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StarlightFantasy
Administrator
21 July 2023

Hello to our community! Since we got our new domain, the staff have been working on an exciting new project. As you know, our forum on the wiki is a rather janky combination of DPLForum and Pageforms. Of course, there aren't that many other solid options for MediaWiki forums.

So, we came to the conclusion that the best solution to create a proper, solid forum experience for our members is to take a page from the Lost Media Wiki's book and set up our very own dedicated forum site! Join us at https://forums.avid.wiki/.

In a way this takes us back to our roots as a community. The more experienced of us will know that before we even had a wiki, this community was born through the online forums of the late 90s and early 2000s, and now we've re-entered the scene, creating our first official forum site since the original wiki was launched in 2007.

Our new forum contains the best of the existing forum and the server, plus some new additions such as a capture help forum, where users can seek advice on how to go about getting logo captures, and a lost logo hunting forum where users can come together and dedicate their efforts to finding the rarest of rare logos.

Of course, this means the on-wiki forum will be deprecated. We do plan on retaining it as an archive, barring any problems with the extensions it uses.

We are very excited to launch this new side to AVID and hope you enjoy it too!

Michael Kenchington
User
21 July 2023

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 |text=Hello to our community! Since we got our new domain, the staff have been working on an exciting new project. As you know, our forum on the wiki is a rather janky combination of DPLForum and Pageforms. Of course, there aren't that many other solid options for MediaWiki forums.
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+|text=Hey StarlightFantasy, i like the link to the new AVID forums.
+Also, has AVID moved to WikiForge yet?
+|username=Michael Kenchington
+|timestamp=21 July 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text={{quote|Hey StarlightFantasy, i like the link to the new AVID forums.
+Also, has AVID moved to WikiForge yet?}}
+You must have missed the [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice|site notice]] that clearly confirms that has been done.
+|username=Camenati
+|rank=Administrator
+|timestamp=21 July 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=Oh, sorry Camenati.
+My mistake. Please forgive me.
+|username=Michael Kenchington
+|timestamp=21 July 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=It's alright.
+|username=Camenati
+|rank=Administrator
+|timestamp=21 July 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=It hasn't worked all day and has been replaced with an ad for buying WikiForge, as if the forum never existed. Probably just a glitch, but I still want to make sure nothing is happening behind the scenes with us going back here that hasn't been announced or anything.
+|username=AlmightyKingPrawn
+|timestamp=30 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=...why does my name look like that.
+|username=AlmightyKingPrawn
+|timestamp=30 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text={{quote|...why does my name look like that.}}
+It looks like your bureaucrat name is dangerously glitched.
+|username=TheRealMarcel2000
+|timestamp=30 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=But the thing is, Marcel, I'm not a bureaucrat...
+|username=AlmightyKingPrawn
+|timestamp=30 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=the forums are down
+|username=JrStudios
+|timestamp=30 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=Are the AVID Wiki forums down, are they?
+|username=Michael Kenchington
+|timestamp=30 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=Why are the forums down now? Seriously, someone who was taking care of the forum server got lazy and accidentally broke the forum servers? Also my first forum in this old.
+|username=TPatKB
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=Is there anything that someone could do to fix the AVID Wiki forums or something?
+Yes, it is down indeed.
+|username=Michael Kenchington
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=another wikiforge screw up moment this month
+|username=NotPurpleHoodieBoi
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=@NotPurpleHoodieBoi What a bizarre bug, but while I'm editing to reply.... You bypass the f word with up (swearword, not a homophobic word).
+|username=TPatKB
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=gotta be real sorry for that although not sure if swearing is normal in here :v
+|username=NotPurpleHoodieBoi
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=Obviously swearing is against wiki rules.
+|username=TPatKB
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=welp i can be stupid sometimes
+|username=NotPurpleHoodieBoi
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=But seriously, when I clicked "Forums", I've noticed the page is replaced by a different page which reads "Forge your wiki's path to success with WikiForge.".
+|username=TheRealMarcel2000
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=@TheRealMarcel2000 It's actually the main page of WikiForge.
+|username=TPatKB
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text={{quote|It's actually the main page of WikiForge.}}
+I know, but I can't order to request a premium wiki when I don't have money!
+|username=TheRealMarcel2000
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text={{quote|but I can't order to request a premium wiki when I don't have money!}} Need to pay to create a wiki!?
+|username=TPatKB
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text={{quote|Need to pay to create a wiki!?}}
+No!
+|username=TheRealMarcel2000
+|timestamp=31 August 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=It's been a week since the forums were last up. I am getting really concerned.
+|username=AlmightyKingPrawn
+|timestamp=6 September 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=I have a suggestion:
+Because the new AVID Wiki forums might be down, should the old AVID Wiki forums here just be used from the point on or could that be made more permanent?
+Thoughts and suggestions?
+|username=Michael Kenchington
+|timestamp=6 September 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=Apologies for the lack of staff response so far. A lot of incidents have come up as of late and this is just one.
+forums.avid.wiki should be considered dead until further notice. To repeat from another thread, it was hosted for free by a WikiForge tech who then repurposed the server to give WikiForge more resources. The idea was to restore the forum on the side of that server but it didn't go well and we have not gotten updates. In general, progress on tech has been slow and the people behind WikiForge are understaffed and have too much going on.
+This forum will have to do until we've gotten things straightened out. In the meantime feel free to try out the Discord server if you are able and haven't already. It will persist regardless of the wiki's stability.
+|username=Raidarr
+|rank=Bureaucrat
+|timestamp=6 September 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=Aww man. Does that mean that every post I ever did there is gone? I doubt it can be restored and we would probably have to start from scratch. I was really unreasonably proud of my stupid "reviewing every nightmare logo" project that I was like halfway done with, it took a huge amount of writing, and now it's all gone and all for nothing. At least the main wiki has been working much better than it was.
+|username=AlmightyKingPrawn
+|rank=
+|timestamp=6 September 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=the problem is that I am banned from their discord, so i have no communication with AVID users for a bit
+|username=JrStudios
+|rank=
+|timestamp=6 September 2023
+}}
+{{Forumpost
+|text=@AlmightKingPrawn I'm really sorry that thread you might be missing, mine might be missing as well, and at the end Raidarr says, D'OH! It gave me a pain in the heart that quoted the discord  that a substitute for the forums even though I'm banned. Honorable mention: I need to use this forum, but I almost can't use it because of that moderation queue that most times takes and even refuses my GOOD FAITH edit of Prooptiki.
+|username=TPatKB
+|rank=
+|timestamp=6 September 2023
+}}