Hi everyone,
It's easy to get "tunnel visioned" on the site things that need updating, fixing, or changing (we will keep doing that to continue improving things), but it's equally important to note/communicate some of the good site cha-cha-cha-changes that got implemented recently. The following list isn't all-inclusive, but it's some of the ones that I thought you might like to hear about.
Site Performance
NEW IMPROVEMENT: The "Home" link is back in the site navigation. (Back by popular demand.)
IMPROVEMENT: We made parts of the site much faster by a noticeable 20% or so
WIN: We had a significant Gaia phishing site taken out of service via legal means
Games/Towns/Rally
IMPROVEMENT: We made our games and towns/rally load faster by a lot
IMPROVEMENT: Invite Friends -- When you're playing in rallys (Scion rally, MTV world, KFP), but you can't find your friends, click on "Invite Friends" and you will get an URL which you can SMS/IM to your friend and they will link direct to your room.
Arenas
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT: Sept 7th beta test end. Start migrating submissions from old Arenas.
NEW IMPROVEMENT: There's now a "tab" button in the writing editor tools so you can indent your paragraphs (if you wish).
NEW BUG: Intermittent performance issue with poetry submissions. In some instances, Arenas will time out or won't load fast enough when submitting poetry. Dev is working on this issue -- be sure to save your work when submitting.
BUG FIXED:Users couldn't delete their own submissions in Arenas 2.0 and now they can.
UPGRADE: We overhauled and expanded Arenas with a major re-write (in open beta now)
Fishing
IMPROVEMENT: We chased the cheaters out of Fishing in a major way (so that it's fun again and you now have a fair chance at winning trophies)
FIX: Not only fixed an issue, where turning in items to Logan or Bludeau resulted in an error saying that you didn't have enough items, but it's much faster now too.
Marketplace
IMPROVEMENT: We are removing a boat load of botters every day (to help improve the economy further and lower market prices).
IMPROVEMENT: We've fortified our site even more to make trades safer than before
Gaia Cash Shop
BUG FIXED: Some Gaia Cash transactions were deducting GCash, but not awarding the item(s).
FIXED: Bug found and squashed quickly. Now all Gaia Cash transactions are deducting cash properly and awarding the ordered item(s). Business as usual.
Journals
BUG FIXED: Font size in the header was too big on Journals pages.
FIXED: Reduced font size so the text from the notifications text bubble (you have 4 announcements), and the "there are X users online" no longer break into two lines.
Towns
NEW IMPROVEMENT: The fountains in Towns have been replaced with swimming pools. Check out the two new emoticons created just for pools (eeek!) and be sure to visit the snack shack, you'll find water balloons and water guns for free!
IMPROVEMENT: New search box in town directory where a town address can be entered directly -- If you know the zip code you're looking for in towns, just go to the directory, enter the zip code and you will be taken to that zip code.
IMPROVEMENT: Town directory - highlight topic -- When you go to the town directory, now you can rollover a topic and see which zip code you will be going to on the map (so you'll know how many people are there).
Cinemas
IMPROVEMENT: Invite Friends -- now when you're watching a trailer/movie, you can invite your friend to join you. Click on "Invite Friends" and you will get an URL which you can SMS/IM to your friend and they will link direct to your room.
Shops
IMPROVEMENT: Want to learn the Gaia story and get the "skinny" on our NPCs? We added links in each of the Shops (under the NPCs) to display each NPC's story by linking to their corresponding Mangas.
Every week, we fix a bunch of bugs to make the site better, faster, easier, so we'll list the ones here in this easier format. Some of you have been asking for that and we agree that it'll be helpful, so we'll do it.
There's more that I'll add later, but these are the ones that come to mind now. I'm sure my co-workers here at Gaia HQ will remind me of others I should add.
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Are we doing enough? Not in our eyes, so we'll continue working on doing more and more. We're getting faster at fixing things so that everyone can enjoy Gaia even more -- thanks for being patient and hanging in there with us.
I'll update this list regularly so that it grows over time. Subscribe to this thread if you're interested in keeping up to date on upcoming site cha-cha-cha-changes (click the Subscribe to Topic button at the very bottom of this page).
Do you find this info helpful? Boring? Interesting? Want me to keep it up? Leave me a comment here.
Thanks,
Tae
Dances_moonfairy rolled 2 4-sided dice:
1, 4
Total: 5 (2-8)
youngWitchie-p00 rolled 20 6-sided dice:
4, 4, 6, 3, 6, 5, 6, 5, 1, 1, 6, 2, 4, 1, 3, 6, 1, 2, 2, 6
Total: 74 (20-120)
Liriel_the_Dark-Maiden rolled 1 100-sided dice:
72
Total: 72 (1-100)
