Welcome: The Great Reveal!

Its Here!

The wait is over

You have all been patiently waiting for the release of what was promised to succeed Hortorian, and the wait has been long and tiring wait, but the time has finally come. The reveal of Vividus Connect is here today this twenty-first of May! We've progressively been working behind the scenes, collaborating and discussing not only the direction we want to go with Vividus, but also our aims and goals. Starting with grassroots cultivation of our community, we aim to promote the creative growth and ambitions of artists and writers.

Forged with the prospective hope of promoting artistic flourishing, the forum has been under development. Slowly coming together and forming its territory in a hope of retaining the spirit of Hortorian, but at the same time becoming something wholly its own. Much hope has been held for this new forum, and much anticipation. Anxiousness has edged away and given way to expectations and excitement for the launch, and the time has finally come. I thank you for your continued patience, but the wait has finally ended. Finally, the pendulum is swinging once more.

That being said, I welcome you to Vividus Connect! Competitions and more are soon to come, welcome because the forums are finally open for business. And, since its open for business, allow me to explain the format of the forum:

You can see the basic format is similar to Hortorian, but different. We've the Vividus Forums, basic layout of most forums informational hub. Following that we've the Writing Section, Arts Section, RPG Section and finally Off-Topic.
We have some differences, you'll note within the Arts Section the mots notable changes with an array of options available. Showcases, requests, contests and more, not to mention an entire forum dedicated to music within.

However, you'll also note some changes within the Writing Section. Fiction encompasses all longer works, twenty pages or more, whereas Essays & Shorts cover any written works twenty pages or less.
Within Essays & Short Stories is also a new option for Battle Literature, a training/practice grounds for the AFB or general brush up of your literary skills.

Note that Vividus does not have an advertising forum, this is true, but we're not anticompetitive or the like. A thread in General Discussion is dedicated to hyping, discussing and promoting your new found forums, links, blogs and the like. Our helpful mascot, Gryffin, has obliged us with posting it up.

Speaking of which! You'll notice the whole of Tech Support is posted up by Gryffin, Vividus' forum mascot and helpful companion. Speaking of Tech Support, you'll note member's are unable to create threads, however, all threads are postable and meant to be so in order to maintain conciseness of support, help and answers.

Last, but not least, a wonderful introduction to Vividus' staff!

At the lead we've the owner/administrator, Sk8 ... which happens to be me. Moderators of the Writing Section include Silver Random and Ananda, Arts Section is covered by Thor and Snoop, RPG Section is the ever lovely duo of ladies Ever and Dracorex, and the Off-Topic is commanded by our diligent general, General Assembly.

Thanks and honorable mentions of assistance for formatting the forum goes to Snivelili and Joshua (Pompoon/Josh) for their contributions to the Art's Section, Kari, Kris, Riss, Regitnui, Mithiri, Loki and Fiachra - not to mention all of you who have been patiently waiting for the forums to open. Including Day Star, for her continued interest, the whole of IF's Staff (you know who you are), Jared (Jsquared) and of course Matty Lee. Not to mention Tyler and Ada for their continued support via Facebook, Blair, Aria, Michelle, and everyone. You know who you are, and you have my utter and complete thanks.

Not to mention I'd love to thank my girlfriend, Stormfire, for keeping me in line, so on behalf of the staff, and Vividus, I welcome you (again) to the forums and thank you. Go forth and prosper in your respective creative areas, ^^


So come visit us at Vividus Connect today!