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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 7:56 pm


June 14th, 2016:

Narumi Misuhara
AOSEl
Feature

Are there any big updates planned for the Avatar Builder anytime soon? I've left feedback in the Dressing Room's feedback thread with such high hopes...


Possibly, especially now that we got it stable again. What were some of your ideas?


Narumi Misuhara
houjun-san
Features

Is there a requirement for the browser to use the avater builder? Beacause on my laptop it just keeps loading when I search for items. I tried on both mozilla and chrome.


I believe it utilizes some JQuery so whatever the minimum requirements are for the JQuery library.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 7:17 pm


July 6th, 2016:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features: Avatars

When using the Avatar dress up previews, could we have the human skin tone potions from Skin Tyte work as equipables? They currently aren't in the system as equips so it isn't possible to test out a different skin than the one that our current avatar is using. Sometimes you want to try out something new, but without changing your displayed avatar right away.

We'll take a look into this and see what we can do!


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:47 pm


August 16th, 2016:

meemster
Tiffany Ransier
Features:

When will avatar builder be back up? n_n


Eeep. It should be back up now smile

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:55 pm


August 30th, 2016:

Narumi Misuhara
MirasteIIa
Features Avatar Builder

Are you going to fix the search engine? Because the last time I used it before it became unavailable, it was very hard to pinpoint specific keywords (ie. one shoulder armor or pauldrons). I think it's better if it goes to a new category: Armor or Shoulder.


Yes this is something we'd like to update.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:30 pm


September 13th, 2016:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Quote:
ITEMS/FEATURES

When the Mis-Tagged Item Report Thread started, its entries seemed to be addressed fairly quickly. However, if you go through it now, months worth of reports haven't been addressed. Is this correction project discontinued?

It hasn't been discontinued at the moment, we just ended up having to currently put it on hold while we address some other things


Zero Omega
Derrick Price
Features-Misc
Now this will sound like a shady question because more of less it is, If I wanted to see someone's equip and ya know it seems blocked is there some sort of other way to veiw it (note:person of interest hasn't been on gaia for about 6+ years)

Nope! But you can try asking the user.
PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 7:53 pm


November 22nd, 2016:

Narumi Misuhara
Kumoricon 4 Ever
Marketplace: Will we ever be able to make outfits from the MP instead of going back to the dressing room?


Great idea! It might be a bit though before such a thing is implemented


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2016 7:53 pm


December 13th, 2016:

Zero Omega
MingSao
Features

I suppose with Lanzer back, the answer for this will be TBD... but userbase sourced help with tagging items? Maybe a SCAS project or something since staff/Mods are busy with more important things? 3nodding

We don't have an update at the moment for this!


Narumi Misuhara
DemoBIast
Features

would it ever be possible to have unlimited outfit slots? I know 100 seems like alot right now but for those of us who make avatar outfits on a daily basic sure could use the extra space without having to delete other outfit slots.

P.s Welcome back lanzer! <3


Possibly... what the heck do you do with so many outfits? O.O
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 7:50 pm


December 20th, 2016:

lanzer
Hello Gaians!

A few of our staff members are already on vacation so we're hosting a mini ATS session today. We are a little short handed so answers will be more sparse than usual. Let's sit back, relax, and get this ATS started!!!

A few little updates on my end:

- Still taking all my time talking to all staff members and reading through Site Feedback. Getting a good idea on what are the biggest issues to tackle starting 2017
[...]
- Also testing a new feature to mark other avatars as favorites. It's also being tested now.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 9:27 pm


January 10th, 2017:

Narumi Misuhara
Babble
Features

Is there any way that we could get a function in the avatar builder to sort "I Am" poses?


Not really a good reliable way :/


lanzer
II CASPER Il
features:
avatar liking
can we please get an opt out i dont want to be favorited? or can we get a list of users who want out and then write a code for those accts
the act would have to be a one time thing and permanant

so can we get an opt out? or something equivalent


I'll add user preferences with the update to display equipped items. User preference across the site is a little bit more involved so it'll take more time to implement.
PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2017 10:24 pm


January 17th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Quote:
Games

Could it be an option in the future to be able to donate outfits to Pete's dumpster dive?


Great idea! We can take a look and see how feasibly this would be


Narumi Misuhara
Dogoda
Features

I think we need a report avatar option for the forums, guilds, and runway. Sometimes when I report sexually explicit avatars to the mods the person with that avatar will change outfits so they get away with it. It's not fair, they broke rules they should be punished accordingly. With a report avatar button the avatar could be screenshotted by Gaia and sent to a report queue then it can be dealt with. Just to back up my claim further I suggest you take a gander at a few of these avatars from the Seven Deadly Sins runway ahem not all of them are bad but there are a few that really push it.
Can you look into doing this?


...This is why we can't have nice things...

...yeah we can take a look this.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:46 pm


January 24th, 2017:

Lanzer
Akumati
Features

Are there any plans to improve the Avatar builder? Filtering options would be a godsend.


Yeah I have a project with better item tagging which works with avatar builder. It's on the list too!


Lanzer
bluecherry
Features
Favorites. You mentioned in your journal, lanzer, that things you learned about search functioning doing the search feature for favorites may be used to improve upon searching for items. Are you aware of the short comings of the current favorites feature search results though? Right now, if you search for a hash tag, results get unnecessarily bumped to second or third or further pages while irrelevant results also show up along with partial results or completely irrelevant results showing up also before full matches to search terms. For example, if I search a username with "the" at the start, I may get other stuff with tags involving "the" showing up before the full username I put into search. I'd like to be sure all the kinks are ironed out before this search is used on something like improving item searching, something that I desperately want improved.

Also, side note, there's plenty of broken images I'm coming across in favorites right now. ninja


There are some options for the search engine that I still need to use. Hope it'll function better after some fine tuning.

I'll need to look into the broken images. Not sure why that's happening.


Lanzer
devils lettus
Features
i've been curious as to why nobody really explains why avi builder is always going down. for the most part you guys are great at letting us know what you're working on when you disable a feature but with the avi builder it's like there's not always a warning and sometimes its down for months. i'm not in any way mad, i guess i'm just trying to say that we like it when we're in the loop on what's going on.


There is actually a bug where avi builder will let you try out items before they're released. We need to fix that bug then we can leave it up and running all the time.
PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 8:55 pm


February 1st, 2017:

Lanzer
Goosies Moosies
Features

Is the avatar builder feedback thread still being used to collect feedback? I added my suggestions to make it more effective but I will forward them along a different way if it is just gonna get lost. 3nodding


Yes we have plans for an update to avi builder and had been collecting feedback. Narumi is busy with some event features but it's on his scope. 3nodding


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:54 pm


February 7th, 2017:

Lanzer
isbergues
Features
will you guys be adding a complete opt-out for the "Avatar Favorites" feature?


That is on the road map. I have a few features I want to add for Favorites.
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:07 pm


February 21st, 2017:

Lanzer
bluecherry
Features
Favorites
Lanzer, would you please reconsider allowing people to delete avatars from other people's favorites or prevent people from favoriting their avatars? People's avatars are public. Everybody can see them already anyway. Favoriting is simply a much more convenient way to do something people have already been doing for ages - saving and hosting images of avatars they come across that they like. Removing avatars from favorites or preventing them from being favorited just means now we can't keep everything in one place anymore, some avatars have to be screen-shotted again, which is a big deal for keeping pictures of favorite avatars, keeping them together, not having them all scattered about. If you can't save some avatars with favorites, it's back to the drawing board, pain stakingly screen-shotting and uploading everything so you don't lose avatars or have them all over the place and hard to keep track of. Being able to prevent people from favoriting your avatar strikes me like asking that you be able to prevent people from subscribing to your threads. I don't see anybody upset that their threads can be subscribed to and asking for a way out of that. Or getting their posts tipped either. I don't mind people not wanting to use it themselves, it's just thwarting other people from favoriting avatars that I'm opposed to. I am in favor of people opting out of ranking if they want. I have no problem with people wanting to turn off notifications, have an account setting to hide the heart symbol from showing up next to people's avatars, and remove the "favorites" thing from the drop down menu bar under "my Gaia" in account settings too. I'd even go so far as being ok with letting people have their username hidden when somebody favorites their avatar, though even that seems a bit silly as your username is publicly shown with your avatar already. I just want to be able to save any avatar I come across into my favorites and have it publicly viewable.

Right now, this feature is dead to me and that's such a shame because I really, really loved it. I've already stopped using the feature altogether because though I can't be prevented from adding stuff so far, anything can just suddenly poof out of my collection at any moment and get lost. I'm back to just manually saving images and uploading them.


I understand that this is a heated subject with Gaian on both sides who love and hate being seen. I'm working on the next update for favorites on the side right now, and will add some user preferences at the same time. I'll add a privacy option so users avatars, when favorited, will not be shown to public, but Gaians can still keep a private collection, not any different than saving the actual image.


Lanzer
Sifen Yamishi
Features

Regarding Favorites, some users and myself have noticed that we're unable to see some of our own avatars in people's collections/our own tagged avatars. Is this a glitch?


Most likely. If there are specific ones, please provide me the URL of the collections and I'll look into it.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:51 pm


February 28th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Quote:
Features

Will we ever be able to sort/search by colour in the dream avatar builder?

There will be more sorting features for inventory and avi builder. Though Lanzer is a bit tied up with zOMG at the moment.

Quote:
features - avatar builder
Can we get an avatar builder update so that it's not constantly being taken down so new items aren't spoiled? It kinda kills it's usefulness if it's down whenever I go to use it for things.

We actually fixed the bug with avi builder and we shouldn't need to turn it off. Turns out some staff didn't know about the fix, so we need to fix the mis-communication.


Lanzer
Songhai
Dress-Up:

Can we get the option to organize and update our Outfit Slots?


I'll add the ability to update in time, organizing might be a little more tricky. The old interface need a lot of work.
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