The following message was posted by Loa on the Arena's Facebook page.

Hello, To all our members,
As you've all seen recently, the Arena is falling apart at the seams, and despite all the band-aids, mod calendars and fakies we've thrown at it, this Arena is slowly crumbling.

But good news!
Realizing this, we contacted a strapping young man, and we have a new Arena waiting in the wings.
Its bigger, better, sooooo 2012, and is fast! It has all the latest mod cons, and everything you posted here will be available there!

We realize that a new Arena will have teething problems, and wont be to everyone's liking, but I can assure you its so far amazing!

As such, sometime this weekend *fingers crossed* we shall be moving over to the new site.
When you get there your post counts will be intact, your feedbacks moved, and hopefully everything else.
We don't know how long this will take, but we predict at this stage that the Arena will be inaccessible for at least 12 hours.

The Mod and Admin team will absolutely attempt to give you as much warning as possible, so this is your first heads up!

Thank you for your patience and love, and we will be better than ever very soon!



So far the transition from Old Arena to New Arena is looking good! But, site support has one request to make of Everypony! Please try to stay off of the Arena as much as possible. We will keep you guys updated as time allows.

Please do keep trying to stay off of the MLPArena until further notice as it will make the conversion go quicker and help us to get the new site up faster (Oh, it's SO hard!! I'm having serious withdrawals, too!!) If you need to logon for a few minutes for an address or to shoot a quick PM it won't hurt anything, but the more that's happening on the site, the slower we go. Again, we so very much appreciate all yall's cooperation!!


Keep up to date with what's going on at the Arena Facebook page.
www.facebook.com/groups/2226881914/

Will you also post on the Twitter page for us non-Facebook'ers?

StarSwirl05 wrote:

Will you also post on the Twitter page for us non-Facebook'ers?

Obviously!

Just signed up for the FB page.

I am guessing that this transition wasn't cheap. Could you please provide the "how to donate" info again? The Arena is so important to so many of us and I know I'd like to help out in whatever way possible.

*getting off the board right now*

Ok I feel like a dork for stalking my posts now. Do you need a full log off or is staying off enough?

Just staying off the board should be fine.

cookhuman wrote:

Just signed up for the FB page. I am guessing that this transition wasn't cheap. Could you please provide the "how to donate" info again? The Arena is so important to so many of us and I know I'd like to help out in whatever way possible. *getting off the board right now*

Yes! Wants to help!

cookhuman wrote:

Just signed up for the FB page. I am guessing that this transition wasn't cheap. Could you please provide the "how to donate" info again? The Arena is so important to so many of us and I know I'd like to help out in whatever way possible. *getting off the board right now*

Once the new site is up I would love to know how to donate as wel. I have money aside to and have wanted to for awhile now.

I will try to keep off the arena for a bit. Can't wait to see the new arena!!!

a new arena!!??? that is so awsome! i cant wait to see it!

thank you for the information!

cool, thanks for the heads up! *will wait patiently elsewhere...

Great news here!

That's so cool! I will do my best to stay off, I have to work on my car anyway. See you guys soon!

Oh, how interesting! Will try my best to stay off for a few days... Not easy though:)
Good luck!

So will everything be just transferred over?