[faentofheart]

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[Temper]

Mark !

[Venatici]

hello all! a bit of an update as we get close to opening.

we have an event page currently up, located on the front page! feel welcome to check it out : ) it should be open relatively soon! we wanted to give some extra prep time and allow some time for our new artists to get some designs out. speaking of which, please welcome some of our new staff who will be joining the team! <3

alhena will be joining us as a ghost artist
marz-barz will be joining us as a main artist
discontinued. will be joining us as a main artist
lynx! will be joining us as a ghost artist
owl_roast will be joining us as a main artist

for those interested in becoming an artist, feel welcome to check out our artist entry pages:
Forum/viewtopic.php?f=133&t=4619399 (reindeer)
Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4606887 (huskies)

in addition, we are now going to be looking for interest checks on staff positions. more or less, I want to gauge how many people are interested in moderator, archivist, or welcoming committee positions. to break down the three positions:

moderators will be obviously keeping an eye on everything, more or less answering official questions and keeping an eye out for any trouble regarding rules. mods will be working closely with me just to make sure everything runs smoothly. all mods will be put on a trial position for a month and then reviewed for an official position

archivists are essentially staff who work strictly on the website. you approve claims, no manual banking/archiving. more or less, all you do is review prompts/trades, and click a button if it is approved or not. we may ask you to do masterlist uploads for artists if some things change, but that is the full extent - nothing crazy!

welcoming committee members are basically friendly staff who are new to staff teams. essentially the job is just keeping an eye on new members, answering simpler questions ("what is a show name" "how do I make a stable/kennel" "when can I ask for a custom") and generally just lending a helping hand to the community. gives those who have never been on a staff team or feel a little rusty a chance to see how everything works, and help support community members through friendly discussions. this position is essentially whatever you take out of it

if you are interested, please send me personally a message on discord with this form (alongside any questions):



Code: Select all

cs username:
position(s) you are interested in:
briefly, why are you interested: (please make a comment for each position you like)



as a small aside for those who have reindeer from the old thread, if you would like yours revamped or transferred to the new lines, if you message me within the next week will be happy to put them on my list to transfer!

should be all for now, but will continue to keep yall updated with anything else : )

[honeybunchesofoats]

hello all! thank you everyone for your patience, we are happy to announce that the species is now open, and so is the event!

thank you for all of your continued patience with us all - feel welcome to check out the event page, stuff will be opening and adopts will be posted shortly! if you have any questions, definitely let us know! : ) the event will run for about two weeks, after which the website will be released!

otherwise, feel welcome to pop in the event or in the discord! staff checks are still open as are artist entries, so if anyone is looking to join the team feel welcome to reach out!

we all hope you enjoy the little reopening event we have all put together!

[mongrel]

mark

[vanilla bean.]

also markin here <3

[TeraNosaerys]

I mark >.>

[chromatic.]

Quick mark here don't mind me <3

[Venatici]

hello all! I wanted to come in and officially announce the closing of the event. thank you all for participating! we are excited to have these kiddos up and running again!

as a beginning for those who are not in the discord or were in the event, please also welcome some of our newest staff! extend a warm welcome to chromatic. and yeena who have joined the artist team during the event and already provided some quality kiddos for the community <3

we are going to now be transitioning over to normal operations. what does this mean for you?

starting tomorrow, adopts will be posted on the main thread. this is to give time to runner ups who have not been posted yet, especially for adopts released last night! this means artists will not be posting any adopts today to give some time to catch up.

the website will be unveiled within the next couple of days. currently we are waiting on some users who participated in the event and won rewards, but have not filled out the google form
https://forms.gle/2kV2Y73qg7EBpJbM8
once I get more responses / reach out to those this applies to, we will be able to get things moving ^^

for both species, we are going to be implementing some changes in the way that we do things. there are now four different "services" our artists will be working on: customs, transfers, imports, and breedings!

customs will be free and can only be earned through events or the titling program. our staff go by the rule of thumb to "be sensible", so we are extending that courtesy to the community. however, if there is seen to be abuse of this system, we will be very strictly limiting what customs can have. as for now, the only limitation is customs with very rare or above traits need approval from one of the administrators (oats, arkin, or myself).
transfers are mostly going to be for huskies, and you do not need to receive a voucher any longer for a free transfer. our artists are going to be working off of a 3 - 1 system, meaning for every 3 free transfers they do, they are allowed to request payment for 1. how each artist delegates this is up to them!
imports are now a new thing we are adding, running off of the same system for transfers. essentially these are "founder" dogs that any member can receive, essentially a guaranteed adopt. we are going to be implementing this system with the additional idea for those who do not have any baltics, they will always be free.
breedings are now also going to be open for both huskies and reindeer! I know some of yall are super excited to get some year old breedings in, so these will be postponed for a short while as we get everything sorted out specifically as there have been some discussions we are having as a team. but no fear! all breedings will be free, because at the crux of it we want this species to be free to enjoy.

all of these will be working off of the main thread for each species, except for breedings done with reindeer. since most of these edits would need to be hand drawn by artists (they are not as rigid as huskies) it makes more sense to distinguish the two threads, especially since with reindeer we are aiming for a more typical 'cs adopt' environment.

in addition, we will be making some updates to our genetics guide for huskies and some general updates to both species! this includes looking to onboard a couple of non-artist related staff. more information will be coming about this in the next coming days as oats and I now work to overhaul all of our cs pages so that they reflect the current state of the species, as well as compile those updates into the website. the website changes a lot of things, so I will detail more about that for those who are getting invite codes. essentially the way this will work is we will have our first round of 'early access', which are those who participated in the event, be able to test out the site before it becomes publicly available for everyone. this way if there are any issues we didn't catch in the testing, we have time to mitigate them before it goes public. a little bit easier to test with 15 people than the whole community!

that should be all for now, let me know if any of you have questions. otherwise, thank you again for participating and I hope to see everyone around! if you haven't already, feel welcome to join the discord and bop along with us ^^

[.devote.]

Mark!!!