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[attr="class","th th-flower-1-o"] HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BG!

This weekend will mark one year since Build God's grand opening on April 23rd! We wanted to take a moment to thank you for all that you do to make Los Eurosia the fun, wonderful little place that it is! We have such a super cast of members and characters and couldn't be more grateful! Happy anniversary, everyone! <3

We also wanted to announce that, to celebrate our site birthday, we will be installing a huge site remodel/skin update! On Sunday, April 23rd, Build God will enter Maintenance Mode for a while so we can get everything in order. I'll make sure to post in the c-box and Discord before putting the site on stand-by in case anyone is in the middle of something. But be prepared!

Once the new skin is in place and the site opens back up, feel free to use this thread to let us know any thoughts/feelings/suggestions/questions you have about the remodel or the site in general! Is there something you'd like to see? Ideas for a sitewide event or happening? A problem in the skin? Or maybe you just want to yell with us about how excited we are to be launching into our second year! c:

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[attr="class","th th-flower-1-o"] SKIN UPDATE & NOTES

I'm all done and have opened the site back up! Welcome back! Let us know what you think about the remodel, if you encounter any issues, see something wrong, have any questions/suggestions, or anything else! I've made a couple of notes about some things you may notice about the new skin and what I've done under Maintenance Mode.

• First of all, the old skin/theme is still available. Things may look a little weird there now, but we aren't getting rid of it. When you first log in, you might actually still see it? I'm not sure if all existing character accounts will be tied to it or not. If that's the case, and you want to try the new theme/skin, you may have to go to Edit Profile > Settings > scroll down to Forum Theme and choose 'Anniversary Skin'.
  
  If you absolutely want or have to use the old skin/theme, feel free, but there's some stuff missing from it now (like the sidebar, the old cbox, etc). If a couple of members decide to keep using it, let me know, and I can try and make it more accessible/workable for you. It might just take some time. And since it will no longer be our default skin, I won't be putting a lot of energy into keeping it updated with things such as the OTMS, news, etc.

• Our profiles have a selection of new Custom Fields for you to fill out! I didn't touch anyone's profiles except to set your character's Point count (if I happened to miss your account, let me know!). So your one image is a little squashed right now and everyone has default images on their mini-profiles.
  
  Now we have three places where you can choose to put up images. The first is the big image in the left-panel (225x350 - if you provide a smaller image, it will stretch it to fit). The second is the square located on the horizontal bar where your character name is (it resizes/stretches to 150x150). Both of those can be added by pasting the image URL in the custom field titled respectively. The last image is your avatar — the image that's currently squashed. It's the square image that shows up on the homepage, in the "Currently Active" box, and on your User Profile. A square will look best there, if the image you link/upload is not square, it'll be forcibly squashed square (lolol).
  
  If you need any help adding/updating images or just don't have a way to make/crop images yourself, feel absolutely free to reach out to me! <3 I can help you however you want.

• I may have edited a couple of your character applications. No worries! I didn't touch anything except for the title and/or thread description. Just to reformat them or add a description line if your app was posted without one.

• I haven't found any horrendous problems after getting everything updated (phew!). However, there is some minor issues I've noticed with the Messages/Conversations. There's a kind of gross spacing thing you might notice in your PMs as well as missing images and timestamps. I'll try and get all that fixed on my test site before trying to fix it here. It may just take a little bit of time.