Welcome to Beta!

Hi team! Welcome to beta. Your job is to peruse, use, and otherwise test out our new house. Here are some welcome notes:

• Beta is confidential! LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.
  
• Please begin to peruse our pages for any changes in board policy, paying particular note to reputation as well as any docs specific to your character.
  
• Apply your first character and fill out their claims! :D
  
• For any problems/errors/fires you encounter, please post in the Beta Help! thread. For specific contacts...
  — CODING, GRAPHICS, ETC: Olive and Te
  — TYPOS & LINK ERRORS: Bee and MJ
  — LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE: Bean & Kayte
  
• You can request accounts made for your other 2 (or 3 if you have that prize) characters in Maintenance. Please wait until after your first character has been approved to do this, and try to bring over characters that are as different from one another as possible!
  
• Please remember that going forward you'll be asked to tag your threads with their date and location. Coding for this can be found in the New Topic view for IC forums!

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and get started; we're so excited to have you here!

  

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02.10

Hi friends!

As we inch closer to member opening (date TBA!), just a casual reminder to fill in your miniprofiles and, for those of you approved on an Admin Lazy Day™, make sureyou’re your app info made it into your extended profile xD Please contact the staff team if you need help with either!

  

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02.21

Did you kill someone and intend for them to stay dead, but realize they were [INSERT TITLE HERE] for five years and feel weird about that no longer being the case? HAVE I GOT THE GOOGLE FORM FOR YOU!

From now until March 18th, players may request here to have professional claims held for characters that won’t be migrating to New Board either due to death or having run their course. Prefect, head, and student quidditch claims will not be held for anyone. These requests are subject to staff discretion, so be sure to make them detailed and only go to bat for the ones you TRULY care about.

Any vacant slots on New Board at the time of public opening will be considered fair game.

  

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Welcome, Members!

Your time has finally come: welcome to our new home! Please take the time to go through our “Acquaint Yourself” page accessible at the top of the forum, and to check out our new features!

We’ve budgeted a four week transition period before we throw open our doors to the masses. Those of you with many characters, particularly complex characters, or who are not immediately on the ball may have issues transferring everyone before public opening on March 29th—we encourage you, therefore, to prioritize characters as you bring them over and remind you of the 2-for-one application prize that has been floating around for the last two months.

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You should also be aware that our application process and template are different than before. You’ll need to familiarize yourself with this!  Because we now port information to your extended profiles, bonus marks to anyone who uses HTML instead of BBCode when formatting their app—it’s faster for us to transfer, which means we can sort your app faster ;)

Because there are SO MANY characters, we’ve tried to stem the tide by ‘scheduling’ when certain character types can be brought over:

From now until March 14th, we will accept only characters presently active on the Sunwolves board.

From March 14th until March 21st, we will accept those characters, as well as inactive characters with immortal faces.

From March 21st until March 28th, we will accept those characters as well as anyone who has ever been approved on the Sunwolves or Invisionfree boards.

As of March 29th, we will accept all existing or new characters. Huzzah!

To our legacy members who are not currently active on Sunwolves: you may app immortal inactives right away, and then the remainder of your characters beginning March 21st.

To the new members who found us during our time of upheaval: you may app your first character right away, and then any additional characters beginning March 29th.

ON CLAIMS:

All claims, including jobs, faces, history records, etc. are held for you until public opening. You are welcome to choose a new [any of the above] for your character when you move them here, however are limited to claims presently available on the Sunwolves board. The exception is any claim listed here, as they’ve been pre-emptively relinquished! This is to ensure fairness—everyone has the same opportunity to take on ‘empty’ claims as everyone else.

ON PRIZES:

There have been a number of prizes issued that you may find beneficial during the move. Immortality Discount brings, for one character, the cost of immortality down to 50 or 175 posts. 2-for-1 means you can app two characters simultaneously. Against the Odds can be cashed in during app transitions. I’ve also added a section for all the siennas each player is entitled to. Remember that you can only apply it to characters with 75+ posts on old board. To claim sienna, mention it when claiming your PB.

ON ISSUES:

Charming 2.0 is still a work in progress as we finalize some layout and plugin issues. Please let us know if you see any broken links or typos, or cannot log in etc., but do not inform us of coding, plugin, or other back-end issues. When our miracle workers (Ursula Black and Declan Wood) have finished what's currently on their plates, they will make an announcement to that effect and you can hit them up with any still-present issues at that time.

As of now, the following issues are known and are on the to-do list:
— Mentions not sending alerts
— Layout issues in profiles on smaller screen sizes
— Layout issues when reading PMs on smaller screen sizes
— Nothing lives in the scrolly box
— Some UCP icons are wonky
— The mobile skin, generally
— Icon alignment on extended profile
— Anything already reported

Telling us about things we're aware of only makes us take the time to read the thing we're already aware of instead of fixing it ;)  

ON TEAMS:

Info on the Buddy, Hag, and Wench teams will be out in the next day or two. Please do not request these icons in advance of that time!

Welcome to the new era, Charmers!

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   Declan Wood, Ophelia Devine

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Everyone is Hiring!

Currently, our Buddy Team, the Weekly Wenches, and the Gossipmongering Hags are all hiring! This is in part to bring in some new blood, but also to make sure the old blood is still eager and willing to partake.

Those looking to join any of the groups above should PM the appropriate form to the appropriate leader. Those looking to continue in any of the groups above here on new board should PM that same person something along the lines of “I am willing and able to continue my role” just for confirmation’s sake!

Deadlines for Wenches and Hags are in three weeks; Buddy applications are always open.

BUDDIES: PM @'Elsie Beauregard'

Code:

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Main Account:[/b]
[b]Playable Time Zones:[/b] (Time zone that you can RP with. This can either be ones that are similar to your own, or others for those night owls/off hours members.)
[b]Playable Usergroups and Social Classes:[/b] (Which usergroups and social classes do you currently have)
[b]# of Requested Buddies:[/b] (How man buddies can you handle at one time? It is recommended that volunteers start off with one or two at a time and go from there due to the activity requirements.)

HAGS: PM Cassius Lestrange

Code:

Name:
Main Account:
Why do you want to be a Hag?:

Hag information coming when I found out how much of a team we have. Have ideas? Join the team. ;) - Bean

WENCHES: PM @'Ophelia Dippet'

Code:

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Why do you want to be part of Witch Weekly?[/b]
[b]What article groups are you willing to write?[/b] (Cover, Group A, Group B, Main Article, Group C, Advertisements)
[b]If hired, which character account would you like to have Witch Weekly forum permissions on?[/b]

WW information:

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PSA that I just C&Ped this from the last time Wenches were hiring; links probably don’t work and content may be out of date >.>
SCHEDULE
Issues are published every Sunday, with assignments due the Friday before!

LAYOUT
Cover (450x650)
Article (Group A)
Article (Group B)
Main Article (advertised on cover)
Article (Group C)
Advertisements


TOPICS
MAIN ARTICLE
Interview or feature of notable characters.

OR

Event coverage. Think something like this. There'd also be some information about the planning and the food and stuff. Mentions of important people should be of the style of: "People like Katherina Selwyn, Rufina Mulciber and The Queen of Narnia were among the guests!" rather than "SUZY AND BILLY WERE SEEN TALKING DID THEY BONE."  

We aim for all member-run events to get a coverage. It'd happen about 2 weeks since the event took place IC, to allow for stuff to happen there. The wench who is assigned a particular member-run event (in the case that the member doesn't want to write the coverage themselves) is encouraged to contact the member running those events to ask for their input and details.

GROUP A
Fashion plates
Who wore it best (witches wear same accessory, hairstyle, etc.)
Recipes (both for foods and potions)

GROUP B
Rumor Mill gossip
The Facts (random facts about notable figures - such as favorite tea flavor, how often they blow their nose, what color their underwear might be, etc.)
Quizzes (what kind of man is your soulmate, are you a good wife, etc.)

GROUP C
Advice by Harmony Aidsworth
Letters from our readers
Book recommendations (No Fanny Hill-esque books xD)
Play recommendations
Horoscopes

ADVERTISEMENTS
450x100 (Large)
225x100 (Medium)
150x100 (Small)

Advertisements can be images or just text that resemble magazine ads. Something like this. Ex: "Buy Madam Primpernelle's cosmetics to look more beautiful instantly!"


WHO WOULD BE A NOTABLE FIGURE?

• Upper class folks. Especially well-known socialites and generally well-known and/or socially active people. So they wouldn't really ask to interview someone who lives a secluded life in the middle of nowhere, for example, since nobody would really care to read about them. xD
  
• Notable Ministry employees.
  
• People who've done something cool at a particular IC time.
  
• Quidditch players.
  

If you want to write about someone who doesn't necessarily fall under those categories but you think that it'd make sense for them to be featured, then feel free to contact me! Diversity is also encouraged. Witch Weekly wants to feature fresh faces every time! Reading about the same person would get old after a time. xD

WRITING ARTICLES
Articles shouldn't be too offensive and/or negative. They should be written in a neutral leaning to a positive light. The magazine is striving to have a "Look how cool this person we're featuring is!" rather than "This person on the cover of our magazine is TERRIBLE". The magazine wants to sell copies, so they want to appeal to the people who buy and read it.

The only times the magazine would be "negative" is when they write about cases/people who were publicly ruined. And even then, those articles would be written in a precautionary tale style. They'd also feature those articles when it would be IC relevant. So they wouldn't just randomly write a "BOO FREYA TRELAWNEY" article.

Also since the magazine is very much targeted to young unmarried girls, articles should be mindful of their wording.

You know who's not hiring? The staff team. That's because the delightful Lauren (Elladora Black) has kindly agreed to join us as a moderator!  My sweet summer child, you've no idea what you're in for ;)

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   Acacia Darlington, Bella Scrimgeour, Declan Wood, Elsie Kirke, Seneca Lestrange

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