I’m honestly really proud of the q community people have come together and are working on alternatives, so for those of you who are wondering in general what’s going on, here’s a little rundown of discord servers quotevians have created, what happened, and what’s next.
What Happened?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the Q mods are going to change their decision to remove the group, feed and message functions. These changes will come into effect July 1st, so there is time to archive and save what you need to.
There is a lot of discourse and theories going around as to what caused this, a common one is that a user threatened to attack the white house, and caused the feed to go down, but Q mods have confirmed that the changes have been in the works for months.
Why are these changes being made? No one really knows why the Q mods are making this decision, from the official news statement on Quotev, it said the group, feed and message features are being removed due to no one using them, but I’m calling bullshit because the vast majority of it’s active userbase was either on there to socialise and roleplay.
According to the Q update announcement, there will soon be the option to download groups and messages, however the mods have not given us an exact date as to when this feature will be available, so if you have stuff to save, start doing so now.
What’s Next
For the time being, many Q users are beginning to save and archive roleplays, messages, plots, ect. There are a few sites they’re doing this on.
Discord
Discord has many features that make it convenient to save work, however on discord only text can be saved. If you are going to use discord to save, I would suggest creating your own personal server, and sorting stuff into different categories, and then placing things relavent to each category in channels.
Tumblr
Tumblr users are allowed to have various blogs which makes it a good option for anyone looking to preserve things like roleplay groups. However to my understanding there are daily post and blog limits, which might drastically slow down the archiving process. If you are going with tumblr as your option, then you are permitted up to 10 secondary blogs per day, and 250 posts per day per blog. Creating a blog is as simple as going to accounts and clicking the new blog option.
Google Docs
For those of us who roleplay on Q, this update is going to hit particularly hard. There hasn’t been any official confirmation of journals being removed, however I and many other Quotevians are not trusting the mods, and are backing up journals. Google Docs is the best place to do this if you want to maintain any aesthetic layouts. Whilst it won’t accommodate every layout, it does provide an easy and quick space to save journals. If you have a google account then docs should be available to you.
Archiving aside, there are talented Q users looking into creating a website similar to Q, which may be where Q survivors will migrate to. I don’t know when the site will be up as of now, but I will post updates when they are available.
Discord Servers
If you were on when the first plane hit then you would have seen the link I posted to the initial survivours group. Since then various servers have been created, so here’s a rundown of them and the links to join.
Luneris
This is where the Q user who is looking into creating an alternative site is taking suggestions. I believe it’s the largest server so far. On it there will be updates and there are many Q survivours congregating together. https://discord.gg/FKDcUMvj
Quotev Hub
This is the server that Q users on discord are using as a makeshift Quotev. It’s basically the Discord Quotev server. It’s the largest Q server I’ve found. https://discord.gg/tddcwRQH
Quotev Survivors
This is the original server I shared. It’s gained quite a few members and is being set up as another Discord Quotev. https://discord.gg/cfDkUgeX
Qcord
This is one of the smaller servers, but I’m including it incase you want to make sure you’re in every server like I am. https://discord.gg/EQ6uqp6T
Quotev Roleplayers
This is where roleplayers are gathering. If you want to advertise roleplays or discuss them, I would go here since it’s aimed for that purpose in particular. https://discord.gg/EQ6uqp6T
That’s all the updates I have for now. I know alot of us are freaking out and panicking, but just know you’re not alone, and us Quotevians are going to get through this together.
Not me, a 2014 quotev veteran, looking through the #Quotev tag on different platforms to see what other Q users have to say about the horrible mistake the admins made. I have to archive 66 pages of the messages on my profile because they’re from old friends and the like and my profile is a time capsule. I like to keep that please. Not sure how I will archive the few groups I’m in because they have a lot of threads. I’m going to put stuff in my Google docs.
You can’t share fan fics and quizzes without a feed and I don’t think they properly realised that. Writers need more than only comments on their works to properly interact with their readers. They’re cutting off so much interaction that was crucial to the site to thrive aside from its main purpose. People even made friends on there, me included, and not all have other socials aside from Q. I hope they will see their mistake and give us at least the feed back. “Rarely used” my fucking ass.
