Edit Guild Settings:
Autoformatting bug....
something is trying to autoformat the long URLs with extra spaces in the code once the save button has been clicked. X
Center content.....
It's not possible to center the content on the Guild Home, cause the code just doesn't work there.
Errors
Database Error
No log message was defined for crew logging.
Changes we would like to see:
Anything! We have been waiting for years now and changes keep getting postponed or pushed back D:
Subscribe...
It would be great if you could subscribe to posts in guilds.
New replies....
Being able to see which posts have new replies (again) would be great.
Search for topics...
It would be very handy to be able to search for topics in a guild.
Shorten flood control....
It takes a very long time, before you can reply again to someone in guilds. Resulting in people thinking they are not liked or igored. It is faster to create a new topic, than to reply to someone. >.<
No link-back to the main forum....
When you have deleted/moved something in a subforum, the script loads the main forum. It is really annoying that you have to click on the specific subforum again, while you were there in the first place. >.<
Multiple thread deleting/moving....
It would be very handy if it was possible to delete or move more than one thread at a time. (for moving subforums around or cleaning up purposes)
Development news:
This morning ania1899 fixed the Captain's Log in guilds, so it should be up and running again. Also keep an eye out for the new keyword capability and some UI changes, coming to you as soon as QA says they're okay. Also, in this latest patch DARKNRGY fixed some of the issues regarding guild invites, so please try it out and let us know if they're working better. [2/9 Panagrammic Journal]
wesden_girl
Hey, Guild Owners, Captains and Co-Captains!
I'm the product manager at Gaia for guilds, as well as a guild owner (I'm just starting) so I wanted to give you a sneak peak of what we will be announcing and releasing next week (*crosses fingers*). We're working on some long-term improvements to the guilds system, and below is the first step for those changes.
We're making changes to overhauling guild searching (right now we only search by guild name) and adding keywords that, in the near future, will enable us to recommend guilds to users based on their interests. Our goal is to improve traffic to guilds and help increase your membership.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Before these features go live, we need your help getting all the pieces in place. Once we launch next week you will see new features in the Guild Admin Panel, and we need your help filling out those fields.
Here's what's new in the panel (note: these changes will not be viewable/searchable by you or users until the next release after tomorrow's – which will be very soon! We need to “prime the pump”!):
• Keywords: (you guys wanted this!!) Enter up to 5 search keywords describing your guild and the topics it covers. This will help with both searching and interest matching.
• Guild Description: Enter a short description of your guild. Something that sums it all up in one sentence, like "Gaia's oldest dog training discussion guild" or "Your place for all things Harry Potter."
(those 2 items above will be included in a new UI on the Guild search page, as well as guild home page - next release - very soon!)
• Guild Name: Because a lot of guild names are ridiculously long and hard to read/understand, we reduced the character limit to 60. Guild names need to be shortened before a designated date that will be communicated in the post, or they'll get truncated automatically. You guys are good! No need to change the name icon_smile.gif
We're also cleaning up the guild home page (shown for each guild) for the next release and I think you'll be happy with the improvements!
You'll receive a notice next week once we launch with a link to read about all of the details and where to leave formal feedback, but I'm happy to get your initial response here!
Thanks for your help and support.
EDIT: looks like the launch is pushed out til next week...[1/30]
I'm the product manager at Gaia for guilds, as well as a guild owner (I'm just starting) so I wanted to give you a sneak peak of what we will be announcing and releasing next week (*crosses fingers*). We're working on some long-term improvements to the guilds system, and below is the first step for those changes.
We're making changes to overhauling guild searching (right now we only search by guild name) and adding keywords that, in the near future, will enable us to recommend guilds to users based on their interests. Our goal is to improve traffic to guilds and help increase your membership.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Before these features go live, we need your help getting all the pieces in place. Once we launch next week you will see new features in the Guild Admin Panel, and we need your help filling out those fields.
Here's what's new in the panel (note: these changes will not be viewable/searchable by you or users until the next release after tomorrow's – which will be very soon! We need to “prime the pump”!):
• Keywords: (you guys wanted this!!) Enter up to 5 search keywords describing your guild and the topics it covers. This will help with both searching and interest matching.
• Guild Description: Enter a short description of your guild. Something that sums it all up in one sentence, like "Gaia's oldest dog training discussion guild" or "Your place for all things Harry Potter."
(those 2 items above will be included in a new UI on the Guild search page, as well as guild home page - next release - very soon!)
• Guild Name: Because a lot of guild names are ridiculously long and hard to read/understand, we reduced the character limit to 60. Guild names need to be shortened before a designated date that will be communicated in the post, or they'll get truncated automatically. You guys are good! No need to change the name icon_smile.gif
We're also cleaning up the guild home page (shown for each guild) for the next release and I think you'll be happy with the improvements!
You'll receive a notice next week once we launch with a link to read about all of the details and where to leave formal feedback, but I'm happy to get your initial response here!
Thanks for your help and support.
EDIT: looks like the launch is pushed out til next week...[1/30]
Over the next few week you'll be seeing one small feature addition and a bunch of UI tweaks to guilds.
We think that people are overwhelmed by the number of guilds, and the difficulty in finding an appropriate one, so we're adding the capability for guild captains to add keywords to their guilds -- that is, five words or phrases that best represent your vision for the guild.
This is part of a longer term plan to make it much easier for us to promote guilds to people; we can, for example, offer them likely guilds based on the interests that they've filled out on their profile.
I always hear from people that keep asking us to do something about guilds, so this is a good chance to demonstrate that guilds are important to you -- fill out the keywords for your guild! We're hoping to get a good set of keywords so that when we turn on keyword searching for the users, they'll be able to find stuff.
(Another way of looking at this: if you fill out your keywords, you'll have an advantage over every other guild that does not fill out the keywords).
The reason guilds hasn't been updated in a while is that it's running on an substantially different source base than forums. It's been on our list of things to renovate; it's just a lot of work that needs to be done to migrate it over, and we're trying to prioritize it against everything else that needs to be done. [1/26 Panagrammic Journal]
