#server update

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After some deep thought and many, many rounds of discussions amongst the mod team, we've made the decision to sunset The Guild at the end of July.

The long and short of it is that life got a bit bigger and busier for all of us than we'd ever anticipated. New jobs, new moves, new humans - and of course, doing all of that when the doing is harder than it's ever been before. With all of that going on, running a server like this to the standard that it deserves to be run is next to impossible. We don't have the bandwidth anymore to run, let alone build, the workshops we had ideas for. The changes we had planned to implement to make the server easier to navigate have been in limbo since last winter - it's disappointing for us that we couldn't swing everything we'd wanted to do, but it's also just not fair to all of you.

To that end: we will be continuing with the archival project, to move our resources off Discord and onto Ao3 and our Tumblr. We will have this completed before the server closes. We will also be having one final WAT in July as a send off on July 10-12. Hopefully this gives everyone the time they need to connect with everyone they want.

And on a personal note... I love the community that we've built here, and I'm extremely sad to see it go. And I'm incredibly proud of the work we've done, and the work all of you have done. I hope you are too. I hope that all of you can carve out some new pocket in fandom or writer space that will work for you the way it should. I hope that your pillow is always cool, that your socks never bunch up in the toes, that they never run out of your favorite treat. I hope life is kind to you.

Thank you so much for your support and your stories over the last five years. Take care of yourselves.

HELLO if you're looking for cool people, you play pony town, you like scary podcasts like The magnus archives/protocol, malevolent + more!

Please consider checking out Malechives, um a tma / malevolent / podcast server uumm we're kinda dead and we would love to have some people revive it. (Pluralkit and tupperbox is available!)

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Hi folks! Hope the holiday season is treating all y'all who celebrate well - here in the bookclub, we've got a few updates & reminders heading into the weekend to leave you with.

Firstly, the mod team will be out of office this upcoming week, from the 22 December to the 29th for the holidays. We'll still be reachable if there are any emergencies, but standard activity - tickets, emails etc - aren't guaranteed a response until the following week. (Please don't burn the place down while we're gone /lh)

Second - AuFiCon panelists, if you haven't already read the 16/12 email from us, please do so ASAP. It contains the current event schedule, along with some other info/links we'd like for you to know.

Attendees, the first of the year is looking to bring a lot of exciting news about the con, please hang tight! And, until then, remember that now is a great time to pick up a ticket :)

Spawn Town Redux

Our players are stuck in a Parallel world for the moment, but its not so bad to be stuck somewhere as beautiful as this.