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Bugs Fixed This Week

  • Fixed JS error on Journals landing page. Had no impact but still created a JS err.
  • Fixed Journals landing page (only visible when logged out) links to profiles and posts
  • Migrating post history into global search and deprecating old post history page
  • removed extraneous fonting in nli welcome, per writers
  • Removed tag system dependency on user interests, not needed since we have searching of interests through the new search system
  • LIHP announcement link markup improved
  • SVNetworks/Event Overrides: cleaned up template markup
  • XHTML validation: improved ad template validation
  • Making sparkles suck less.
  • Macy's store shows for new user sometimes..and can't click on enter or go to other store
  • fixes to the db monitor script
  • Removed debug code that spit out "HELLO" at the bottom of some topic history pages
  • Quote notifications in guilds
  • Notifications when someone posts in your guild thread
  • Guild Messages should go back in the bubble
  • Layout, display improvements based on user feedback on Post History
  • Query changes the "&" to amp


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Fireside Chats
The old Fireside chats have been moved to a (new) subforum of Site Feedback.

The next Fireside chat is planned for Tuesday at 3:00pm PST, and we'll be talking about what the site can do to support Role Players better.

We're also planning a Fireside Chat for mobile users -- we'd like to find out if people use the mobile site, what could be improved, and give people a sneak peek at something we've developed internally. We'll do a dev notice when we schedule that chat -- it will probably be later next week or the beginning of the one after.

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Raining Giftboxes
Due to a temporary glitch in the space-time continuum, users were gifted a number of giftboxes in a row. This is our glitch but your gain -- we will not be taking the items back. If you wish to forward your good karma, donating to needy individuals or giving it to the Dumpster are recommended.

It must be noted that this event happened simultaneously with 18 million pieces of toast all landing buttered side up, 823 people winning the state lottery, and one particular celebrity getting hit by 23 meteorites.

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Fireside Chat Now
We're having a chat on how we can improve the site for role-players, starting now, in this thread.

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Opinions on Mobile?
Please join us in a chat on mobile on March 1st at 5:00pm PST, which will include a special sneak preview on something that we have in internal development. You can sign up for an e-mail reminder at that link, as well.

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In The Queue
In response to user requests to have better communication about bugs and what we're doing with them, we've decided to open up a new forum for bug tracking called In The Queue. More explanation can be found in the sticky, but basically, the Queue will represent every user-reported bug that we have in our bug system. You'll be able to subscribe to a bug to keep up on its status and/or upvote a bug if you think it's really important.

There are several ways for bugs to get into the Queue, but the best way is for you to work with our QA engineers in another new forum, Reporting Bugs. This forum will have a sticky every week where you can report bugs. Note that for a bug to be accepted into the system, you'll have to submit certain information and work with staff to make sure that the bug is reproducible.

Hopefully this will give more visibility into the open bugs, what we're doing to fix them, and give users the chance to help us with prioritization. We'll be making tweaks to this process as we go along.

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Anniversary Forum
The Gaia Anniversary Forum will be locked after this weekend, so if you haven't already, be sure to go and wish us a happy birthday. After all, don't you like cupcakes?
GRS News

Good news, taxpayers: the Valentine's Day event drained an amazing 1,477,804,200 from the Gaian economy! Now that's the kind of fiscal responsibility you can hang your hat on!

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Stuff Coming In The Next Week

  • We will be slowly rolling out a new cash page today and tomorrow. We've cleaned up the flow and added some new payment options.
  • New Fishing landing page is planned for release next Tuesday
  • OMGPOP is planned for this month, giving you four new flash games that you can play on Gaia. We are currently working with them to resolve some issues, but until further notice we are planning to push OMGPOP out next week (and hopefully Monday, which would make it February by a whisker).

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Angelic Rods Granted
All angelic rods have now been granted to everyone that should have received them.

Lots of information and caveats below:
- only users that had logged in since 2010 were on the grant list
- rods for newly qualifying fishers will be granted on a weekly basis
- if you're coming back to the site after over a year, you'll need to fish again to show up and be checked for the weekly angelic rod grant.

There were some questions about the exact qualifications. For reasons of gameplay we would prefer not to divulge exact numbers, but we will say this:
- the rod does not require particular fish to be caught, nor does it depend on winning a trophy, nor does it depend on random events. It's fair from the standpoint that if you land enough fish, you'll get it.
- fish in any lake you want -- there aren't requirements that are tied to specific lakes
- the Gaia Fishing forum is converging pretty quickly on a fairly accurate guess, so if you're really interested there are some pretty canny guesses as to the requirements.

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OMGPOP Tomorrow
We're tracking down a problem with avatars not displaying correctly, and need to do some tweaks to the gold granting. Looks pretty good for tomorrow.

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Nice Things
1. Do a soft release of OMGPOP
2. Only make a dev notice about it
3. The availability of 4 new cool games makes people want to subscribe to dev notices
4. ???
5. Profit!

Note: we're going to be tweaking the gold granting over the next day or two -- it may go up or down.

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Mobile Chat
Fireside Chat going on now in SF if you're interested in mobile.

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IE7 Fix
IE7 fix just pushed out for OMGPOP, for those users that were reporting problems.

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Booty Grab CAPTCHA
There have been many complaints about marketplace inflation, and it turns out that one large gold source has been botting on BG. As a result, we're adding a CAPTCHA before you can play BG.

We're hoping this does not inconvenience players too much (since you have to hunt around for the tanks anyway), but it should greatly reduce the gold influx from the bots.

As always, we love to hear your opinions about steps we take in Site Feedback -- inflation and botting are difficult problems, and we hope to hear some good ideas as to the right way to deal with the issues.

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