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  1. Looks like #3 got fixed with another IC patch, so I'm calling this thread resolved.
  2. Judging by your avatar, I take it you've been a fan of Tallight Sparkle since at least 2015, when you were last around?

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    Awesome to see considering how season 9 ended! I know you might never see this but wanted to leave the message in case you ever return, from one tall Twilight fan to another. /)

  3. Woo! I'm glad this works. Feel free to tinker with making your own streams to customize a feed of exactly what you want for other kinds of content, too. I believe you can even share your streams with other users. This is probably one of our software's most underrated features and I'm happy we found another use for it! Maybe this is why IPS got rid of that original notification setting... For some additional context, @Rikifive posted some fantastic notes on this status update about what the old behaviour used to be, complete with screenshots.
  4. I think I figured this out. There isn't a direct way of doing this but I found a way to do it through the magic of activity streams. I set up two streams: one for your followed users' statuses, one for your friends' statuses. You can find them in the navbar: Then once you're viewing a stream, you can enable email notifications for that stream: Is this what you're looking for, @Cash In? Aside: Activity streams are super powerful and you can create your own to keep up with any kind of content on MLPF you like.
  5. Twilight Sparkle ✨

    general questions All Activity gone?

    Attempt #2 at switching to the new search engine took place today and is working so far! The "activity" page on profiles is now loading from it. Credit to @AppleDashPoni for setting it up! It's still indexing but should be done within a few hours to a day or so. If you run into any issues or notice the search being significantly better, please open a new questions or feedback thread.
  6. Cadance looks really good as a tall Celestia-shaped alicorn. Source: https://www.deviantart.com/inaactive/art/Princess-Cadance-5-886584012 Such a beautiful, likeable pony. Shame we never got to see her final form in FiM - I like to think she also got this treatment in the epilogue, not only Twilight, and they co-ruled Equestria together at least for a while.
  7. Thanks for writing these issues up, @Luna the Great of all the Russias. The screenshots are much appreciated. The missing prefix was an artifact of merging the "technical issue" and "technical issues" tags in the backend when I was doing some tag cleanup the other day. I didn't know "technical issue" was being used as a prefix here and that that would remove it as an option, so... whoops! I added "technical issues" as a prefix option. Fixed. This was from when I tinkered with adding support for tables to the editor for @Brony Number 42. Unfortunately it wasn't a very successful experiment. Acknowledging the issue. This is a theme issue that arose during the last upgrade of our backend software, Invision Community. I hope to fix it or find someone else who can in the coming days.
  8. Twilight Sparkle ✨

    general questions All Activity gone?

    It's a temporary bug. We were working on setting up a new search engine for the site and it's temporarily borked (and the profile activity tabs use the search function under the hood). Hoping to have it fixed up today or tomorrow.
  9. Very relaxing track. 🎶 Celestia's voice is so soothing... The art you posted here in your OP is super cute, too! Do you have a source and/or artist credit for it?
  10. I'm cleaning house with MLPF's tagging system and, as part of that, converted all extant tags to lowercase. Going forward, all new tags will automatically be converted to lowercase, too. Why do this? It makes tags all over the site more consistent. And, given the system is already rather freeform, gives us all one less thing to think about getting right when creating new tags.
  11. @Kreativpony Whoa, your Celestias are beautiful! The way you draw lighting and shade your art really brings out her natural colours and elegance.
  12. I love your art style! The Luna and Zipp drawings here are wonderful renditions of both ponies (they're among my favourite characters ❤️). They're so full of life and beauty with the lighting, composition, and the extra-large mane and wings you gave Luna especially. Your Sombra is so very ominous, too... looks far more dangerous than he did in FiM. I hope to see more of your art around here! Is the Celestia in your avatar part of a bigger picture, @Kreativpony? Would love to see it if yes!
  13. Pony.fm is back online! It is very much not gone and there are no plans to shut it down. There were a couple of extended outages in the last few weeks involving the domain: The first one, in February, was because, the domain ended up not getting renewed on time thanks to a perfect storm of inconvenient coincidences (that weren't and still aren't applicable to any of Poniverse's other domains, in case you're wondering) and it ended up in the so-called "redemption period" where getting it back is an expensive, manual process. I worked closely with the registrar to recover the domain from this state and got the domain back but it took about a week. The second outage, that prompted you to start this thread, @Pulse Wave, was due to the domain somehow expiring retroactively and reverting back into the redemption period state. It's unclear what caused that to happen but the registrar was cooperative in recovering the domain - again. Reactivating the domain was much faster this time but still took a few days. I hope this sheds some light on what happened. #1 was on me, #2 was on the registrar. Neither outage had anything to do with Pony.fm's viability as a service, as you can see. With all that said, if the day Pony.fm has to close up shop ever comes - and I hope it never does but who knows what world we'll be living in 10, 20, 100, or more years from now - there won't be any ambiguity about it - it will be clearly announced. And, to whatever extent is feasible, that hypothetical future decision to shut it down will be communicated with advance notice and some form of succession plan for maintaining the library we've collectively spent so many hours building. I recognize the importance of Pony.fm as our last remaining fan-run music hosting service and consider its role as a long-lived historical archive pretty important, too. I wish we had the staff or budget to actively develop new features and such but the site doesn't face any existential dangers.
  14. Yep... that's an error all right. Good catch, @Sunamena, and thank you for pointing it out! I'll see to it that it gets fixed. Out of curiosity, were you perchance looking for a $20 subscription tier (or any other amount)?
  15. I sent an alert to the opsponies including a link to this very post. Thanks for mentioning you're experiencing a problem - I'll note that this one appears to be related to an ongoing server problem on our end and not the original subject of this thread. Unfortunately, everyone who'd be able to investigate this is either sleeping or otherwise occupied by their "real lives" at the moment so it might be a few hours before someone can deal with it. We get a lot out of our (tiny) budget but sadly, we end up in this situation sometimes when we lack the funding for professional staff and certain fancier server setups. Please bear with us and thank you again for mentioning the issue.
  16. Out of curiosity, what gives you the impression that MLP Forums will be around "for quite awhile"? I have every hope of it being a long-lasting site myself too - I don't ask this to cast doubt on that. But I'm very curious to hear what gives you that impression as a user, what your ideas about a site's longevity are rooted in. It is a good impression to have; you could say I have a vested interest in knowing what creates it as we all tend to like investing ourselves emotionally and temporally into things with staying power.
  17. What if these problems didn't exist and they crowdsourced ideas from fans anyway? Now we get into the truly fun possibilities of this thread. (I split this from my previous post because it goes into a different albeit equally relevant line of conversation - this way you can quote my posts separately to respond more neatly to either one.) The first thing that came to my mind is how cool it would be for Fallout: Equestria to become the basis of an "MLP for Adults" franchise. The second thing I thought of was how various fanon ideas about alicorns could be incorporated into the official lore to finally give us canon answers about their power limits, lifespans, durability, physiology, and who knows what else - they're somehow still almost as mysterious as they were in FiM's pilot, even after six seasons with the show's main protagonist being an alicorn. Then there are the 4chan leaks which proved to be eerily accurate - see @Dreamstar Moonlight's latest masterpiece of a thread for more on that: It's fun to consider that some of the crazier-sounding ideas in these leaks could have been totally made up but then adopted by Hasbro, making the leaks retroactively true.
  18. While it's somewhat well known that MLP's creative team is under orders to avoid reading fanfictions, I DID find evidence that someone in "Big Corporate" IS, in fact, watching MLP Forums. I can't prove if it is or isn't Hasbro, and this thread as mostly about speculating for fun what they could be after if they were. With that said, there is someone monitoring us and there is reason to speculate that it is someone at Hasbro. Read on for what I know: The "someone is watching us" evidence is logs that indicate a bot belonging to a company called Brandwatch crawls this site. I found it by coincidence while doing investigative work related to the recent string of DDoS attacks on us. Why is this relevant? Brandwatch appears to be a service that monitors online conversations about their clients' brands and products in the name of making it easier for businesses to understand what people are saying about them - which seems pretty darn aligned to this discussion. I have no affiliation with them; I mention them only because I found that they've been scanning MLPF and that seems like evidence that somepony with a lot of money cares about what we say here. It might be Hasbro. It might be anyone. Here are some screenies of how this company advertises its service: brandwatch-how-it-works.mp4 Now, again, while I have no way of proving that it's Hasbro is using Brandwatch to keep up with us, I did find evidence of Hasbro being a customer of theirs on the LinkedIn profile of Kevin Mullay, a Brandwatch executive: Crimson Hexagon was acquired by Brandwatch (source) - so it's interesting indeed. I'm not sure yet whether to feel creeped out that this kind of software is monitoring MLPF or honoured that someone with influence in Big Corporate thinks what we assorted rando ponyfans here have to say is worth paying attention to. Hey Hasbro peeps - if you're reading this, and we all know you can if you want to, thanks for making G4 happen and working hard to make G5 a great followup! We'd love to have you join us here sometime - I know many of y'all who work on official pony are fans of it, too. To those of us participating in this thread, I'm super curious to hear whom you think Brandwatch is showing our posts to and what kinds of decisions they might be making with what they find. For all we know, it might be a Hasbro team trying to make sure they can respond quickly if a Sonic movie reveal-type situation arises. Or maybe positive sentiment here is used to help fight for MLP to get more budget? Or to validate that it's worth making toys based on the animations' story instead of animations based on toys like G1-G4 were? I'd love to see where our speculations here can go. *** To @TheGleaner's original prompt, it's fun to think about; we do know that Hasbro and show staff are well aware of the fandom; we have proof in the names Lyra, Octavia, and DJ Pon-3/Vinyl Scratch all having been adopted as the characters' official names. They tried to make Derpy's name canon too... that was sadly retconned on account of Internet outrage. We had Word of God reveal that Hasbro ordered FiM's staff to avoid reading fanfictions precisely to avoid the ethical and legal dilemma that accidentally (or intentionally) making an episode about someone's fanfic idea without proper credit and licensing could cause. As to licensing a fanfic and properly crediting - they could hypothetically do that, but I imagine it's viewed as more trouble than it's worth when they already have their own creative team whom they pay to be familiar with the lore and come up with new stories to add to it. Practically, I imagine "properly crediting" fanfic ideas could be really complicated too with how freely fanfic authors share and borrow and steal ideas from one another all the time as well - tracing out an idea's original author might be really hard if not impossible.
  19. Cute blep! This looks like a pony enjoying life. Are their eyelids painted or is that their natural colouring? Not a detail I've seen much on ponies before. I also adore the two-tone coat with the white underside, and the little shawl this pon is wearing. I'm curious to see and learn more about them!
  20. That's a beautiful rendition of Izzy; thank you for sharing it with us, @jorge123esp. Her coat colour looks like Pipp's but it looks like you intended to brighten up the character in general - the electric blue mane contrasts wonderfully with that pink. I love the life you've given to her - I can just imagine her giving us an comforting, inspirational pep talk while that elegant mane cheerfully bounces about. Makes me wanna squee!
  21. Woo! Glad you like the idea of keeping this organized, too @Kujamih. Sorry for getting the names mixed up - all I did was "borrow" the titles of the other threads but I'm more than happy to teach you how to organize it yourself. To edit the list in the OP, do the following: Find the "Edit" menu in this thread's first post: Use the "Link" tool to edit or insert a link (it does both): A modal will appear in which you can set up the link!
  22. Hey @Kujamih - this looks like a really fun project! I love it when creative shenanigans between users arise on MLP Forums and plan to read through it myself. In the spirit of bringing more attention to awesome fan work, I tracked down your other Fail Safe threads, gave all of them the new "Fail Safe (comic)" tag, and added a few links to this thread's OP to make it as easy as possible for anyone who comes here to find the actual comic. If this is meant to serve as the general "hub thread" for the series, think you could keep that list up to date? Or if that's too much work, I'd appreciate if you could apply that new tag to all new Fail Safe threads you make and leave a link to the tag in the OP; it'll go a long way to making the whole thing easy to explore. I'm also curious: is this thread meant to replace the "Fail Safe (working title)" one you made in October (linked below)? My inner Twilight is curious what inspired this new one.
  23. I know of a few people who love dakis and would probably be quite interested, given the art style is to their liking. There are also new fans coming into this fandom all the time, even if the pace is slower than before, who very well might get excited about a pretty oversized pillow with their new favourite character on it. There isn't enough Tallight Sparkle in the world; I totally wouldn't buy the Tartarus out of a beautiful pillow showing off the elegance of Twilight's final form in Season 9, nope.
  24. This is some grade-A sleuthing work you've done, @Dreamstar Moonlight; and I'm super happy to see it here in the form of a thread! I plan to keep it pinned and featured for at least a few days as a resource we can all rely on to get up to speed with all things G5. I expect to have more thoughts on the topic later, after rest and work and other IRL commitments, but I want to leave a few notes with my impressions! One, I found it quite interesting to learn about how many times it turned out that some rumoured G5 leak turned out be seemingly real. Quite a lot of random things leaked out of Hasbro and DHX over the course of FiM's run so I wonder if it's a systemic security problem or a guerilla marketing tactic to start warming up the hype train before a big release like yesterday's. Two, having the full timeline of G5 information in one spot makes my inner "internet historian" really happy. Seeing how all the puzzle pieces that were dropped over the months and years come together to paint the big picture of what's coming our way - I expect to look back at this day fondly in a few years as the moment the G5 hype train left the station. Three, the connection to Imalou- I had no idea about that before reading your post, and found it heartwarming to learn that a fan artist was hired by Hasbro to work on the very IP they love. I tend to hear more about companies keeping a cautious distance from hiring their fans - good reasons for this exist but I can still have the warm fuzzies over this. And for my last point right now, as a pony fan with a tendency to get way too excited about aesthetics and canon theorycrafting, I really enjoyed the collection of images you collected to display here that take us from those mysterious blankets (we have a dedicated thread for those, by the way, for anyone who wants to rave or rant about 'em) to the characters' names and a cleaned-up version of the official logo. I plan to return to this thread tomorrow when my brain is less mushy. I enjoyed the heck out of reading that opening post and would love to keep up with any future writeups like it that you make in the future. Thanks so much again for putting this together and sharing it here.
  25. Looks awesome! The thread is now pinned and featured! It appears that uploading GIFs is bugged with our software right now for some reason; I'll follow up with the developers later as I have to sign off now. But, I did find another copy of the same GIF that was uploaded elsewhere on MLPF and added that into your forum post! So I hope it looks good now.
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