[PRANK] Official Merger with Zathyus Networks

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On the heels of our exciting announcement about the impending merger of two more forums: Outline and Antiquus onto our Official Resources and Support board, we are excited to announce two more additions designed to make our customers lives even easier.

We are very pleased to announce the addition of Universal Gaming to our Official Network. Universal Gaming opens up a brand new, as yet untapped area for our official board. We look forward to working with the staff of Universal Gaming in expanding our Community and allowing our customers some entertainment along with meeting all their resource and support needs.

To help Universal Gaming, we are also pleased to add Hogwarts New Zealand, the infamous Harry Potter roleplaying board, to our Official network. The addition of role playing is something we have previously attempted on a smaller scale, but with the addition of HNZ's staff, we can now make this a reality.

We realize this transition may confuse some of you, so please allow us to explain. In addition to our strengthened Community and Resource Teams, our current Support Team and our administrators, we will be adding a brand new Entertainment Team that will focus on the new Gaming and Entertainment aspect of our board as well as an Advertisement Team that will focus on our new promotion area.

The boards will be merged over the course of several days. Outline will be first, followed by Antiquus. Assuming all goes well, Universal Gaming will be next and finally Hogwarts New Zealand. The new name of the board will be: Zathyus Networks Entertainment, Resources and Support.
 
HNZ's addition to the official ZetaBoards community's merge was a last minute decision, but one that the staff and I stand behind.
While it doesn't seem like an obvious thing to do - merge a successful HP RPG into the official support/resource community for the software it runs on, it does support one of the purposes of the board. With the official community we attempt to display the very best that the ZetaBoards software has to offer - that's where HNZ comes in. HNZ has stretched the limits of what can be done with ZetaBoards and it's that aspect that is attractive to the community: displaying to other users what they can do with their board, as well, with a little ingenuity.

Additionally, while InvisionFree & ZetaBoards (run by Zathyus Networks) both house many roleplaying boards, there are a disproportionate amount of boards on InvisionFree that will not upgrade to the ZetaBoards platform. By showing that RPGs can be quite successful on HNZ - and even thrive more than they ever did before - we can help support the software that we're hosted on and encourage other communities to use it as well. :)
 
I just want to make sure I'm understanding this right;
So HNZ is basically going to be combined with two other boards? Neither of them really have anything to do with roleplaying? Or am I getting the wrong impression? xD :unsure:
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Actually three, but basically, yeah. xD
 
I personally think it's a good idea to merge with the other boards, it will make for a bigger and more active community. It'll be a great way to make new friends and maybe learn some new things: and they can learn a thing or two about RPing with the Gaming and Entertainment aspect on the board.
 
We can get them into RPing though! Maybe...
 
Okay well you have a point there. If we can attract more people into RPing that would be pretty cool.
I'm overall just kind of curious to see how this is going to work out in general. xD Trying to picture it in my head just isn't working out too well.
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Official Announcement said:
Spring has come to Zathyus Networks and with it brings exciting announcements. Last April, we announced the intention to merge our Support and Resource boards to better serve our users. Once all the major bugs and organization was worked out, we successfully merged in December. Only a few minor bugs remain and should be resolved shortly. Following the successful merge of Support and Resources, we began looking at further consolidating our services onto one board. Last month, we finalized plans to add two more boards to our official Support and Resource network.

It gives us great pleasure to announce today that we will be adding Outline and Antiquus to this board by the beginning of June. Rest assured that both boards have been given the same thought and care that went into the merge of ZNR. Preparation for the merge has been under way since December and we are pleased to announce that everything is on track to be merged by June. As the board undergoes this exciting transition, we expect minimal down time which should be limited only to the actual hour of the merge.

There will be a discussion topic created following this announcement. Please direct all questions to that topic. Please understand that at this time, we will not be answering questions about specific forums and user groups. This information will be made available to you as soon as we have it.

We have many more exciting projects in the works as part of our continued 10 Year Anniversary Celebration. Please keep checking back and be sure to follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook.

~ The Zathyus Networks Team
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Unscrambling the giant letters reveal the hidden meaning.

The mega-merge was a plot hatched on the official support board for April Fools that we rolled out in a couple of phase - focusing on the more believable-to-be-merged boards first, then announcing additional merges of other ZetaBoards staff communities that don't make much sense to merge (like HNZ and Universal Gaming), figuring the addition of these communities would add to the insanity of the suggestion and reveal to people that it's obviously a hoax.
Then, late last night, we also claimed to be merging with Stephen's (the community administrator's) long-dead forum to put the cherry on the top of the 'this is never happening' cake.

Rest assured that HNZ will live on for a long, long, time yet. ;)
 
Oh that's mean! I was so confused and thought HNZ was merging too... :o

It's way past April Fools my time though :p :r
 
good job. I think you had a few people fooled.
I guessed april fool from the start.
the give away was that it didn't make much sense and that it was so sudden without any discussion. as changing to zetaboards had a huge poll and debate. I didn't say anything so i didn't spoil it for anyone else.
 
Sarah Keith said:
Oh that's mean! I was so confused and thought HNZ was merging too... :o

It's way past April Fools my time though :p :r
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On the Internet you should be prepared for April Fools jokes any time within 48 hours of April 1st. :r
 
I'd like to personally apologise to Annaleise for going along with this on skype, and I feel bad :r
 
Pshhh. You feel nothing. :glare:
 
I think I may have to stop these April Fools jokes, cuz I do feel baaad :r
 
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