We are doing some spring cleaning around the site. One of the things we're trying to get rid of is multiple accounts.

Currently a lot of the new accounts being created show that they are actually being made by a computer that already has an account tied to it. There has been a rule for a while now that states "Each member may have one active account at a time."

If you want to make a new account, please contact a staff member and we will delete the old account for you. Also, if you've forgotten or have trouble recovering your password, let us know and we can help you with that.

If we do come across what looks like multiple accounts, we will lock/ban them. They will stay locked until you contact us and tell us which account you want to use so we can delete the other one.

Please let us know if you are sharing a computer with someone else who has a FAZ account. This looks like one user with two accounts.

So, if you're trying to log onto FAZ and you're currently getting this message:

Each member is allowed only one account. Choose one and speak to a mod. Please contact a mod in game by whispering one of the following Zim, Ginnie, Moose, Satie, Mychelle or Mynt.

There's a chance that it's because a staff member has seen that there are two or more accounts tied to that computer and has locked both accounts.

PatchFusion now supports exporting animated GIFs from animating objects, complete with remapping for portrait artists!

Lothus Marque has worked on this for a while and I'm excited to announce that his update to Fusion has been completed! Download and try it out. If you notice any bugs please be sure to report them to Lothus so he can get those taken care of.

PatchFusion link

Everyone welcome Moose to our staff.

FAM and FAZ since switching to SMF have always had pretty basic blue themes. I'd really like to spruce up the sites by finding a unique theme for each site. What I'd like to know from you the community is what you'd like to see for the site? Do you want a color change? Do you want me to redo the site header? How would you like the site to look?

So, I'm asking you to give me some ideas as to how I can change things up. Once a new theme is found, I'd really like to find an artist or two who can work with me to get new logos and icons throughout the site.

I realize no one out there probably has experiencing skinning a whole SMF site (but if you do and are willing to work on this, let's talk) so I'm here are a few links for you to look at themes and link me to what you like:

http://www.dzinerstudio.com
http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?action=search;version[]=51

Or just Google for SMF2.0RC2 themes.

I hope to hear from all of you!

(And don't forget about the other news post asking for feature ideas!)

What can I add to FAZ to make this site better for you? I'm curious to know what I can do to make this site the place to go for your Furcadia art and artists.

I know that some people would like to see the 'trader ratings' from FAM also available on FAZ and that is under advisement. What else can I add?