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Roleplay Revamp Announcement



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Hello everyone and welcome to some very exciting news!

The Roleplay Crew (formally Storybook Crew) have been hard at work in recreating the Roleplay Forums here on YWS. There are going to be quite a few changes, but this post is to help answer and explain any concerns and questions you may have.

What Happened to the Storybook Tab?

To start, the Storybook Tab is now the Roleplay Tab, mostly as we felt that Roleplay serves to be a better representation of our activity on this website, and that anything we do in this forum is a kind of Roleplay, whether it's a Storybook or Roleplay Duo activity.

There are also quite a few new Roleplay Community Forums which is exciting and a new way to really get to know you as Roleplayers, as writers, and as people in general. Check out the Roleplay Lounge to ask questions and the Welcome Mat to introduce yourself to the rest of YWS.

Where's the Storybook Forum?

The Storybook Forum has now found itself home as a section of the Roleplay Forums, with a fancy last name, Sanctuary. There are also a few new and modified tabs in these forums, including the Roleplay Hollow, a new version of Roleplaying.

A new version of Roleplaying?

Yes! We're proud to announce that we have been working alongside the Roleplay Geeks for a few months now for a more casual roleplay experience, something that we felt was missing from the old Storybook forum.

What happened to Specific Storybook Discussion? (And General?)

In order to change some of YWS' lingo to better match lingo internet-wide, we have decided to replace Discussion Threads (DT) to Out-of-Character (OOC) Threads. So, you will now see a shiny new forum called Out-of-Character (OOC) which will be the new home for all Discussion Threads.

As for General Storybook Discussion, we are removing this forum and splitting up its purposes into different forums. For Knowledge Base-like articles, they will be moved to the new Information Desk forum, along with all Roleplay Crew updates and information. For general questions, we now have the Roleplay Lounge for that and more.

Will Storybook Archives be Archived?

Well, sort of! We now have an Archive forum for everything in the Roleplay Section. All Archives will now be tagged with what roleplay it was, and there is a fancy new Hall of Fame for all completed roleplays to showcase them.

Speaking of Tags...

Topic Tags are getting a refresh. We get it, the Storybook forum looked like a rainbow beforehand and the amount of topic tags that had crept into the forum became too much. Now, there will be a much smaller amount of topic tags for all roleplay forums.

But what about?

We're sure there are many questions about the revamp, and we probably have not answered all of them here. Please, ask whatever question you may have down below and we will try our best to answer it! There will also be a Question and Answer Thread popping up in the new Roleplay Lounge whenever it ships.

A disclaimer: as it happens, the Roleplay Section will look different, some things might be broken for a bit, and some things might get displaced for a moment while this revamp is in progress. Don't fret! The Roleplay Crew will be working diligently to get everything in tip top shape to present to you as soon as possible!

Written by @Vincian and EditorAndPerks (Roleplay Crew)
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)








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