Club owners, your opinions are important!

(If you aren't a club owner, but know of someone who is, please pass this information along!)

As many of you already know, quite a few of #hq's Groupies and Watchers are founders, owners, or administrators of active clubs on deviantART. These are super deviants, people who have made a system work for their needs, and are the inspiration behind why deviantART is developing Groups. They deserve much love for their commitment to the community, and for their vision. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

VIP treatment!

To extend our thanks, we want to give all current club owners VIP treatment when it comes to Groups. Here's the deal; before the Groups system is launched en mass (to everyone), we'd like to get your club up and running on the Groups platform before any non-beta tester even has access. That means all of your existing club activity -- pageviews, deviations, comments, watchlist, etc. -– will be automatically transferred to the Groups platform, preserving all of your users and club metrics. Unlike others who will have to wait until launch to recruit members, your club (now a group) will have the advantage of being fully accessible before the actual launch of Groups. In a sense, you’ll be preserving the history of your club and all of its activity, while having the luxury of operating on a more robust and powerful system.

Upgrading is worth it!

But, as lovely as it is to receive this VIP treatment, and access Groups before everyone else, the decision to upgrade is final and no information can be reverted back to a Profile Page. It’s a one-way street. But with that said, we know that you’ll love the new Groups platform and will never want to go back -- we just needed to state that up front, in case you don’t want to upgrade (which would be insanity!). Of course, if you want to keep your club as is, that's fine.

Have thoughts to share? Do tell! We value your comments and opinions.

If you’re a club owner and want to voice your opinion on upgrading, please participate in the poll, by clicking here: [link].

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