Hello! I just joined, and thought this place looked really interesting! It'll certainly give me something to fritter away at while I do homework, lol.
Any suggestions on what I should do first to get started?

Hi and welcome.
You can have a nice start with participating in the charity forum.

In the forums you can vote on polls and chat.
You can draw your own wild knuffel and earn some food points.
Or play games.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Have fun!

Thank you! I actually had a question about playing games- when I lose a game, where's the submit score button? I couldn't find it on the game of Memory I was playing, and eventually I just had to leave the page.

Thank you for saying hi! :)

Hi Falling^^
Welcome here

and to your question
when you game over comes a new window with two buttons
Submit or new game

When i´m not mistaken you can only submit one time a day

ahh find it in the FAQ
Why can I only submit my score and earn food once a day?
Letting users submit scores as often as possible would lead to a enormous food inflation. Therefore you can only submit your score once per day (reset at server time), but you can still play the game as often as you like.

Ohhhh ok! I don't know why, but that new window didn't pop up for me, it just said game over! Oh well, I suppose!

Hi there! It seems like it, everyone's been very nice to me so far! I hope I'm able to stick around for a while. :)

Oh! I have a tip, this took me a while to figure out.

If you go to the art albums, and you rate the art, it gives both you and the creator a little bit of food!

So it's a nice place to spend some time. :)


There are also avatar and room contests, which is a nice place to look for inspiration and goals.

Ohh, nice! I'll check out the art album right away! I love to draw, so it's always nice to look at. :3 With the help of the outreach program, I also got some really nice items for my avatar! I submitted to the avatar contest (though I doubt I'll win lol) just for fun as a result. :)

Are you new here too? I see you have a thread in the newbie forums too!

No, I joined a couple years back. I was gone for over a year, though, and things changed, and my newbie thread is where I ask all the questions about how things work.
Firn keeps coming up with new ideas to try, so it's nice to have a place to check in from.