Cynthetiq

I'm not sure if you've noticed before, but this avatar has been used to signify preparations for changes.

You can't see it on my end, but I can tell you I've upended myself having been a staunch advocate for staying the course with my own computer systems. I recently migrated to Firefox as my daily browser and I love it. It is really helping me more than I care to admit in making changes and fixes here on TFP.

There are some new things I'm working on and will implement or unveil next week. A few of these changes, will be noticeable, some will be strictly to help the staff, but really there's one change that I've done already.

Look to the donation drive link. We have historically done donations by hand, but there is now a mod to assist the admins. This also means that we can show the community where we are in donations. I'm not a fan of this as it reminds me of that giant painted thermometer in grade school to see if you've gotten your donation drive achievement, but for the moment I'll leave it there so that you the community members know that someone or no one has donated for the month.

There is a new blog update, I'm testing out at the moment. I have upgraded it a month or so ago, but never made the announcement as to the features since they were not so visible AND I wanted to make sure they worked as advertised. I'm glad I waited because there were some issues and they have been ironed out with this new version.

I'll add more later, but was a bit excited to get this information out to the community.

In the interim, I'd like to ask you all to take a moment to get yourself re-involved in the community. Not only has our donations taken a dive, but so has our posting. Take a moment to make a post to start a discussion. Take a discussion that you've just been lurking within and join the discussion by giving us your point of view on the topic.

If you have any suggestions for this place, please let staff members know. Send a PM, post in the suggestions forum. Communicate your ideas so that they can be known and discussed.

Thank you all for being here in the community. I'm looking to see this to be a better place and ask you to help me do that.

cynthetiq

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