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Zathyus Networks Official Forum Merge
Topic Started: Sunday, 31. March 2013, 23:43 (9,023 Views)
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Spring has come to Zathyus Networks and with it brings exciting announcements. Last April, we announced the intention to merge our Support and Resource boards to better serve our users. Once all the major bugs and organization was worked out, we successfully merged in December. Only a few minor bugs remain and should be resolved shortly. Following the successful merge of Support and Resources, we began looking at further consolidating our services onto one board. Last month, we finalized plans to add two more boards to our official Support and Resource network. It gives us great pleasure to announce today that we will be adding Outline and Antiquus to the Official Support Community by the beginning of June.

Outline's community of designers and artists, who are devoted to creating amazing quality content for our network and who continuously help and encourage one another in their endeavours is something that has been an attractive reason to support this merge: and something we do not want to lose in the transition.

Rest assured that both boards have been given the same thought and care that went into the merge of ZNR. Preparation for the merge has been under way since December and we are pleased to announce that everything is on track to be merged by June. As the board undergoes this exciting transition, we expect minimal down time which should be limited only to the actual hour of the merge.

A discussion topic has been created here on the official support community to answer your questions. At this time, we are not prepared to answer questions about specific forums or groups - but that information will be made available to you as soon as we have it.

We have many more exciting projects in the works as part of our continued 10 Year Anniversary Celebration. Please keep checking back and be sure to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

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OMG...okay, you got me. :dead: :dead: :dead:
Edited by Lenny, Sunday, 31. March 2013, 23:51.
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To address your previous concern, Lenny:
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A common suggestion from users on the support board is for ways they can better advertise their community. We have heard this requests and have not ignored them - but we didn't want to reinvent the wheel, either. Recognizing Antiquus' ability to successfully offer boards the advertising and promotion solutions they are looking for, we anticipate amazing success in merging these communities and fulfilling what our users so frequently request.


Antiquus, while not as active as Outline, has things to offer as well. The close connections to both boards also obviously make it easier for a merge like this to happen.
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I look forward to seeing everyone's reaction to this news come April 2nd. As to the Outline staff, I look forward to working with you all very soon. :)
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Look at date. Look at announcement. Look back at date. Look at announcement again. Wonder.

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You guys should really try something new for April 1st. Or at least time your merger announcements better.
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Monday, 1. April 2013, 00:02
You guys should really try something new for April 1st. Or at least time your merger announcements better.
Why? If I had my way, I'd make every major announcement on April 1st. But then, I enjoy the mind games. Eventually people will have to realize that for an official network, we can't really prank you guys. But as long as we make the announcement on April 1st, everyone will question it until April 2nd rolls around. And in that way, we do prank everyone. :#
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Monday, 1. April 2013, 00:16
Sage
Monday, 1. April 2013, 00:02
You guys should really try something new for April 1st. Or at least time your merger announcements better.
Why? If I had my way, I'd make every major announcement on April 1st. But then, I enjoy the mind games. Eventually people will have to realize that for an official network, we can't really prank you guys. But as long as we make the announcement on April 1st, everyone will question it until April 2nd rolls around. And in that way, we do prank everyone. :#
You could always follow Google's lead and unveil new Zathyus Networks products or ZetaBoards features. The sillier they are, the less people you have to deal with afterward who really, genuinely wanted them.
Or perhaps it's just the opposite? The members around this network are a bit screwy (then again, look at the staff). :#
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It's been a pleasure to have worked on both Outline and Antiquus and I wish both staff teams the best during the merge in June.
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Monday, 1. April 2013, 00:21
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Monday, 1. April 2013, 00:16
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Monday, 1. April 2013, 00:02
You guys should really try something new for April 1st. Or at least time your merger announcements better.
Why? If I had my way, I'd make every major announcement on April 1st. But then, I enjoy the mind games. Eventually people will have to realize that for an official network, we can't really prank you guys. But as long as we make the announcement on April 1st, everyone will question it until April 2nd rolls around. And in that way, we do prank everyone. :#
You could always follow Google's lead and unveil new Zathyus Networks products or ZetaBoards features. The sillier they are, the less people you have to deal with afterward who really, genuinely wanted them.
Or perhaps it's just the opposite? The members around this network are a bit screwy (then again, look at the staff). :#
We did actually have a prank attached to this announcement, but it was deemed too dangerous as someone might take the prank part seriously. Here's the full announcement. The prank then would have been trying to figure out what was real and what was serious:

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Spring has come to Zathyus Networks and with it brings exciting announcements. Last April, we announced the intention to merge our Support and Resource boards to better serve our users. Once all the major bugs and organization was worked out, we successfully merged in December. Only a few minor bugs remain and should be resolved shortly. Following the successful merge of Support and Resources, we began looking at further consolidating our services onto one board. Last month, we finalized plans to add two more boards to our official Support and Resource network. It gives us great pleasure to announce today that we will be adding Outline and Antiquus to this board by the beginning of June. Rest assured that both boards have been given the same thought and care that went into the merge of ZNR. Preparation for the merge has been under way since December and we are pleased to announce that everything is on track to be merged by June. As the board undergoes this exciting transition, we expect minimal down time which should be limited only to the actual hour of the merge.

There will be a discussion topic created following this announcement. Please direct all questions to that topic. Please understand that at this time, we will not be answering questions about specific forums and user groups. This information will be made available to you as soon as we have it.

Unfortunately, with this exciting announcement for the Networks' future comes some sad news. Over ten years ago, our company was born with the release of Invisionfree. In 2008, we released Zetaboards, our own free message board software built from scratch. Zetaboards was created with the understanding that Invisionfree's upgrades would be limited by the restrictions of the software design. While we have done our best to work within these limitations for the past five years, we must regrettably announce that as of today, April 1st, we have ceased all development for Invisionfree and will no longer be providing updates to the software. On May 1st, users will no longer be able to register an Invisionfree board. Those of you with Invisionfree boards and who wish to keep them will be able to do so. While our support sections will remain, we will begin to gradually wind down all Invisionfree services.

We understand that for many of you, this comes as a great disappointment. Unfortunately, because we are a free service, our staff are volunteers and our developers' time is very precious. As such, we have realized that in order for the network to grow, we must place all of our focus on improving Zetaboards and not on continually repairing a very outdated software. For those Invisionfree owners who switch to Zetaboards between the dates of April 18th and May 1st, we will be offering a free week of Zetaboards Premium as well as 50 Ad Removal Credits, which we believe is more than enough incentive to switch. Please do not use the current convert link if you wish to take advantage of this offer. Additionally our Support Team will be on hand to assist any owners with any questions or problems they have utilizing Zetaboards. Those of you wishing a copy of your invisionfree board's database will have until May 31st to do so. Due to the time and effort involved, the cost of a conversion is $500 dollars. Please note that this price is non-negotiable and non-refundable. We will accept Paypal only.

For those of you who have waited patiently for search to return, we recommend using google's search engine.

As a result of our dumping Invisionfree and focusing on Zetaboards, we are planning to integrate several popular features found on most social networks in an effort to better adapt to the more social media intensive environment. While a phone app is still in the planning stages, we are also looking at enhancing parts of the software to include features such as: Likes, use of Hashtags, Tagging, songs in profile page, and more.

We have many more exciting projects in the works as part of our continued 10 Year Anniversary Celebration. Please keep checking back and be sure to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.


But given we feared people might take the IF thing seriously, we opted to drop it and just do the merge announcement as close to April Fools as possible.
Edited by StephenZB, Monday, 1. April 2013, 00:53.
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Hmmmmm. So the remnants of the 'mainstream' ZB community, are becoming one singular entity?

I can support this. I noticed Outline and Antiquus have their own memberbases, and much of the same. Hopefully this means that the official board receives that flow.
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you zn guys should think of another way to play a prank on us
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Agree with Mr. D.C.
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James Lu
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This is quite real, as one of the oldest remaining staff members on Antiquus, I'm looking forward to working with the staff over here at Outline. A merger has been proposed before, ideas like this have been raised and the last merger announcement was made on April 1st, that turned out to be a reality. Heck, they even took our special themes! :P
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lol
to fool people, they even added antquus retake and outline adelyte
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i was worried for a few moments :P
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Ardy
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Why have two separate forums for resources? It only seems natural to have both as one superforum, honestly.



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Monday, 1. April 2013, 06:46
Why have two separate forums for resources? It only seems natural to have both as one superforum, honestly.
The saying "Too many cooks in the kitchen" spring's to mind.
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