All the latest Backrooms news of the month!
Hello folks!
As May 15th drops, so does April's newsletter! Abdallah Amr,
DrAkimoto,
BlueSignet, and
jan Jejasa with you today as we go over the unarguably best month of the year.
As always, please let us know if you have any suggestions for next month's newsletter! We're always looking for ways to improve. =)
Anniversary Event Over!
This month we took the time to celebrate our site's fifth anniversary, with a ton of great articles and plenty of other fun stuff. We held several events that highlight some of the best aspects of our community and give a nod to our roots as a site.
- We held an art contest to find a new server banner for our discord! There were a total of six submissions for Bannercon2025, with
Bluzyx's amazing entry taking the win in the end.
- Kahoot Trivia Night put the community's knowledge of our site to the test, with
PrismaticMoose and
ReyDay showing that they really know their stuff!
- The Classic Writing Blitz inspired our author base to create a total of 23 surviving submissions based around the writing style and restrictions of our wiki's early days.
- The Lost & Found collaborative page was a ton of fun for staff and the community alike, now with over 28 additions and counting!
- Our "Poetry for Neanderthals" Game Night, held on Discord, had a shaky start due to some technical difficulties but ended up being a lot of fun and something we hope to do again some day.
April Fools!!
On April 1, Atlas announced the unfortunate news to our discord server: due to increases in Wikidot pricing, our wiki would need to feature advertising from now on. Implemented by Abdallah Amr, the ads promoted many kinds of products—like the ever-so refreshing almond water, the oh-so hot firesalt, and the ah-so beautiful Level 260, home to the glow of the Northern Lights. Although readers of this paragraph may think the ads were intrusive, they were in fact not unobtrusive!
Staff Updates
- DrAkimoto became a mod.
- ghostchibi will be helping
BlueSignet revamp Oversight to make it easier to find stuff for staff and community members.
- YourWeirdPlant stepped down.
- Super-Robot14 stepped down.
- CamaradeAlbabar stepped down.
- DivineAtlas stepped down as the Disc Admin and will be BlueSignet's second in command. This opened an Admin slot for Disc specifically.
If you are interesting in joining staff, you are always welcome to apply!
Specifically, we want people who can do the maintenance tasks, run Discord events, and who are willing to help us revamp critique.
The art features now have their own fragment pages. It's just a backend thing, but now the art files are more organized yay!
We also realize we need to communicate with the community better, so these are some topics staff is considering at the moment:
- Having more productive conversations in the Discord.
- Revamping our critic system yet again. We have too many writers and not enough people willing to critique. DrAkimoto is working on something as well.
- Staff is taking a break from events in May and perhaps June because of the anniversary event, but there will be a small thing for Pride at the very least.
April Features
BlueSignet forgot to post the art features for March, so here they are:
April has not quite yet been finalized, but April's one are these:
A stylized moth by TheBearcrowave
A pencil drawing of the Beast by Nooknic14
A propaganda poster by DrAkimoto
Deathmoths drawn by catyagarden
A liminal edit by Felix Schrader
A drawing of Tesseract as a human by Bluzyx
Stay tuned to see them!
These are the featured pages from April! It was hard to pick since there were 431 pages, but this is what the Greenlighter Team picked:
wow is this part of the blitz
the exoticest hive ever
WOAH IM FEATURED!!!
I didn’t cook with art this month 🥲
Mama, I got mentioned twice
Good!!!
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Ok, all good. Very good.
For what it is worth (depending on who you ask) here is my love and support for my friends and colleagues.
Your friend and colleague,
Goerman
http://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/goerman