New Update coming to the site READ~!

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Hello everyone my name is Drebin dubious and I'm one of the new admins here at the Goon Squad.
I've been here for a while and I wrote a number of tutorials here on the site
the most popular one being the secret Arts of Dark Storm.
I'm a mass uploader and I specialize in mesh and animations.
 
I'm sending out this letter to all the members letting you guys know about the massive update that is about to come to the website.
 
As you may have noticed there's been a slight lag in the amount of items that have been posted on to the website. in its Heyday the previous admins would spend their own money and post some really good items and what they didn't buy they got from really good demos;
 
However those admins are no longer with us, and the quality of the Demos in Second Life has dropped significantly. Most all the good mesh has been chopped up or decimated to a state that is unusable for us, or they choose not to include one at all.
As most of the animators lean-towards Bento. the previous method I'm just playing the animation and extracting it doesn't apply like it did before
( I'm not saying it doesn't work all the time, but the success rate is fairly low)
this has really hit us hard in the posting department
 
As we new admins don't have the disposable income as our predecessors it's hard for us to acquire good items.
 
So what does this mean going forward?
Well that brings us to our update we are going to be removing the VIP membership from the site and replacing it with a new donor /sponsor system
 
We thought long and hard on the way to please both sides of the website
( you the users and the owners of the site)
On one hand we need the VIP funds to keep the site going, As these funds were used to keep the site going and pay for the security, the storage, and cocaine...
which is why we were rewarded the VIP members with the better items as a way to say thank you for helping us stay afloat.
 
On the other hand by rewarding only the VIP members with the good items that we found makes us just the same as the people who we are rebelling against.
You know giving the good items only two people who could pay for it and leaving out those who can't. This didn't sit well with us, so we came up with a system that we hope both sides like
 
Here's how it's going to work
On this new system you'll be given the option to pay a lower price than you're paying right now as a VIP member the funds you give will go directly into the upkeep of the website as well as acquiring better objects.
in short the more donations we get the more objects will be able to grab
( Bento animations. mesh bodies, rare gachas you know the good stuff)
 
Here is an example of some of the animation sets we were able to grab thanks to a donation that we received:
 
With this new system you'll also be able to choose whether or not you want to make a one-time donation or a monthly subscription.
Donate as much as you like or as little as you like either way it all goes to helping the community out as a whole which is been our mission.
 
Near the end of the month will take all the donations we receive during the time pool them together and buy as much content as we can with the donations.
 
A thread will be create it so that you can suggest the items that we buy that way we're able to grab the items that you really care about instead of filling the board with things that you don't.
 
we hope you'll cooperate with us
I want to see this board overflowing with good stuff and with your help will finally be able to get that done;
 
if you have any questions comments or concerns please feel free to reply and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
 
 
On a side note all previous VIP members, will recive a special title as our way of saying thank you for supporting us all this time without you guys we wouldn't be able to come this far.

(EDIT: Whoopsy daisy I forgot to include the animations)

.rar   Semotion Aos.rar (Size: 17.65 MB / Downloads: 93)
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#2
Oh! and another thing I forgot, we will also be adding in a bunch of Non SL content into the board, you know because knowlege and science and all that junk. :rollingeyes:
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#3
I totally understand what you are trying to accomplish, and respect the notion that "everyone" will be included as opposed to VIP only.  Membership will hopefully carry you along with your endeavor to acquire product. I am curious as to why temp avatar created from spoofed VM's and spoofed IP are not utilized with fake Linden. Just curious not finding fault.

From what I see on this web page VIP membership and goonsquad membership are the only two membership choices.. rather than one membership fee. Maybe I misunderstand or the new membership has not been implemented on this page.
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#4
Thanks to share :)
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#5
Hi @erasnuc

Please see STEP 3: TUTORIALS

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if you need assistance. Thank you.
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#6
ty thats great
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#7
One idea for you that may encourage members to donate a little and regular, is to separate the server costs and the goodies:
Show the server costs on main page and how much has been donated so far towards it.

Then once hit, have a poll on what members that have donated want to get, so you are always targeting the needs.

I have seen a similar system used on a free forum I used to be a member of, and they pretty much always met their costs every month as a minimum.

The donors had a badge for the month saying friends of, even if they only donated 2 dollars.

And maybe keep hydrastorm updated to latest version of FS even if no new features for non donators.

Just ideas anyway, best of luck going forward
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#8
That's a good idea, the problem is one firestorm updates pretty often and the team takes care to put in roadblocks to prevent the viewer from being converted into a special one. The time and effort it takes to override those modifications and get the viewer to work properly are HUGE and consuming.
This can be a challenge to dedicate the time since the main developer works multiple full-time jobs.
As ideal as it would be to be on the same update as Firestorm every time the team releases one would be great it's just not feasible.
Especially now during the pandemic, which made things worse.
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