I’ve been talking for a while with the webmasters over at Animation Insider about affiliating with them, and combining my forum with theirs. I’m happy to say that we’ve finally finished, and the new avatar forum is located here. In it you’ll find avatar “Talkbacks” (in the episode discussion subforum), where each episode can be discussed individually, along with a whole lot more threads about the show in general. There’s a whole lot more active members over there than WT Forums ever had, so I hope everyone will sign up and enjoy discussing Avatar with the people over at AI.

The speculation comments on WT Forums are floating in their own dimensional abyss right now until I figure out what to do with them. If you have any questions about this move, leave them in the comments

And while I’m posting about new partnerships, everyone give a welcome to Jeremy, Matthew, and Bree, who have agreed to help me run Waterbender. Matthew has made a few news posts already, and Jeremy and Bree have been helping me write new character bios. The about us page will be updated with them asap

I’ve decided, for a couple of reasons, the most prominent of which is bandwidth, to move the comments from the Speculation Section to WT Forums. This won’t be much of an inconvenience to anyone, all you’ll have to do is login one time to comment. I’ll take care of making the accounts and copying over the comments, and if you ever commented in the Speculation section, you should receive an email within the next few days containing your username and password. Also, if necessary, you can change your username (the one you login with). That will hopefully be done within a few days.

Head over to WT Forums via the nav bar link on the top left of your screen and you’ll see the beginnings of the new layout. Join today!

WT Forums member airbendergirl has very kindly volunteered to make a skin for the forum (something I’m not very good at…) If you’d like to make a skin as well, or help out/lend ideas, head over to the forums and check out this thread.

The new Water Tribe forums are now online, you can get to them by clicking on “Forums” at the top of the left navigation. This new forum is better organized, has a large number of useful features, and contains a large variety of themes you can use to customize the way the forum looks to you. If you have any questions about how to work it (I know a lot of people are used to Proboards), first check the SMF help guide, and, if you do not find your answer there, PM “James”.

Water-Bender.com’s forums (powered by phpbb) are now open, though still under construction. Click here to go to the fourm. If you google “PHPBB templates”, you’ll find many sites with templates you can use for PHPbb forums. If you find a template you like, email me, and I’ll add it to the forum.