Questions about LumaSMS.

[Mario]

When will the LumaSMS main site and forums enter beta testing?

When it's ready. That's not a snarky answer, that's all we have to go off of at this time.

Will it be having more then just Mario fan-games? (e.g: Nintendo fan-games)

LumaSMS is being built for MFGG but as it is open source it will be available to others to use for their own purposes. Unless you're asking if MFGG will host other projects? That's not really of the scope of LumaSMS, feel free to make a suggestions thread asking about that though.

How would the main site and forums be merged? How would that work?

Main site accounts will be carried over 100%. Not sure if we'll be carrying over the current forums and their data- MFGG is no stranger to a forum wipe so it's not out of the question to just leave it out. But it would be possible to port the forum data over as well, hardest part will be linking accounts to their correct main site account; hopefully we can have MyBB set up to link accounts and encourage everyone to do that before LumaSMS is complete and ready to transfer over data.

Will the Discord be integrated in someway? (Like in the SMBX forums?)

No plans for integrating Discord exist at this time. Might be something we'll add in after launch though. Mainly want to focus on getting a new main site up; anything else isn't high priority.

Will the Wiki (the old one or a new one) be integrated in someway?

Same as above really. Personally I'd like it if the main site got rid of any need for a wiki.

What will happen to the current main site and forums when LumaSMS is released?

Assuming we port over the data 100%, the main site will simply be replaced. If we can't, the old main site may be up on a subdomain for a bit until we can get all the data over. If we can port the forums over 100%, they'll be removed, but otherwise they'll just be archived like all the other old forums MFGG archives.

Will there be more options for skins, submissions, and pre-made avatars?

Hopefully!

Will there be not only text based game reviews, but video ones as well?

It's possible, but we wouldn't be hosting the videos ourselves and it's really up to the staff if they want to deal with moderating video reviews or not. Personally for the most part I'm not a fan of video reviews but I can see how they'd be useful.

and will the Quality Control have a mind set of quality over quantity when approving submissions?

I think the MFGG staff focus more on the site being an archive of works, whereas reviews handle the curation of them.

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