And... the time has come to cut the cake... DeSiPokemon Forums is about to celebrate it's first birthday in a couple of weeks. Yup.. it may not seem like a year to some of u who've just recently joined, but DPForums has been on right from 30 July 2005 05:42 pm IST. Along this way we've faced lots of downtimes due to server changes and loss of backups. We've faced around 3-4 months of inactivity and a couple of times we've had to restore back to backups that were months old, thus losing a lot of posts and members. But fortunately, from the last few months, we owe it all to our active members for making DPForums listed in one of their regularly visited bookmarks.
To celebrate this occasion, we're having the Lottery again, this time the amount starts off at 365 (previous lottery was 250) pokies, since that's the number of days DPForums is gonna complete on it's so-called birthday, lol, and the amount will keep increasing as members buy more and more tickets to try their luck, thus at the end of the lottery event, all of the amount collected goes to the randomly selected winner. So the more tickets u buy, the more will be ur chances of winning.
[s]We'll also be having a DP Meetup, details of which shall be posted soon, for all our members to gather and celebrate this occasion.[/s]
I was thinking of a few changes in the board styles, but I don't think it's needed at the moment, since I believe ur happy with the current state of the board. All the so-called COMING SOON features like the Pets and Arcade/Games will hopefully be opened up from the big day onwards. The new Encodes and Fansubs/Projects will also be postponed to that day, so as to add in to the celebration.
That's it for now, once again, thanks everyone for their posts and activeness on the forums, also thanks to our inactive members who supported dpforums while it began, but due to some reason they're off now. Hoping for a better DPForums in the days to come, may we reach out to more and more pokemon fans, and build up the best Indian Pokemon Community.