In honor of 4/13 how could we not make the webbed site's first community theme(s) Homestuck?

@amazingakita's amazing Prospit and Derse Kid themes are the community themes for April! Pick one and get it while you can. After this month, community themes will be picked at the end of each month and deployed on the first - any existing community themes will be Vaulted™️, unless you have one selected and applied.

To access the themes (and themelets) go to your user page by clicking on your username, scroll down to "themes", and click the "themes" button.

Thank you!
-TTMIYH & the Cher Ami Team

Ads are open again. The system is like 90% automated now, so long as the registered email on your account matches the email you enter into the Stripe checkout. This is essential, otherwise it won't know how to connect

1. Purchase the ad subscription, and you will have an ad allowance tied to your account.
2. Then, go to your user page (click on your username), scroll down to ads, click, to open the ad menu.
3. Submit some ads! If your ad allowance has not tied to your account, wait 15 minutes, then refresh the page. If they still do not show up, make a mod chat with us or a open a ticket in the Discord.
4. Wait for me to manually approve them. If they are rejected for any reason, I will bother you with a mod chat about it.

You can read more about site ads and our ad policy here.

To actually purchase them, go here and scroll down to the bottom.

Ad sizes are;
300 x 200 sidebar ad
300 x 100 sticky ad
600 x 100 footer ad

Thanks!
-TTMIYH & the Cher Ami Team

Some tags have tooltips now. They are marked by an (i) symbol and will give you a short description when hovered over.

Some tags also have Definitions now. They are marked by a book symbol and can be clicked on in order to show you a more expansive, clarifying definition of what we consider the tag to mean on Cher Ami.

We have also made a Themelet that will hide the dotted border and the book icon if they are too much visual noise for you for now.

https://cherami.chat/themes/707/

As well as a themelet to hide tooltips in general.

https://cherami.chat/themes/709

If you have any issues with the content of a tooltip or definition, please feel free to open up a mod chat or join the Discord and open a ticket.

Thank you!
Tschuss!
-TTMIYH & the Cher Ami Team

Welcome to the New Site!

We've rebuilt Cherami.chat from the ground up to provide a more stable, flexible, and maintainable experience. While you may notice some changes, we're committed to making this transition as smooth as possible.

Frequently Asked Questions

"Help! I'm still seeing the maintenance page."

Please clear your browser cache and cookies.

"Something looks weird/broken/not what I expected."

We're aware of some UI/UX issues and are actively addressing them. Our priority was getting the core functionality working first, and we'll be fine-tuning the interface based on your feedback.

"The site feels unintuitive to use."

We're working on improving navigation, renaming buttons, and creating better layouts. Your patience during this transition is appreciated.

"What's the difference between managed and unmanaged chats?"

In managed chats, the prompt owner can moderate participants and modify the chat. This feature is primarily relevant for group conversations.

"Where is <\feature> from Cherp?"

We're working to restore all features. Total feature parity is in line behind "making it work" and then "making it look and feel good".

"Why change the site in the first place?"

The previous version of Cherp was hastily built and structurally flawed, requiring complete site shutdowns for even minor fixes. Our new platform allows for seamless updates and improvements without disrupting service. Additionally, the rebranding helps avoid potential legal complications with prior ownership, who has previously expressed a desire to make our lives as complicated as possible given the ability.

"The blacklisting/whitelisting system is hard to use."
We'll be refining the blacklist UI particularly hard out of all the things that are broken. Please be patient!

"Can I share my Discord/offsite contact info now?"

Yes!

"I was banned for going offsite. Can I be unbanned now?"
Give us like a week and then open a ticket on the Discord or a mod chat on the Here.

"What is this weird "migrated" email in my email slot on my user page?"
That means you are part of the first wave of users who was migrated from Cherp to CherAmi. You should replace it with your actual email ASAP and update it so that your account can be confirmed. The weird automatic looking email is a placeholder.

"Are you going to use my email for anything nefarious?"
Account confirmations and password requests are the only reasons I could possibly imagine we'd need it. So, no. No nefariousness.

"My confirmation email is not showing up!"
First, check your spam folder. Then, if it's still not there, wait an hour or two and try again. If it still isn't showing up after three tries, open a ticket or mod chat.

"Are you planning to abandon this site?"

I am not sure why this one is being frequently asked but no. I probably use this site more than you. I have no intention of letting this site die and the staff are all just as dedicated as I am. Who else would I have to roleplay Rose Lalonde with if not a bunch of random people on the internet?

you're here forever baby. jackpot one trillion.

-TTMIYH & the Cher Ami Team

Hi, everyone! Thanks for bearing with us as we handle the softlaunch.

We will be pulling the site back into maintenance mode at the top of the hour - in 27 minutes from this post - to swap hard drives from a HDD to an SSD, which will produce an extremely substantial speedup for the site.

There will be no data lost during this process and it should be much faster than the migration. I can't promise anything concrete until our host gets back to us but it should (SHOULD, NOT WILL) be done before tomorrow morning at the latest.

Thank you all so much for your patience.
-TTMIYH and the CherAmi team.

CherAmi Beta Launch - Important Announcement

Dear CherAmi/Cherp community,

We're excited to announce that after a successful alpha testing period, CherAmi is moving to beta phase in 48 hours! This is a major milestone in our development journey, and we want to thank everyone who participated in the alpha test and provided valuable feedback.

(When is 48 hours? Friday, March 28th, 2025, at 10:00 PM EST)

What This Means

• Cherp.chat and CherAmi.chat will be taken offline in 48 hours as we migrate all data to CherAmi
• Your existing Cherp content will be transferred to CherAmi during this transition
• There may be a period of downtime up to 48 hours during which you'll see a maintenance page
• After migration, you'll be redirected from cherp.chat to cherami.chat automatically

Beta Phase Focus

During the beta phase, our team will be focused on:

• Squashing bugs and improving overall stability
• Completing feature parity with Cherp (including dice rolling, title bar updates, and chat filtering)
• Enhancing test coverage for better reliability
• Addressing usability issues identified during alpha

What to Expect

Unlike the alpha test, your content created during beta will be preserved for the full launch. However, please be aware that:

• We may need to roll back temporarily if any critical issues occur with the data migration.
• Some features might temporarily be unavailable as we work to improve them.

How You Can Help

1. Report any bugs you encounter in the #cherami-bug-reports channel
2. Share feedback on missing features or usability issues
3. Be patient as we work through the backlog of improvements
4. Let us know if you notice any issues with your migrated content

We're incredibly grateful for your support through this journey. The move to beta represents a significant step toward our full launch, and we're excited to have you with us as CherAmi continues to evolve.

Many thanks,
-TTMIYH and the CherAmi team

🐦 CherAmi Alpha Test is LIVE! 🐦

cherami.chat is now open for testing!

After a long journey, we're thrilled to announce that the alpha test for CherAmi (formerly known as Cardinal during development) is officially LIVE - earlier than our end-of-March estimate!

⚠️ IMPORTANT ALPHA TEST INFORMATION ⚠️

• This is an ALPHA TEST that will run for at least two weeks
• Accounts and chats created during this period WILL NOT be kept
• Please don't get attached to content created during this phase
• The alpha test exists to identify bugs and prevent issues during the full launch

What is CherAmi?

CherAmi (pronounced like "chair" but with a soft "sh" sound: "shair-ah-me") means "Dear Friend" in French and is named after a famous messenger pigeon - maintaining our bird theming while introducing "sending messages" themes. The Cardinal name lives on as the name of the underlying open-source codebase.

What's New?

• Updated Rules & Tagging Guidelines: Please review these carefully! Not everything forbidden on Cherp is forbidden here and vice versa.
• The Lucky Dip: It's coming back as a launch feature!
• Open Source Codebase: Cardinal (the underlying codebase) will be open-sourced, allowing you to suggest changes, fix bugs, or even host your own instance with your preferred rules and policies.

What About My Existing Content?

When we move to full launch, we will be porting EVERYTHING over from the previous site:

• All your chats will be preserved
• All your prompts will be preserved (though they'll be drafted and will need retagging due to NSFWE changes)
• All character profiles will be preserved

HOWEVER, THE ALPHA TEST IS CLEAN AND EMPTY - NOTHING HAS BEEN PORTED YET.

How You Can Help

1. Explore the site and test its features
2. Report bugs in the #cherami-bug-reports channel on the Discord
3. Provide feedback on functionality and user experience
4. If you discover security vulnerabilities, please disclose them privately to the admin team

Current Status

The site is functional but still a work in progress:

• The color palette is currently using "soothing Rose Lalonde colors" but is not finalized
• Forms are minimally styled for functionality during testing
• The site will look much better after alpha testing concludes

Spread the Word!

Tell your friends about the alpha test! The more testers we have, the more issues we can identify and fix before the full launch.

Many thanks,

-TTMIYH and the CherAmi team

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SITE IS BACK UP

Since this switchover involved re-deploying the site and environment from scratch, there is a nonzero chance things will be buggy in a way we missed. If you are experiencing any bugs outside the normal ones (phantom unreads), let us know ASAP.

ALSO, THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT - You will need to log out and then log in again, for <tech reasons that the dev team can elaborate on if they want>. Otherwise, when you try to access your chat list, among other spots on the site, you will see a blank screen. If you can't access the account settings page to log out, you can do so here: https://cherp.chat/logout. No, we cannot reset your password yet, sorry!

DOWNTIME FOR SITE MIGRATION 11/10/2023

Hello, everyone!

Tomorrow (11/11/2023), we will be migrating our server to a newer, slightly better server under the same hosting service.

Q&A:
Q: Why?
A: They are retiring the old server rack that our site sits on so they can replace it with newer hardware.

Q: Will we lose anything in the migration?
A: No. The site will be taken down at some point tomorrow temporarily, the database backed up, taken offline, and then moved to the new computer. The only thing that will be lost is a couple hours of RP time.

Q: Is there anything else we should know?
A: Since we are moving to a new physical server, that means the site's IP address will be changing. This means that it may take a bit for DNS to catch up - if you connect to the site once maintenance ends and there is a mostly-blank landing page, that means your computer is trying to connect you to the old IP address. Give it an hour or two and try again. It will take at most 24 hours for the DNS changes to propagate globally, but for most people it will be immediate or within 1-2 hours.

Q: Are you/am I/is the site in trouble?
A: Nope! Literally just a hardware upgrade.

I intend to have the switchover occur sometime in the Afternoon/Early Evening EST or so. I will try to give everyone at least an hour of warning.

Thank you!
-Administration

Planned Downtime Warning

We will be having a planned downtime this Sunday September 3rd, 11 PM CST, for some minor upgrades and wrench-whacking on the current site. Thank you!

Cherp Merch, or Church, is here.

You can view the Cherp/MXRP/Dreambubble/Cardinal Store Here

If you are an artist and would like your designs sold as stickers or other merch, for any of the four sites (MXRP, Dreambubble, Cherp, or whatever Cardinal will inevitably mutate into when she's done cooking), contact me privately either on Discord (fastest responses, @TTMIYH on the cherp server) or at cherpadmin@protonmail.com (checked about once a week) and we can work out a compensatory arrangement that is fair to everyone involved.

2023 Edition of the Annual Cherp Assorted Research and Demographics Survey Is Now Live!

THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR THE SURVEYS

A little late, but better late than never - this year's edition of the Cherp Assorted Research and Demographics Survey is now available for you to fill out. Please only fill out the questions you are comfortable with, but the more you fill out, the better of a view we can get of the site's current userbase and their preferences.

There are four new questions this year, one of which is your willingness/desire to RP with verified/unverified users, and the other three are related to your general levels of site satisfaction and things we could do to improve that.

Thank you!

https://forms.gle/UDUuxuebtFwkjJ2T6

Indefinite Suspension of "No "Looking For Partner" Posts" Rule

So people are made aware, we are indefinitely suspending the "no "looking for old partners" prompts", specifically for the influx of users from MXRP. Our only request is that if you are looking for your old partners, you also include some sort of actual prompt with it so that more than one person could, hypothetically, connect. Such as:

"This prompt is written to try and find the Dave that I was playing John with in a superhero AU, but if you want to join in, you can connect anyway!"

Basically, we just don't want the directory flooded with a bunch of prompts that only a single person can connect to while pushing off all the other prompts on the site. BUT, as long as you abide by that, you are free to search for your old MXRP partners.

Have a good weekend!

Outcome of Monthly Planned Downtime

Hello, everyone! The planned fix for the timezone bug is in, however, because our server uses system timestamps, any posts made in the next 1.5 hours as the system catches up will have weird timestamps. Additionally, posts sent to the directory will show up further down as the directory uses timestamps to sort.

Thank you!
-TT

Monthly Planned Downtime

Hello, everyone! Cherp will be down for approximately an hour at most starting from 5:00 PM EST today (5/1/2022) in order to install security updates to our host server.

Additionally, this downtime will be extended slightly as we attempt to resolve the timezone bug, which has been making times on Cherp inaccurate by up to two hours.

Thank you!
-TT

Planned Downtime! Again!

Hello, everyone! Cherp will be down for approximately 30 minutes ish at most starting from 8:00 PM EST today (3/21/2022) in order to install security updates to our host server.

Thank you!
-TT

Planned Downtime!

Hello, everyone! Cherp will be down for approximately 30 minutes ish at most starting from 7:00 PM EST today (2/3/2022) in order to install security updates to our host server.

Thank you!
-TT

Downtime Over!

We are back live! You will almost certainly receive the undefined unread error because of computer reasons, just go to https://cherp.chat/account, log out, and log back in and it should be clear. Let us know if you have any issues in the meanwhile and we'll try to troubleshoot what we can.

Thank you!
-TT

Advance Downtime Notice

11/13/2021

Re: the last news post, you have about 2 hours left before the downtime!