Hello Alumers,
Here's the September-October staff update for the Species!

Last month, the staff was busy with specific behind-the-scenes work, trying to go towards the goals that we had set.

Admin and Species mods, with the input of other staff, have been working on updating a few of our processes.:

• Staff Design approval has been updated to be in a forum channel instead of a regular Discord channel, with the hope this will make it so staff approvals will not fall through the cracks. Design approval forms have also been edited to make uploads more accurate.
• Masterlisters have created a schedule to track availability + improved communication for times that Masterlisters cannot be there.
• Event coordinators Rmin JJBum Vilagyent Nightspirit Philologique have been hard at work managing the “Summertime Odyssey” event. carlos_claee and the Species mods have been working on the Halloween event which will be starting in October.
• Vilagyent , MarskyMessier , carlos_claee , and Blu_x_Jay have gotten significantly into trait art creation, with around 1/3rds of the traits fully drawn out with the base that was voted on in the Discord. They are hoping that traits will be finished and released soon.
• Discord mods and Astr0fish have reopened the Draw the Alumy Above channels in the Discord, and sent out relevant rewards. If you want to learn more about that, please check out the newsletter here!: https://alumyworld.com/news/17.draw-the-alumy-above-update
• Discord mods and Astr0fish have also revamped the rules for the Discord channel, as well as added relevant reaction roles that have been requested in the past to be added to the server.
• Vilagyent , Blu_x_Jay , and wearycosmos have been working on updating trait descriptions to make it clear what each trait is supposed to be.
• Masterlisters Froggy , mawkatsu , L_moncello are working through the Missing Alumy form and making sure all Alumies that need to be on the masterlist are on the masterlist.
• MarskyMessier is working on art revamps for icons as well as updating various things in regards to website development. He is also working on UI updates as well as a potential Halloween theme! Everything website development-wise is updated on the Dev log, here: https://alumyworld.com/devlogs

Hopefully this will give you an idea of what's going on in regards to the inner workings of the Alumy Staff! Things have been working relatively smoothly, and each section of staff are doing their assigned tasks swimmingly. We still have things we would like to improve and work on, and we will continue to keep those at the forefront of our work as we continue to grow.