Welcome to another edition of Bell Tree Direct. We have some big updates for the site to announce coming soon, but first there are a few events and other things we'd like to talk about today. You'll want to read all the way to the end for a teaser of what's to come, but tonight's Direct isn't lacking in exciting announcements either!
Official New Horizons Companion Guide Super Giveaway
We are holding multiple giveaways for the amazingly detailed New Horizons Official Companion Guide every week through June and July! Special thanks to Future Press for creating this game guide and providing us with copies to give away on The Bell Tree.
These giveaways are all about promoting New Horizons discussion, not that any of you will need additional encouragement to do that! To enter, simply make at least one post in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons board during the week. One winner will be drawn from the week's posts. This will be repeated every week through June and July, so remember to be active each week, but you can only win once. At the end of each week we will announce the winner and send them a private message for their address. The books will be shipped directly by Future Press. Good luck!
Celebrating Diversity: An Animal Crossing Art Contest
This month, we're celebrating our diverse community by hosting a new Animal Crossing art contest. Please check out Celebrating Diversity: An Animal Crossing Art Contest. This contest's theme is all about celebrating diversity and promoting inclusivity, so do your best to express what that means to you through your Animal Crossing artwork.
The contest will award bells, trophy collectibles, and one bonus entry for week two of our game guide giveaway. See the thread linked above for more details!
New Profile Field
We have added a recently requested profile field for pronouns. This field will be useful for those who want to clarify the pronouns others use when referring to them on the forum. You can edit the field in your account details and it will appear in your profile. If you choose to leave this field blank it will not be displayed. While we are also keeping the original gender field in place, we will soon be replacing the "undisclosed" option with blanks so it works the same way as our other fields here.
Bunny Day Interior Design Event Results!
The long wait is over! It may have taken quite some time to conclude, but no, we didn't forget about the interior design event! All participants have now received 100 bells and our staff favorites have been selected! Staff favorites have received an additional 50 bells and an Easter Egg collectible. Let's take a look at our five winners:
ancientmagnolia
fallenchaoskitten
hammyc
kalinn
Skunk
fallenchaoskitten
hammyc
kalinn
Skunk
Good work and thanks to everyone who participated in this event!
Small Auction Rules Rewording and New Anchor BB Code
Our auction rules had another update. This time it was more for clarification and simplification. We hope this will make auctions more uniform across the site.
While you're checking out the rules though, you'll see our newly added BB Code in use. The new anchor and goto BB Code tags will allow you to link to specific sections of a post. You might find this to be especially useful for threads intended for things like guides, town journals, and shops. You can find the new tags under the insert category of the editor. Simply put the anchor word after the "anchor=" part of the tag and it will allow you to link directly to the anchor with the added #wordhere at the end or the thread's URL. Or use the goto tag to link directly to the anchor in the same thread.
Your Survey Bells
In addition to distributing the interior design event bells, we have also distributed the 25 bells promised in last month's survey. They should now show up in your transaction log. If you didn't receive them, please make a Contact the Staff thread. Some usernames may not have been inputted into the survey correctly.
Thanks to everyone who filled out the survey! We received over 1000 submissions before we took it down! You may still be wondering what actually came from the results. While we don't have anything to announce during tonight's Bell Tree Direct, we do have some changes coming soon that may address some of your suggestions.
Coming Soon on The Bell Tree
Thanks for reading our announcements! What's next for TBT? Here are some of the things we'll be announcing soon: new staff applications, more trading board reorganization, AC trading enhancements, Dodo Code queuing, new shop items and forum perks, and the long-awaited return of The Bell Tree Fair.
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