February Survey and Upcoming Event

[Jeremy]

Good morning, everyone! I hope you had a lucky Friday the 13th and a lovely Valentine's Day. The Valentine's Rose will remain in the shop for the rest of the day, so feel free to continue gifting them to your fellow TBTers. Today, we're back with another forum survey and an announcement about our next event, which is starting very, very soon!

The Bell Tree Forums Survey February 2026
We'd like to hear your thoughts about several topics! The primary focus of our latest survey is TBT's official events, with about half the questions dedicated to the topic. The other questions deal with rules, moderation, your priorities on the forum, and other general questions. Please help to make TBT even better by sharing your input! If you include your username at the end of form, we'll also send you some forum bells for taking the time to fill it out.

>> Click here to open the survey <<​

Upcoming Event: Lunar New Year 2026
We're hosting a small event, starting in just two days on Tuesday, February 17th! Hopefully you're not all New Yearsed out from our previous event, because our Lunar New Year event is back for its second edition! During our first event in 2024, we celebrated the Year of the Dragon. This year is the Year of the Horse! Join us for more New Year and, this time, horse-themed festivities to earn both new and returning collectibles this Lunar New Year. The event will run through March 3rd.

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback through the survey, and we'll see you on Tuesday!

 

[themysterybidder]

I'm really looking forward to the Lunar New Year event! Is there any small chance Buck will be involved as it's his year?

 

[-Apples-]

I just submitted my survey.

The apples are more interested into Mardi Gras than Lunar New Year (which appear to be one in the same this year). This site may have a successful Lunar New Year event, but my Apple Empire is going to celebrate Mardi Gras event. Therefore, I will be without my apples for the upcoming event.

 

[Snek]

Year of the Horse
This should be fun!

 

[-Blue-]

I think I missed the Lunar event we did in 2024. So it's great to see it coming back even if it's a shorter one!

I sent one of the surveys, but I forgot to say I really do love the camp events. I met so many wonderful members and friends because I participated in them, but...

Spoiler

the way they were previously set up needs some fine-tuning. At least I think so. 3 weeks of the events is a very long commitment and since it's based on teams if you lose a member whether because they didn't know what they were signing up for, they lost their motivation halfway through, ect it hurts the teams chances of placing higher. And over time that means a drop in morale. It's not a good feeling to see your team fall into last place not because you weren't giving it your all, but because others stopped participating. And having done all the events and coming in dead last last each time isn't a good feeling lol.

I remember one of my teammates joined to almost immediately announce they were not participating. It's like why

I love the team events so much, but I think it could be polished more. I'm not smart enough to know how to remedy that though. And I love all of the hard work and efforts you've all put forth to make the events so fun and engaging.

 

[Rykertimee]

I'm filling it out right now!

 

[rrenaa]

Super excited for the Lunar New Year event! Looking forward to all the fun! ∩^ω^∩

 

[Ginny Potter]

Looking forward to the event!!!

 

[Roxxy]

Excited for the event! Just going to fill in survey. As it’s the year of the horse I hope that @themysterybidder finally gets her dream collectable

 

[Muna]

Ohhhh a Lunar New Year event!!! I didn't expect that so it's a really nice surprise!
Will there be colorful majestic ponies horses collectibles?

I submitted my survey and it took much longer than I expected! I have some small feedback on the survey itself, I hope it's fine to share it here.

Spoiler: One comment and one question

1. The small text areas were very uncomfortable when I wrote longer answers.
2. I've read the rules when they were updated and I might have had some very small uncertainties, but I don't remember them now. I didn't want to read them all over again just for the survey. Will it be okay to update my input by CTS if I feel like I have something to add after all?

 

[Mutti]

Excited for this Event coming up!
Happy Year of the horse to everyone on tbt

 

[S.J.]

2. I've read the rules when they were updated and I might have had some very small uncertainties, but I don't remember them now. I didn't want to read them all over again just for the survey. Will it be okay to update my input by CTS if I feel like I have something to add after all?

Yes! You're very welcome to do this.

 

[Newbiemayor]

Lol sorry in advance for my uh...wordy-ness in the survey but I tried to be as clear as I could. Also yay! Lunar new year!

 

[Peytonian]

I'm still super new to this forum, but I figured I'd fill out the survey anyways. Looking forward to the Lunar New Year event!

 

[You got mail!]

ohh looking forward to the lunar new year event! missed it the first time around since I was going through personal stuff at the time but ready to see what I can do when this comes! :D

gotta do the survey later for sure. Hope everyone’s doing well and staying cooooool!

 

[lasagne_of_death]

Submitted my survey a few hours ago. Some of the questions, I feel, asked about things that haven't really arisen since the rules update, so I wasn't able to give an answer to properly reflect the questions

Happy to hear there's going to be an event soon :^D last year it felt like the lunar new year was swallowed up by the valentines event (which, fair enough, it definitely would have been too many events running too soon/close to each other) so it's pretty cool to be having one now. I'm excited to see what the potential horse collectible could look like! When it comes out in shops, I'm guessing it will be unique and ungiftable at first?

Happy year of the horse to everyone!