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1. Why is there a LittlePa.ws FA group and an LPES FA group? Aren't they the same thing?
Actually, they are very different! I could give a complex explanation, but I think it's better to use analogies. But before all of that, let's start from the beginning...
When it was decided to expand what LPES offered to you, it became very clearly early on in the process that continuing to call the entire website Little Paws Elementary School wouldn't be appropriate. Little Paws Elementary School (LPES) is a structured role play environment that attempts to emulate real school as much as is possible. By itself, it certainly proved to be a success and garnered us over 600 registrations in less than a few months! So to say that LPES was a success would be an understatement, but for everyone that joined, that many Littles stated, via emails and notes, that they weren't interested in the concept. So, thinking about it, we figured the best way to rectify the issue was to expand what we offered. We couldn't just be a school, but we also couldn't just be an art site. So what did we do? We decided to become a hybrid! Hybrids are cool, right? LittlePa.ws allows people to upload art, have access to a social media site, be able to make new friends, and even be able to participate in more casual and less structured role play if wanted. So with the concept bursting away from just a school and into something MUCH larger, LittlePa.ws was born.
So when you think of LittlePa.ws, you should think of it as a village. It is a small sleepy town that exists for Littles, their fans, and their caretakers in an environment where they can express themselves, however they'd like, free from judgement or fear of being made fun of! But we knew that just creating another furry art site and abandoning Little Paws Elementary School wouldn't be okay, because we want to offer as much as we possibly can! So within our small village of LittlePa.ws is the school (LPES), the art portion (you can think of it as a museum or art gallery if you'd like), and a social media portion (sort of like the town watering hole, just with a whole lot more diapers!) What LittlePa.ws is is the combination of three ideas, all rolled into one.
Still confused? Don't worry! We have a crack team working on making this much easier to understand.
2. I used to be a student at LittlePa.ws! Do I need to register again?
Absolutely not! In fact, all former student accounts were ported over. There is, however, something that you should be aware of. One thing that we always wanted to do at the old LPES, but were never able to, was to allow a single account to have multiple characters. Since we weren't able to do that, people that wanted to play multiple students ended up having multiple accounts. The new LittlePa.ws, however, has removed that limitation! All you need is one account, and that account can host as many characters as you'd like! Character submissions can be just character submissions, but each character submission also allows you to enroll that character in Little Paws Elementary School if you'd like.
3. What's my username?
Your username is the log in name you created at LPES if you are a legacy member (a member ported over to the new site.) It is not the same as the display/character name that you chose.
4. Where are my stats?
The unfortunate thing about giving you the aforementioned feature is that we were not able to port over stats. As a result of this, when you enroll characters into LittlePa.ws, you will be rolling entirely new stats. While I know that this may be/seem like a major inconvenience, try to think of it as a fresh start! The start of second term at the old LPES was delayed for a very long time, the majority of the old teachers are gone, and there is even a new principal. While the same system, guidelines, reward, and protections are in place that always were, this is a new beginning for us! I do promise, however, that you'll NEVER have to re-roll your stats again.
5. I had a bunch of accounts at the old LPES. How can I get rid of those?
Either at launch or shortly thereafter, you'll be able to delete any account you own at your convenience under 'Settings'.
6. I can't remember my password!
Just click on the handy dandy 'I forgot my password' link on the log in screen! Don't see an email? More than likely it's in your junk or spam folder. While we are working on rectifying this reroute, so far the majority of email providers aren't our biggest fans. Although I assure you password recovery works just fine!
7. Why is there nothing to do?
Well you see, at the moment we are just open for pre-registration! The actual launch will be on June 8, 2014. Then you will get to see all the new, spiffy, and fun things we've been talking about!
8. Is the Spot (chatroom) coming back?
At this juncture our plan is to integrate a site wide IM program with the ability to create individual chat rooms. While we haven't sat down and selected an appropriate platform and it won't be available right at launch, we'll get it out as soon as furrily possible.
9. Where are there already problems/glitches?
For the sake of being transparent and honest, the person that we hired to code the new LittlePa.ws used some very... antiquated and not so safe/beneficial methods. In fact, one of the reasons why our tentative launch date was pushed back by a month and eight days was because of these. Our current savior in arms,
, has made the decision to rebuild the entire site from the ground up. While I could delight you with all the fun tech garble I think I'll just keep this sweet and to the point. Although if you have any specific questions we're more than happy to answer them!
10. I have more questions!
Please feel free to comment here or send a note to me on my primary account,
Thanks!
Libby
1. Why is there a LittlePa.ws FA group and an LPES FA group? Aren't they the same thing?
Actually, they are very different! I could give a complex explanation, but I think it's better to use analogies. But before all of that, let's start from the beginning...
When it was decided to expand what LPES offered to you, it became very clearly early on in the process that continuing to call the entire website Little Paws Elementary School wouldn't be appropriate. Little Paws Elementary School (LPES) is a structured role play environment that attempts to emulate real school as much as is possible. By itself, it certainly proved to be a success and garnered us over 600 registrations in less than a few months! So to say that LPES was a success would be an understatement, but for everyone that joined, that many Littles stated, via emails and notes, that they weren't interested in the concept. So, thinking about it, we figured the best way to rectify the issue was to expand what we offered. We couldn't just be a school, but we also couldn't just be an art site. So what did we do? We decided to become a hybrid! Hybrids are cool, right? LittlePa.ws allows people to upload art, have access to a social media site, be able to make new friends, and even be able to participate in more casual and less structured role play if wanted. So with the concept bursting away from just a school and into something MUCH larger, LittlePa.ws was born.
So when you think of LittlePa.ws, you should think of it as a village. It is a small sleepy town that exists for Littles, their fans, and their caretakers in an environment where they can express themselves, however they'd like, free from judgement or fear of being made fun of! But we knew that just creating another furry art site and abandoning Little Paws Elementary School wouldn't be okay, because we want to offer as much as we possibly can! So within our small village of LittlePa.ws is the school (LPES), the art portion (you can think of it as a museum or art gallery if you'd like), and a social media portion (sort of like the town watering hole, just with a whole lot more diapers!) What LittlePa.ws is is the combination of three ideas, all rolled into one.
Still confused? Don't worry! We have a crack team working on making this much easier to understand.
2. I used to be a student at LittlePa.ws! Do I need to register again?
Absolutely not! In fact, all former student accounts were ported over. There is, however, something that you should be aware of. One thing that we always wanted to do at the old LPES, but were never able to, was to allow a single account to have multiple characters. Since we weren't able to do that, people that wanted to play multiple students ended up having multiple accounts. The new LittlePa.ws, however, has removed that limitation! All you need is one account, and that account can host as many characters as you'd like! Character submissions can be just character submissions, but each character submission also allows you to enroll that character in Little Paws Elementary School if you'd like.
3. What's my username?
Your username is the log in name you created at LPES if you are a legacy member (a member ported over to the new site.) It is not the same as the display/character name that you chose.
4. Where are my stats?
The unfortunate thing about giving you the aforementioned feature is that we were not able to port over stats. As a result of this, when you enroll characters into LittlePa.ws, you will be rolling entirely new stats. While I know that this may be/seem like a major inconvenience, try to think of it as a fresh start! The start of second term at the old LPES was delayed for a very long time, the majority of the old teachers are gone, and there is even a new principal. While the same system, guidelines, reward, and protections are in place that always were, this is a new beginning for us! I do promise, however, that you'll NEVER have to re-roll your stats again.
5. I had a bunch of accounts at the old LPES. How can I get rid of those?
Either at launch or shortly thereafter, you'll be able to delete any account you own at your convenience under 'Settings'.
6. I can't remember my password!
Just click on the handy dandy 'I forgot my password' link on the log in screen! Don't see an email? More than likely it's in your junk or spam folder. While we are working on rectifying this reroute, so far the majority of email providers aren't our biggest fans. Although I assure you password recovery works just fine!
7. Why is there nothing to do?
Well you see, at the moment we are just open for pre-registration! The actual launch will be on June 8, 2014. Then you will get to see all the new, spiffy, and fun things we've been talking about!
8. Is the Spot (chatroom) coming back?
At this juncture our plan is to integrate a site wide IM program with the ability to create individual chat rooms. While we haven't sat down and selected an appropriate platform and it won't be available right at launch, we'll get it out as soon as furrily possible.
9. Where are there already problems/glitches?
For the sake of being transparent and honest, the person that we hired to code the new LittlePa.ws used some very... antiquated and not so safe/beneficial methods. In fact, one of the reasons why our tentative launch date was pushed back by a month and eight days was because of these. Our current savior in arms,
, has made the decision to rebuild the entire site from the ground up. While I could delight you with all the fun tech garble I think I'll just keep this sweet and to the point. Although if you have any specific questions we're more than happy to answer them!10. I have more questions!
Please feel free to comment here or send a note to me on my primary account,
Thanks!
Libby
Thank you so much for this! I've been waiting and waiting to see some dates and info and this wraps it up in a bow!
I can't wait to start again. (and oh NO, I'll lose my old bad-luck roll stats? shaaaaame!)
Thanks and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
It looks like your ID was created after the users were moved to littlepa.ws, so we went ahead and took care of that for you.
You know, classes for people with special powers. Like a flying class, a magic class, ect...