Super Big Update!

Hey everyone! Okay, this is totally over due, a giant update post about EVERYTHING in relation to SIA. Its been quieter than usual around here, especially from staff and of course I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea about whats going on here. We're not dead, nor dying, we're quite focused.

Let's do the first big thing though. We have a new admin, graydient! He's been incredibly helpful and an excellent thinker who's been helping me plan a lot of things. In fact, a lot of the things I'm going to list in this update really would not be possible without his help. Honestly, there couldn't be a better choice.

Next up is all the updates, the good stuff.

• Yes, our new site is still coming. However, with just Gray and I working on it, its a slow progression.

• We're trying to set up a gallery, similar to a booru, primarily for fan artists who wish to submit their own work as well as how to find them, commission info, etc. Videos too.

• We're doing a revamped front page to provide all kinds of news, ranging from game announcements, contests, new merchandise, community events, etc. Social media links and other goodies too.

• Revamped forums. Sadly, it looks like we won't be able to export all of our current forum posts to the new site, due to proboards and some other issues, but we'll be doing that nonetheless. A better, cleaner experience that gives us more control.

• Profile revamp! We're looking to turn the new SIA into sort of a social hub for Senran as a whole, since forums are fairly dated and destroyed by things like Facebook groups. In fact, our SIA FB group has roughly x4 the number of members we have here on the forums. So the new profiles will be somewhat similar to what Facebook does for its profiles, but on less of a massive scale. Look at a site like Smashboards for an example of what we're thinking of. Will also feature better badge incorporation and other lil' things.

• Putting everything into the community. We're paying for the new SIA out of our own pockets, so we'll be using ad revenue. Of course we're going to do our absolute best to avoid intrusive ads and other obnoxious variants, but here's the deal. We'll need the ad revenue to keep the site up and running and upgrade. We aren't going to keep any ad revenue for ourselves. Every last bit goes right back into SIA. Anything leftover will be going into commissioning artists for SIA, giveaways of merchandise, and other things for the community. We may also call upon the community to sort of crowd fund something special every once in a while, but its always for the community. Of course, you have no obligation to ever donate.

• Dedicated New Wave gallery for cards. Aside from hopefully expanding on our existing guide and making a bigger, prettier one, we're going to have a gallery compiling all of the cards for ease of access. NW cards are a big attraction for a lot of people, so there you go.

• We're in the process of making a video called "What is Senran Kagura?" A lot of misconceptions about SK fly around and some people think its purely an anime, or just a series with no substance, just pure eye candy. As fans of the series, we know thats not true. We currently have the audio, we're just working on wrapping up the video.

• We're going to use SIA funds to help fund more big names to participate and spread the love of Senran, be it getting copies of the games for streamers and youtubers (which we have done already!), cosplayers, artists, and so on.

• PBS Fight Nights will also come back using discord. We may do occasional tournaments with prizes, but we'll see if the interest is there when the game is localized.

• Other future projects, such as maybe a western Senran fanbook. We've also considered doing a panel at a con, but we'd have to see how that goes.