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We've created a Tulpa.info discord channel! This channel is in the very early stages of development. Please feel free to give your comments and suggestions in #server-discussion
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Here's tulpa.info's public invite link; feel free to use it when inviting others: https://discord.gg/eDnKaP7
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Due to the growing size of the server, we've decided to make some changes to the staff. @Beckett, @Clo and @Reguile have been added as chat moderators. Apollo and the Felight system (@Felight) are now global moderators (forum and chat). cardscov has been removed from the staff due to inactivity but will likely rejoin in the coming months. (edited)
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We now have a second off-topic channel, #general-chat, for when things get busy/rowdy in #lounge or you're just not interested in whatever conversation is going on in there. By the end of the year we'll have 50 of these.
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@Jas (and cardscov) have rejoined the staff as chat moderators.
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Welcome to the 2018 tulpa community census. The questions below are intended to gauge general information about the community - demographics, tulpa development, and so on. The data will be anonymised and made publicly available when the survey is done. Please answer as much ...
Here's the link to this year's community census form. If you have any questions about this, feel free to message waffles. 2013-2015 census results (waffles' thread) 2013-2015 results (Reddit link) 201
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Looking for new GAT (Guide Approval Team) members - https://community.tulpa.info/thread-new-gat-contributors-manager-future
People have been somewhat concerned about how slowly the wheels of the GAT turn recently (for a while I guess); this is because most people on the GAT currently are inactive (including me). So, this i
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Vampire has been removed from the staff due to inactivity.
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Srn347 has been added as a Global Moderator (chat and forums)
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Winter has been removed from the staff due to inactivity and jean-luc is now a forum moderator.
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Harleen has resigned from the staff.
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We've added Tupperware to the server. You can read more about how to use it here: https://github.com/kartelant/Tupperware You can play around with it in #tupperbox-pluralkit (edited)
A Discord bot created for tulpas/systems users and their communities. - kartelant/Tupperware
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Vos has decided to step down as administrator on tulpa.info. For the past four years, she’s been one of the most active staff members, first as a moderator, then a global moderator, and finally -- sta
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@Beckett has rejoined the staff as chat moderator
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We are officially beginning the recruitment of new Guide Approval Team members. https://community.tulpa.info/thread-gat-recruitment-thread
GAT Recruitment Thread Read about the GAT here. In this thread, interested users may apply to become a GAT member. To do this, all you have to do is make a case on why you think you would make a good
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We've posted an update to the Guide Approval Team, with a timeline of what to expect: https://community.tulpa.info/thread-gat-status-apply-today
There have been some questions on the status of the Guide Approval Team, so I just wanted to post this topic to give you a quick update and encourage people to keep applying. We are currently acceptin
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There is now a "Voicers" role. If you want to be pinged when a voice call is happening, assign this role to yourself in #rolebot
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Hey everyone. Last night we turned on slow mode as a bit of an experiment to find a way to help ensure that people spoke with a lot more care when sending messages and see if we could discourage shitposting. We expected a negative reaction to some degree, but the responses we have gotten on the feedback are pretty well unified and pretty clear. You do not like slowmode at all, and we are going to turn it off as a result. I'm sorry for any trouble it caused you in the meantime.
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@A long kiss goodnight is now part of the @Forum Mod (edited)
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@kw has returned as an @Administrator
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We have retired the meditation channel, as it hasn't been used much at all. You are encouraged to post meditation-related resources in #resources and feel free to discuss meditation throughout the other channels as it seems you already have been.
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cardscov (Jas) has been removed from the staff due to inactivity.
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@Beckett and @solarchariot have been removed from the staff due to inactivity.
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@Deleted User has joined the staff as a chat moderator.
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We're adding a rule on names and avatars: Do not use inappropriate avatars or usernames. This includes anything sexual, offensive, or containing hate speech.
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Have to switch everyone over to the default MyBB theme due to a bug, you can switch back after you log in. More details here: https://community.tulpa.info/thread-future-of-upgrades-and-forum-software
Update: Due to some major login issues some users are experiencing that appear to be coming from several points of entry in our current theme, we have to actually switch to the default theme. Once you
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We've added the #forum-rss channel - this uses the Discord.RSS bot to let you know when new threads (in General Discussion, Questions & Answers, and Research) have been created. We're also using it in #guide-discussion for new guide submissions. (edited)
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Dear .info, Earlier this month I touched on our plans for the future; namely, we're going to switching away from MyBB and move to Invision Community (formally known as Invision Power Board, which is w
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If you see anyone (especially new users) posting suspicious links, please notify a @Chat Mod through pings or DMs. (edited)
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I wanted to draw attention to this great #tulpa-research opportunity: https://community.tulpa.info/thread-stanford-tulpa-study-my-experience-and-looking-for-more-participants (if you're chosen they'll pay for travel and lodging!) (edited)
The event was 3 days long: 2 for travel, and 1 day for scans and interview. I flew in in the evening, and caught a university paid Uber to the hotel. It was in the afternoon at this point. The flight
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#beginners is now #tulpa-questions - some people were confused as to where non-beginner questions / calls for advice should go, so now we have something that lines up better with our forum boards.
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Hey everyone, thought I'd give some updates. We are finally ready to do the migration! We're going to be doing the migration in late December / Early January, likely around the 26th or 27th into Janua
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Tulpa.info's migration has been completed! You can view the announcement here: https://community.tulpa.info/topic/15664-migration-complete/ I also created a new board where you can ask questions about the software, and get some technical support, or find alternatives to solutions that you used with MyBB: https://community.tulpa.info/forum/43-invision-community-q-a/
Hey everyone! We moved to the new forum! Theres two themes, this dark one then the default Invision Community theme. Feel free to play around with the site; theres still lots of stuff to do, but heres some quick notes: Youll need to re-link your accounts, but avatars and bios...
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https://community.tulpa.info/topic/15686-oldtulpainfo-exists-now/ So I got an archive of the old forums up. I also upgraded Invision Community already, and told a pretty fun story.
Story time! As I mentioned, I was going to have our MyBB forum hosted at old.tulpa.info so people can reference it (mostly if something happened to not make it over). Except I noticed that MyBB was now out of date. Well, this was an update that we would have had to do anyway ...
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If someone sends you a QR code claiming to be a free gift, delete it. Do not use the mobile Discord app to scan QR codes you didn't generate. There isn't a free gift. You'll log whoever generated the code into your account.
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jean-luc has resigned from the staff as a forum mod.
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https://community.tulpa.info/topic/16067-forums-stepped-back-9-hours/?tab=comments#comment-296071 The forums had to be stepped back 9 hours. I'm working to PM you all of your posts made between those times.
There was an issue that resulted in Beginner Questions General being permanently deleted, and the last backup was about 9 hours ago. While we think weve solved that issue to prevent it from happening again, the restore removed the posts from the last 9 hours. Before we did the...
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Im proud to announce that the Tulpa.info Java Edition Minecraft Server -- mc.tulpa.info -- is officially online! Features ~Advanced Achievements~ Extends the standard Minecraft Achievement system. Earn rewards for playing. ~Enhanced Water-related Features~ Diving helmets, whic...
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We now have a #games channel for Tulpa.info's MC/CSS servers and game nights.
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There's now an assignable @Games role for #rolebot if you want to set up game sessions with others.
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We now have an official merch shop, because who wouldn't want a Tulpa.info mug? To celebrate, we're doing 15% all merch for 14 days! All proceeds go directly to tulpa.info. Soon (ideally the next week), I'm hoping to present a roadmap for the community and update our patreon and donation page to better explain what the money is going towards and where we stand financially (going to also roll out more perks for our patreons like a custom Patron role in the discord in addition to the forums). But for now, I am totally buying a mug for my espresso.... and a polo... and a tshirt... https://shop.spreadshirt.com/tulpainfo/
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@JGC has been added to the staff as a global moderator.
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We now have a DISBOARD listing, you can view (and review) here: https://disboard.org/server/431579755037589505 The server can be bumped every 2 hours or so using !d bump. I created a channel called #disboard in the bot section for that purpose, similar to the other bot channels. Any new members invited to this server will end up in the #general-chat so be sure to welcome them! EDIT: Pulling it off for right now, pending more discussion. Please stay tuned. (edited)
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To make some things a bit clearer for individuals, we renamed the following boards on community.tulpa.info: Forum Questions & Comments -> Community Feedback Invision Community Q & A -> Invision Support Questions and Answers -> Tulpa Questions https://community.tulpa.info/topic/16584-community-tulpa-question-board-names-have-been-changed/
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@Reguile is now an Administrator.
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A new policy has been made for the Forums, and I updated the guidelines related to the chat. You can read about the new policy on the forums here: https://community.tulpa.info/topic/16675-new-procedures-for-reviving-old-threads-or-duplicating-existing-topics As for the chat, we've changed the way our warning system will work:
The Tulpa.info Discord Warning System Breaking the rules may result in an addition to your warning level. Most offenses will be 1 point, or 2 points for a few more serious offenses or too many repeat offenses. Action will be taken when you reach certain warning checkpoints. • 1 Point: 20 minute mute • 2 Points: 1 hour mute • 3 Points: 12 hours mute • 4 Points: 24 hour mute • 5 Points and onwards: 3 day temporary ban from chat. Note: Certain actions may result in a sooner ban on the chat and forums, such as mute/ban evasion, impersonating a staff member, trolling, spamming, or other serious actions at the moderators' discretion.
This has been updated in #old-rules and on the guidelines: https://community.tulpa.info/guidelines/
As discussed in the Reviving Old Threads topic, we are clarifying policy on necroposting/duplicating threads. As of now, the following policies are in place: The Beginner Questions General thread has been retired, and replaced with a new Beginner Tulpa Questions board, which is a sub board of Tul...
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@Nat Osaka and @Hector Osaka are now chat moderators.
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JGC has stepped down as moderator.
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Merry Christmas Tulpa.info!
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@A long kiss goodnight is now a Global Moderator (chat + forums)
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@Koi is now a chat moderator.
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Taking the forums down for emergency maintenance.
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Weve updated from Invision Community 4.4 to Invision Community 4.5. They considered this a major upgrade, and changed a ton of stuff. I was holding off until Feb to upgrade for stability, but a security update came out, and we need those asap. Thankfully, after a small FTP hiccup, the upgrade wen...
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Pending dark theme fixes we’re making the light theme the default on forums
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Heads up: We are starting to use a new feature of the Vortex moderation bot that logs deleted messages and edits in discord. Going forward, if you delete or edit a message in this server it will be logged and visible to the active moderators.
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Heads up: We are starting to use a new feature of the Vortex moderation bot that logs deleted messages and edits in discord. Going forward, if you delete or edit a message in this server it will be logged and visible to the active moderators.
It’s been disabled
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We've added an #events channel! If you're interested in participating in any upcoming community events (you can also view the events in our community calendar: https://community.tulpa.info/calendar/). We'll be updating that channel periodically. We also have the following self-assignable roles via #rolebot: @Movies and @Games that will be pinged in that channel for relevant updates.
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More and more often, #lounge and #general-chat are both becoming active, so we now have #patio, which has the same rules as the aforementioned two.
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As a reminder, the best way to get a staff member's attention is to use the @Chat Mod or @Administrator pings. Just hoping one of us will show up will not work reliably.
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We normally don't post moderator reports in this channel, but with the context of this one, I think it's necessary: https://community.tulpa.info/topic/1428-moderator-reports/page/12/?tab=comments#comment-333452
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We have a new #lotpw channel that will have a description eventually. Like meta, you can opt-out of seeing this channel by giving yourself the @Hide LOTPW role through #rolebot.
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The GAT category has been closed and the GAT, retired along with GAT-Announcements. #guide-discussion has been moved to the DISCUSSION category, we now have a #tulpa-questions-2 as overflow for #tulpa-questions and we have a new channel -- #general-discussion (the noun, not the verb) -- for more serious discussion.
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For those of you with 0 posts on the forums, please read this, and either reply to it or post an introduction on the forum to allow continued editing of your signature / "About Me" section: https://community.tulpa.info/topic/16910-new-anti-spam-measures-if-you-have-0-posts-read-this/
Recently, theres been a new kind of spam on the forums. Bad actors would sign up to tulpa.info, never post, but quietly edit their About Me and Signature to point to nasty sites or promote products. Then, they would spam links to their tulpa.info profiles on other websites to indirectly have sear...
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This has been initiated, but the software is slow so it'll take a while to move everyone. If your account suddenly says you're a New Member don't worry, it's just transitional and you are still able to edit things on your profile until the process is complete. EDIT: I think it's done lol (edited)
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@Darron/Jaina is now a forum moderator.
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#patio has been archived
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Nat Osaka pinned a message to this channel. 9/11/2021 9:38 AM
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There's a new hack going around Discord that involves you viewing a DM which results in your account data being compromised. If you have 2FA, you are NOT any safer as the hack bypasses 2FA as well. It could even be your friend who has been hacked. It seems to affect only Android clients and not PC, so you're probably safe on them, but no promises.
  • Do not open any unknown DMs on Android
  • Ideally, do not open any DMs on Android
  • Even more ideally, do not use Android Discord for the time being*
Please stay safe and spread this message. *if you want to keep using Android Discord, below is a demonstration of how to disable media preview settings:
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The Osaka System (Nat, Hector, Nia) have resigned as moderators from Tulpa.info.
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There's a discord hack attack going around and someone I know in-person has been affected by this hack. Based on what a friend of the victim found out, the hack will take over your account, steal your information, DM people in your DMs list, and then present an .exe file as a 'game they created'. From what I gathered from the victim, the hack bought nitro using their Discord account information. The .exe file looks like the game Askara, but the .exe is designed to steal Discord tokens, Minecraft accounts, log your IP, and other things. I censored the account name because it could be someone's old account before it was hacked. Please make sure you change your privacy settings to scan everything from friends, enable 2fa if you haven't already, and make sure you're using a strong password.
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Changed the wording of the NSFW rule. Instead of
No posting of explicit material, and no posting of 'mature' sex-related content except in the appropriate areas.
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No posting of sexually explicit or gory material. Discussion of adult topics is fine as long as it's kept very SFW.
This was because we don't have any "appropriate areas" to post this material, and it was a carryover from the IRC days.
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Fixed the dark theme on the forums and introduced a new member role, the details to that are as follows:
To help keep the peace when a Chat or Forum Mod isn't around, we've decided to try a new staff role, whom on the forums has the ability to hide member content pending moderator deletion/restoration, and on discord has the ability to mute individuals. As a homage to our IRC days, the name of this new role will be a "Half Op" (or HOP). I've told the HOPs that they are free to use their best judgement to step in, so if some action needs to be taken in the moment when nobody else is around, they can do. Mutes are intended to de-escalate a situation if nobody is listening. If you end up being muted by a HOP, whether their judgement call was good or bad, you will not have a strike or any form of punishment against your account due to that mute. However, there is a chance if you were muted for breaking some rules, a Moderator will likely review the situation once one is actually online.
More Info: https://community.tulpa.info/topic/17570-working-dark-theme-new-member-role/
First, let's get this out of the way: We now have a working Dark Theme A security update came out, and I upgraded the forum again. It utterly destroyed the Surface Dark theme though, which was already on its way out for a while now. I decided to go ahead and clone the default Invision Community t...
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Disboard is back! We now (again) have a DISBOARD listing, you can view (and review) here: https://disboard.org/server/431579755037589505 The server can be bumped every 2 hours or so using /bump. I created a channel called #disboard in the bot section for that purpose, similar to the other bot channels. Any new members invited to this server will end up in the #general-chat so be sure to welcome them!
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for context: discord has been falsely ip banning people for changing their pfp or anything on their profile, DO NOT change your profile picture for the time being and spread this around. https://t.co/i0nsAn7fp3 https://t.co/L9h0ykLWz9 https://t.co/32VuC9EI8I
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The discord status website says that this issue has been resolved
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We have a new #mature channel for more adult discussions -- please visit #reaction-roles and try subscribing to it please. Rules are in the channel's description and our current #old-rules have been updated to reflect the channel.
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@Reisen et al. has been brought on as Community Managers. They've been a member of this community for close to a decade and have contributed significantly over the years. I'm glad to have them on board.
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Hello everyone! There is a new set up rules up and running over in #rules We've also made a few changes to the channel layout. There are now two more serious in tone channels #general-chat and #general-discussion instead of #cafe and #study.
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If anyone is interested in helping to donate, we've created a new @Patron group to recognize you. Anyone who's been previously donating, we didn't add you to this group (but are reaching out to ask if you want to be added), but anyone who donates starting now will be added automatically if I can find out what your discord + forum account is, unless you tell me not to 🙂 https://community.tulpa.info/topic/17834-tulpainfo-needs-your-help-a-call-for-donations-new-discord-patron-role/
Hey everyone! If tulpa.info has helped you and you would like to give something back, we could very much use some help. I normally try to stray away from making these topics, though we're running into a bit of a financial situation. Currently tulpa.info's hosting costs (which includes the domain,...
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Merry Christmas
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and Happy New Year
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Also in the chaos of recent, two things weren't announced: 1) we removed the #mature channel 1) @Reisen is now a chat admin I'd like to apologize (including to @Reisen ) for not posting that here. I'll work to be more consistent with announcements here instead of server discussion moving forward.
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I (Luminesce) am the host, but just FYI this account will periodically be used by my tulpas as well and the name will change (But you can @ Reisen#0001 any time!)
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Upgrading the webserver that .info is on, forums are going down. But then when the forums go back up, I'm upgrading the forums and making some changes in preparation for an upcoming surprise 😉
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We had to update the server from one version of php to another, and it took longer than expected. We also had to update the forum itself, which took slightly quicker. But a couple other big announcements: We are testing a new guide system! We are retiring the GAT and moving to community-based vot...
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Ranger has stepped down as Community Manager and has left the community, as it was becoming stressful for her; AZ is also no longer a Moderator for the time being due to inactivity but they're both more than welcomed to come back if they'd like to. Both of these people have done significant help to the community and I can never thank them enough.
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We've enabled Community mode for the server, and gained access to some pretty fancy features - namely, the ability to create Forum Channels! Check out #questions-and-topics to ask or discuss things in a format better suited to extended discussion & question searchability!
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Discord Updates: Please Read There's been a good amount of updates today to the Discord Server. PluralKit We've added PluralKit along side Tupperbox, which you can configure in the #tupperbox-pluralkit channel. Please disable one before activating the other. Channel Updates Firstn off, I changed the name of the new-member channel to #newly-joined. Then, I created a proper introduction to this server in #welcome -- you should find a lot of information in there. I also created another reference channel called #what-is-a-tulpa since we get that question a lot 😉 I also removed the rolebot channels, but it's been replaced with something much nicer. New Role System and other Community Mode Features I finally got around to setting up some of the newer features of Community Mode. You'll find that the #rolebot and #role-react channels have been removed and replaced with Discord's built in Role system. To set your roles, simply click on the Channels & Roles listed above all of the other channel listings. There's also a new Server Guide section with some resources for you, and new members will have some onboarding tasks such as visiting some aforementioned channels. Disbord Survey Last, but certainly not least: If you joined this server via Disboard, and you remember which tag you found us on, would you mind filling out a one-question survey just letting me know which tag it was? I'm trying to figure out which tags work and which tags don't for our listing. Thank you 🙏 https://forms.gle/CeDJpwsQQcPGxajQ8 If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to post them in #server-discussion
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The server hit 2,000 members 🎉
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@Movies Night is back! Saturday 9pm EST: Cats Don't Dance 🐈🚫🕺 After a hiatus, Movie Night is BACK! Please join us at 9PM Eastern on Saturday, April 29th to watch Cats Don't Dance. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7KpF7BF0ew Description: Danny, an ambitious singing and dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star. Tulpa Movie Night will be hosted at https://cytu.be/r/tulpamovienight Here's a link to the event page: https://community.tulpa.info/calendar/event/2-tulpa-movie-night/ If for some reason your local time doesn't appear, check this link: https://dateful.com/convert/new-york?t=9pm When Saturday rolls around, at the time of the event, I'll post in #server-discussion that it's happening for those here. NOTE: I know I'm posting this in Announcements, if I can be consistent with doing events again I'll bring back the #events channel P.S. I know timezones are hard. If there's enough interest, we can look at having two showings for movienights, one for each half of the world 🙂 EDIT: I just realized, we have an event system! https://discord.gg/ETqZqfnK?event=1100840311346974871 (edited)
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Another Movie Night this Saturday: FernGully! The last one had a big turnout and it was pretty fun! Details, including the time in your timezone, are in the attached discord event. If you join a half hour early, we're going to be playing some short films leading up to the feature. One note: If you're outside the US and you often encounter one of those "This video is blocked in your country", you may need a VPN when it's time to watch the movie. https://discord.gg/gNKxPrNV?event=1105979158091276298
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First off, a MAJOR thank you to @Ranger (the last holdout of the GAT) who single-handedly spearheaded this. And now, for the announcement. After careful review of the Community Feedback Survey, and a long and slow process of developing a more streamlined system, we have officially retired the Gui...
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Also we have a new channel called #tech
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@Srn347 has stepped down as a moderator, and I'm very thankful for their help over the years. @Drake (DustyAngel47) is now a chat moderator and @Rusty is an HOP again!
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@A long kiss goodnight and @Drake (DustyAngel47) have stepped down as moderators. Ranger has been instrumental to this community over the years, and I'm grateful for her time helping. I'm also very thankful for Drake's contributions.
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Tewi: Make double sure to @moderator or us directly (if we're online) if any problems come up so we can deal with or prevent them in a timely manner, please! (edited)
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Introducing Tulpa.Social

People were mentioning that they wished there was a tulpa-friendly social network like plural.cafe, but their registrations were disabled, so I created https://tulpa.social It's federated, so you can follow people on here if you have your own instance. I'm also going to be moving Tulpa.info's official Twitter to here in the near future.
Tulpa-friendly mastodon server
http://t.co/6c9qpVyZGX is the leading resource for a psychological approach to the Tulpæ Phenomenon.
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Things have sort of gone off the rails the last few days/weeks, so I've shut the server down. The forums are still alive and well if you'd like to check them out: https://community.tulpa.info/ If you're looking for tulpa advice on discord, check out Redditulpas: https://discord.com/invite/wTH9p3Dc99 (We also have a #server-hub ) (edited)
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Dear community: This is my very first (and probably last) @everyone ping in this server. After a great deal of thought and reflection, I've decided not to re-open the Tulpa.info Discord server. I started .info in April 2012 -- over a decade ago -- with a companion forum and IRC channel. Over the years we've had ups and downs, and when the wind was blowing towards Discord, we ultimately moved in that direction. I could never really get into Discord though; maybe it's just because I'm getting older, maybe it's because I was also used to the pace of forums and IRC. The past couple years things have been pretty stressful, even when Reisen wasn't an admin, and when Reg wasn't moderating "silly" stuff. In October 2022, we actually came very close to shutting down. We had the ruleset that we've always had, but the community was exploding in drama and behind the scenes there was a lot of internal conflict too based on things that happened in between September and October. Ranger (our last active staff member aside from myself) was about to resign if we didn't make drastic changes. It was at this point Reg asked for permission to try doing things his way. I also asked Reisen's system to join as community manager. This is around the time the new ruleset was made and Reg started to become more active. Things were starting to get a little better, but more conflict and chaos in late December early January (I think a member was muted for something which led to weeks of server-discussion exploding again). This resulted in the promotion of Reisen et al. to admin and I believe the resignation of Ranger.
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I feel like things were relatively stable for a bit. The drama was subsiding, I felt like the community was happier, and for the first time in a while I was actually talking in the channels again and being motivated to work on things in .info. Ranger even came back as a moderator. But internal disagreements in the staff channel on action or inaction started to raise tensions again. When those disagreements reached a breaking point they bled out into the community channels, and you can read about them in the very channels of this server. I'm frustrated with how all of this came down, I can see both sides of those arguments and I admit I was often participating in them (even against other admins) at times too. Eventually we lost all of our moderators except for admins and Rusty. Reg was busy with IRL stuff during most of this. Reisen et al. and I were dreading the discord (and had been for the last 3 months) and all of these timelines strangely correlate to my Apple Health app's resting heartrate being elevated. Then some things were said by another staff member, there was more back and forth, and it seemed like every time I checked the server, it was Reisen et al. arguing with members. While KitKat was saying "that's more than 10 words", I was pleading the same in our moderation channel. Someone always had to get the last word in. Multiple times in the last couple weeks I would be out driving to try and de-stress, and then my phone would blow up with DMs with people asking me to get into Discord and deal with whatever was going on, or the moderation channel would blow up and people were demanding my response ASAP because of something another staff member said in a public channel and they needed to use a quote that I said somewhere to refute what that staff member, I would have to keep pulling over into parking lots and try to deal with all this.
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Then the night I shut things down, I was also driving when a raider came in and spammed horribly inappropriate images in the main channel. It took over 20 minutes before it was gone. That led to more arguments in the main channel, a lot was going on. While everyone was arguing with Reisen et al. over recent actions in lounge, the administrators were arguing in the mod channel over how to handle the tone of the server and removing "sillyposting" and stuff. Reisen et al. has been arguing for months to change the name of #general-chat to #serious-chat, general-discussion to something else, and #lounge to #general-chat and just handle the general channel like every other discord channel does. Then just allow any sort of discussion in everything except for #serious. The argument against that was that this server would just be a clone of reddittulpas with just casual reaction images everywhere in every channel and a dead #serious channel. I was considering giving that a try, though I knew that the moment I did it, Reg would resign, and then we would be left with just Reisen's system and I. Considering that recently silly-posting was only one specific point in the drama surrounding Reisen's system, I knew the result would be "still drama, now less admins".
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With our staff openly throwing shit at each other, with over a year of on and off drama, and with the risk of ruining my friendship with some members of the community being a real possibility, I was already considering shutting everything down. When I received a DM from a member pointing out that porn on the server from that raid can cause problems for me if it's not dealt with in time (they were requesting I make an executive decision vetoing Reisen and Reg's gridlock to fix the staff situation), it pushed me over the edge and I locked every channel. Nobody noticed it because the only active channel at the time was lounge, with staff actively throwing said shit at each other. I locked lounge last, and posted my announcement. I was told that the community was thriving in a private server in lieu of .info being closed, and that this was a great point that the issue isn't the community, it's the moderation. But I would like to point out that before October of 2022, the community was still at issue. Before we ever brought Reisen on; before we restructured the channels as per Reg's plan. That was a desperate situation and the community was close to closing then. Even if we reverted back to that point, we'll have more drama in the next 3 months. Someone said to me that it seems like this community is fantastic at making something out of nothing -- a true Tulpamancer skill.
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These days as I approach my mid-30s, life is getting more and more hectic, and the experience is shared between our other admins too. There's a good chance that if we re-opened, we would do so with adding the #serious channel and lifting the "sillyposting" rules. Then Reg would be gone. Reisen has already expressed that they have already been extremely stressed over the last three months, and I would not ask them to remain as an admin. I would be the only administrator left, and that's just not attainable. Maybe we can promote some members as moderators or HOPs, but everything would be left on me for admin stuff when drama comes up as it absolutely would. Once a year or so I'm told "Just do XYZ and it'll fix everything" and it doesn't. I've watched some members migrate over to Reddittulpas and they seemed to have embraced the community with open arms. I don't see anything that Tulpa.info provided that this server couldn't provide, at least in the way the current community wants us to be. Unfortunately I can't quite get into it though; I've noticed a pattern in the channels where some discussion starts to kick off, but then someone posts an emoji or gif of a cat, and then the next several messages are just "Kitty" or cuteposting. Is that a bad thing? Reg will read this and say that it is. Many reading this will certainly not; after all, it works for them. It might even work It may just be a generational thing; I'm used to IRC or the forums. Discord, which is more of a social media platform and a totally different style of posting and conversations. Not as fun.
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My main regret to keeping things shut down is that I've always had a grand vision for Tulpa.info, even since the very beginning. It never quite panned out; some of it is just life getting in the way, some of it is the forums dying down, most of it is my own fault for not staying on top of it. I still wish to see .info achieve that vision, but it doesn't look like that's ever going to pan out. Even things like community (I stopped the movie nights when people just weren't interested in showing up anymore). I still have a little voice inside my head (not Chess's) that says it will never happen if I close this up. Sure, we'll still have the forums (and I guess IRC), but most of the internet has moved to this platform. But at the same time, the last few days have been the least stressful (.info) days I've had in months. I can actually go for a drive without everything falling apart, I can work on my video games and other hobby projects and while my resting heartrate hasn't gone down, I've had more sleep. While this a break from Discord, it is not the end of tulpa.info. We still have a thriving forum and our IRC channels have been too neglected. We still have a minecraft server and I would still like to host events. And I'm still in some of the other discord servers, check out #server-hub to see what else is out there. And who knows, maybe someday the discord will open back up. Not any time soon though. Also I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to both @Staff and @ex-staff for everything you've done over the years. Words cannot express how grateful I am to have worked with you on this server. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, and if there's anything that you need that I could help with, please don't hesitate to DM me. Farewell, Pleeb. (edited)
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