Welcome to the The Haven Herald, FanGathering’s newsletter. This is the first issue of hopefully many more. Within this newsletter, you will find a news recap filled with events happening within the last month, winners for six special monthly awards, and 4 articles and editorials.
News Recap
It has been a month of ups and downs for FanGathering. We kicked off well, with our biggest redesign to date. It seems to have gone down really well, and I certainly prefer it, but I still haven’t managed to get the clickable smilies back. They’re on their way, I promise! That was the up. Then came the down; in the form of downtime. Is there anything worse than downtime? Thankfully, that should be the last of it. FanGathering changed webhosts, and our new host is proving to be rock solid so far! Fingers crossed we never go down again…
Throughout all of that, the Colfer Letter Project has been running in the background. It’s still running, but due to tech problems, it seems to have been sidelined. Sidelined, but not forgotten. All of the letters received so far are saved, and over the next few days, we’ll be setting the final closing date for sending in your letters to Colfer. The bundle will be sent off at last!
WICKED!!! LETS GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!!
p.s I am now using a chain for my Bobby
I think I am certainly not the first and definitely not the last to say…The Haven Herald ROCKS! The comparison between Artemis/Minerva and Artemis/Holly ‘ships’ was really interesting. I’m not exactly sure which one I agree with more, but I think I prefer A/H. They would be a sweet couple in being so odd…even mismatched. Really good work to everyone who helped with the newsletter. Excellent job!
I think Artemis should end up with Holly because since he and Minerva are genii, and this is just in my opinion, they would just compete with each other and try to see who is the superior to who. But aside from this, The Haven Herald rocks!!! And I think the name is awesome! I hope more of these with be posted in the future. Once again, awesome job to whoever came up with the idea and to everyone who helped.
Insightful Newsletter, got some very good points in there, enjoyed the shipping article very much so. Do more things like that. The members of the month, and the fanart and fan fiction of the month and things like that were also great ideas.
Downsides: What was with the “Articles?” Preaching to your users about web safety and forum conduct is a bit of a, well, naff idea. I mean, littering it with AF themes and calling it “Mulch’s guide to a forum” doesn’t really do it for me. Focus on what the site is about, not stuffing it full of meaningless crap that, to be honest, we don’t want to hear. The reason we visit these sites is to have fun and to save fro sifting through mountains of information to find a line that tells us what we need, not to read stuff that gets forced down our throats at every occasion!
Keep up the good work… and make it better next time!
I think this rocks!!! =D Great job. What does the example 2 of netspeak say? I don’t speak netspeak… It’s confusing… Well, this rocks!! And like c said, don’t just add names to the articles if there is no real mention of them. The Foaly one was a good idea because it sounded like something Foaly would say. But Mulch’s posting forum? I didn’t think that went as smoothly. If it sounded like Mulch was actually explaining it, I would give a thumbs up. but it was helpful for the form changed. (like me) Well good job and I hope to see another one in a month!!
bones out>>>>>
Fowlgirl – We will be publishing this once a month, every second Saturday. 🙂
C – I’m sorry you felt that way, but those 2 articles were actually extremely important to us. The newsletter is supposed to foster a good community here. (That’s why we have all the awards. 🙂 ). Those two articles may appear obvious, and pointless, to an experienced internet user, but they aren’t obvious to everyone. We have actually had a few cases here where people would have benefitted from this advice, e.g. They wouldn’t report problems because they didn’t want to bother us, or they worried that someone was stalking them.
Don’t worry – The advice has been written now. We won’t be repeating them in future letters, but we will definitely be referencing them on the forum. They will be very useful. 🙂
flamingbones – lol – Fair enough. The Mulch part was just an attempt to give it a little bit of an AF theme. 🙂
Glad everyone liked the shipping article though! 😀
First of all I need to say that I’m very glad you all liked it.Your opinion is very important to us so thanks.
I must agree with MichaelM about our two articles.They are very important for new ppl and new members.And theý are realy describing our community.
This is our first issue and we’ll try to make it better next time.
hi again, i know that this has nothing to do with the haven herald but whos read ‘the supernaturalist’ because on this site http://www.thesupernaturalist.co.uk they have it wrong. it says that the parasites (un-spec4) suck the life force of people but they don’t. So i just thought that someone might be interested. ta ta
I love it. Why Foaly may have a point is clever and funny.
Long live the Haven Herald.
what do you mean,hELLO ouT tHerE? I thought they did. Please explain…
bones out>>>>>
flaming bones the parasites never took life force they took pain. Lyk Ditto he lays his hands on them and takes their pain. An example of it is when Cosmo falls off the roof the parasite sucks up his pain, later on he says that as soon as it touched him his headache disappeared.
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omg i cant wait for the next fowl book number six:-]
lol matt
loved time paradox. read it in less than 3 hours. =]]especially artemis/holly. in my mind, it was perfect, even though i agree, min has a chance. ever since the beginning though, i have said they need to get together, cept my friends thought that would be weird. well here you go! i love it!the only thing about min is…. she’s a bit childish. she’s like a step down from artemis. she’s plenty smart, but i don’t think that she and artemis really have a bond together like holly and artemis do. and she doesn’t seem to really belong in the series, you know?