✨Plush✨ City Announcements @announcements@plush.city

🔸 We have a new mascot now that the spooky season has passed! Mo the Moose is a very friendly and enthusiastic hand puppet designed by Paul Widnsor (of the Haisla and Heiltsuk Nations). They were really excited to have their photo taken for the occasion! ^^

🔹 Glad to have you with us, Mo!! And thanks for hanging out with us, Chibithulu ✨plush✨! ^.^

🔹 And we've got a new mod, too!!

🔸 Yes!! We made @solitaire a moderator since the majority of our actionable reports were coming from him in the first place. Now we'll have more folks keeping an eye on things over a wider span of time!

🔹 Thanks for staying safe out there, ✨plush✨ frens!! ^.^

🔸 Keep it up, and keep using that report button!! ^^

🔹 We put that there to weed out spammers!!

🔸 Exactly! A common spammer tactic is to create many accounts over a long period of time that lie dormant until they spring to life. Our policies keep that from happening here.

🔹 But that's not all!!

🔸 We also went through and reset the passwords of all our members who haven't logged in for a while, just to make sure nobody could get in with a stolen password later on.

🔹 There's a lot of spammers and meanies out there right now!!

🔸 It's true!! And we wanted to take a moment to give you an update on how we're keeping you safe here at ✨plush✨ city!

🔹 We've got policies that help with this stuff!

🔸 That's right! Our new registrations are always go through a manual approval queue. Also, our code of conduct's "Your Account" section requires all new users to interact with our community in some way.

​🏙📣❕Important Announcement!

🔸 It is a little known fact that Bian and I share this account because we are very smol and both thought having a whole account each would feel like too much account!

🔹Besides, it's much more cozy when you have a snuggle buddy. ^.^

🔸 It's true! ^^

🔶 Full Text Search is now enabled for ✨Plush✨ City!! ^^

🔷 YAY!!! ^.^

🔶 With Full Text Search enabled, you can still search for:
• Post URLs
• User Profile URLs
• Users

🔷 AND you get all this cool stuff too!!
• Your toots
• Your favorites
• Toots from threads that mention you
• And toots sent to you! ^.^

🔶 We hope you find this new feature as awesome as we do! ^^

🔷 NO MORE LOSING TOOTS!!! ^.^

🔶 ...as long as you remember what to search for...

🔷 ;o;

🔸Henlo soff frens!! Thank you for all of your reports of spammers in the past few days!

🔹 Seems like there's a bunch of them all of a sudden! ;o;

🔸 Yeah, it seems there's been a campaign to try to spam the fediverse, but y'all are doing a great job of stomping it out! So far in most cases (thanks to sending reports to the offending instances), the spammer was suspended before we could take action.

🔹 Yeah!! You're doing great, folks! Keep it up! ^.^

🔸 Mastodon 2.9 just released (🎉) and it comes with a pretty significant UI change -- a new "single column layout!" We'll likely be updated to it in the next few days. More here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/mastodon-2.9/

🔹 I don't like it!!! >.<

🔸 Hon, you haven't even tried it ye-

🔹 I don't like change!!

🔸 Well good news! You can switch back to the old layout in the "Appearance" Preferences page by clicking "Enable advanced web interface." ^^

🔹 Oh thank goodness! ^.^

🔹 Henlo soff frens! ^.^

🔸 We're pleased to announce that our designer-in-chief has taken some time to give our public facing website some much needed TLC after the new Mastodon homepage broke our previous customizations. ^^

🔹 It looks so much more ✨soff✨ now! ^.^

🔸 As always, please let us know if you encounter any issues related to these changes, and stay ✨soff✨ out there!! ^^