Pascalla

@GillyTook Thank you. Oh gee, I didn't even realize/remember we can't mention the socials on the Neoboards, but you're right. Not sure if it's typical, but they didn't seem to post it on their socials anyway. I see they posted it on the NeoBoards though. Unfortunately, that's not an area of the site I frequent and is not too helpful for when the site is undergoing the actual maintenance.
It might be a lot more helpful if they notified users in a way that's a lot more visible. They have a lot of options for that. Not sure why they haven't been doing that. Something definitely worth addressing!

@Pascalla  I think I saw on reddit that they tend to make them somewhere on the neoboards or one of their social medias that you're not allowed to talk about on the boards.  Makes sense!

Where do they even make note about these maintenance runs? That I only find out about them when they're happening makes it seem like wherever they're saying it, if anywhere, is a bad place to put it. I did my dailies, thankfully, but as someone who logs in for the day near midnight this sure would have been not-so-great if I hadn't done them at 12 AM-ish today. I'm not seeing posts on the few Neopet social media accounts or anything either. Additionally, having the maintenance screen/pop up actually note the expected downtime would have been a better option. Nothing against TDN, of course, but shouldn't have your users have to go to fan sites to get information like this.
I used to think the site I'm usually on was maybe even excessive about how they let us know when they'll be doing maintenance, but now I see I've had it good. I'll have to thank them.

Where do they even make note about these maintenance runs? That I only find out about them when they're happening makes it seem like wherever they're saying it, if anywhere, is a bad place to put it. I did my dailies, thankfully, but as someone who logs in for the day near midnight this sure would have been not-so-great if I hadn't done them at 12 AM-ish today. I'm not seeing posts on the few Neopet social media accounts or anything either. Additionally, having the maintenance screen/pop up actually note the expected downtime would have been a better option. Nothing against TDN, of course, but shouldn't have your users have to go to fan sites to get information like this.
I used to think the site I'm usually on was maybe even excessive about how they let us know when they'll be doing maintenance, but now I see I've had it good. I'll have to thank them.

Is this what happened to your sister's account?  Does that mean they finally told her why she was frozen?
 
Seems it has happened to a few other people that I've seen while googling, but the TNT says VPMs are allowed.  Maybe suggest she start sending in tickets with a link to this saying "hey, you banned me for doing something you said was fine."

I've been trying to attach the pebble petpetpet from the advent calendar for so long. I decided it looked best with BlobWithFace the Blobikins rather than Uh-Oh the Christmas Rock, but the refreshing was getting to me. I was inspired by seeing someone with theirs in their shop, and got it out of storage. I played another game while refreshing, and noticed eventually that it was gone from my inventory. And here it is firmly attached! The neopet in question is named after a stuffed animal from the games with my siblings as a child. It's name was Thingy, and when i would draw it I gave it glasses.  It would be nice to name the pebble. 

Happy (belated) birthday, @Pascalla
 
The site has been taking up to 30 seconds to load/regularly not loading (504s or timing out errors) since the faerie festival for me.  Honestly I didn't even notice the difference caused by this, haha.
 
The tutorial is weird.  I'm being asked to activate my account, but it has been activated for decades now. . . 
Also, I seem to be still getting the same quests, so when I get to work (aka have time to do some) I'll have to see if I can get the reward on both sides, or just the one.
 
Edit again!  I'm fairly certain some of my weekly progress reset.  Quite interesting and irksome.  I want to say I had 3-ish of it, but now I only have one.  Hopefully that page doesn't reset when I get to work so I can confirm.  

Happy Birthday!
It appears to work the same way Trudy's Surprise does with a personal streak, so if you miss a day the weekly streak will reset (along with your weekly reward).

Well, at least both sides are still out in nature. I was really thinking of going for Illusen's side because my usual aesthetic is greenery, forests, and such. However, everything I did (dice, number generators, looking at the prize pool) pointed to Jhudora's festival, so I picked hers. I do really like Jhuidah though, so maybe that might have convinced me to go to Illusen's side, ha hah!
I agree. ;_; I mean, just because you're "grumpy" doesn't mean you don't know how to throw a "party", you know? If that was the case then why would Queen Fyora pick her to help plan the festival in the first place? That doesn't make sense.;;

i feel like they couldve at least made the faeries at jhudoras gothic festival look like they had more fun ;__; just cause hers is dark and gloomy doesnt mean it cant be fun
why is everyone sitting around looking sad and bored??

All of this is so cool! What a nice little glow up for Techos! The tails are pretty cool too! No tornado tail for wind elements though. :^C Would have looked kinda cool and worked well since the tail is more vertical, but oh well.
This is actually my first time seeing these Valentine's colors, so as it was, I thought it was pretty cute. Looking at the other Valentines pets so far though, I think at least a little bow or something on the tail at the very least could have been a cute little choice. Maybe a lil' techo bowtie. They could have thrown more of a little red in there to make it a little more dynamic or different-- red is associated with Valentines too, after all.
 

All of this is so cool! What a nice little glow up for Techos! The tails are pretty cool too! No tornado tail for wind elements though. :^C Would have looked kinda cool and worked well since the tail is more vertical, but oh well.
This is actually my first time seeing these Valentine's colors, so as it was, I thought it was pretty cute. Looking at the other Valentines pets so far though, I think at least a little bow or something on the tail at the very least could have been a cute little choice. Maybe a lil' techo bowtie. They could have thrown more of a little red in there to make it a little more dynamic or different-- red is associated with Valentines too, after all.
 

That valentine colour is kinda... plain, isn't it? Those people who says they've been simplifying the val pets more and more are kinda on to something. I would have had the tail curving into the shape of a heart, myself.

Yeah a lot of people get those two mixed up. I don't understand why they didn't just do the faerie quest event in september to begin with, it really would make more sense to run it alongside the neopian holiday.

No, that one I know aligns more with Easter. I had to look into it. Apparently I was thinking of the little faerie quests event that would run for two weeks or so. I thought those were just another Faerie Festival thing all this time. With some years as exceptions, it looks like it would usually happen around February/March. I actually didn't notice that we haven't had that since 2020. I thought I was just not checking well enough and missing it.;;

No, that one I know aligns more with Easter. I had to look into it. Apparently I was thinking of the little faerie quests event that would run for two weeks or so. I thought those were just another Faerie Festival thing all this time. With some years as exceptions, it looks like it would usually happen around February/March. I actually didn't notice that we haven't had that since 2020. I thought I was just not checking well enough and missing it.;;

I don't know if it works on the beta side of things, but you can switch back to the classic view by clicking on the image of your pet on the sidebar. 🙂 Everything's where it should be there!

Six words can make a point.
 
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I'm getting the same problem, decchild. Maybe we have to be Neo-poor in order to get it since it's the Soup Faerie? Ha hah... OTL

Topsi is here again!
 
http://www.neopets.com/moon/colour.phtml
 
Some people are getting their avatars today! Maybe you guys can too?

I received the Habitarium Theme and a Habitarium avatar some food and toys.
Love the die! :'D
I guess there wasn't a difference between anyone that got to level 50 and anyone who didn't?
Works for me.

The only difference is that this was planned for, which for me isn't really a big enough change to warrant a new avatar. And I believe there were some people who missed it last time simply because they didn't think to look at New Features when they were able to log back in. I just don't think it's a big deal that those people and others got another chance to obtain the avatar, but I suppose we will just have to agree to disagree on this point :laughingsmiley:

I feel like a lot of people get hung up on whether people "deserve" an avatar or not.
Even when the Coincidence was awarding people with retired avatars, many were irritated.
Why should what other people have concern you if it doesn't actually harm your account?
The only thing that should matter is whether you had the same newly created chance they did to get whatever it is.
If you got it before, even if it was obtained by different or even harsher means, then cool. Now you both have it; that's it.
A lot of the avatars I had trouble getting long ago are considerably easier to get now. I don't care, as long as I still have the avatars.
I know what I went through to get the avatars, and that's all that matters.
How and when people obtained what they have doesn't matter to me.
 
As for a new reward for everyone? Yeah, that would have made sense.

I'm happy about it, even though I already had the avatar. There was another post about re-releasing retired avatars and the popular opinion seemed to be NO.
I like it. Nobody comes on neopets and stays for years so that they can play Kass Basher over and over again. The fun stuff are the collections, whatever it is - battledome stuff, stamps, avatars, whatever. That's why people come back and play and enjoy the site. There's already a massive list of impossible avatars, retired items that cost millions and millions, etc. I think the loyalty perks are honestly, a bit excessive. I certainly wouldn't want to be a new player on the site now.
 
The avatar was handed out for basically the same reason, so they used the same avatar. It was available for a day, and now, 2 years later, will be available for another 2 days or so. 3-4 days of having the option to get it, out of almost 15 years of the site, that's not a huge window. I think making things achievable makes the site more fun.
 
A new avatar would have just been another couple days of getting it and then *poof* gone forever. Personally, I think the list of barely achievable, or downright impossible stuff on the site is long enough, but clearly I'm in the minority on that one.
 
Besides - we got our beloved site back!! YES!!
 
 
I believe they said Sunday

Seekers will win again but I'm really hoping for the Thieves. They haven't won since January. I really wish TNT would go through with randomizing the boons like they had planned so it's not as predictable.