Major Updates

Greetings community, now please read EVERY single word on this announcement before proceeding!

It is 4:30AM for me as I am writing this post and this has been my sleep schedule the last couple of days as I've been working on the site endlessly. So please bear with me a little longer as we approach our final touches that will be made on the site. I've spent the last couple of days creating graphics and making transitions into our new theme. As you've probably noticed, everything's blue and black! Wooohoo! No more Laxus' nipple! Anyways... This post is to update you all on what's happening and what's changed. Also, if you don't like the theme - that sucks for you. We don't force you to stay on the site, but if it's really that appalling, you're always welcome to leave. :)

• For starters, the theme obviously has changed, but also the menu and banner specifically. The menu has been made larger.
  
• The widgets have been updated. As you can see, redundant titles and widgets have either been updated, removed, centered, or thrown out completely. The quicklinks has been made 100% more appealing to look at.
  
• ALL the category images. Either the old ones have been deleted and there's nothing there now, or the forum category images have been changed into the new version. DON'T freak out if a category you thought deserved an image has been removed. It just means I haven't gotten to creating them yet. I've made over 300+ images, which is a lot of resizing, typing, and various other things. So please give me a break.
  
• The edges have been rounded. Personally, my staff and I believe it makes the forum look cleaner and more organized.
  
• New feature! As some of you may already know, when you hover over a group or a username, a preview of their profile or the group members will be listed.
  
• Some sections of the forum have been removed, such as the casino. Unused forum sections act as clutter, and we're going to be looking into removing more clutter from the site.
  
• Archives in their respective locations have been added. (Examples: Archived Characters, Archived Pets & Items, Archived Magics)
  
• Now this is a BIG update... All lineage images has been updated. The Ancient One now has started a new thread for the new dice. The 'Lineage Dice' now contains 93 unique lineages. Eventually I'd like to create more lineages to be added.
  
• The staff database section for staff has been given category images, which beforehand used to just be ugly descriptions.
  
• The removal of category descriptions! I know this might be hard for some of you, but we will be adding the descriptions into threads unique to their respective category. This allows for more lore and text to be added, while also making the site look cleaner.
  
• Old and unused emoticons have been removed
  

Now... what is to come in the next couple of days?! Perhaps another maintenance will be scheduled to finish some of the graphical updates, so please be on the look out for any announcements regarding the maintenance. We'll be designing more potential banners, so please don't complain if you don't like the current one we have now. Along with the finished graphical updates will also be updates for threads and category descriptions. We will also be releasing December items of the month! Perhaps even releasing potential items of the year 2017!

For the future... We will be proceeding onto finishing "Hotaru" a space expansion. This space expansion will include multiple planets, lacrimasabers, spaceships, cowboys & guns, and various other cool stuff. We will also be doing a 2018 annual advertisement event, lineage contests, and upcoming GFX contests or fan art contests will also be readily available!

*I've been drained working endlessly the last couple of days. Tomorrow is my birthday (December 11th), so I'll be busy that entire day! Feel free to still message me. I'll be working on the site after my birthday, but at a lesser extent.

Anyways, off to bed! Message me on Discord if you need me. I won't be awake for a while... until next time.