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After nearly two years, WebFlake is reopening its doors to the community. We're excited to renew this adventure with you all and are so thankful for your love and commitment. We've heard your voices, and we've missed you too. Let's cover some important questions! What is the new domain name; what happened to WebFlakeSX? We no longer own the WebFlakeSX domain or Twitter/X account. Regrettably, we allowed the domain to lapse, and it was promptly snatched by one of the many domain squatters that hold beleaguered domains ransom. We have no desire to pay the fees required to recollect that domain, so we have moved on to the dev extension, WebFlake.dev, and have launched a new Twitter/X account https://twitter.com/WebFlakeHQ. Why is WebFlake returning; why now? You. That's the simple truth. WebFlake stood as a bastion for ingenuity, creativity, and ambition. Our community and webmasters everywhere still need us. Are you affiliated with the other WebFlake sites? No. We never were and never will be. It goes without saying that none of us expected our community or the market to just sit on their hands after WebFlake's closure. We fully respect and appreciate the efforts to provide a spiritual successor or an entirely new home for interested users. What we are absolutely uncomfortable with, are the two communities that thought it prudent to use our branding, our identity, and attempt to be us. Whether their intention was to defraud you or simply to take up the reins, their combined lack of success and egregious lack of respect for every one of us that made WebFlake possible is what is important here. Neither community acknowledged that they were not the original WebFlake and both communities made concerted efforts to effectively copy/paste elements of this community. We won't ban you for participating in their charade provided you do not advertise or discuss those communities on any of our platforms. We do strongly encourage you to avoid being deceived or preyed upon. You don't have to choose us over them, there are other options — just don't encourage or facilitate their unscrupulous endeavors. What can we expect with WebFlake's relaunch? WebFlake closed in January 2022. With that in mind, we ask that you temper your expectations. We've restored the website as it were twenty months ago in its totality. Users, donations, topics, posts, reputation, files, and everything in between is intact. We've upgraded the core and the database to current versions. We've also just completed a total overhaul of our member groups, updated our original theme, and are continuing to make a number of other modifications and improvements to our community. You can see some of those changes listed in our Release Notes, here: WebFlake Release Notes - 7.0.0 What are your plans going forward? We want to place more emphasis on quality of life and community. We recognize that our approach prior to closing last January wasn't the best and we have immense room for improvement. In the pipeline are minor things like relaxed guidelines and larger things like crowdfunding. We're also contemplating expanding our brand into other web-related ventures; more info on this to come. In the meantime, we want to ensure that we begin making up for lost time. What can I do to help out with the relaunch? Content. Come say hi, submit a file, answer a question, or join us on Discord. If you have a spare server boost or two for Discord, we would appreciate it if you applied them to WebFlake to enhance the user experience there. Do remember that you are under no obligation to contribute but know that you would have our undying gratitude. Additionally, you can promote our relaunch on social media and with your connections. We do not condone spamming other communities or Discord servers; be respectful. What if I encounter bugs or things aren't working as they should be? If you encounter any bugs, please report them on our Bug Tracker, here: https://webflake.dev/forums/bug-tracker. If you think you can help us improve the community, we'd love to hear your thoughts; submit them via our Ideas page here: https://webflake.dev/forums/ideas Who is managing WebFlake now? Tony, James, Logan, Cookie Monster, and GradientWizzard. To be clear, this means that Phun has retired and will no longer be involved with WebFlake in any capacity. He may stop by to say hello on occasion, but he is no longer representing or assisting in the management of WebFlake. What if I have a question that isn't covered here? Feel free to ask away on Discord or the forums, and we will answer those questions to the best of our ability.

Imagine my surprise googling for some skin and seeing webflake in the results. Attempted to register and found that email is taken. I'm thinking wth... I try to log in and wham The real WF just as I left it. Cool xmas gift. Welcome back.

Whether it's the warmth of friendship, the joy of shared moments, or the support we find in one another, let's cherish the ties that make our community so special. May your day be filled with laughter, love, and delicious moments with loved ones. Here's to a season of gratitude and togetherness. Wishing you all a bountiful and Happy Thanksgiving!

Updated to Invision Community 4.7.13 and all available apps/plugins. This includes several new features, notably: Improvements to solved topics with new notifications, a total solved topics count in profile, plus the ability to see a user's solved posts. Users will now receive a notification when their content is moderated (locked, deleted, moved, etc), for verbal warnings, updates to our community guidelines, when new forums are added, subscription adjustments, etc. Additionally, with the new Alerts system, moderators can generate popup messages to members for a variety of reasons like notices about reports, reminders, etc. Support topics can now be filtered by un/solved and can also be filtered in the Activity Stream. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and account deletion requests are now baked in and available. Users can log in with display name or email. Posts from staff are now highlighted in topic view. Push notifications via web browser for users who opt-in. Migrated from Advanced Tags & Prefixes to Radical Tags. This new system is slightly limited but is the only alternative given that ATP is now abandonware. Upgraded our WebFlake N3XT theme to V3 and stylized to reflect the new home page with several minor CSS adjustments. Integrated Invision's new Achievements & Ranks system. This new system is now our default progression system, and all permissions are now tied to individual ranks. This system includes 14 total ranks (including the base rank of Newbie), 16 obtainable badges, and 12 obtainable achievements. Member groups are no longer displayed (except for Staff). User ranks (and their current XP) are displayed in-topic, on profiles, and in the user menu. With the exception of the number of points required to progress to Rookie (lowered to 20), all required point totals for each rank have been left unadjusted. Users can earn points based on a number of activities on the site. The following is a list of how points can be earned and is subject to change: Comment/reply posted 1 Point Comment/reply posted is the user's 1st comment/reply 5 Points Comment/reply posted is the user's 10th comment/reply 10 Points Comment/reply posted is the user's 500th comment/reply 50 Points Content item followed 1 Point Followed by another Member 1 Point Member reaches 10 followers 5 Points Following a Node (forum for example) 1 Point File posted 3 Points Topic posted 1 Point Topic posted is the user's 1st Topic 10 Points File posted is the user's 1st File 10 Points Reaction Received 1 Point Reaction received is the user's 100th reaction 20 Points User signs in and they have logged in for concurrently for 7 days 5 Points Best answer 3 Points Best answer is the user's 10th best answer 10 Points Some of the activities listed above will generate unique badges that are displayed on your profile. The following is a catalogue of available badges: The first four badges are only available by manual assignment. Moving from Newbie to Rookie can be done quickly with one topic and one approved file submission. The intention here is to encourage activity among lurkers. You can continue to lurk, but you won't be able to rank up passively. We cannot stress this enough: this system is subject to change at any time. If it seems too tough at first, or too easy, we will adjust as we receive feedback. Donator ranks are unaffected by the ranking system although they are still able to progress through the ranks as a form of recognition. We've moved away from our traditional tracker system for suggestions/ideas and are now using a vote-based system for users to offer new ideas for WebFlake. Access our Ideas platform here: https://webflake.dev/forums/ideas We've tentatively reenabled our Staff Applications page (webflake.dev/forums/apply) but as with all things, there may be bugs so please report them as you encounter them. DISCORD: We've reopened several channels on Discord but do not yet have everything configured. Feel free to join us there though! In the coming weeks, we will transition to the Server Guide feature with configurable alerts/channels. STAFF UPDATE: As a matter of formality, our team now consists of: @ Tony -> Lead Administrator @ James -> Administrator @ Logan_Rocks -> Senior Moderator @ Cookie Monster -> Moderator @ GradientWizzard -> Moderator View full release