Me, to the rest of my staff team: Hey While I'm traveling I'm gonna take a break from duties
also me: returns 24 hours later to help read and process apps while on mobile

The hardest part of starting a new site is dealing with all the people who show up and leave without making a character. Like, I absolutely bare no ill will towards those people, and I've done it myself, but it hits different when you're just starting out and only have 2 or 3 other players on the site. Also realizing I have no idea how to advertise anymore.

Without going into detail too much, I have just the biggest sense of relief. I know there was some (relatively) recent discussion about not building a site with friends. But I think it also just depends on how well you mesh (aka great friend, terrible co-worker). Even if it meant losing a friend, sometimes you just need to roll with the punches to open up your site. 

And didn't realize how much this person was holding this back until this last week. Lo-and-behold, we're probably 60% done with where we want to be in the last two weeks, when we were around 30-40% for two months. Like dang..

have you ever found out from passing guests that your whole site looks super weird because one single board decided to make itself guest friendly, when you totally forgot to move the rp boards out of private and into guest friendly... .-. man i had a whole crisis about it.

so anyone that has viewed my site in the past like however long we've been open months, i am so sorry it looked so wonky. .-.

almost everyone thought it was like that on purpose T.T

it’s ok when i opened i didnt realize half the ic boards werent even MEMBER enabled 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

i really want to start my own site. i know exactly what's going to be on it (for the most part lmao), i got the concept of it down, i know there's an audience for it of the sort, all of that good stuff, but i just feel super unmotivated about making it. :/

I wish that people in general would be more upfront with me as a community manager instead of relying on oblique hints for deniability purposes. I have neither the time nor the energy to read subtle cues (that as I’ve said before do not translate over text-based mediums) or deal with petty and tiresome internet intrigue between members. I don’t know why more people aren’t upfront with me and/or each other, but I don’t have time for intrigue; I don’t consider myself responsible for reading subtle cues.

If there is a problematic member, then either talk with them directly or tell me to take action. Neither I nor any other human being can operate on information that they have no awareness of. If you do not think you are a good fit for the community, you're free to leave. Site membership is a privilege, not a right - something I thought we all knew already.

update: i now have the motivation :triumph:

It feels nice to be cooking again

what do you do when the whole staff team is stressed out and motivation is at an all time low across the board but you still got a site to run lol

Denying a character remains the worst feeling in the world.

what admin task, other than advertising or other off site related things, do you dislike doing? Whether it be accepting apps -rejecting apps-, updating codes, updating member numbers -like census or whatever-, updating lore, etc. What admin task do you just loathe doing? For me, its hosting events lol, but I still insist on doing so like every season change. I don't know why I do this to myself lol.