Karma Upgraded

Starting now you need to give a reason why you are changing someone's karma; being it smiting or applauding. Adding to the upgrade, you have the option to see who changed your karma and why.

To see who has changed your karma, or whose karma you changed, visit your profile.

Additionally, you can have the option to be notified when someone changes your karma. See screen-shot below:

To do so, go to your profile, click on Look and Layout Preferences.

An addition to this upgrade is that once you have changed someone's karma you can now see how many times you have been applauded or smited.

Tip: to see this, go to your profile, click on any of the karma options, there you will see in brackets the total applauds and smites beside the username.

RAF Forum Upgrades to SMF 1.1.7

This release is a security-only update which addresses a few recently discovered security issues in SMF 1.1.6 and older.

Temporary Move of RAF Chat

Until the issues with connection to our server are resolved, the RAF Chat will be moved until the issues are resolved. I have submitted a support ticket with our service provider, and am awaiting a response from them.

Go to:
http://animorphsforum.com/chat

7:14PM EST: I received word from our service providers; they say nothing is wrong on their end. Therefore, I'm going to ask that you report kicking / connection problems in this thread:

http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1359.msg75133.html

October 08 Stats Report

RAF's October 2008 stats.

Click to download PDF

RAF Forum is down.

11:29pm est: We're back up!

10:20pm est: The forum itself is down.

The website is experiencing speed problems, but is still online. The Blog & Chat are unaffected.

RAF Chat Now Has A Logo

I knocked up a logo for the RAF Chat, since it has become so popular and who doesn't love logos?

...And then there was Skype!

You now have the ability to enter your Skype username into your profile. When you do so your profile will be tricked out with the Skype logo; enabling anyone to click on it and add you into their contact list.

Here's a tip: To see who has entered their Skype information into their profile, click here.

You Decide: Limit RAF Chat Users?

At times the RAF Chat can have over 10 users online; causing in my view confusion. So I put it to you guys: should there be a 10 user limit on the RAF Chat rooms?

Tell me here.

The poll runs for three days and:

If yes is the majority, the RAF Chat rooms will be limited to 10 persons.
If no is the majority, the RAF Chat rooms will stay at its current limit of 20 persons.

If yes is the majority another random room will be created.

New Stats: Top Poster Today & This Week

As of now you can see who posted the most today, and who posted the most for this week. See the RAF Forum Statistics Center for that information.

Note that the statistics use the forum time (EST).

New Staff Member

Due to Raphael's inactivity, the Staff have decided to replace his position as Junior Staff Member. Therefore, it is my pleasure to announce that Claire v2.0 has been promoted to Junior Staff Member. So watch out people of Australia, you can't get away with anything while the other staff are sleeping anymore!

Congratulations Claire!

New RAF eBook Pages: Remnants & Everworld

I spent the entire day yesterday (Monday) creating e-book pages for Everworld. Currently there is only one Everworld eBook (#1), but the hope is thatonce the books are converted to eBook format, they will be readily available for all to download.

If you have the Everworld books and would like to help to make Everworld ebooks, feel free to visit this board.

Remnants too have been giving a section under RAF eBooks. There are five books currently available, and if you have the others and would like to help the process, see this board.

RAF Baby Pic Competition

Claire was inspired to come up with a fun competition where she'll post pictures sent in and we'll guess who the baby picture is.

See this thread and give Claire your picture:
http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1262.0.html

RAF Chat Upgraded

As you may, or may not be aware, the RAF Chat has been upgraded.

New Features:
1. Registrations (this prevents multiple members and spammers)
2. Better User Control (for staff and moderators)
3. Private Chats
4. Dedicated Rooms
5. User Profiles with Avatars

Please Note:
The Opera Browser does NOT work with the new Chat.

RAF: Party

Both Richard and I had the idea that it would be fun to let the bored board count toward your post count one day of out the month. This would be a monthly day for everyone to come and post on RAF, go in RAF chat, break RAF records, and become a forum personality. New comers to the forum are encouraged to make themselves known and old personalities are welcome to post in the Animorphs section for a change. The first RAFparty would be on November the 15th and 16th and the following ones would be on the second weekend of every month. I tried to schedule them so that people wouldn’t have to worry about holidays or work (hopefully!)

_The Abomination_

On the lookout...

RAF Hasn't Been Offline in 3 Months

We haven't seen RAF go offline, knock on wood, since we moved to our new host on July 23 of this year. That's a good 3 months of 100% uptime. This means all our previous bouts of downtime, since our move from Conforums, and issues with our previous host was worth it.

Big up to XeHost: our current provider.

Thanks to Cerulean for his donation!

This is to show my thanks to Cerulean for his donation to the RAF Donation Fund. His name has been placed on the leader-board, and he now enjoys an advertisment-free forum among other perks.

Xenomorph Banned

I wish that my first blog post could have been under better circumstances, but I've been asked to announce that XenomorphLV426 was banned a few days ago due to repeated abusive comments towards other members, several of which were reported to the staff, who collectively agreed to ban him.

It is unfortunate that we've had to ban another member, but it's important to the staff to show that abusive comments and other rule breaking will not be tolerated. We encourage all members to report offensive posts to the forum moderators.

September 08 Stats Report

RAF's September 2008 stats.

Interesting tidbits:

• More Page Views
• More Visits
• Less Visitors
• Google's Crome Browser now 4th most used browser.

Click to download PDF

Remnants eBook #5

Thanks to abchakraborty of RAF Forum, we have been provided with the fifth edition (Mutation) of the Remnants book series. For more Remnants ebooks, click here.

Download here.

"abchakraborty" promoted to eBook group

abchakraborty is the first member on the new RAF Forum to be promoted to the eBook Contributor group. He will enjoy the same privileges like RAF Gods.
Of course, this was done to promote the community involvement in the creation of eBooks.

RAF Forum has its own domain!

Maybe you're like me and when you think about RAF the first thing you do is to input raf into the address bar of your browser, only to remember that our domain is animorphsforum.com. No need to fear though; you can be lazy like me and simply type rafforum.com, then you will be redirected to the most awesome Animorphs forum on the internets.

Thanks to Esplin 9466 for his donation

Thanks to Russell / Esplin 9466 for his donation.
This will be the first of many thanks to future donors. Of course, donating to RAF will ensure we are kept up and running; allowing other persons to enjoy our forum, Animorphs eBooks, TV Show, and other downloads.

Please feel free to send your donations (any value) using our PAYPAL system located on RAF Donate.

As of today the top donators are:

1. Vivi9087

2. Almighty Queen

3. Kelly

4. Esplin 9466

5. Truth

RAF Forum Upgrades to SMF 1.1.6

I've upgraded to the latest version (non-BETA) of our Forum system SMF. Here is announcement made by SMF admins:

Simple Machines is happy to announce the release of SMF 1.1.6, which fixes a number of minor bugs in 1.1.5 and addresses a security vulnerability. While the vulnerability primarily affects SMF installations on Windows servers, we would like to encourage all users to upgrade as soon as possible. A successful exploit could result in privilege escalation.

Access RAF Forum Using WAP on your Mobile

If you didn't already know, you can access the RAF Forum on your mobile device/phone using the WAP URL. This page (RAF Mobile) will take you to a scaled down version of the forum; optimized for mobile phones.

The URL is: http://m.animorphsforum.com

RAF Chat History

The usual RAF Chat history has been removed. While I acknowledge the benefits of looking back to see what you missed; I removed it to prevent stalking activity.

But members are in luck. If you want access to the history, use this tool, and send me the info via PM. I'll be happy to set up login credentials for you; giving you access to the now 2 hour history.

1,000,000 Hits on RAF Forum

Today RAF Forum passed the 1 Million hits mark. RAF Forum as you should know, has been open from May 31, 2008, some 4 months ago. In contrast, on RAF Classic (the old RAF), it took one year and 5 months to cross the million hits mark using StatCounter totals.

Additionally we seemed to have crossed the 1000 topic mark. There isn't any active Animorphs forum posting those numbers. Most active Animorphs Forum on the net? Not sure, but this shows us that Animorphs is still alive and kicking. 

RAF Rules

The RAF rules / guidelines have been revised to suit the new forum.

http://animorphsforum.com/rules

Re: Yorick's Ban

Prior to Yorick's ban I was instrumental in the decision making process of banning members. But for this one I wasn't a part of the decision. I chose to stay out of it. From now on member related issues such as these will not be handled by myself. The other Senior Staff members will have this, in my opinion, daunting task in determining whether a member is being too offensive or not. 

Of course don't hesitate to send me PM on these type matters; for I will relay the messages.
In addition, I urge members to use the report post feature found on each post. It will help us greatly. So instead of smiting, because someone is offensive or breaking any other rule, report the post. 

Thanks guys. 

August 08 Stats Report

Our first comprehensive statistical report provided by Google Analytics.

This is the first of our monthly reports which I will provide for anyone to view.

Click to download PDF

RAF TV Mirror Links are Down

This is just to say that I know that the mirror links of the Animorphs Episodes on RAF TV have some how expired. Not to fear though, the direct links are still working as those files are hosted directly on RAF Downloads.

How I Keep on Top of Things...

Maintaining RAF (Forum) is, at times a daunting task. But thanks to the new forum software (SMF), email & text notifications are an admins dream come true.

One such notification is when a member registers; effective when trying to prevent duplicate registrations, and when trying to keep banned persons out.

Another handy notification is when someone sends me a personal message, I am also notified via text message. So wherever I am in the world, with or without an Internet connection; I will know I have a message waiting on me.

A great example of this being useful is sometime last week when I was enjoying some TV show, Tyler PMd me regarding some unfolding events in the RAF Chat. Luckily I was home so I promptly banned the offending member, and life went on.

There are varying triggers for the more important text alert, along with Personal Messages, there is that reported post trigger. So whenever someone reports a post, I am immediately prompted.

So what have we learnt today folks? If you want me to respond to an urgent matter, simply send me a PM. And if you are someone who got banned, don't try to re-register, because I check each member who registers.

New God Among Us - SuperClaire

Congratulations to Claire on achieving 5000 posts on RAF (both Classic and Forum)

She will now enjoy the ability to store 500 personal messages, and the abilities to lock and move her own posts.

RAF Chat is Down

Not sure what is happening, but right now the RAF Chat is down. When I

get home, I will look into this further.

Edit: Things seem to be back up.

Difference between Facebook Page & Group

The RAF Facebook Page v The RAF Facebook Group

I noticed two wall questions on the RAF Facebook Page, asking what is the difference between the Group and the Page. Here we go:

1. The Facebook Page is administrated by me (Richard).

2. The Facebook Group is not. Adam created it in January of this year.

3. The Facebook Page allows me to send you updates/ notifications directly unto your Facebook home page.

4. The Facebook Group does not allow that functionality.

5. The Facebook Page is accessable via http://animorphsforum.com/facebook

6. While the Facebook Group is not :) 

Animorphsjake Banned

Just to nofify the RAF Public that the member Animorphsjake has been banned for spamming the forum, and 'plotting' to do more.

RAF Chat - Now Open All Week!

The RAF Chat (where members and non-members alike chat about Animorphs in an IM style) will not be closed throughout the week anymore. I've decided to have the chat room remain open 7 days of the week.

To allow you to gauge when there is activity in the chat room, I've placed an online notification at the bottom of all RAF Forum pages.

New Animations from Animorphs Cover Artist

Description from the video:

I am the artist who did the covers for Scholastic Books "Animorphs" series by K. A. Applegate. Here are some of the full morphs stitched together with some nice cloud backgrounds. Enjoy! You can see more of my work at:

www.davidmattingly.com.

In addition to the above, Mattingly made this animation:

This is a short film of me morphing into my cat Henry.
Check out more of my work at:

www.davidmattingly.com

Thanks Truth

Link to Video One
Link to Video Two

RAFipedia - The RAF Wiki

Join the RAF Wiki, RAFipedia or gets details about RAF in this user-editable encyclopedia.

RAF Downloads

Starting with the Animorphs eBooks, Television Series, and newly added Know the Secret PC Game; RAF Downloads will be your one stop shop for Animorphs related downloads.

I spent most of last night creating the two new pages: RAF Downloads (located at downloads.animorphsforum.com) & RAF Games (located at animorphsforum.com/games/) after I noticed persons trying to access our downloads folder, and after Truth from Hirac Delest provided us with the game respectively.

Animorphs: Know the Secret, the PC Game

Thanks to Truth, (of Hirac Delest) the Animorphs PC Game (Know the Secret) has been uploaded for anyone to play. Bear in mind that this game came out in 2000.

Here's a quote from Amazon:

This is an action adventure game based on the characters from the book and TV series. Earth is being taken over by an alien race called the Yeerks, who are using cockroach-like bugs to control human minds. Visser Three, leader of the bad guys, uses a weapon with an ultra-powerful crystal that explodes and shatters reality. Players' task is to lead the Animorphs, a group of animal-morphing teenagers, in their quest to save Earth by piecing reality back together. Game play consists of jumping over obstacles, collecting coins, and morphing into an animal to fight off aliens. Despite nice quality graphics and smooth action, the game can get pretty frustrating. Also, getting past some of the obstacles requires precise timing, which younger children generally can't provide. Testers told us that in spite of their frustration, they want to see what happens as the game unfolds.

How to download  - >

Download Links - >

Profile Additions

Tired of not being in the loop when it regards a member's real name? Or ever wondered who a user was, according to themselves?

Problem solved with the new profile fields:

Uploading Via Attachments

Want to show off your picture? Share PDFs? Or your own song? It's simple:

First. Go to your Post Reply, or New Topic area:



Then click on Additional Options:

From there you can select whatever* you want to upload.

*Please note the Allowed file types: doc, gif, jpg, mp3, pdf, png, txt, zip.

Maximum attachment size allowed: 5120 Kilobytes or 5 Megabytes.
You also get to attach four per post.

Enjoy!

BRB & We're Back!

The forum will BRB.

Edit: 12:23EST

Restart your computer or browser to access the forum.

Uploading of Avatars Temporarily Disabled

Pending move completion, uploading of avatars have been temporarily disabled.

Edit: You are now able to upload/attach files, and avatars.

Bigger Host & Future Downtime

I've found ourselves a new host. Well, incidentally, it was our first paid home (XEHost) back in 2007. They currently host the Blog. So we are simply moving back with a bigger share of their server. Our current host (LiquidNet) while was munificent on the hard-drive space and bandwidth fronts, lacked in what we need the most; MySQL space (or simply Forum space). At our current rate, we would use up all available space by October of this year.

Preempting that inevitable, and rapid use of all available forum resources, I began looking for a new home. XEHost was generous enough to provide us with relatively cheap hosting with enough MySQL disk-space to last us for over 1,000 months. (Of course, their plan expires anually, so keep donating).

The actual move will take place sometime in the near future & will likely result in some downtime. But I'm trying to devise ways to keep downtime at a minimum. I will post again when I have everything in order and am ready to move.

On some other, but related news: Our main domain; animorphsforum.com is now secured until 2011.

Edit: Move Complete with only a few minutes of Forum downtime.

Detailed Member Ranks / Groups Info.

I have never detailed in one place, a comprehensive list, the difference between each member group / member rank. So here they are:

• Lurker | 0 Posts
  

1 Star - Can't applaud or smite. Allowed 10 personal messages.

• Newbie | 1-9 Posts
  

1 Star - Can't applaud or smite. Allowed 10 personal messages.

• Jr. Member | 10-49 Posts
  

2 Stars - Can applaud or smite. Allowed 50 personal messages & Can attach files.

• Full Member | 50-249 Posts
  

3 Stars - Same as Jr. Member. + Allowed 100 personal messages.

• Sr. Member | 250-499 Posts
  

4 Stars - Same as Full Member + Can edit display name.

• Hero Member | 500-999 Posts
  

5 Stars - Same as Sr. Member

• Jr. Xtreme Member | 1000-1999 Posts
  

6 Stars - Same as Sr. Member

• Xtreme Member | 2000-4999 Posts
  

7 Stars - Same as Sr. Member + Can modify custom title

• God | 5000+ Posts (black color)
  

8 Stars - Same as Xtreme Member + 500 personal messages + Can move & lock own posts.

• Elite | 5000+ Posts (black color) -Alternate to God-
  

8 Stars - Same as God Member

• Donators (position lasts for 1 year)
  

9 Stars - Same as Gods + 1000 personal messages + 10 Karma Points + access to D-Lounge

• Gold Member ($50+ in donations - gold color - lasts forever)
  

10 Stars - Same as Donators + unlimited personal messages + 50 Karma Points

Home Page Link Added

A little tweak I made to the RAF Forum navigation.

I've added a link to the home page. Previously you could, and still can go to RAF's home page by clicking on the RAF logo atop all pages.

In addition to the Home link addition. The RAF Forum home link has been renamed to Forum Home, and the RAF Blog link is now beside the newly created RAF Home link.

RAF's New Facebook Page

Our presence on Facebook has been updated. You can now get updates directly on your profile/home page when you become a fan of the Official RAF Facebook page.

2/6 Staff Members Dropped

Adam/TheEllimist left RAF a few weeks ago. Now, personal friend of mine Ricardo decided to step down from his staff position. He will continue to participate in RAF though.

There are now 4 persons in total on staff.

1. Me (Richard)
2. Esplin 9466 (Russell)
3. Phoenix004 (Mike)
4. Druid (Raphael / Isuru)

Staff List ->

RAF Should Be Back Up

Sorry for the extended downtime. I didn't even accomplish what I set to. I'll have to do that at a later date. If you're still unable to access RAF restart your computer, and try again.

Hide Your Online Status

The following groups now have the option to hide their online status:

1. Donators
2. Gods (5000 posts or more)
3. Xtreme Members (2000 posts or more)

To hide your online status, go to your profile, select "Account Related Settings", then untick "Show others your online status?"

RAF TV Links Back Up!

The Animorphs television series is back online after an all day (and 3.8 gigabyte) move from File Crunch to File Factory.

The files are no longer available in .wmv format. They are in .avi format.

Download & Watch Animorphs Here ->

Member Groups & Personal Messages

Members who have 5000 posts and more (Gods) now have the capacity to host 5 times more personal messages. They can now hold 500 messages. All other member groups can only hold up to 100 messages, except for Donators who can have unlimited messages in their inbox/outbox.

Member Group & Custom Titles

Members who have over 2000 posts can now edit their own Custom Title. 

Internal Server Errors

10:30AM EST: RAFians, I have contacted our host again, (30 minutes ago) asking what's up with the internal server errors. I'll post back when I have more information.

11:40AM EST: I received a reply from a supervisor:

As I'm sure you have noticed we have been having quite some problems with this server which are finally to end. Our administrators had to change few Web server options as well as to recompile the Web server itself which caused this error to appear. Please note that this can happen few more times today.

11:45AM EST: A announcment was issued:

To the attention of all customers. With regard to the laboured performance your server has been showing lately due to overload and other difficulties, we are glad to inform you that final resolution the problem has been found and your websites will be working flawlessly again after we take the necessary measures.

The procedure will consist of addition of new Hard Disk Drives to the server and re-organization of the customers' web hosting accounts, so as to better consume the server resources from this time ahead.

The maintenance will be carried out in the next two days. Several very short downtimes might be experienced during the hard disk addition, however we would like to reassure you that those will be worth your patience bearing in mind the final positive result.

Thank you very much for your understanding in this matter. We firmly hope that after this maintenance procedure the server will no longer experience problems of that kind.

RAF TV Problems

I am aware of the invalid download links for the Animorphs TV show (RAF TV). File Crunch must have eaten the files. If you are in desperate need of the Animorphs TV series, feel free to download our torrent containing all episodes. (torrent file)

Insight into RAF's Uptime

This weekend for RAF has not been good as it relates to the website's uptime. According to statistics, RAF: The Animorphs Forum since last year April has been online 99.227% of the time. Sounds like a lot? It is. 

But as of June, and we are two weeks in, our uptime has fallen to 97.305%, while for this month we've been offline 2.695% of the time. That's a statistic I'm not proud of.  Granted, for May 2008 / last month, our downtime percentage was mearly 0.067%. There was only once instance of RAF being down. We have been offline 11 times this month.

You can keep up-to-date with our uptime, and percentages, by following this link.

RAF's Continued Problems

Not to worry, our host is still experiencing problems at this time. The below screenshot details that there is something wrong. But rest assured, it's just our host acting up again. "Technical Problems" They call it.

RAF Blog Moved!

Our host is experiencing problems, and as a result I have decided to move the blog to http://blog.animorphsforum.com. This move will give me the option to inform you guys when RAF is down.

Some Questions Regarding Move

I've been asked a number of questions ever since RAF Classic went offline on May 30. Here are a few common questions regarding the move and the new RAF.

1. Why move?

- We have been with Conforums (the host) for 5 years. Their forum system has not changed much in that time. In addition, being hosted by them, restricts us to abide by their Terms of Service. SMF, the new board system, does not have rules, we abide by the rules we want. Moving from Conforums gives us autonomy, and with that comes full control over matters. Further more, the Conforums board system lacks modern forum features which we now enjoy over at the new RAF.

2. How do we transfer threads/members?

-Because of how Conforums works, there is no easy way of transfer any data from the back-end. You the user have the task of re-registering, and re-creating the threads on the new RAF so as to continue discussing the book we love the most: Animorphs.

3. I don't want to loose my post count, can I get it back?

-Sure. After registering to the new RAF, feel free to post in a thread I've created on that matter.

4. How long will RAF Classic (the old RAF)  be online?

- I have no intentions of removing RAF Classic. It will be online as long as Conforums is, and serve as a reminder of our achievements and discussions for anyone who wishes to view them.

5. Is the Animorphs Audiobook & E-Book Project still active?

- It is. Our Animorphs eBook project has been online for anyone who wishes to read Animorphs online. See RAF eBooks for book downloads. Please see the new RAF for information on the Audiobook project and if you find errors in the ebooks, feel free to post in their respective boards.

RAF is Moving

RAF: The Animorphs Forum has finally moved from Conforums to SMF after 5 years with them. The old RAF has been renamed RAF Classic, and is viewable to anyone who wishes to. Posting though has been restricted to push members to the new forum, simply called RAF.

This board system is fully hosted by RAF, allowing The Animorphs Forum to wholly host the entire website. 

News Relating to RAF being Down

I surmised that RAF / Conforums is hosted on a service provider called The Planet. Here is news regarding their problem:

Faulty transformer blamed

A fire at The Planet's H1 data center in Houston, Texas on Saturday has taken out thousands of websites.

In messages posted on the web hosting firm's forum, the company blamed a faulty transformer for the fire. No servers or networking equipment were damaged, but the data centre remains without power, after The Planet shut down all generators "as instructed by the fire department.

About 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers are affected by the outage. B3ta.com, a popular British comedy site, is a high profile casualty.

The Planet is posting hourly updates on its forum. It has five other data centers, which remain up and running.

Source: The Register

RAF (the forum) is Down. UPDATED!

Conforums is down. 

June 4 Update: the Old RAF is back up.

May 31 Update: I have uncovered some details that most likely is related to RAF's forum being down. There has been a fire on the computers  (severs) that Conforums' files are stored on (and RAF). As a result the severs had to be shut down. More details when I have them.

June 1 Update: There is a possibility that RAF may be back online Sunday evening EST.

No data should be affected.

June 4 Update: It has been 4 days since the old RAF, the forum, has been offline. To get your Animorphs fix, feel free to visit the new RAF, over at animorphsforum.com/forum.

RAF is 5 Years Old!

RAF, the Animorphs forum is officially 5 years old. Read a synopsis of our history here.

RAF Front Page Updated

I have streamlined the RAF Home page. Instead of a ported RAF Forum Logo unto the home page, I've created a simple flash logo. In addition, the RAF eBooks and RAFtv logos were removed from the home page. In their places, roll over images of the Animorphs books, and screen-shots from the Animorphs TV-Show were placed respectively.

RAF Pages links at the bottom were also edited. This is the first update of RAF Home since it was introduced on March 9, 2008.

15 Members Removed

I have removed 15 19 duplicate members. Expect a smaller member list in
the coming days. Coming off the heals of our 1800 member announcement,
at this time the count has dropped to 1790.

Email Service War

With 1790 members, I decided to run a search to see which email service RAF members prefer. Here are the results.



Hotmail/Live - 505 Members


Yahoo! - 489Members


Gmail/Google Mail - 396 Members

Other - 398


Edit: Numbers updated to show new member list as of May 13 2008.

2 Members Banned

Two members were banned today. One, you probably are familiar with. The other just came today to troll/spam the forums.

1800 Members

After removing about 7 members yesterday, we've hit 1800 members. Our 1800th member is OrangesofDeath.

Leigh Leaves

After three years and tens of thousands of posts later, Leigh , our top poster, is deciding to take a brake break from RAF. Here's his post, made today, May 5 2008:

For all those that remember me, lol, pretty much life has changed recently and time for coming here has shortened.

I've got other things to do, things that mean more to me now.

I thought I'd be courtious, who would've thought I'd be that, and let people know I'm leaving.

Nothing against anyone here, except maybe Tyler :P Lol, kidding, life has to come first.

So goodbye! I may pop in occasionally but I won't be around anymore.

I still hold the record for the first person to reach 10k posts AND 20k posts ;) Lol, have fun!

Read ->

Anna Takes the Top Spot

Member, Anna has taken the top spot from Phoenix/Mike, who resided atop the list from March 8. The list pretty much shows member dedication, as it records on a first come basis who visits the forum.

RAF - 2 Million Hits

Ah yes, according to trusty StatCounter, our primary hit tracker, RAF, the forum itself, has crossed the two million hits mark today. We started tracking on February 23, 2005.

To view the number, just visit RAF's main page.

Remnants e-Books (1-4)

Following our Remnants Forum, member Dameg (who also provided us with the Vegemorphs book) uploaded the first four Remnants eBooks for your reading pleasure.

Enjoy!

Vegemorphs E-Book Online!

Dameg, member of RAF has provided us with the lone Animorphs parody; Vegemorphs. Please click the image above, or visit the RAF eBooks section to read Vegemorphs: The fungus Among Us along with all the other Animorphs books.

Forum Makeover?

Go here to read and discuss a post created by Ricardo which asks whether the forum needs a makeover.

New Boards for RAF

Now you guys have specialized areas to talk about Everworld and Remnants, both K.A. Applegate authored books. In addition, Michael Grant's (Applegate's husband) upcoming book series Gone now has a board for itself.

The new boards are called Forums on RAF because I noted the lack of forums for the currently over two series.

To discuss Everworld, click here.
To discuss Remnants, click here.
To discuss Gone, click here.

You now have a re-launched board, More Books..., to discuss, other books.

Web Host Issues

Hello,

There appears to be a problem with that server. Our administrators are working on that, but for the moment we have no news what is the cause of the issue. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused. You websites and services will be up and running shortly!

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Best Regards,
Victor

That's the word from our web host providers.

1700 Members

RAF's latest member, brings our total member count to 1700.

RAF Donate - Now Live

RAF Donate is now online. Powered by PayPal, RAF Donate allows you to send money via Credit Card, PayPal to the RAF Fund, which will go toward paying for the hosting services of The Animorphs Forum.

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The Bored Board

...has been disabled. My entire feeling toward a spam board changed a few minutes ago.

Edit: It's back. Didn't know people liked it that much...

K. A Applegate Goes to Comic Con?

Any of your group going to Comic Con in San Diego this summer? There's a chance we'll be there.

- K. A. Applegate

It appears, according to correspondence with our admin Adam, the author of Animorphs, K.A. Applegate (and husband Michael Grant), might pay a visit to this year's Comic-Con.

If they decide to go, will you be there?