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June 2024 Update 2
Regarding Recent Loading Issues
Website Issues
Recently the Website has been… temperamental, to say the least. Due to hosting issues, we were left with two options – stick it out for now, or find a new host. Unfortunately as anyone who has a website would know, hosting has gone up in price a lot, and it would end up being a pretty expensive option even for a group as small as ours.
Based on our options and with the communities support, we have opted to stick it out for now, with a few small changes to the way things are run to ease the strain of things not loading when we want them to.
- Event Submissions: While we would still prefer any event submissions be submitted on the website if possible, we understand that the website might not cooperate as we would like. For this, we are supplementing with our Discord Server. Now, under the ‘Official’ tab group, you will find a new forum called “Event Submissions”. In the case that you are unable to submit on the forums, you can reply to the thread for the event in question, and have it still count as on time.
- Breedings: If you are trying to submit a last minute breeding, we are offering some leeway in cases that the website goes down. For the foreseeable future, if you post a breeding within 1-2 days of the end of the month and mention you would like the previous months incentive, we will honor it. (IE, you try to post June 30th, the website says no, you post July 1st and mention you wanted a June Breeding but couldn’t post, we will honor the June Incentive). In an effort to ensure your breedings are rolled for the correct month, we do encourage not waiting until the end of the month however.
- Monthly Joust: Same as Breedings, if you make note that you tried to post the previous weeks entry, but the website would not let you, we will give you a few days leeway for posting.
- JdpA: JdpA also has a thread in Discord, where the assignments are posted. Due to it being two months long in theory there should be enough time to get your entries submitted either to the website, or to Discord. With this we ask our members cooperation, if your partner messages you for more information about your Quirlicorn or for an image of them, understand the website may not be loading properly.
Wait Times
Due to the majority of Admin Work still being website based, we apologize for any extended wait times for your activities or rewards from activities. We do our best to ensure that all areas are responded to in a timely manner, but we are also only humans dealing with the same issues that you are. We are in the background doing our best to keep things moving, so please be patient with us!
Moving Forward
For right now we are going to do our best to minimize the impact that the server issues are having on everyone’s enjoyment of the breed. We have plans in place for future events to best minimize the wait times and inconvenience, but it still will be a group effort from everyone to be understanding and patient with the changes as we navigate them. If things get significantly worse we will be revisiting the discussion of moving to a new host, which could result in some downtime from the website as we work on moving things over. We greatly appreciate everyone and their continued love and support for the breed, and for being willing to work with us through these issues. We are truly grateful to have such a wonderful community!
Discord
If you are not already a member of our Discord, join us at the link below to ensure you are up to date on the latest news of the breed.
General Updates
Semi Customs & Mystery Box Customs
As a minor update, Semi Customs as their own option have been retired, and reworked into Mystery Box Customs due to them being similar in nature.
Mystery Boxes now have two options: Roll as a traditional design yourself Mystery Box (Two genos randomly generated, and you pick one to design) or an Admin Mystery Design (you list your likes/dislikes, and an Admin designs a custom for you).
Find out more on our Shop Page.
Change Log
Discord
- event-submissions forum channel added
Website
- Semi Customs Retired, Mystery Box Customs replacing Semi Customs, verbiage updated to reflect these changes.