We are sad to announce the departure of our long-time editors fairestcat earlier last month and likealocket at the end of this month (one and a half+ years!). Thank you, fairestcat and likealocket, for all your hard work and dedication in dotcoms_refresh's name. We will miss you!

Bandom and its fans continue to be awesome with their enthusiasm and generosity so we would like to welcome four new editors to the dotcoms_refresh team: apartment_19, china_doll_arte, delicatelight and erraticonstilts. They've been hard at work learning the ropes of newslettering so please give them a warm welcome and thanks! *applauds*

We have some new policies for a new year! First of all, after much discussion, we have decided to start linking picspams in the newsletter, so you are now free to link us to your bandom picspams and we will include them in our posts. Picspams must contain at least 10 images and must feature mostly Bandom content. What entails sufficient Bandom ( Read more... )

We belatedly announce the departure of long-time editor feelshiny from the dotcoms team. We miss her terribly and wish her the best in all her future endeavours, both fanninsh and non-fannish. Thanks, feelshiny, for all your hard work over the past year; you were a star ( Read more... )

We're so very sad to announce that the time has come to say goodbye to long-time editor tigs. She joined the team way back at the beginning -- last October! It's been a year! -- but is now leaving us. Thank you so much, tigs, for all the time and dedication you put into this newsletter. You are, of course, welcome back at any time ( Read more... )

We have arrived at the end of August, and as is usual for this time of year, change is in the air. One change we're faced with here at dotcoms_refresh is the departure of long-term editor monoblue. She's been with us since our first recruitment drive, way back in November of last year, but the time has come for her to move on. A fond farewell to monoblue. Thanks so much for all ( Read more... )

We try our best here at dotcoms_refresh to list accurately the names of all our fanwork creators. Recently, however, we've had quite a few people commenting to get the LJ name we've credited changed to another name, and we've also discovered that each of our editors has been using different criteria for how they determine the LJ name to use. The cause of the ( Read more... )

Hello -- We took into account your votes ( 62% to Stop linking vs. 38% to Continue linking) and considered your suggestions and it's been decided that dotcoms_refresh will stop linking to themed fic searches. Here is a list of known Bandom ficfinder communities for those who want to follow what is being looked for, fiction-wise:

bandstoryfinder
fobficfinder
mcrficfinder
mcshearts
mychem_fic_req
patdficfinder
patdslashseekAlso, if you are feeling ( Read more... )

Hello! As much as we, the dotcoms_refresh team, would like to include Themed Fic Searches, they have become a bit of a problem and we would like your opinion on it ( Read more... )

steffish is leaving us! We just want to say thank you to her for her months of work on the dotcoms_refresh team. She's been an amazing and dedicated editor, who often covered a greater span of links than the rest of us due to the dark magic of time zones. Since last November, she's handled almost all of the Wednesday posting and link collecting, and we will miss her ( Read more... )