Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-3058106-20150110215707

Hey everybody, this is just a brief (sorta) announcement from the admin team to let you know about updates that have taken place on the wiki within the past few days and will happen soon:


 * Lumblr Network Update: It is official! The beta test Lumblr Network that everyone soon began to use is now the official Lumblr Network Template! The original Lumblr Network is now officially replaced with the new one. With these changes, we have replaced only a few thigs.
 * We replaced friends and friend requests with followers. The reason behind this is that often times, users would never see the friend request and it would be staying there for weeks and sometimes even months. With followers, users are able to simply follow without having to wait on a request. Also, this makes it easier for characters to follow celebrity characters rather than having to wait on a friend request that may not even get accepted.
 * Blocking has also been introduced with the follower system. Let's say two characters break up or even just absolutely hate each other and don't want the other to see their Lumblr. Well, that can easily be solved with blocking.
 * Events are now a new part of the Lumblr Network pages! Since Blogs were rarely ever used, we replaced them with events. Basically, if your character is throwing a party or something of the sort, they can go to other character pages and send them the invite.
 * If you have your own suggestions about how to improve the Lumblr Networks, please let us know.


 * Lumblr Network Manual: The manual for the networks will be updated very soon to be more user friendly. It will also explain more about the blocking to help users understand it. It will also include information on more parts of the guide to help users understand it better.
 * Get Started Guide Updates: On the GSG, we have updated four different parts with new information. One of these pertains only to the administrative team. You can read about them below.
 * Rollbacks & Admins: We now have a new template for you to use! It basically is one for you to send a message to users about Character Stubs. You can find more information on it here.
 * Character Adoption: We now include information about how put your character up for adoption. You may read about that here. We also officially added the prompts page which you can find here.
 * Timelines: There is now information on how to add your roleplay to the timeline! It includes two different ways you can do this. We really want users to start actually adding their roleplays so the administrative team won't have to do so ourselves in the future. You can read the two different ways to add roleplayers here.
 * Character Stubs: Information on character stubs has now been included. You can read about what a character stub is and find tips on editing the sections. It also has a new rule included that states that once you are notified by an admin to fix the page and you have fixed it, to please reply to the admin's message to let them know. They will then check over your work to make sure all is sufficient now. If not, they will mark the page again and message you again. Please make sure you do this so that admins will know if the page was fixed or not. You can read more about that here.
 * Homes: After a bit of talking for like five minutes maybe, we decided to try out a new idea to character pages. If we think it works out well, we will keep it, but for now it's mainly being tested to see what everyone thinks. Basically, we all have probably imagined what our characters' homes look like, right? Well, of course. I've actually once created this thing on a website where I picked out apartment and house plans to help figure out what my characters' homes looked like. It was helpful mainly to myself since no one else really knew what it looked like. However, now we can change that and actually make a section to describe our characters' homes.
 * This new section is completely optional to users. If you do not include it on the character page, then there won't be an annoying little section. It will simply go away. It's much like the Portrayer's Note and Awards section of the character pages. If there's nothing there, then it won't show up.
 * On the page we suggest you describe the different parts of the house - such as rooms, bathrooms, etc. You also do not have to include an image of the house you have in mind unless you really want to do that.
 * If you want to see an example, click here.
 * Information on this will be included in the GSG. We hope you all like this idea and will try it out.
 * Character Pages: This really isn't that important, but while I'm at it, I felt like going ahead and mentioning it. When you create a character page, please try to use nice colors. Sometimes when people use the font color white on a bright pink background, it is blinding to try and read it. Please think about things like that. If you want to use a neon background, use a black font. If you're using a black or darker background, use a white font. This is just a PSA because some pages are literally blinding.
 * I feel like there was something else I was supposed to do today and make an announcement about, but I can't remember or be bothered to remember.
 * If you have any suggestions or ideas to improve the wiki, please tell us below! We'd love to hear more about your input. 