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Thanks again @QueenB I have received my gold bars. Looks like I am going to need them on the upcoming Episode.

THANK YOU for the response. I shall do just that.Have a great day!!!!

@QueenB As you were asking to keep the feedback and suggestions coming in, I would like to suggest that what the Candy Crush Saga community needs in order to make newbies feel welcome and stay around is a revamp. Why are there so many different forums, as clearly these overlap in practice? It makes the community too difficult to navigate and people get lost. I actually think that many newbies never come back despite our helpful or kind replying posts simply because they have lost where their own posts even are and cannot find them or our replies. There is nothing helpful about any of my posts if the person I am answering never sees my "helpful" answer! And I believe this must happen all the time unless it was a new question in Support, in which case they get an email to alert them of a reply. Anything else, the next time they come back to this community their posts are nowhere to be found, especially if they posted it buried in the first thread they could find such as the latest posts here:

So there are newbies who have issues with their games and need help, either technical or relating to strategy. Strategy posts are what I am most interested in, but I wish there was an updated thread. The "level help and tips" section is buried away from anyone's view and is also hugely out of date.

Then there is the other group of newbies, who are just here to make friends and chat and they have even a harder time because where do their posts end up? I've just looked at the "welcome to the community" thread: They get tidied up in that one and even if one of us replies, the newbies will never find their own posts where they've been tidied up to. Even I struggle to find the off topic threads right now as that forum has been shoved off the front page. Why? It is exactly the kind of place that most newbies might want to take a look at. In fact there is a vibrant thread in Off Topic in which the kindest and most helpful players are discussing events and much more, (and which has managed to stay on the front page despite all the pointless counting games). This one:

We should have more general discussion threads like this one to welcome newbies. In places where they actually come to when they first arrive, not hidden away.

I agree @christinewupp . One thing I find is that new members come to the community, say hi in a thread, and no one responds to them. The community seems like a very cold place. Most people have no clue what they are supposed to do. They never come back.

The PM was a great way to reach out to new members and create a personal connection. The PM also eliminated the " off topic" warnings many of us received by reaching out to newbies in the threads.

I don't think there is a perfect solution, but making the community aware that there is a great need to make newbies feel welcome is a good start