Hey! What happened to my avatar and creds?
Hi! Welcome back. Basically… we revamped the site completely. It was time. But it meant getting rid of things like avatars and creds. We know some of you worked really hard to collect those creds and avatar wardrobes, and we’re sorry for any sadness this is causing you. It just wasn’t possible to keep that system in place with our new system. It had to happen. As for your blogs and mails and other things on the old site that you really want back, we’re sorry to tell you that those are irretrievably gone. We knew it would be upsetting to some people and we did our absolute best to warn everyone — we sent a newsletter, we wrote a bunch of blogs, we made a big deal about it on the site — but we know not everyone found out in time to make copies of their stuff. Again, for any sadness that this causes you, we apologize. As anyone who has ever lost a hard-drive or accidentally hit “delete all” on the texts on their cell phone can tell you, life goes on even as things we wanted to keep fo