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About this blog

A blog for staff to post how-tos, tips, tricks, and other fun updates. 

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December 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to HPFT's December bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements, information our December event, and an announcement about a brand new section!   If you're new, welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us. HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback
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November 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about this year's NaNoWriMo! If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story
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October 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to HPFT's October bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about an upcoming (and a very spooky ) event! If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback
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September 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about new events - including the winners of last year's house cup and the kickoff of our 2018-2019 house cup! If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We have a
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August 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about ongoing events - including the house cup finale! If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedba
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July 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We have a strong culture of support for other writers and feedback here, including a story help
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June 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! This month, we've also got an announcement about our upcoming second birthday celebration. If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We ha
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May 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! This month, we've also got the results of our Fic Feud event and some announcements about new forum features and some major archive changes, including a tool to transfer any reviews you have back up from HPFF over to HPFT. (This is a bit of a long bulletin, so buckle up. ) If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with u
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April 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! This month, we've also got some information for authors in light of the HPFF shutdown. If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk is a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the archive is multi-fandom/OF.   We have a
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March 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! With our FROGS awards and secret cupid events being officially over, we've got some fun in store for you this March! If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk has both a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms, too, and the arc
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FROGS 2018 Winners

Hello, all! It's time for us to announce the winners of this year's FROGS awards! If you didn't catch our livestream from earlier this evening, you can find it +here. First off: thank you to everyone who nominated, reviewed, and voted in this year's FROGS awards, and congratulations to everyone who was nominated, whether or not you won. HPFT is home to some incredibly talented people, and we can't express how glad we are to be part of this community. We hope you enjoyed this as much as we
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February 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! With our FROGS awards just finishing up and some smaller-scale activities on the horizon, we hope you'll all enjoy taking a breather. If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk has both a forum/archive - the forum is Harry Potter-themed (including a year-long house cup), but we talk about other fandoms
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Holiday and Diversity Writing Challenge Winners!!

Last month we ran our first ever prize based writing competition with a theme of Holiday and Diversity!  We had 9 entries!  Here are all the entries! And the World Went On by mannoy/malfoy  Chai, Dancing, and a Friend in the Wee Hours of the Morning by 800 Words of Heaven  First Lit, Last Burning (M) by MuggleMaybe in the dawn, we shall enter the splendid cities. (M) by Aphoride Overhauling Hogwarts by Nykizta Peppermint (M) by sapphicsunrise
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How Does FanficTalk Staff? (and how do I join?)

How Does FanficTalk Staff? (and how do I join?) Every month, the FFT admins post an application for all site staff positions on google forms. Once a member puts in an application, we keep it on hand for three months - so, for example, an application from March might be used to fill a staff position in May. All staff members are involved in the decision-making process. Outside of existing staff making lateral moves (e.g., social media coordinator to archive validator), we don't make any
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January 2018 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! Most notably this month, we've got the FROGS and a new round of staff/prefect apps to look forward to this month, as well as a few staff changes and our monthly (and a few special) awards to announce.   Read on for more info - and happy new year! If you're new, first and foremost: welcome to HPFT! It's awesome to have you with us.   HPFanficTalk has both a for
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December 2017 Bulletin

Welcome to the HPFT bulletin, where you can find all of our major monthly announcements and information about upcoming events! We're very sad to announce that @Aphoride will be stepping down from her position as Auror on December 1. Laura was one of the first people to join our validator team, and she's done an amazing job in that capacity over the past year (as well as in her role as prefect before that). We'll miss her a lot, and her help was invaluable as we got the next event read
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November 2017 Bulletin

Hello, all! One of your headmistresses may or may not have been slowly losing her mind over the topic clutter every month , so we decided to compile all of our major monthly announcements into one big bulletin that we'll post at the beginning of the month. (Plus a few headers, because why not.) Hopefully you enjoy this new format! We're happy to announce that @MalfoysAngel will be moving over the gamekeeper position. We won't be adding
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Thank You, Rose!!

ROSE APPRECIATION BLOG!!!!!   @toomanycurls PicSpam by RoxiMalfoy My Dear Rose…    I've thought a lot about what I wanted to say to you in this. In the beginning, I couldn't even begin to find the right words. But I've also had the pleasure of seeing first-hand over the past few weeks just how BIG of an impact you've had here on SO MANY people in this community!!! Two weeks ago, I only knew you from my own personal experience. But now, I've had the opportunity to share
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Certified Author Status

New and edited chapters submitted to our archive must be approved by an auror (archive validator) before they're made visible to the public, to ensure that they follow our archive's site guidelines. Every so often, we evaluate author accounts to determine whether to grant them Certified Author status (or CA status, for short). Being a CA allows you to bypass the queue and post your chapters directly to the archive; it requires a lot of trust not only in your intentions but also in your abil
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All About Activity Streams

Most of us are accustomed to activity streams (or newsfeeds) from popular applications such as Facebook and Twitter.  We have something akin to that here at FanficTalk.  Since it doesn't work identically to more-familiar applications, let's run over some information about it. What is an activity stream?  Simply put, it's a stream or list of activity that occurs on the forums.  Each activity has certain properties (what type of activity it is, time it happened, whether it was posted by someo
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Status Updates

One of the first things new members want to figure out is how to get in on the fun of posting status updates. Enabling Status Updates Navigate to your profile Edit your profile Toggle on the "Enable status updates?" slider Click Save Posting Status Updates From your profile page, type in the "Write a public message on your own feed..." box and then hit "Submit Status." From another member's profile page, type in the "Write a public message
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Member Groups & Ranks

Here at FanficTalk, we have both member groups and ranks.  Ranks are based on your content (posts, statuses, and blog entries) count.  Member groups determine what you can see and do around the site, with the major difference (aside from staff/prefects) being which common room you can see.  You can be in more than one member group (Professor and Gryffindor, Prefect and Slytherin, etc.), one of which will primary and which will dictate which color your name appears around the site.  A person's pr
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Glossary of Common Terms

There are several terms and acronyms which are often used either in the fanfiction world in general or on FanficTalk specifically.  If you're not familiar with them, it can be confusing and intimidating to see so many people tossing them around.  If there's a term missing you think should be included, contact a staffer so we can add it to this list. Beta/Beta Reader - much like an editor, a person who reads and helps make corrections to your story along the lines of grammar, punctua
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FROGS 2017 Winners

Hey, HPFT! It's 2019, but I'm reorganizing some things and realized that we weren't really regularly using the staff blog back when we did our first FROGS awards in 2017... so I'm posting them here, too. You can find the original topic +here and our youtube livestream +here.    
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