Windstone Site Migration!

So, as you can see by the announcements up top (scroll up! Make sure to read all three!) we are going to finally migrate the Windstone website to the new site!

A few things to note:

– The ENTIRE website is being changed, all of it! It will look much different. Don’t panic.
– In the past, you have had to do a separate log-in for each part of the site (different log ins for the store, the forum, the blog). This is silly. In the new site, you will only have ONE log-in for any part of the site. Log in once, use it all.
– Because of this, this is your chance to change your username to be your universal site-wide username. Instructions are in the announcements up top! (I am not sure about passwords– Snap will have to chime in about that).
– When the new site goes live, it will work perfectly from the start. Or… not. The site has been in the works for over a year now and has been tested, but technology is wonderful and likes to do zainy, unexpected things sometimes. Please bear with us if there are any problems, and report problems in the way Snap has asked us to via the announcement above.
– We (mostly Clay and Greg, with me nagging like a goat) have tried to make the new forum as similar to this one as possible, while running it on entirely different software. It might have features that you didn’t have here, and it might be missing features that we do have here. If something is missing that you cannot live without, bear with us and I will start a new thread on the new forum asking for input.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! But that’s the problem… we’re running on broken bits of website that has a lot of pretty band-aids holding it together. It HAD to be fixed! I know some people will love the new site, and some will hate it. The Windstone crew did the best it could, and we beg for your patience. I hope that you enjoy it!

And remember.

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Some further information:

Everything about your forum account prevails if the Account name and/or E-mails match a store account – your store account will disappear.

Example:

Forum Account – Bob Jones
Forum E-mail – bob@jones.com
Forum Password – memememe

Store Account – BoBJonzeeerrrs
Store E-mail – bob@jones.com
Store E-mail – buybuybuybuy

In the above scenario, because the E-mails match, the store account would disappear and the forum account would remain.

If an exact match can’t be found between an account name or an E-mail address, then both the forum and store account will end up on the new system. There will be a bunch of duplicates in this case and that’s why we’re asking people to update their forum account so 1) they end up with the account they want and 2) we don’t end up with a pile of dead accounts.

That’s okay! You just made a little more work for yourself, haha. Once the site is moved over to the new one, your store account you just made will go ‘away’ and your forum account will be your main account. You can use that account in the store at that point, too.