scheduled downtime

[Administrator]

Well, I mentioned I'd give a fair warning, so here it is =3 Lanorae will be in maintenance mode starting on Friday, November 20th and will be in such for about a week. It will be back online probably on November 27th or so, though depending on whether or not some things need finished this may extend to Monday, November 30th. However, it will be no longer than that.

In that time a few things are going to be revamped, finished up, ect. ect. Basically, this is going to be an opportunity for everything on Lanorae to become consistent and hopefully for the most part complete. The site's been sitting half done for too long lD;

I'm going to try to get some new Lanorae Pokemon up as well, though there's no guarantees. I still need to finish spriting an animated avatar set for a friend of mine, and my scratching skills need to be a bit, er, I guess touched up a bit seeing I'm out of practice. I will try for it though, as I know that's a big thing that people do want -- and I do as well, I want to be able to add variety to plots and such Pokemon-wise xD

Also, this will be an opportunity to give all the mods and such a break. Let them get caught up on replies, and then have a few days where they're not going to have to worry about replying again.

This downtime was going to happen this week, but school's being horrid in that I have tests and whatnot I should be studying for [particularly AP History tomorrow, yuk], so I wouldn't have gotten anything done to begin with. Next week we're going to be doing essentially nothing considering we only have two full days, and then Wednesday we get out at 10-something for Thanksgiving break.

This is also the time, before maintenance mode goes active, that you mention everything you want to be implemented. This is going to be a huge, massive site update, so if you have something you want to run by me, now's the time to do it so I can see what I can do while I'm updating everything else.

I'm also going to see what I can do about cutting a few codes out so we have some better loading speed.

Anyways, I'd best get back to studying, so Ayra out~

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[October]

Way to start the scheduled update on the same day I finish my exams and begin the two month summer vacation :(

Nah, it's okay. You Americans all have school during December/January anyway, so it's not like my character would be going anywhere quick, even with me posting a lot. But yeah. School finishes the day after tomorrow. So pumped. That and I just got a job which I start on Saturday which is like good pay and everything and warm weathers out so I can go surfing again (because I hate surfing if it's not hot, like even with a wetsuit it's still freezing). Anyway, have fun in winter XD (saying that's probably jinxed me to have another heat wave like in February this year :S).

[Administrator]

Lol, I'm sorry October xD But on the plus side, after these ten days or so Lanorae should be, for the most part, completely finished =3 And yes, we do ;-; All the way up to June. School is evil, thank God only one more year of highschool for me and then I'm off to college, which you have more freedom in at the very least.

Hope you'll get to enjoy surfing! =3

[Miss Brightside]

October:
Ohgoodness the heat wave. I remember you telling me about that, I felt sooooo bad for you. We're kinda having one now, it's weird, but nice. At least I get to see the sun again a few more times before the snow sets in and the sky gets gray. =P Glad to hear you're almost done for a while, though. I should get back to your PM. Maybe I will next week, we get three or four-ish days off for Thanksgiving (AKA gorge yourself on food day) and then that plus the weekend gives me a lot of time to relax. Unless I get scheduled to work, you know.

Ayra:
I love you for this. I needed this. Thank youuuu! And it's right over break, so I'll be able to give it my full effort. And hopefully I won't fall behind again... You know, until the next AP History test. That thing killed me. Something's gotta give in that class. She can't possibly think she's doing a good job teaching if we're all failing or close to it, except for, like, Peggy and John. Everyone knows that they're memorizers anyway. People like me who try to absorb it all in just get overwhelmed and end up, oh, I don't know, doodling in their notebook the whole time? Remind me to show you sometime. It's baaaad.