trisphee is quickly becoming a home for me, but my main site is always gonna be virtualpopstar.com

I kinda liked Voltra but tbh I didn't go on much. It felt like people would rather chat in their own hangout threads rather than the forum as a whole and since I didn't really know anyone I didn't post much, cause it felt awkward to jump into some thread where people who are already good friends are having their own convo already. :x Which also meant I was always broke since posting was the only way to earn $$ to buy items with, lol.

I miss my cute catboy avi though

My home is a mix between recolor and VP atm
I thought Voltra had some promise but rip

I love Windlyn's style but it's kind of dead and needs a lot more

^ this

Windlyn is really beautiful <333
but it's still in beta and they have only one person doing all the code and items tho xD

Yeah, I really love Windlyn's style, too. VP's kind of...very much not my style. The art's too Candybar-like, and that stuff gives me friggin war flashbacks.

Rec is too trollish for me, lmao.

Windlyn has a super cute style so far.

But I'm another who is most at home on VP. Since you don't have to be an official designer to submit your own clothing sets/items, there are several different styles of art and items to enjoy. Plus, I design a lot on there myself and I like that I can make and wear my own stuff, haha.

I like it here so far of course too, so I'll probably be around on both VP and here.

ok i loved candybar dollmakers hahaha

I used Candybar dollmakers a lot at one point, and then the tediousness of searching for specific things tired me out.

my main issue with Windlyn is how bloody slow the site is. Like, omg.

I'm actually not at all familiar with Virtual Popstar. Hmm.

I tried VP for about an hour and just...couldn't.

Hehe, VP is not perfect at all but I love the range of styles and items available. :p The guy who runs it isn't often on the English server but there are teams who make it fun with competitions. I think the community is what keeps me there, and the cool items are a bonus. And the fact I can wear my own stuff even if I'm not an official designer is cool. XD

But I like it here so far too, and I'll probably be on both.

Yeah, I kind of felt the same with the forums. And like, even making a thread in their "general chat" spammy-type forum, no one would actually talk to me really. Like, everyone ignored all my posts or treated me like I was an idiot.

Ahhh, that sucks. :( I was too shy to make any threads at all, haha. I mostly just posted in the forum games stuff, like the A-Z food ones, so I could at least have ~some~ money to buy items with.

I love recolor, not limited to pg-13 rps XD

I couldn't get into windlyn if it's what I think it is....but it was also a long time ago.

You totally would have been welcome in mine and Granny's craft hangout (crafty interests not required). It was pretty dead...

Updated first post with some news

!!i'm happy they're up and running again, but they...they bought it back from baz?
i need to do some catching up. >>;

Yeah... I'm not too happy about needing to buy it back from Baz, but like Fozzy said, they're putting user satisfaction over spite. Which I respect. Apparently one of Fozzy's friends bought it, and Fozzy will have to pay them back once Voltra gets up and running again.

So, I feel like a little of the information in that update was confusing regarding items. It initially sounded like we're all getting our items back, but then later stated(or sounded like I guess) that all items would be basically assigned a volt value and returned as currency?
I mean, tbh, that's fine I guess, although I'd prefer if my DIs could be assigned a donation currency value instead of volts...

I, uh, actually didn't read through everything. But from what Fozzy said earlier, they've a list of what everyone's donated, so we'll have all of our Ohms back, not just the ones we had left.

Direct quote from the last announcement:
"...we have plans to exchange all “old items” (excluding Crate Items, MIs, and EIs) for a volt value."

Nothing is mentioned about ohms, which leads me to believe that we will only be getting Volts and not Ohms or items.

They also didn't mention anything about returning donation currency, so I guess one could also assume that you will get full total donation currency returned AND get the volt value of the items, but that was never really explained at all. So I really don't know.
Guess we'll have to wait and see.

I find it amusing that they don't have Amps, since that would be the most appropriate thing for a currentcy.

It should come as no surprise that the users are meeting this with resistance. After all, their accounts were charged for the stuff they have.



In all seriousness, though, I thought they got back the database. Why would they have this kind of data loss?

I mean, I don't know the full sitch, but basically what I got out of the last announcement is that they still have all the items and everything, it just all needs to be re-uploaded. I also thought, based on how it sounded, that all the inventories are saved, so I don't really know why the reimbursement has to happen. When they re-upload the items, wouldn't they theoretically be in the inventories? Unless they plan to delete everyone's inventory...
I don't really have any knowledge about how this stuff operates though, so maybe I'm wrong.
Either way, I'm pretty wary about returning at all. I might give them a second chance, but it wasn't as friendly there as it is here and I really was starting to struggle to actually have people converse outside of the rare event post.

Also...well punned, Coda. XD

coda your puns. i could die.

Update:

"We just want to conclude with a few quick clarifications based on the questions we’ve been seeing around the community. All returning users should expect to find that their original accounts are still valid and available once the site comes back up. You will still have your volts, your ohms, your crate items, your milestones, your event items, and your posts! The only thing you will be lacking upon your first login are the commons you purchased prior to the Blackout--you’ll instead be granted an equivalent amount in volts so that you can repurchase commons of your choice.
The reason for this is twofold: first, part of the site’s revamp is including a massive improvement to the inventory and avatar system. This improvement will allow items to be uploaded a lot faster and will allow for a lot more customization, but is so different from our old system that keeping common inventories would require uploading all items twice--and with something like 4k items to upload, that would be a huge delay in site release time.
But our second reason for going with volts over old commons is way more exciting--one great bonus to the new system is that it makes recoloring easier, meaning that we can afford to expand our options a little, and we’d hate if you bought your entire common inventory in, say, cobalt, only to see a new color that you love way more. So by granting you volts instead, you can rebuy in your favorite colors! Keep an eye out for previews of those new colors, because you never know when they might show up."

I missed this update to say the least lol

I think I've missed a couple updates lately, too :|

I feel better about the crate items, etc.now. A little sad that I'll have to re-buy commons if I decide to return, but it's understandable given the updates they're planning.

Updated the first post w a new announcement.

TLDR Alpha 2.0 starts Feb 1 and is expected to last a month. New colors, new DIs.

a month. rip. i'll take it tho

like, is that too long or too short?

I feel like they should've had the initial alpha last longer.

seems like an ok amount of time, but 1 month is going to fly by so fast because of my irl activities. i thought they'd reopen again permanently, but given what voltra's been through, I'm just gonna enjoy it while it lasts.

i would assume after the month it'll go into beta

I don't think I ever joined Voltra but I might join it when it comes back. :0

If I'm being honest, I still don't know if I'll go back to being on Voltra as much as I was. I'll probably give it another chance, but I'll probably not be super active. I do like the new colors they're adding though.

Yeah, the colors are nice, but Tris is still my home.

Totally the same.
Although I was pretty active on Voltra initially because it moved faster than here, I much prefer here. Everyone is more friendly here and I like the avatars better. And we have a Derpy item...

XD

poop dood boob pants and shirt :/ I do hope those return there I LOVE UM LOLOL

........and my devil horns and butt electric plug tail

What sux though is I had a ton of the $$$ paid coins and I won't get them back because I DIDN'T BUY THEM I won contests/did commissions/was gifted :(