On 31st March 2012, the following features were made live:

My Towns
• Fixed the fruit selection in the My Towns page.
• Added some missing townie pictures in the Town Residents section of My Towns.
• Removed the option of selecting acres for residents in CF as CF maps will be worked on separately.

Profile & FCRs
• New avatars have been uploaded.
• Profiles now have a preview button.
• Profiles now show date stamps when edited.
• Friend Code Requests can be accepted and rejected in bulk.
• Friend Code Requests not responded to, will now expire after 14 days.
• There is a larger choice of countries in the User Bio Info section of the profile.
• Enabled the use of spoiler tags in the Other Stuff About Me section of the profile.

Posting, Threads & Boards
• Updated the Halloween emotes.
• Board descriptions were updated.
• Error messages have been redesigned.
• Strikethrough markup has been added.
• The male ''smile'' emote has been updated.
• People can now be added to PTs more quickly, using a comma.
• In pages where there is a Forum column, the board names are now links to those boards.
• You can now move your text further into a post by using the space bar rather than spoilers.
• The Submit button for posts is now disabled while the post is submitting to prevent double posting.
• Quick Markup buttons were added above the text box. An explanation of how to use them is in the link located to the right of the buttons.
• There is a Community Notice Board which is separate to the Announcements board and will be used for competitions and other ACC activities including voting. Receiving the announcements on this board is optional.

Miscellaneous
• Spring banner was fixed.
• Eleven bugs and glitches were fixed.
• Winter banner was fixed but another update will follow.
• There is a new heading called ''Alerts'' in the left margin.
• The ACC Wifi section in the left margin can now be minimised.
• Denied user tickets have new wording for the automated messages.
• A link to the Bell Shop page was added in the AC Community section of the left margin.
• The Bell Shop page was added in preparation for items being added in the next two updates.

Staff related
• There is a Site Owner icon.
• Developers were given an icon.
• Researchers were given an icon.
• The Scout static page was updated.
• The Moderator static page was updated.
• A static page for Developers was added.
• A static page for Researchers was added.
• The Administrator static page was updated.
• Eleven pieces of other staff related work was completed.

Please use this Sticky to get help about using these new features or to let us know of any issues. Your comments will also enable us to rewrite the Help Section for some of these items so that it's clear for all members.

We respectively ask members of the Community to not reply to any queries on this thread and to leave replies for the Staff to take care of.

Thank you and enjoy the updates.

First!
Yay updates!

I may not be looking in the right place, but I see no Bell Shop page.

^ I saw that also I even used ctrl F to find the words "Bell Shop" & didnt see it

& its winter...

Cassie and Chris, the Bell Shop is part of a future update. It has not been included in this update.

The R&D badges are not appearing next to usernames.

I'm not seeing the updated male smiley or the Notice Board.

Noticeboard is being worked on and the emote is fine. Just the ends have been changed.

Which parts of the emote? Because I see one that looks exactly like the old one.

The ends of the smile have been changed.

Ha, you know what, you are right. It's not changed.

This is what mine looks like.

Edit: Nevermind

Yep, that's the old one.

What new avatars are being/have been uploaded?

How do you do date stamps for profiles?

What do you mean?

Nevermind, i see it on top now. xD

I was expecting to see it by the profile itself... Thanks anyways, though.

I agree with Cassie: what exactly are the new avatars? I have no idea where to look.

I just went to least used and I think Truffles was new so :U

Um, why did the staff get weird avatars and why isn't it listed under Staff Related?

^ April Fool's day is tomorrow, after all.

I love cooljdude's lamp avatar. XD

Please be patient and give us some time to get back to you. Although we have Dev and Beta tested, there will always be some errors that occurs when features go live.

As for not seeing the Bell Shop link, the reason for that is the permission was added as an option but after updates go live, an Admin has to then choose the permission for a user group. Since the SIC wer disbanded and R&Ds replaced them, the updates effectively de-staffed all R&Ds. Therefore we needed to set them up on their new permissions before tackling ones for the Community.

All members should now be able to see a link for the Bell Shop, a Bell Shop ''Coming Soon'' page and Community Notice Board. The 3DS board permission has not yet been granted as we will do that nearer the release date of the game.

What exactly are the staff alerts used for right now, and what for later?

Zsnakejake, Staff Alerts are for alerting Staff members about new User Tickets, adoptions, User Log messages, and other Staff-ish notices. In today's case, it is also being used to alert you with members that need to be thwacked or banhammered.

Yep! It will be gone after today.

Is it bad if were banned? XD

What about the new avatars?

"What about the new avatars?"

I believe this is only for the staff.