concerning the new TOS & the future of this fest

[nerakrose]

Hello, everyone!

As all fest entries are mirrored on dreamwidth, HERE, the contents of this fest should be safe. We will be moving the hosting of the fanart to dreamwidth, and will update the links on the dreamwidth mirror, within the next week.

You'll notice that this message does not come from the mod account (next_mas_mods), this is because I am hoping that by not signing into the mod account and thus not accepting the new TOS will keep this community safe. If not...find us on dreamwidth :'D

In short: this fest will no longer be active on livejournal.

I was tentatively planning on bringing this fest back for a 2017 round, but haven't made any final decisions yet. In the event of a renaissance (resurrection? Reanimation?) this will take place on dreamwidth, so check the dreamwidth mirror for news.

Comments

[gracerene]

Just an FYI, that it looks like you may have created a mirror of the fest as a journal, not a community. I'm not sure if it's easy to convert one way or another, but they operate a bit differently, so I thought I'd let you know. :)

[nerakrose]

I know! (Thanks for the heads up though!) When we set it up back when we did the first round of the fest, it happened we accidentally created a journal and not a community, and we never bothered to fix it as it was only ever meant to be a backup in case of ddos downtime (rampant at the time) so that everyone would be able to see the entries even if LJ was down. And now...sigh. While journals can be converted to communities, that means deleting all the entries first and then I'd have to do a comm import after that, and that's...so much hassle :'D I might just do it anyway, because I like things to be neat and functional, but it's pretty low priority right now. Need to back up all my other fests first...

However, if I'm bringing the fest back this year, I'll definitely be creating a community! And leaving the journal as an archive and mod account, probably, if I haven't fixed things. :)