TWF Official Site Relaunch : 2023
Current Phase: Soft Relaunch, April 3rd to June 30th, 2023
The forum has been re-opened for registered members only. Hello everyone! If you are reading this message, it's likely that you've gone to WF and found the that the site is currently open to registered members only. Don't be alarmed: this is part of our official 2023 relaunch. We have made this decision in light of the unannounced and indefinite hiatus TWF took in 2022, and the increasing need to support WF as a sustainable hobby for our members and staff.
Our final goal is to relaunch TWF as a low-key, low-stress role-play site that can easily be maintained and used by individuals who are juggling other real-world demands (such as families/friends, careers, other hobbies, and the like). We want to be able to cater to both those who can post every day and those who can only post once per week or less. Ideally, this relaunch will put WF on a path that can carry us through the next five to 10 years without another hiatus, reboot or major change. There will be many changes associated with this relaunch, and I’ve done my best to outline the preliminary points below. The staff will try to give as many opportunities as possible for feedback, collaboration, and questions, and together we hope that we can create a long-term, sustainable version of WF that can last far into the future. If you have questions, please head over to our Discord and ask in the chat or to Delaware directly. I hope that this upcoming relaunch of the site will give you the chance to reconnect with your characters, writing, and our community! |
A FRESH START In order to fully relaunch the site, we will be taking WF back to the basics. For now, we will only retain the systems integral to a basic, writing- and character-focused role-playing site. All previous characters, full-forum plots, and threads will be archived. The staff will review all OOC content, archiving, re-writing or re-imagining as necessary.
WILL WE LOSE EVERYTHING? Not so extreme—and we will NOT delete anything. While our plans may sound alarming, a key part of this relaunch is that everyone is being given a ‘blank slate’ opportunity. If you want to restart with completely new characters and plots, you can. If you want to start with a mix of old and new, you can. If you want to bring back only your old characters, you’ll be able to do that too. There will be many ways to navigate the relaunch, and what you choose will be your, entirely personal, decision. Re-writing biographies, changing writing styles, re-doing old threads or personal plots… all these personal choices will be left up to you. Unfortunately, there will be parts of the site, IC and OOC, that will be unavailable. Full-forum plots and some systems (for example, the BloodClan event and the badges system) will very likely not return indefinitely, or at least not right away. As much as is possible, the staff will leave such plots and systems open-ended enough that we can reinstate them in the future. However, we want to first make sure that the site and community can sustain a basic level of activity, and that nobody is signing off on more than they can chew. On this note, we would like to encourage every member to think about what they can realistically commit to. It might be tempting to jump in at the deep end again, but we recommend planning to go slow – and then maybe going even slower than that – to make sure that you’re coming back to the site in a personally sustainable way. HOW WILL IT WORK ICly? Though we are suspending or dropping full-forum plots for now, they will not vanish from the IC timeline. For the moment, to be honest, we’re not sure how we’ll be doing this. However, please know that if your characters were directly involved in a plot, we’ll do our best to respect whatever conclusions/decisions you see fit. OPPORTUNITY FOR COLLABORATION Although most of the initial work will be done by the staff, the site will have a soft relaunch period between April and July where existing members can have time to return, resettle and re-establish themselves. This is also the period of time where we’ll be actively looking for feedback and ideas – in other words, after we set up the basics, you’ll have the chance to suggest systems you miss, test or modify anything we’ve kept, and help us figure out how to integrate everything with the timeline. While not everything will be workable, our goal is to make this relaunch/rebuilding process as community-driven as possible. |
THE SCHEDULE 02/20/2023 relaunch announced. 02/20-28/2023 site open for questions, members. 03/01-04/02/2023 site in maintenance mode. 04/03-06/30/2023 soft relaunch, members only. 07/01/2023 official relaunch, forum reopens to public. |