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Post by Duke Pikachu on Dec 18, 2020 19:36:28 GMT -5
Continuing off this social awareness kick, it was just announced they're going to adjust the filters and rules to be LGBTQIA+ friendly. So words like "gay", "straight", "bi", "queer", "cisgender", "trans", "questioning", "lesbian", and other like terms are being allowed on the Neoboards. However, since you're still not allowed to directly talk about sexual content, any term that contains "sex" are still going to be filtered like "bisexual" and "asexual". You can identify with being a "bi" or "ace", just can't use the full term. Can also use LGBTQIA+ colors in your signature. This is all very nice, though let us remember this is going to be a growing process. This is a whole new set of rules the board moderators are going to need to get used to and no doubt mistakes or "tough calls" will likely happen. If you're wondering what I mean by "tough calls", Neopets is a kid site so while adults may feel a certain topic they discussed wasn't too graphic/detailed, the moderators may discuss it and decide otherwise. This is alright, it'll atm probably only give you a warning (a non-strike one hopefully), and if you feel the warning wasn't justified you can contact TNT and present your case. I don't know how many members of TNT or the moderators are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, but there a very likely members who aren't so this is a whole new world they now have to navigate. So be calm, be patient, be understanding, and let's work together so that we can make this all work. Here is TNT's contact page.
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Post by doctortomoe on Dec 29, 2020 9:00:19 GMT -5
Is anyone else getting a lot of lag on the site in the last week or so, or is it just me?
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Post by Twillie on Dec 29, 2020 12:43:22 GMT -5
Is anyone else getting a lot of lag on the site in the last week or so, or is it just me? I’ve been seeing similar comments by players today, so definitely not you at least.
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Post by Allison on Dec 29, 2020 16:13:32 GMT -5
Just an FYI, once you're in beta, they have removed the "switch back to classic" option, and some pages are only in beta mode now. The boards, for one, and a few others. You can still get to classic by clicking on settings, and then you can stay in classic mode for awhile, so long as you don't go to a converted page. It's quite discombobulating to have it switch from classic to beta seemingly randomly.
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Post by doctortomoe on Dec 29, 2020 17:47:29 GMT -5
I hope my Tale of Woe site theme switches over soon. The basic yellow is too hard on the eyes.
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Post by Allison on Dec 29, 2020 17:55:00 GMT -5
I hope my Tale of Woe site theme switches over soon. The basic yellow is too hard on the eyes. Go to settings and switch the beta theme to constellations. That one is quite lovely, actually. A lot of people are liking the haunted woods one, as well.
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Post by Liou on Dec 31, 2020 10:31:20 GMT -5
Hello I have been playing Neopets and using a variety of its features for fourteen and a half years, and I discovered Cheeseroller this month and became very fond of Cheeseroller this month and collected every cheese I want and got the avatar, but don't want to stop playing because... fun?! This site is still an endless toy box.
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Post by Allison on Jan 8, 2021 18:29:01 GMT -5
Well, I just signed up for the open beta for Island Builders on iOS. I don't know if they will look up eamil accounts associated with NP accounts, but I'm hoping the fact that I have an iPhone 6 (I'm assuming they would want to test across as generations of iPhones as possible) and an old account will work to my advantage. That if they look up account info associated with the email address.
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Post by Twillie on Feb 12, 2021 13:33:24 GMT -5
There's a free goodie bag in the NC Mall right now, so be sure to claim it while it's there! :3
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Feb 28, 2021 6:04:26 GMT -5
So with Flash going down a lot of Neopets stuff was lost. JN is doing their part to preserve things, though others are too and possibly for things JN didn't think to preserve. Here's Youtube Channel going by "NeoArchive" with a whole batch of Flash stuff: www.youtube.com/channel/UCru5DXBtqU9kkLFNOgwlXkw/videos
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Post by doctortomoe on Mar 10, 2021 20:39:34 GMT -5
I like those new items that were from the random contest.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Mar 10, 2021 22:10:37 GMT -5
I like those new items that were from the random contest. For those wondering what the items are ( and also here's the Random Contest page): Some interesting observations: - Now if you check out the Random Contest page, it'll say there's 11 winners but there's 12 items here. The last item, Classic Saxophone, doesn't have a corresponding entry for it (also, if you check its description, they give credit to the user who created it and their username is no on the Random Contest page). So we have a missing 12th first place winner.
- Their Rarity is all over the place. Lowest is 90 and highest is 97; and even between that range there's none which is r91 nor r95. What is especially odd about this is that r90-94 are "Very Rare" while r95-99 are "Ultra Rare", so 8 are Very Rare while 4 are Ultra Rare (and they aren't based on placement).
- Despite what JS said on the News, these items are all available in the Gift shop as they're all categorized as "Gifts".
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Post by doctortomoe on Mar 13, 2021 19:24:28 GMT -5
I was talking to someone on the OHWD board, and they were talking about how they wished Meowclops dropped in price like Meepits did.
That got me thinking of what exactly happened that cause the Meepit price drop? I remember they used to go for over a million NP, but now they're like 50k.
I used the JN price tracker to see it happened in 2014, but what exactly made Meepits drop so drastically?
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Mar 13, 2021 19:29:29 GMT -5
I was talking to someone on the OHWD board, and they were talking about how they wished Meowclops dropped in price like Meepits did. That got me thinking of what exactly happened that cause the Meepit price drop? I remember they used to go for over a million NP, but now they're like 50k. I used the JN price tracker to see it happened in 2014, but what exactly made Meepits drop so drastically? The only reason that I can think of is that at one point, they were part of a prize pool for an event (like the Daily Faerie Quests).
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Mar 13, 2021 20:13:34 GMT -5
There was a fluke with the Poetry Competition, Caption Contest and I think maybe the Storytelling Competition during the August of 2014 where the prize script broke and people were only being given Meepits. doctortomoe even reported the incident of the Gloat/Cry thread where for 3 weeks he got a Meepit from the Poetry Competition and Caption Contest.
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