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[Del Murder]

As you may know, we have been experiencing technical difficulties with Premium Membership. There is a limit as to what the Eyes on Final Fantasy moderation staff can do to to fix these problems. We have done our best to notify the site owners of the issues, and hopefully they will resolve them soon.

We apologize to all those who have purchased a membership and cannot enjoy all of the features advertised. We recommend that those considering purchasing premium membership keep this issues in mind when making their decision.

[crono_logical]

Yes it's that time again, as you may have noticed on the forum calendar

And in typical EoFF style, this event also coincides with the more unpredictable Chatroom Server Brokenness week - this time caused by dark forces relocating the server halfway across the world.

In the meantime, the "backup server" (the new good server, he means! ~rubah) is irc.calindora.com on port 49233 or 55555, for example mIRC users can type the following to connect:

/server irc.calindora.com:55555

Or use the chatroom link at the top of the forum page to use the java chat

[crono_logical]

Whilst I'm sure you're all aware of the new forum features, there are other smaller more recent additions too such as albums for everyone now, more user options in your control panels, and extra profile fields to fill in for various game networks, and for sites like last.fm and youtube if you have accounts on those places too

[Miriel]

When you hook with the right people.

Congratulations goes to Jess for earning herself a shiny new Recognized Member title by doing an admirable job hosting the Ciddies and for being an all around great member.

Good job, Jess!

[theundeadhero]

Please welcome Aerith's Knight, Boney King, Fonz, JaytodaP, Jessweee(oh yeah!), Old Manus, TyphoonthaReapa, and Whiffles as the forums newest Cid's Knights. They all look very lovely in a 2-piece swimsuit

[rubah]

Do you live between (+36.944069,-102.865628) and (+25.636908,-078.617947) ? Maybe you should join the Southern US social group!

(if you live in the Midwest, Southwest, West Coast, alaska, hawaii, canada, anywhere else in the world but britain and the northeastern us, feel free to start the regional group for your region!)

[Flying Mullet]

As I'm sure most of you are aware of by now, while Usernotes are finally being flushed down the toilet, Public Messaging is taking its place. We're planning on removing the Usernote feature in roughly a week, so get to saving those user notes you want to cherish forever while there's still time.

And don't forget to vote in the June 2008 Ciddies! Award Girl's doing an awesome job so let's show her our support by voting!

Eyes on Plays Final Fantasy III is still going on as well, so be sure to check it out and be the Onion Kid you always dreamed you could be!

[Flying Mullet]

In order for us, your omnipotent staff, to bring you the latest in cutting-edge forum technology, it's my enthusiastic solemn duty to report that we must remove the user note system to make way for additional features in the vb upgrade. We will be removing the user note feature in a week, so please save any user notes you have that you want to love and cherish forever.

It's fitting that this is my first announcement.

[Del Murder]

Some of you have already discovered the new social group option in the vB upgrade. Some of you have even created some. As of right now users will no longer be able to create social groups without staff approval. Some if not all of the current groups may be deleted.

If you wish to make a social group please make a request in the Private Feedback Forum. Please state the name and purpose of your group and we will consider it.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

EoFF cannot be EOFF as long as "on" is a preposition numbering less than five letters. Don't believe his lies.

[theundeadhero]

Many of you may have noticed issues with the forums that have suddenly arose. Many of these issues were caused by a VB upgrade. Please don't panic as these problems are systematically fixed but please do list anything you notice wrong in this thread.

[Del Murder]

Well, after some confusion, we'd like to welcome Austin to the admin team. He his here on behalf of site owners Warren and Michael to fix some of the problems we've been having with the message board. Some of them have already been fixed (like attachments).

We still encourage you guys to post things you find in the Feedback or Private Feedback forums so that we can bring them to the owners' attention. Thanks!

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Body-snatching is creepy. Stop posting using each other's accounts.

And yes, Jojo, Krissy, and edczxcvbnm count as one couple.

[Del Murder]

Congratulations to Flying Mullet for becoming Eyeson's next Cid's Knight! Well deserved, man!

[Del Murder]

The much awaited finale to crown Eyeson's Next Cid's Knight has begun. See this thread for details:

Eyeson's Next Cid's Knight - FINALE

[Del Murder]

For those participating, please check your round 1 task here:

So you think you can mod - ROUND 1

For those not, sit back, relax, and enjoy.

[Del Murder]

If you ever were under the delusion that being a Cid's Knight was fun or rewarding, you might want to check out this thread.

[Yamaneko]

Just so we don't get a thousand threads asking: Yes PMs and uploading to the server are not working momentarily. We're working on the problem and hopefully should have it resolved soon. Meanwhile if you must, keep all discussion pertaining to this issue here. If you start to experience error codes outside PMs, like when posting, this is normal within the context of the problem and should also get fixed alongside PMs.

Please don't flood us with (and you can't anyway) PMs or IMs asking. Keep it in the thread I mentioned. Thank you.

[Azar]

We'd just like to thank Necronopticous for his tenure as a fantastic moderator over the past couple years. He's stepped down to pursue his dreams, and we'll probably be talking about his video games in the not-so-distant future.

[Yamaneko]

Our good friend and knight, Levian has decided to step down from his modding duties to pursue an acting career off-Broadway (not really) or he just needs time for other things, but regardless we'd just like to thank him for all the hard work he has put into the community for the past... however long it's been.

We hope you stop by and give us a hard time from time to time. And feel free to ask me to mess with Psychotic's account whenever you like.

[WarrenW]

Thank you all for participating in our PS3 Giveaway. Please extend a congratulations to starseeker, who won our $599 PS3 package!! We'll be contacting her about shipping details shortly.

Enjoy our forums, and stay tuned!

[Al]

NECRO AND I MADE A NEW FORUM STYLE LOL!!

Note: It's not 100% ready, but we're tired of waiting for BoB to upload the rest of the images 'cause we've been sitting on this thing for like a week.

Note2: Also, three new smilies:



It's called "Under the Sea,"btw. It is a masterpiece that may rival Fluffy Puff.

Also, this style would not be possible without the help of BoB and clout.

[Psychotic]

Did you know that KoShiatar is now a Cid's Knight? I did, but I'm just curious to see if YOU knew.

[Loony BoB]

Due to intense feedback in our staff evaluations we have removed the 66x66 setting which was set up by some renegade staff member(s) and set it back to 60x60. Thanks for your input, folks, and we'll keep reading evaluations over and making effective decisions roughly if at all based on your feedback.

[Yamaneko]

You can now upload custom avatars with a width and height of 66x66 and a total size of 10kb, as opposed to the previous limitations of 60x60 and 6kb, respectively. That's like an 80% increase in file size and a 10% increase in dimensions! Who else would provide such great value at the low low price of free other than the Eyes on staff?

And remember, animated gifs are the way to win my heart.

And don't forget to keep sending us those staff evals. They're providing helpful feedback that we will use to better your forum-going experience.
(Increased avatar size is an example of bettered forum-going experience directly aided by staff evaluations)

[theundeadhero]

Some people think the Administration at EOFF (or even EoFF if you're picky) are the greatest things on Earth. I can't think of anyone specific, but they do. Some people think we're absolutely horrible, but they're terrified to tell us because they're afraid of the *smite*. Others have no problem telling us exactly what they think. Especially Raistlin, but nobody listens to him anyway. We've brought back the Staff Feedback Form so you can tell us exactly how you feel about the forum, and each one of us individually. It's an anonymous survey so there's no need to worry. Just follow the link at the bottom of this thread, fill it out, and send it in. You don't have to answer every question, but we really hope you do. We're also hoping most of you take this seriously, so please do.

Forum Staff Feedback Form

[WarrenW]

The EoFF staff has been working hard in order to bring you a new front page, which was just updated yesterday. Now, your favorite stories are displayed on a separate page.

Next, we'll be working on allow us to contribute user content to the front page, so that you can contribute your stuff for the world to see!

Meanwhile, we've also added Digg buttons to our front site stories. If you want to support EoFF, please simply click the Digg button and digg our stories so that more people gets to read our good stuff and come visit us

Thanks!!
Warren

[WarrenW]

The banner competition for the premium members have now been completed! Thanks to Behold the Void for running this competition for us and to Polaris and snakebite who provided us with the banners that we are now using!

Also, thanks to all the other entrants who have submitted a banner but was not used - we definiately appreciate your entry!

For 3 days, we will once again make these skins available to everyone, so that you can enjoy the hardwork of our entrants!

[Del Murder]

Congratulations to _______ for their recent unbanning. Your job, faithful members, is to figure out who fills in the blank. Votes as always are sent to Quina.

[WarrenW]

Hi all,

The period for trying out the new skins has ended. If you want to enter the banner competition to juice them up a bit for your fellow members, and also win a 1 Year Premium Membership, please PM Behold the Void to get this extend for another 2-3 weeks.

Thanks!
Warren

[WarrenW]

Premium memers of eyesonff.com will now receive free email forwarding for life to your_username@eyesonff.com.

Please PM me if you are a premium member with the address that you'd like to forward to.

[WarrenW]

The new skins from the premium members are now available for you guys to look at and try out for 3 days (ending 11:59 on Saturday).

Members who are in the banner competition: please PM Behold the Void to get this extend for another 2-3 weeks.

[Behold the Void]

Eyes on Final Fantasy has new skins, and is now in need of new banners as well. Head over to the Banner Competition thread and see if you can't contribute to the cause. If your banner is picked, you get a free premium subscription for one whole year!

[WarrenW]