandom staff to disallow editing of our wiki profile pages by regular members for a few days while this is going on (Staff members should obviously still be able to do so). Otherwise I would be rendered almost completely inefficient and unable to help for one thing, which would likely end up as a disaster. My apologies for the inconvenience, but the semi-lockdown would likely only last for a few days or so.
Here is how you update your email if needed:
Go to "My Preferences" in the upper right corners of your screens, then click the "Email" tab, and go to "My Email Address", in which you write one that you use, preferably one that does not reveal your real name, and check for the confirmation email, which should arrive quickly.
Under the "Message Wall and Forum" section you can also select to never send you notification e-mails for new responses/edits to the discussion threads and wiki pages that you subscribe follow/subscribe to, as you will easily get swamped otherwise. Just make sure to NOT select the "Disable all emails from FANDOM" option further down the page, as the invitation email will likely not work in that case.
Here is what your email settings should preferably looks like:
Further extremely important information is available here:
https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/4208849
