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**TL;DR: Survey here: https://goo.gl/forms/gcmdJHwyhzkMMTgL2** *** The first time we asked for feedback here was March 12th, 2015. That was a while back! Check this out: https://www.reddit.com/r/SchoolIdolFestival/comments/2ytdll/school_idol_tomodachi_is_a_cards_tracker_and_a/ **Who was already around at that time? Raise your hand o/** *** First things first, let me introduce myself: I'm Deby, a software engineer who lives in Singapore. I like idols. Like, a lot. So I made a website about idols. It's called "School Idol Tomodachi" and you can see it here: http://schoolido.lu/ *** ## **What is School Idol Tomodachi?** It provides [the list of cards](http://schoolido.lu/cards/) available in the game, along with their stats, skills, and links to download transparent images and clean URs. You can also use it to keep track of the cards you own in your game account. Then you can either keep that list for yourself, or you can share it with fellow players with [a link to your profile page](http://schoolido.lu/users/). It's not limited to cards, it also contains the list of [idols](http://schoolido.lu/idols/), [events](http://schoolido.lu/events/) and [songs](http://schoolido.lu/songs/). We also have mini games such as [Memory](http://schoolido.lu/memory/), [Contest](http://schoolido.lu/contest/) and [Trivia](http://schoolido.lu/trivia/). Because a community is nothing without its members, we also have a social network where people can share their latest scouts, fanarts, cosplays, MEMEs, or even just thoughts of the day: [right here, on the homepage](http://schoolido.lu/). It's a small website I originally made for fun on my spare time, but because so many lovely people like it, and made it grow little by little and we now work with an amazing staff team that maintains it! [Meet the team here](http://schoolido.lu/about/#staff). If you don't know it yet, **please give it a try**! It's fan-made, it can be a bit buggy at times, but **it's made with a lot of love** and it's backed by lovely community members who keep it always sweet, pink and cute <3 *** So why I am posting here again? Ah, yes. The survey! ## **2017 Survey** Your feedback is super duper hyper important to me, and equally to the staff team. After all, what's the point in making something for the community if it doesn't suit the community's needs, right? More specifically, we want to hear from YOU, idols managers on reddit. Why is your feedback important, you may ask? Well, 2 reasons: - This sub-reddit existed before my website, and was created with and by following the advice of its members. Though it grew, it was originally built entirely for reddit users! You were the very first who gave us feedback and shaped what we are today. I can't thank you enough for that. - Your feedback is precious. Historically, redditors feedback has always been the most detailed and passionate ones. You care about the details, you're picky, you want more, and... we like that! This year's survey is slightly different from the last years survey because we now grouped multiple websites I made together: [Cinderella Producers](http://cinderella.pro/) and [Bandori Party](http://bandori.party/) are now under [Circles](http://twitter.com/magicircles2/). We reflected the change by making a common survey for Circles. We're also giving away [an Aqours stickers sheet](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/K4UOb0Rwv5Rrac5EVNVCb7VSFZXCc0FqygJdU1TeBDo-5ilgm9qZ34jAHLpSRvby1IygZPPtmg=w200) to one randomly selected person who fills the survey, if you're interested in that. # [Share your feedback, start the survey!](https://goo.gl/forms/gcmdJHwyhzkMMTgL2) THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH for filling up this survey. It means a lot to the team and me and you can't imagine how much it will help us next year. Sending lots of love your way: <3 <3 <3 Please note: This is not a plan. This is something I'll use to *start planning*. Don't see anything you see in this list as guaranteed, and don't keep your expectations high. I'll do my best, but really... I don't want to disappoint you. *** By the way, I'm using this opportunity to keep you informed on some things happening lately: 1. We have a Christmas layout on [School Idol Tomodachi](http://schoolido.lu/)! It's all red and christmasy, and it displays one random Christmas card every time you load the page, + some cameo appearances of the mascots Alpaca, Uchicchi, Shiitake and Wataame. 1. [Our official Twitter account @schoolidolu](http://twitter.com/schoolidolu/) recently reached 20 000 followers, so we're celebrating by running a campaign: - **Homepage girl tournament**: daily Twitter poll to nominate our followers favorite idol, and we will feature the winning idol on School Idol Tomodachi's home page for a month. [Details here](https://twitter.com/schoolidolu/status/944142330751340544). - **Giveaway**: We're giving away an Aqours jigsaw puzzle to one random winner who tweets using the hashtag #Sukutomo20kGiveaway. [Details here](https://twitter.com/schoolidolu/status/944475358782541826). - Meet the team: [Thread here](https://twitter.com/schoolidolu/status/944857503803826176) 2. We ran a **Secret Santa**! It's too late to register, but if you'd like you can take a look at the amazing prizes our users got [here](https://goo.gl/vRAqS1). 3. We're running **Birthday Giveaways** for all μ's, Aqours and recently added PDP idols! I provide some prizes, but the giveaways are mostly community backed with artists who make a piece just for you, or ship a little hand made badge for you and things like that. - Currently running giveaway is for Kanata's birthday, [here](http://schoolido.lu/activities/7612872/). Anyone can join! - Latest giveaway (which ended) was for Rin. [Details here](http://schoolido.lu/activities/7287840/), [winners there](http://schoolido.lu/activities/7415553/). - Upcoming confirmed giveaways: Dia (Jan 1st), Hanayo (Jan 17th), Kasumi (Jan 23rd), Emma (Feb 5th), Kanan (Feb 10th), Ayumu (March 1st), Hanamaru (March 4th) and Umi (March 15th). 3. Between all the happy news, we only have one sad thing: With [Patreon fucking up badly](https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/), we lost $62.12 from our monthly income that helps cover the server fees. Ouch. Don't worry, we are not in trouble yet. We have been able to cover giveaway shipping costs. The servers are, thankfully, still fully paid every month. But we're still growing. We recently had to upgrade our database to get more storage and our servers to be more powerful recently after an outage - and that's soon gonna show up in the bills and cost us more every month. That's not surprising, we're getting more and more users! And as you saw in the survey, we want to make our communities grow more, and that project is important to us. The path in front of us is full of opportunities and is really exciting! You guessed it: not only to sustain our current communities, but also to expand them, we will need more than ever the support of our donators next year. Money is always a tough subject to talk about, but I want to be fully honest with you, and that's why I'm mentioning the recent loss from Patreon. If you have extra cash to spare, please consider [supporting my Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/db0company) to cover up for the recent drop. Of course, please please please don't put yourself in trouble to help us. You're more important. If you can't afford it, don't do it. Our website is and will always be free to use and open to everyone! 5. We have an (unofficial) Discord server! You can join [here](https://discord.gg/yywxD8r). 6. Both also ended, but members of our community started 2 very Christmasy events: - [Holy Tree Decoration event](http://schoolido.lu/activities/7549245/) - [Letters to SANTA](http://schoolido.lu/activities/7545098/) 7. We had a cooking contest! It was awesome! - Final ranking with all the winners + participants [here](https://youtu.be/2igErz4WyMo) - Details of the contest [here](http://schoolido.lu/activities/7261643/). - All original entries [here](http://schoolido.lu/#search=LoveLiveMiniChefsWorldCup2017). 8. We run mini voting contests to pick the best card of each idols for their birthdays. - Links to vote are on the homepage of the website, and update automatically when a new contest starts: [here](http://schoolido.lu/). - All past contests [here](http://schoolido.lu/contest/results/). That's it, I guess! Well, we probably organized way more community events this year, and we do have a lot of things we're currently organizing to prepare for 2018, but this list is already way longer than I expected when I started writing it :D If you read up to here... Thank you! Have a merry, merry christmas and a happy new year! <3 *** _If you're wondering why I'm posting an external link, it's because after testing some things with a reddit script (for myself) I ended up getting shadow banned from Reddit so I couldn't post with my account (@db0company). I tried re-posting with a different account but the text got matched with my shadow banned account and I got banned again. It sucks because I really liked my @db0company account T_T Hopefully this solution works, in the meantime._