TNT Q&A Collection & Discussion (+ NT Editorial)

[Duke Pikachu]

Been meaning to post this for a while, about a year infact. Last year Snarkie put up two post on her site. Sadly she hasn't posted anything since, she's active on her Twitter so she's still around though I don't know whether it would annoy her to ask if she plans on posting any more info on the creation of plot. Anyway, if you're curious, here are here posts:

AMA: Neopets Staff Count

• From Snarkie's recollection the max was about 200 member. 
• The Production team (the people who made the content) was about 65-70, mostly artists and was the department with the most members.
• The remaining 130 was made up of admin & facilities, moderation, support, system admins, QA, legal, marketing, sales, executives, etc..
• This count doesn't include Nickelodeon, such as IT people which once a week helped TNT so their programmers didn't have to double as tech support.
• By the time of the JumpStart sale, while Snarkie isn't sure the total staff number, for Production it had gone down to 35-40 with most being artists (was mentioned programmers was most of the time 3 with rarely a 4th).
• After the sale many of the artists were laid off, Snarkie saying when she left (on the week they moved to the JS office) it was about 18 people in the room (including Support and remote Mods that hadn't been let go).

NeoTales: Plotting a Plot – Part 1
Now there's a LOT here so would probably be best to be read instead of me picking out what I at least considered interesting. However if you were ever interested how TNT saw plots then its definitely a good read. 

[Kat]

Zoinks.

I'm at work right now but this is super intriguing for me as someone who missed most of the JS sale fallout. I also want to ask Snarkie if she can pass on a message from me to Mr. Insane.

"Dear Mr. Insane, thank you for inspiring more than 60 of my NT submissions, more than 10 published poems, and one winning Storytelling entry. I'm 31 years old and still writing NQII stories. Sincerely, Kat."

(NO OBVIOUSLY I'LL MAKE THE WORDING BETTER ALDFJDLASJFS)

[June Scarlet]

Art Gallery schedule, remember to submit 48-24 hours in advance.

It's that time again, this will be the schedule for August:

Monday, Aug 3rd - Random
Friday, Aug 7th - Blumaroo Day
Monday, Aug 10th - Discovery of Brightvale
Friday, Aug 14th - Random
Monday, Aug 17th - Meerca Day!
Friday, Aug 21st - Annual Usuki Doll Convention
Monday, Aug 24th - Grundo Independence Day and Mutant Day
Friday, Aug 28th - Kyrii Day
Monday, Aug 31st - Random

[Duke Pikachu]

TNT member Gutterfoot had a Q&A on the Event Board a few days ago answering a whole slew of question. Thank you JN for collecting all the questions & answers, I'm just reposting them here for archival sake:

Battledome and Neohomes

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General update:

battledome and neohome are a big topic as we're converting things to HTML5. we're definitely looking to vastly improve those things and i have a HUGE list of suggestions and concerns that i've collected in regards to the battledome since i came into the project. less on neohome, but i'd love to hear those as well

On BD bugs:

i promise that will be considered when we update battledome. battledome is 100% not gone. i might have posted this in another thread, but battledome and neohomes are two major sections that we want to give a good revamp to. i've gotten loads of battledome suggestions but fewer neohomes, so lmk!

My Takeaway: While obviously the Battledome was coming over (it's already been converted to HTML5 before JS took over) it's also good to hear Neohomes are not only also making the conversion but they do want to update them (and have update plans for the BD as well). Now a lot more fuss has been made over the BD (and its bugs which they're aware of) but not so much the Neohome and they're open to hearing more Neohome suggestions.

Charity Corner (& Almost Abandoned Attic)
Now there's a batch of Charity Corner 2020 questions but I don't feel all of them need to be archived as they only pertain to problems with this CC. In addition a lot of Gutterfoot's answers is that he doesn't know why some decisions were made and passing along suggestions given to him. Here are the few Charity Corner questions I feel worth archiving (there's also something for Almost Abandoned Attic):

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On changing the point value of Sticky Snowballs:

i know this is a huge question for everyone, but i'm not the best person to answer since i wasn't involved in the decisions around the sticky snowball. from what i have heard, it was considered to be an exploit for how little it cost NP wise but that's about all i'm familiar with.

On the possible return of the perks shop:

i'll pass that on for sure. if we have perks involved in maybe a new type of event but not necessarily CC, would users be interested in that as well? just asking out of curiosity, not actual plans haha.

On returning to the 2017 Charity Corner format and the Almost Abandoned Attic:

i'll be honest, not sure about CC 2017 or updating AAA. sorry :c

My Takeaway: They see Sticky Snowballs as an exploit (I'm sure we can all go into why that's not the case but that's another discussion) so they're probably sticking (heh) to being 1 point. Curious if next year they'll do the same with the Icy Snowball, Exploding Snowball, and few Healing Potions which are also r90+ that they didn't change to being 1 point this year. *sigh*
Meanwhile Perks coming back aren't out of the question. While nothing was said about the old style of CC, since Gutterfoot didn't hear anything about it I'm thinking it probably wasn't an option even brought up. If I had to take a guess, JS REALLY wants to ignore super inflation of r90+ items thus why we have the point system. Not a bad reasoning, just how they've been going about it needs work and probably would really help if they talk with the veteran players for some suggestions (or if they want a smaller group of trusted players than Jellyneo).
BTW, TNT announced they're no longer making changes to this year's CC (2020) but will be taking what they learned and apply it to next year's CC. *shrugs*
Almost Abandoned Attic isn't likely on their radar as it's likely at the end of a long list of things that need fixing if on the list at all. Though it makes me wonder how complex is the Almost Abandoned Attic to fix; if it's a quick thing to fix then I say just knock it off the list.

Games Conversion

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On converting games to HTML5:

we are looking to convert the majority of games and by that i mean every game that is played even minimally. the games that receive nearly zero plays, we're probably not going to bring over and instead use that time and effort to bring you new games

On which games receive nearly zero plays:

i'll be sure to make that list available once we've fully confirmed it, good point!

My Takeaway: Probably the best option to do and good to hear that it's likely going to be a wide variety of games if the "even minimally" is to be taken as them casting a wide net. Though my question for the games that aren't making it over: are they going to eventually or are they being added to the Game Graveyard? And if they are, are any games going to be made to replace them, such as a sequel to those games which improve on the mechanics thus making players want to play them more (and if they have any Avatars connected to them you can get the Avatar by playing these sequel games).
I also wouldn't mind if they could confirm Neoquest 1 & 2 are staying. Now they aren't flash, they're PHTML I believe so they should still be playable even without Flash, but just the confirmation would be nice to have.

Mobile Beta and Applications

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On the recent match-3 survey on mobile applications and TNT's priorities:

TNT is not actually working on either of those games so worry not! the only projects TNT is handling is the site itself and the mobile conversion. i wish this was more well known because it hurts to see those comments sometimes :c

On attracting a younger audience:

we are definitely hoping to attract the youths of today with the new mobile apps rather than bringing them here. it was definitely not our intention to "jumpstart up" the mobile beta, so to say, haha. hopefully with the changes we're implementing in the coming releases, it'll improve that outlook

On mobile beta and the possibility of a dev blog:

i would love to have a dev blog, so maybe that's something we can do. for the mobile beta, we've been also doing release notes which is a new concept for neopets that's pretty industry standard, so hopefully we'll continue to make those improvements

On the fate of the classic layout:

once beta is FULLY converted, yes, classic will be a thing of the past. it'll unfortunately be impossible for us to manage two different versions of the site. but no pages will be lost, i promise that. if they haven't been fully converted yet, we'll still use the classic version until they are.

On beta having night mode:

yes, i would love a dark mode as well. we've had conversations about it. the only weird thing i'll mention is some items will still have the white backing, but we're exploring dark mode definitely.

My Takeaway: But wouldn't the purpose of attracting younger players vis the mobile app is to also bring them over to the main site?
Anyway, sad to see the "classic" layout going away though this isn't the first time the site layout drastically changed. Just this time we know it's coming instead of being shown a giant blinking Meepit telling us "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED". Like all things, it's just something we'd need to get used to.
And Dev Blog and Dark Mode I'm good for, though I'd kind of prefer if the boxes for the items remained white as that was how they were intended to be shown.

Neoboard Filters

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On Neopets item names being caught on filters:

something has to be done about them, especially when our own team was prevented from making a timed announcement. i'll definitely be bringing this up

On relaxing chat rules and modernizing the forums:

i'm with you on the chat rules, as well as modernizing the forums. for sure.

On changing the Neoboard filters:

i honestly can't really say. there may be legal reasons to some of them, but we can all agree some of the filtered words are a bit silly and may have had a reason to be filtered back in the day, but needn't be now.

On relationships and gender on the Neoboards:

i REALLY wish i had an answer to that, trust me. :c TNT itself is so diverse and we understand users' frustrations of not being able to say anything if fear of being frozen. i really do get both sides and if we had more mods to ensure that no one is being targeted, it would be an easier decision i'm sure

My Takeaway: Kind of find it funny how even TNT had problems making announcements on the board cause they kept getting caught on the filter (you'd think staff accounts would have been given immunity to that). Though if anything that at least shows them that the filters need some updating/loosening up (maybe even include a "white list" to allow names of items).
The last question has me wondering if they're going to maybe see about hiring a few more mods once they're done converting the site. Or, if not that, maybe try implementing a better reporting system for those who are being targeted.

Site Updates
Since this is a lot of general stuff, instead of having a final "My Takeaway" at the end, I'm just going to post any thoughts I have below the Q&A in red text.

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On posting more updates on Discord rather than on the Help or Site Events Neoboards:

okay, in regards to the other area i'm communicating with people, my only answer there is that it's faster and i can pop-in throughout the day. it's also an easier way for me to see what people are talking about. that's just my personal preference. most staff aren't there daily like me

If I'm reading this right, at least Gutterfoot prefers to post site updates on the Neoboards rather then on the Neopets Discord. Yes, I agree with that, in addition to posting updates on the News.

On the status of the site's HTML5 conversion:

HTML5 conversion is definitely going. as you may have noticed, we've posted in the news before mentioning that we're growing our team so that's all part of this conversion effort. the impact of working from home has definitely slowed things down, but we have backup plans set as well.

On customization page loading issues:

customization is a big one that we need to fix more mobile. there's tons of issues with it that we are aware of and need to get the right resource hired to help us fix it. we're working on definitely! it is not working as intended right now at all, apologies

On Neopets' target demographic:

when it comes to our target demo, we know it's very split. obviously, the majority of users on the site now are adults. when i was playing, i was six years old, then lost the account, then made a new one in high school (this one). but we do need new users here, so we are hoping to entice lapsed users back in by bringing it to mobile as well

Ah yes, an issue often older franchises have that are initially targeted at a younger audience. What I always thought was both a fair and logical philosophy is that things made for kids don't need to be "kiddy". A good story (and in Neopet's case, site features, events, and plots) is one written because there's an interesting story to be told. As long as something is not too violent or anything else generally prohibited from kids seeing I believe a story/feature doesn't need to worry about a "target demographic" as both kids and adults will feel they're being respected and engaged. Don't know if this really helps, but that's my take at least

On holding simpler, less stressful events:

we'll keep that in mind definitely.

On the desktop version of Neopets:

just to clarify, desktop won't be dropped and we are making changes to make desktop different from mobile in a future update

On customization of petpages and lookups:

we are planning to bring petpages and user/pet lookups over! we're still talking about how to best do that, but it's definitely not being abandoned

That said, if you have a customized Petpage, Lookup, Shop, Gallery, whatever, SAVE THE CODE! I would not be surprised (and hope they would announce it before they do) that they'd be wiping custom codes clean.

On art theft:

it really is unfortunate that happened. just means that whoever we have reviewing the art/merch needs to be very in tune with what is our art vs what is fanart. it's inexusible but i'm glad we worked things out with suta raito.

THERE WAS ANOTHER INCIDENT? AND IT WAS WITH OFFICIAL MERCH?! Okay, how? Like, JS has the Neopets image database, they don't give the people they're working with making the merch all the approved art assets on that? It's one thing for an item because I can sadly see how they just went to Google to pull up reference material without thinking, but official merch? Heck, at this point you might as well hire Suta Raito or at least buy the ownership of all her Neopets art if this is going to keep happening.

On sending ideas and suggestions to TNT:

you can either send me a neomail or post it on the mobile beta boards! i'm also checking there for suggestions! petpages have been extremely helpful for organizing thoughts, so i appreciate the time users takes to set those up for us.

That reminds me I gotta clean-up my Altador Cup "fix" suggestions, with them going to have to make a new version of the games in HTML5 maybe this is the time to suggest them.

On more opportunities to chat with players on the boards:

i definitely hope to do this at least once a week until we can get a more dedicated resource. maybe on fridays is the best timing.

BUT WAIT! There's more! Stick tune for my next post!

[Duke Pikachu]

TNT member van Doodle answered a few questions on the r/neopets Reddit Discord a few days ago. A lot of them are general bug reports so just going to post the more notable ones:

On whether Keyquest is still happening:

I wish it was, I'm a fan of Mario Party, but never played KeyQuest back when I was active. Not happening though.

My Thoughts:




On whether the Legends and Letters items will be tradeable or stay no trade:

I know there were discussions, which may still be ongoing. I know there were advocates on either side. I don't and won't know the decision before you do, it's out of my hands.

On hints for unknown Cooking Pot recipes:

I'm looking at the recipes code right now. Some of our developer comments aren't even accurate.

My Thoughts: Okay that made me chuckle a bit.



On his position at TNT:

I'm an artist at heart, but I'm multidisciplinary so I've been utilized in a few different positions. Right now I'm mainly front-end development focused.

So a lot of the site rare drops/events such as Faerie Caverns Stamp, Grave Danger Stamp, Rubbish Dump avatar items, are all programmed with odds so remote with our current size of playerbase we maybe see one or two a year. Now obviously this is a sensitive subject because messing this up could turn into another Forgotten Shore/Draik - Krawk fiasco but... any chance these drops can be looked at? Or maybe they're actually more than we can see and people just don't announce it?

Game balance is definitely something members of our team are chomping at the bit to tackle, but as we've seen from Charity Corner, treading carefully is necessary.

My Thoughts: As I said above, just talk with the veteran players (or Jellyneo) and we'll tell you what we think is right that can be than construed as a "suggestion".



Will the swf files for the old flash games be downloadable so that people could still play them but not win anything?

We've put previous game swfs in the game graveyard, I don't see why we wouldn't for whatever games don't make the immediate cut in the new year.

My Thoughts: Oh, that's a surprise, I didn't think that was possible!



On if anything will happen with Lutari Island:

I'm the obnoxious cheerleader on the team for Lutari Island. I've pitched a way to bring it back, and the leaked Lutari Island theme was my doing while we were testing the new theme system early on. I'm still holding out hope. To be clear, the theme was my doing, not the leaking. I didn't push those files live.

What are the chances all the Avatar games will be converted in time? And will all games be converted eventually?

I believe Gutterfoot mentioned today on the Neoboards, we're trying for as many games as we can, and only cutting those that nobody plays anymore. In any case, they'll be released in phases and prioritized based on community interest.

My Thoughts: Maybe you can connect a Game Master's Challenge to each of the release phases, it'll make those games coming back feel more important and be a mini-event that should be easy to do (it would be similar to the few times TNT had "New Game Challenges").



On Bilge Dice:

The cries for Bilge Dice have not gone unheard.

On World Challenges:

World Challenges was discussed when we looked over gamesroom design, and yeah sorry to say there's no plans.

My Thoughts: Ever or at the moment?



On whether Shockwave games will be converted:

It in large part would depend on whether or not we still have development assets archived. The flash games are essentially remade from scratch for html5, with preserved art assets and touchups where needed.

When the conversion happens, will the games that haven't been converted still be playable? Like how if you can get shockwave going atm, you can still play/send scores for them?

As I understand it, our current position is not to actively take anything down that's not converted. However, it would stand in the way of acquiring HTTPS I'm told, so things may change. There are plenty more discussions to be had on games between now and then.

On site themes being ported to new layout:

All themes are being ported.

On TCG code redemption after Flash goes away:

It's on our list of flash pieces to convert, but probably nearer the bottom.

On Lutari Paint Brush becoming an actual colour:

I did actually do some personal digging through our archives to try to find it once. Didn't find any existing assets myself.

My Thoughts: Well assets do exist, but they're more just random pieces of artwork than the default poses you'll find on the Pet lookup.



On accessibility and issues with beta layout:

Accessibility is super important to me personally, and we're very aware of how far we've fallen short. We have tasks created to address it, and I hate that this is the reality but its always a difficult balancing act, so I don't know when exactly we'll get the overhaul in yet.

[Duke Pikachu]

And the Q&As keep rolling in, this time more answers from Gutterfoot via the Reddit Discord (credit to JellyNeo as always):

On NC Cards coming to Mexico:

i know zero about that. :c i did hear that there had been a problem before and there was a shortage, but i believe our execs were fixing it? can't be positive though as that's outside my control!

On if the Dyeworks items from the new JubJub Power Bounce Retired Mystery Capsule will be replaced with the originals:

hmm i'm not sure, i can ask jade about that though!

On the Petpetpet Random Event (sounds like it's no longer active?):

i'll check on the petpet RE! not sure why it's gone but i'll ask the teammmmm

General Battledome update:

no one working on battledome YET but it's on our list for features that we want to do major revamps to

On a Pound release fix:

i'm not sure about the pound :C

On reactivating the Tooth Faerie avatar:

i'll ask about tooth faerie!

On more pet slots:

the team really wants to add new pet slots, really! we're trying to figure out exactly what it will take but it's on our list
pets pets pets everywhere

MY THOUGHTS: This may be a controversial opinion but I'm kind of wondering if they shouldn't charge Neopoints to open up new Neopet slots. Like right now a normal account can have 5 and a Premium can have 6. I think for most people that's enough. But if someone wants more slots then let it be a goal by letting them buy more slots (up to a certain amount of course). For this example we'll just go up to 8/9, so three more slots to unlock. First unlock could be 100k, second unlock would be 250k, and third unlock would be 500k. I think that's reasonable (and also leaves room for them to add in more later on if they wish).



On combating autobuyers:

yeah, we definitely are trying to make plans to improve security. i'm not entirely sure about how that factors into restocking to be completely honest, but we are looking for a full stack lead developer who will help us out a lot with just... improving the old frameworks and architecture and stuff i'm not SUPER familiar with haha

On naming the Soup Faerie:

honestly i think we should have some kinda contest to name all the unnamed NPCs...
there's TOO MANY

MY THOUGHTS: Hm, don't know what I think about this. On one hand she is clearly her own character so obviously has her own name. But on the other hand, due to her role on the site, I see her as a sort of motherly figure to everyone. You don't call you mom by her name, you call her mom, and that's how I see people calling her the "Soup Faerie": at this point its a term of endearment & familiarity. She's everyone's "Soup Faerie".



On if TNT has intentions of adding closed captions to the videos on their youtube channel:

that's a great idea re: closed captions. i'll mention it to the marketing team for sure
the videos are so short that i'm sure it won't be a problem

On drawtober:

drawtober is an AMAZING idea and i will throw it at the marketing team

MY THOUGHTS: Isn't it called Inktober? Also last year they released an Inktober list (it wasn't exactly connected to any contest like NeoCreation Week is, but they did make a list)

EDIT: So turns out there's a whole controversy surrounding Inktober (long story short: Creator of Inktober decided to trademark the logo, hired lawyers to block people selling anything with the logo including genuine artists, applied frivolous rules to how artists could mention the art they made was for an Inktober, and said the logo was only for use by sponsors. He also sold books with plagiarized work in it). Thus no one wants to participate in Inktober and instead group of artists made the alternative "drawtober". 


On the Support staff and ticket help consistency:

the customer support team is actually in the middle of overhauling their system so yes, hoping for an improvement there!!

On the Mutant Vandagyre design:

mutant vanda... is a tough subject guys
i can't say anything more...

MY THOUGHTS: Wait, why? Was their internal issues with the making of the Mutant Vandagyre? I mean it does have a sort of "made by committee" design to it, you know, like instead of an artist or few who drew some basic concepts & picked the best one it was made by a meeting of a handful of people who just looked at other Mutant Neopets and cobbled it together a piece at a time (thus why it doesn't change body shape, they went down a checklist of how each part should change).



On site events vs HTML5 transition for the rest of 2020:

no plot or battle events planned sadly :C hopefully in 2021!
we also wanna make sure the plot is up to standards.. i saw a plot we almost released last year and it was not a good luck my friends
look... i'm tired whoops

MY THOUGHTS: Wait, you mean there was something WORSE than Lost Heirloom being made? Yu know, much like my other suggestions, maybe reaching out into the veteran player community wouldn't be a bad idea (or just Jellyneo). Like I personally have an idea of a plot for pretty much each world I've got written away somewhere that I could quickly write into a quick few page story/design doc... Also got a few ideas for some Event ideas they could do too...



And now a little bit about Gutterfoot herself (put this in spoilers in respect to her privacy):

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On being excited about things in her work:

i'm working on some fun mockups for a mobile redesign page. can't really say what, but it's been enjoyable haha

On her fave and least fave pet species:

my favorite would def be the cybunny... least favorite... lenny?? :grimacing: i feel bad picking a least fav
rip lenny... they're just birds... i mean...

On having a "fried brain":

same i feel you
i'm also in night school... on top of everything haha
have a break until october first though!

On sleeping:

i actually had insomnia for this past week
had to buy some melatonin

On pronouns:

she/her!
thanks for asking c:

On participating in NaNoWriMo:

yes!! i am! it'll be my first nanowrimo, gonna be doing either a screenplay or a webcomic

MY THOUGHTS: I'm sure it goes without saying I and everyone else on the NTWF wishes her luck!

[Moni]

gutterfoot is hilarious

[Duke Pikachu]

A few more questions answered by an unknown TNT member, once again credit goes to JN for gathering these:

The newest site redesign update focuses on the Inventory. Among the features is that, when you click on an item, the pop-up box doesn't open up a new window (another way to make the site more mobile friendly). However, if you do an action with the item it still requires a page refresh leading to the question: Will they ever do away with the page refresh after using an item?

We know you’d prefer not to deal with a full page refresh to update your inventory every time you’ve used an item. Unfortunately, we just couldn’t make that happen right now. As with all features, we’ll be looking at your feedback to make any further adjustments down the line.

These next batch are from the Neoboards:

On user lookups (and presumably this might apply to pet lookups, shop layouts, and galleries as well—but maybe not petpages):

Minimally we'll be keeping the sections of user lookups modular and applying a mobile-responsive grid by default. We have not explored much beyond that. Many existing user lookup styles may break, but it'll give you a chance to explore new CSS3 friendly options while rebuilding them.

On the new site redesign's navigational elements:

There are several areas of the navigation, including dropdowns and an update to the profile menu, that have been designed but not yet implemented that address many of these concerns with pages formerly in the quick links.

On the Flash conversion process:

I've seen some confusion about resource allocation when it comes to the Flash parts of the site as the end of the year draws near, so I wanted to pop in to clarify. The people converting Flash games are not the same people converting maps. The timelines for these are not related/linked. Even if not every single map is ready by the end of the year, we will have a quick links system in place to ensure that you'll be able to visit all the lands and locations in Neopia.

[June Scarlet]

Sorry to be posting this so late, but here is the schedule for November.

Monday, Nov 2nd - Slorg Day
Friday, Nov 6th - Random
Monday, Nov 9th - Pteri Flying Championships
Friday, Nov 13th - Vandagyre Day
Monday, Nov 16th - Neopets 21st Birthday
Friday, Nov 20th - Random
Monday, Nov 23rd - Random
Friday, Nov 27th - Usul Skiing Season begins
Monday, Nov 30th - Xweetok Day

[June Scarlet]

Hello!!

Here is December's schedule:

Friday, Nov 27th - Usul Skiing Season begins
Monday, Nov 30th - Xweetok Day
Friday, Dec 4th - Bruce Day
Monday, Dec 7th - Random
Friday, Dec 11th - Wocky Day
Monday, Dec 14th - Random
Friday, Dec 18th - Random
Monday, Dec 21st - Borovan Day
Friday, Dec 25th - Day of Giving
Monday, Dec 28th - Ogrin Day
Friday, January 1st - Happy New Year!!!

[Carolyn]

Hi y'all! Aesop has been really supportive of the writing community and has been amazing at answering questions in regards to submissions.

Me: For adding images, what is the best way to do so?

If they are asking then <center><img src="htttp"></center> ((EDITED: Use Square brackets! The carrot brackets disappear from the submission portal!)) is the best option as that's how I format the images. But if they just add the links in I can always handle the coding. Another thing about images is if they can find ones that are already on neopets.com (easy to find by searching through the image emporium on jelly neo) it makes it much faster for me. otherwise I have to upload and sync them to the server.

Any images from the dr sloth database should already be on neopets, and they even include the images.neopets.com image url.

Me: For the Poetry Gallery, what works best for you: submitting a few days/a day before a pet day, or further back like a week before?

And the best time to submit is a few days before the pet day. It can get difficult if some are submitted too early they can get buried under entries for different pet days. Also let them know to please not submit poems multiple times. Some users submit the same piece several times, I'm guessing since they think it will help their chances of getting in, but it actually creates more clutter and makes it harder for me to get through everyone's entries

[Duke Pikachu]

Aren't the triangle brackets lost when you submit them through the NT Submission form?

[Carolyn]

Good catch, he said that he thinks those do disappear and to use square brackets instead.

So just have people do the other brackets [] and I can swap them out

[June Scarlet]

Hi everyone!

Here's January's schedule:

Friday, Jan 1st - 2021
Monday, Jan 4th - Aisha Day
Friday, Jan 8th - Gnorbu Shearing Day
Monday, Jan 11th - Festival of Buzz
Friday, Jan 15th - Sloth Appreciation Day
Monday, Jan 18th - Elephante Day
Friday, Jan 22nd - Performing Art Collaboration
Monday, Jan 25th - Random
Friday, Jan 29th - Kacheek Day

Performing Art Collaboration is a collaboration between the Art Gallery, Beauty Contest and Neopian Times showcasing all forms of performing arts.

[June Scarlet]

Hello,

If I am missing something or forgot something please let me know so this can be adjusted.

Monday, Feb 1st - Zafara Day
Friday, Feb 5th - Jhudora Day
Monday, Feb 8th - Random Day
Friday, Feb 12th - Lenny Festival
Monday, Feb 15th - Valentine's Day/Pride Day
Friday, Feb 19th - Chocolate Chia Day
Monday, Feb 22nd- Tonu Day/Mynci Day
Friday, Feb 26th - Random Day

(Sorry I'm so late with TNT's post this month.)