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AlphaZealot

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Smashers,

After the recent attack on the site and downtime there have been many asking about how they can help, how they can donate money, and what they can do for the site. The outpouring of goodwill that the Smash community has shown, and has displayed for years and years, always sets it apart from others. Instead of worrying about donations though, it is preferred to simply call attention to two features on the site - one old and one new - that really help keep things running. This way, you can help Smashboards, but Smashboards can also help you! Or, at least, you get something in return for supporting the site.

Feature 1: Premium Membership
Premium Membership has been around for years...I think since about 2007 when the site really started to explode and Gideon was looking for a way to keep the server bill paid. It's changed in pricing and in features a bit since then but the mainstay has always been the community in the Disco Room. This year the Premium Membership fund was finally put to a long-awaited use by supporting Apex 2014, and more recently has helped with the costs associated with the downtime. It is an awesome way to both support the community and to get something in return.

The general features of Premium Membership are here:
  • 2X the space in your signature (New!)
  • 10X the conversation recipients: send to up to 50 people (New!)
  • No advertisements (New!)
  • 2.5X the size of your inbox - hold up to 5,000 messages
  • Two name changes every three months (for 1 month membership - just two name changes)
  • Ability to edit user title
  • Access to special PREMIUM ONLY ROOM on Smashboards
The pricing (note that 12 months is the best price)
1 month: $3
3 months: $5
6 months: $9
12 months: $15
Buy Premium Membership right now and support Smashboards!
You can see more about Premium Membership here!

Feature 2: Amazon aStore
The recently installed Amazon widget on the homepage sidebar is a chance for you to purchase items you may eventually purchase anyways, but with a referral from Smashboards. The store has been filled with items that every Smasher likely needs, from controllers, to consoles, to video capture equipment. It also has pre-orders for the upcoming games like the upcoming release of Smash Brothers Wii U or 3DS. If you are interested in any of these types of items anyways then purchasing through the Smashboards aStore is the way to go! If you can think of any items that Smashers needs that isn't in the store just let us know!
Go to the Smashboards aStore now and get the items you need! Every Smasher needs at least one more controller...or the Tri-wing screwdriver to fix the old ones!

Other updates
The downtime has still left a few house-cleaning items. Mainly, search needs to be rebuilt on our new servers and the support email is still down. These issues should both be worked out soon. There are some additional issues on the back-end that are being looked into for future protection, but with nearly every Smash site being hit and being unsuccessful in blocking the attack in August and September, it is tough to pinpoint what (within budget...) can be done to avoid things in the future. There are now local backups being taken, in addition to the ones taken on the server side daily, so the prospect of losing months+ of data should no longer be an issue (apologies for having some in a panic a few weeks ago).

We are continuing to keep things updated for both Smash Wii U/3DS when news comes out, as well as for Project M, including the new subforum for Roy! As always, the staff has been awesome through all of this and deserves everyones gratitude for keeping things working on a daily basis.

Also still looking into getting a frontpage up. And mobile. And Xenforo 1.2. The downtime put a damper on a lot of those plans, though it may have actually helped accelerate the frontpage setup. Our current skin is still not compatible with Xenforo 1.2, as such, any switch would be a drastic appearance change and we would also see at least a few broken plug ins. Progress is being made slowly, though.

Thanks Smashers for sticking with the site for all these years and helping make sure this is one of the best communities in gaming!


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