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Purrgatory's 1 Year Anniversary Badge Claim

  • In honor of our anniversary month, FK for posting has been doubled! Now you will earn 20FK per post, threads are still the same and have not been adjusted! Thank you for being here with us!

    Don't forget to also grab your 1 Year Anniversary Badge !

WOAH IM LATE BUT CAN YOU BELIEVE ITS BEEN A YEAR.!>!>

i love everyone and i've grown closer to a lot of people & have made a bunch of new friends that i could never imagine rping without :,)
i do want to extend a shoutout to @Scarlet, i'm so glad you chose to play nutmegs sister and i hope you know that even if im not as active with her as i'd like to be, i am ALWAYS brainrotting over their sibling relationship and god they mean so much to me aheem aheem...... you've been such a supportive presence and i hope u know mist is blowing adder up in their mind (/lhj) i love plotting with you so much<3

i've been so happy to be a community assistant as well, seeing everyone get to be happy and rp what they like is truly heartwarming <3 my fellow staff team i am kissing all of u on the forehead you've all been so lovely <3
 
i know my activity has been saur spotty but i still treasure this place lots and lots!!! hopefully in the future i can be more consistantly active, because i rlly wanna get to know the characters and members more because you guys are super cool!!! huge shoutout to all the members from The Old House (smiths reference sorry) its so nice seeing yall again too <3
 
Please forgive me I'm gross and really happy so I probably rambled a lot longer than I should've,,,

I didn't expect this site to go anywhere and admittedly part of it was due to a lack of confidence and fear. When I left the old site I was RPing on it was horrible, I almost stopped wanting to roleplay entirely, but I had other friends then who comforted me and encouraged me. And eventually the RP itch came back and I thought…what if I make my own website.

It started on Jcink, but didn't get far. No one wanted to learn how to code in Html and I can't blame them either because I also didn't want to, but I forced it. I shoved myself into coding tutorials on YouTube, I read article after article explaining how to do the basics. It was exhausting but in the end I knew I wanted a familiar forum so I challenged myself. If I could make enough in commissions to purchase a Xenforo yearly forum then we'd do it. To my surprise it took no time at all. We got it set up, grabbed the necessary plugins and then on day one of our grand opening the site broke.
I spent all night wide awake trying to figure out what went wrong, I tore the code apart, picked at it until finally learning the problem and then something else broke.
It was frustrating, sent me into tearful fits wondering why I even bothered. But the next time it broke I knew what to do. When an update crashed the site it only took me less than a day to restore everything. I've gotten better, my coding has improved a ton. I can fix things easier, I know where the errors of the log are now when I read the code, I have a lovely assistant coder in Karmen to make everything look nice.

When the roleplay itself started I knew immediately I wanted it to be fair. I wanted everyone to have a fun chance to play a bigger role in the world we were building. So we came up with the RNG rank rolls and I have never experienced more fun than sitting in a discord rolling dice and seeing people cheer when we found out our leaders and medicine cats. It was so silly, but so delightful.

It took a year to establish our activity guidelines for HPs, seeing how everyone paced themselves and making sure we remained comfortable and casual in a way that those of us with crazy irl circumstances could still enjoy the site. I've gone through so many mods, I like to joke that I sent them running with how much work I put on them but sometimes modding isn't for everyone and you realize that only when you actually become a mod; everyone who has been on the team at any point has been a great help. Thank you.
The community itself is,, wow. There have been a few hiccups here and there but what community doesn't have those? Overall everyone here has been so kind and welcoming, new members are swarmed with greeting and people wanting to plot with them and write with them, people have volunteered to help with so many aspects of the site that we eventually had to make roles for it.

I am overwhelmed a lot, but thankfully it's mostly positive. The support of my mod team, even when we disagree, is so good. The community is never afraid to offer feedback or polite criticism, I'm so grateful for the environment we've fostered where people feel confident in speaking up to help improve things and offer help. I have been outvoted on several aspects of the site before and am okay with it (except scud, I want it removed from the legal name list, I hate it).

Purrgatory exists in spite of everything, not to spite anything. The world we have built together has been a wild ride from the start and I am eager to see what comes next. Thank you so much for playing cat dolls with me, I bonk them together to make them kiss mwah


Eden & Poe
My beautiful and glorious deputy pair, sometimes a leader needs two to help carry the work and having three admins means we will always have a tiebreaker in decisions. They have hardcarried much of the beginning plot of the site by playing our first leaders to ensure things got rolling and I am so pleased with how the roleplay has taken a turn into such chaos.
Eden is always rational and thinks logically and Poe is so quick to come up with alternatives when disagreements are made. Combined with my struggle to tell people no and how often I cry in a corner cause I don't want to ruin anyones fun accidentally we balance eachother well!

Beloved Karmen, our site coder and a complete sweetheart, if you see something aesthetically pleasing know that it's most likely Karmen had a hand in it. From our clan guides to our theme itself. I also want to thank Noia even though she's not here with us for teaching me the basics of CSS and getting us started in using advanced coding on Xenforo, something no one knew about until she came along to show everyone.

My moderation team as a whole has shifted and changed from the main mods to the community assistance, we've gone through many and each left a piece of themselves on the site and team in a way that you can't replicate. Ty Laev for always being fun to talk to and an amazing artist, Loki is so down to earth but also the silliest billiest and so skilled with cat genetics our genetic team would be nowhere without them!
Carat and Muddly are a fun duo on the team, constantly pingponging ideas-where Muddly excels in helping us with environmental information and our territories, Carat has been amazing as head of our Scribe team in handling name legality.

Our CAs Scarlet, who helped with a large majority of the medicine cat guide because I saw her post an unofficial one and went 'I want that' (her writing is absolute peak both in-character and as guidelines) and Eezy who always argues on behalf of the memberbase in a way that explains the player perspective when we sometimes overlook it (first to bring up concerns, last to back down), Teddy who is quick with suggestions and always on top of things reading every little detail of the clan goings on (keeping our medicine cats up to date and inline often), Chuff who is one of the most creative writers and character concept makers I've ever had the privilege of RPing with (where is my third riverclan wife chuffles?)
 
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I am a day late in wishing purrgatory a happy first year anniversary! It has been so amazing seeing this community grow, even if I am often on the sidelines. I am so proud of rai and the moderation team (past and present) for all they have accomplished and all they will accomplish! Joining purrgatory helped spark a love for old characters I have reworked into newer characters here onsite <3
 
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