SBC Is Moving! (For Real This TIme! (I Swear!))

**JCM** · July 1, 2020

So, I haven't exactly been keeping this a secret over the last couple of days, but with the start of the new month and the second anniversary of my taking over this server, I'm ready to announce this to the public: SBC is moving to a new server, one that is completely controlled by me and that will hopefully have none of the negative side effects that came with me running a server I didn't set up and never felt super comfortable playing with. Some of you may have questions, and I'll do my best to address as many of them as I can so there aren't any more surprises.

When is this server move happening? The server you're currently on will be taken down this Friday, July 3, and SBC should be fully set up on the new server the day after that. While I know this seems insanely quick, it comes after over a month of work, as anyone in staff can tell you I've been planning with this date in mind since late May, and I believe I can bring back enough of SBC to go ahead and do the server move on that date
What from SBC won't be coming back? Anything coded by SBC's main developer before me won't be coming back. That includes the store, badges, iFish, member icons, and the now-discontinued games SpongeBob Jeopardy, SpongeBob Wheel of Fortune, and Dunces & Dragons. Any SBC features you use from now on will either be coded by me or outside developers. We are looking at replacements or subtle evolutions of the store, badges, and iFish, and while I don't care that much about member icons and find them ugly and distracting in a lot of places, I can bring them back, too, if there's excessive clamoring for it
What will happen to the badges/iFish/whatever I've already purchased? The actual badges and iFish items will still exist in the new server, and I'll make sure there's a way for you to access them so you can download them to put them in your signature or whatever you want to do. You simply won't have a method to automatically put them in your posts anymore, and the Who's Online widget with the iFish will be retired as well
Will all of my posts, DMs, and statuses be on the new server? Yes! At least they should be. Since this is such a big forum, some things may get lost during the move, but this isn't like going from Forumotion to vBulliten. SBC will still use the same software with all of the core features, so everything should come back other than what I've already described, and you should be able to log in with the same username and password you had before the server move
Is is too late to change your mind about this? Yes!

If you have any other questions, let me know in this thread. SBC has gone through a lot, which is why I was reluctant to make a change like this right after taking over the server. I didn't want the actions of one man to cripple an entire community, but with this site's ability to bounce back from what was easily the darkest moment in its history, and with the vibrant community that has developed on Discord, I'm not as worried about a decline in activity on these forums killing SBC as a whole. SBC has always been more than just a bunch of topics, more than fake fish in clown wigs, and more than those who were admittedly important to its development but unnecessary to its future. The lifeblood of SBC has always been the friendships it created, the opportunity it gave to many of us to find listening ears where we wouldn't otherwise have them. I couldn't kill that even if I wanted to, and while I'll try to preserve as much of SBC's history as I can, I'm much more excited for the future of this community, the first community many on here has known, and the strongest community I personally have ever been a part of.