Lately the forum has undergone some serious spamming issues because of our past policy of not forcing activation upon registration.  Well sadly we were attacked by a mini army of spammers posting offensive material all over the place.  If you happened to see any of them, we’d like to apologize for any disruptions it may have caused.

For the good of the forum, we have now turned on account activation again in hopes of getting rid of these annoying spammers.  However, since many are probably still registered with us, give it some time before all spammers are gone.  We’re deleting posts/users as they appear; we just have to wait until we get them all.

Moving on to the whole Blue Diamond Award status.  We have decided to halt the award until further notice for several reasons; one of those reasons being that the forum is in a hibernation-like state right now, which we plan to drastically change in the upcoming months.  We’re currently doing some background work on the site, planning out many items of interest that require some time.  Until we’re finished, things may be a little slow around here on our part; however, after our next big release, things will get much more lively.  With that said, we still highly encourage you the community to take part!

You’ll start to see things pop out between now and November.  One main area that you’ll see a change in is the Astral Alliance section.  The Shared Dreaming Project sort of declined in the past months because of busy schedules, but we plan to re-create that and shape it into something a little more active.  In addition, new experiments will be announced soon such as Psi Manipulation, Dream Incubation, Lucid Extremities, and much more!

These events are only a small portion of what is to come, and while we the DreamPort team are influencing such events, we want you the community to step out as well and start creating whatever it is that you want to create.  Unlike most other forums, DreamPort is really open to anything that you want.  If you’re in the Astral Alliance, post any experiment that you’d like without any permission at all and see where it takes you!  If you want to make software, create anything you want and post it for free in our software portal and we will spotlight it on our main page, giving you much attention!  If you just want to show off some random thing that you made, go for it!  In addition, feel free to discuss anything you want around the forum; we will very rarely delete off topic threads (we only delete spam), so if there’s something on your mind, go ahead and post away!  There are no limits!

The beauty about this small community right now is that whatever you have a problem with, you can get it answered in a very short amount of time by somebody who has good insight, while at other busy forums it may get lost in pages of other threads.  So, if you’re having lucid problems, or even non lucid problems such as asking that girl at school out or figuring out what college you want to go to, don’t hesitate to ask.

With all said and done, we truly hope that everybody warms up to DreamPort if they haven’t already.  It really is a pretty sweet place to be at