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Hey, J0nn0!

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“Starchy curse it, Narrator! WHAT?!?”

Did you notice? Hey, hey. Did’ya? Come on. Tell me you noticed.

“Did I notice what? The site revamp?”

Yeah! That! Come on already! You’re a couple days late in making an article about it… and you call this Trending News.

“Well, excuse me, mister. I’ve actually gotta deal with real life, you know. Somebody has had midterms these past few days and the next few are no different. That’s why I’m doing this now.”

Good. If you’re ready to write now, let’s get this TNTopic on the road! Right now!

“Sheesh, you’re like a hyperactive kid today. Take a chill-pill.”

Sure, as soon as you take a warm pill. Come on, I’m getting this started now.

Hey, hey! Hello readers! How’s your past few days been? I’m doing fine, reading, procrastinating, and reading some more. Oh, and getting used to RRL 2.5.

What is RRL 2.5 you ask? Well, the powers that be have started porting us over into the age of RRL 3.0 and the current RRL you have now is version 2.5. Two days ago, at approximately 2:00 AM (PST), RRL was downed for severals hours in order to perform maintenance and upgrade the site. If you didn’t see the big forum notification box, this is what it is about.

As a side note, immediately after RRL was back up, our story skyrocketed in views! By 1400 view actually!

“Ah, the bugs. That was one of the more amusing bugs. Don’t forget that all threads got the magical 1400 views, though, so don’t think that it was just us. Everybody got them until they were fixed by our lovely RRL staff members. Additionally, the view counts on fiction pages were acting up. RRL 2.5 is still a work in progress so be sure to check out the forums for more up to date info.”

That’s right, folks. If you think that there’s anything that could be improved, be sure to submit a feedback thread and if you spot any glitches or bugs, submit a thread here. Additionally, the bugs forums may be reached through the system wide notification box which is currently posted. There is also the general forum thread “The NEW RRL” if you just want to talk about anything that’s not quite feedback for the staff or a bug for the Devs to fix.

Don’t forget, check out the RRL beta site if you want to see what’s in store for RRL 3.0. Any bugs found in RRL 3.0 can be submitted to the bugs forums linked above.

Anyways, here’s a brief overview of what’s in RRL 2.5:

Forums updated to the beta format. What you see is what you get so unless some people give feedback on improvements, it’ll mostly stay as it is right now.

User interfaces have been reformatted for both the control panel, profile accesses, and there’s more logout buttons around the place. Watch out for what you’re scrolling on for all you mobile users out there. You don’t want to accidentally log yourself out every five minutes.

Site view settings are dependent on zoom settings. If you’re on desktop, that means if you like to zoom in, you’ll be getting the RRL mobile format. There’s currently no way to change the screen detection settings so you’ll have to deal with it like j0nn0 who has usually has RRL set at 150% zoom in google chrome.

And that’s about it for the RRL 2.5 update. Anything else, oh dear Producer?

“Yes, actually. I’ve been meaning to talk about it, but there’s three new groups coming to RRL. One is pending on its name and the other two first need to decide on their theme and to gather enough members.”

Interesting. Could you tell me more about these groups?

“Sure thing. First is the [Writers of the End/Writers to the End/Works In Progress] (Name pending). The group was started by Zenlith earlier this month with the intention of becoming an author support group dedicated to helping authors continue or finish their work. It quickly gained the minimum of five members and had decided upon the name “Writers of the End”, WOE for short. We had a vote and everything. Some time last week, there was a sort of intervention and now the name is up in the air again. There is a chance for the name to change, but I still think it’ll be one of the three aforementioned group names. [WOE/WriTE/WIP]. This name change fiasco is also the theme of that link in my signature right now, 2Chunni4U. You can reach their threads over Here, Here, and Here.”

Don’t forget to mention that you’re also a part of WOE. So, what’s with the other two groups?

“One is a yuri/romance group started by AcquiHime and the group formation thread can be found here. The intent is to gather together yuri loving authors and do something. Not sure what, but I believe it will morph into a more general romance centric group. I’ll be interested in seeing what they produce because this site needs some good romance stories. The “good” is subjective. There is one confirmed member so it’s a ways to go towards unofficial group validation.”

Ooh, fluffy stories. What’s the last group about?

“The last group is being started by Waffie and is an artist centric group. Their group formation thread can be found here and the idea was started in several art threads. It’s a kind of support group thing, but for artists. There are currently two confirmed members so check it out if you’re interested.”

And I think that’s a wrap for today. See ya next time, Readers.

“Don’t forget that any suggestions and comments are welcome. Bye.”

Spoiler: After Show Show Wow, can you believe it? An actual trending news bit!

“I know, right? I was starting to think that I’d never have anything interesting or big enough to post as actual news!”

… Now what? There’s not much else to do.

“Hmm, I guess we could just follow the new groups’ status and any major developments in terms of RRL 2.5, 3.0 and the beta site.”

Sounds good.

*Dang it, another thing to tell the devs. The “hr” tag doesn’t work properly in spoilers and is set to the white theme.

Oogha-oogha, it’s the Gorrilaz!

*Disclaimer* Spoiler : Trending News (According to Narrator) is in no way, shape, or form endorsed by the RRL staff and should be treated as such. I repeat, my and Narrator’s word IS NOT the voice of RRL or its staff and should never be treated as an official source, ever.