Making of this thread was obviously not an easy task & two people with zero experience handling the work was an even bigger setback..
But finally, after lots of efforts & hard work we were able to finish the work..
To know the entire story please look below..
It was the month of March when Umang & Aishu were chatting in CC.. Suddenly Aishu panicked realizing no one had done any preparation for Anniversary thread.. She shared her concern with Umang..
After discussing for some time both of them decided to open a simple anniversary thread on 28th march..
You guessed it right, Aishu had by mistake assumed the Anniversary to be on 28th march instead of 28th may..
After all the chaos, finally, they were relieved when they realized there was indeed time for the anniversary..
But again Aishu thought why not we make the thread this year in our style.. So she asked Umang to help..
But instead of just taking the help Aishu ended up making Umang as the team lead & herself becoming her sidekick..
They discussed things for many days & finally came up with some ideas.. Umang was the creative one among the two with more ideas in mind so she took up the charge of deciding all the activities..
She made a layout of all the events that would take place along with anniversary thread..
She also got this brilliant idea of making the competitions like a college fest with all those banners, titles, themes & logo.. So it was named as "MB Forum FanFest - Rapture", which was again her idea..
She made up all the games thread 1 month prior to the Fest which started on 1st may..
Then both of them started working on Anniversary thread.. They would discuss & select ideas.. But many ideas were not able to be brought in practice due to very less members in Forum..
They had originally planned for 15 pages work but as time passed it kept on reducing, finally stopping at only 8 pages..
This thread was very unique.. Something that never happened in any forum before.. 1st page was as usual with all the information etc, but from the second page, there were different activities that were posted..
Umang had made an account in wattpad in order to get to old members, she also pmed many old forum members in hope that by some miracle they open their account & see the messages, but it was to no avail.. Only one person had responded..
At first, they started the work with whatever material was available with them i.e., edits VMs etc.. Then later on when some members started responding they slowly started working on them..
Umang was in charge of making all the posts be it the submitted works by members or the posts made on the basis of their own materials.. Aishu was in charge of PMing everyone & also collecting OS, edits from them..
But still, after asking many times there was too less response from the members & both of them were dejected.. At that time @Keepdreaming said Umang, that do whatever you are able to.. You have worked hard so display that har work of yours. Whoever has given take their work & leave the rest.. So we again started working with more enthusiasm..
As anniversary was nearing. they were not sure if their threads will be liked or not as there was a too low response for games threads.. Umang was very depressed, as 90 percent was her hard work & she had sacrificed a lot of things for making this thread including her sleep & health..
Again @RM14 motivated her & asked her not to feel bad, as she had done her part & she should be proud of it.. Not everyone can do what she was doing.. It takes a lot of efforts & dedication to do something like this..
Meanwhile Aishu was having some personal issues so could not contribute at the start, but later on, she helped with some things here & there that Umang could not do due to overloading of work..
At the end of it, the thread was finally ready & it came out really well.. They did not have an idea if others will like it or not but they were satisfied with themselves..
Now let's see what these two have to say about the entire thing..
