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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:23 pm


March 7th, 2017:

Lanzer
bluecherry
Features

Lanzer recently announced a new account setting for favorites. In the staff announcement he said, "This is a privacy setting that will make all favorites of your avatars not show up in public. Only the individual who favorited your avatar can view it. The decision to not completely disable the feature outright was made because any user can save the graphic of any avatar image, and to force users to go back to saving images manually just doesn't make sense." However, it seems it is still possible to delete one's avatar from the favorites of other people, not just hide them from public view, albeit not through using the new account setting. This just doesn't make sense. If you don't think it makes sense to make us manually save stuff again, then it shouldn't be possible to delete avatars from other people's favorites. If you are going to allow the deletion of avatars from other people's favorites, then what is the point of not allowing the account settings to just prevent favoriting in the first place? Deletion can accomplish the same thing, just slower. Why, Lanzer? What is up with this combination of the setting you went with and the reasoning behind it and keeping deletion of other people's favorites around still?


Hmm, that wasn't supposed to happen. I'll need to check on the code as I thought I've updated the setting after releasing the option. Will get back to you on this one.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:47 pm


March 14th, 2017:

Narumi Misuhara
dweebz
Features

Hello, first of all, THANKS for zOMG!
My question is, is there any way to add a "color" feature to the Avatar Builder (Similar to tektek)


There is, but the problem presently is that not all items are accurately tagged, so the results would be lacking.


Riyokuma
Kor Saiyajinkami
Features - Avatars

I like how the Avatar Builder was added to Gaia to replace TekTek's Dream Avatar function after TekTek was shut down for stealing your items for their dress-up site. Could we possibly get a Inventory Feature where we could create a link to send to others so they could build avatars using what we have in our Inventories?
At the top of the page there is a link that says "Ghost?" and you can put someone's User ID in and then you can use their inventory to dress them~ Just make sure in the drop down menus that you change Item DB to Inventory. -w-
Narumi Misuhara
From the avatar builder, select the "Allow Ghosting" option. Then just have other people enter your user_id into their "Ghost" box. Once they do this they will then see what you have in your inventory.

We can definitely look at making this feature a little less ambiguous though.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:00 pm


March 21st, 2017:

Lanzer
bluecherry
Features

Hi there. In ATA on March 7th, I wrote the following post which Lanzer responded to:
"Lanzer recently announced a new account setting for favorites. In the staff announcement he said, "This is a privacy setting that will make all favorites of your avatars not show up in public. Only the individual who favorited your avatar can view it. The decision to not completely disable the feature outright was made because any user can save the graphic of any avatar image, and to force users to go back to saving images manually just doesn't make sense." However, it seems it is still possible to delete one's avatar from the favorites of other people, not just hide them from public view, albeit not through using the new account setting. This just doesn't make sense. If you don't think it makes sense to make us manually save stuff again, then it shouldn't be possible to delete avatars from other people's favorites. If you are going to allow the deletion of avatars from other people's favorites, then what is the point of not allowing the account settings to just prevent favoriting in the first place? Deletion can accomplish the same thing, just slower. Why, Lanzer? What is up with this combination of the setting you went with and the reasoning behind it and keeping deletion of other people's favorites around still?"

Lanzer's response was, "Hmm, that wasn't supposed to happen. I'll need to check on the code as I thought I've updated the setting after releasing the option. Will get back to you on this one."

I realize Lanzer may simply have been too busy to get back to this subject. I just figured I would check in on it though in case. There was nothing about it in Lanzer's posts in the last ATA and this hasn't been fixed yet. In case Lanzer didn't see the reply I wrote in the March 7th ATA thread, which may have relevant information that would help fix this sooner, "Thanks! It seems the option is gone from most places to delete avatars from other people's favorites, but it is still there on this page: http://www.gaiaonline.com/collections/landing/mine "


Sorry I've been busy fixing the inventory bugs but soon I'll be able to work on this issue.


Narumi Misuhara
waterkat33
Features - avatar builder
With tagging, we have a forum to crowd source mistagged items, is there something similar we can do to help with the avatar builder? Because I love the avi builder but sometimes it is just very frustrating.


This was the original plan, we had to stop work on that part of the plan when we were having issues with site outages with the feature. Now that it's more stable we can look at this project again and see if it can be squeezed in.


Lanzer
diosas
Gaia Features

This question is regarding the favorites section: Is there any way you guys can implement a way we can subscribe to users favorites that way we can keep track of what they come across and maybe save it to our own?


That's something I always wanted to do. It's on my to do list. Hope I can get to it soon!
PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:13 pm


March 28th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Quote:
Features

Would it be possible to implement colour sorting in the avatar builder similar to what tektek had?

Yes! We just have to find out how to do it.


Narumi Misuhara
Memoirii
Question Category Features

I find the Avatar Builder (whenever its up lol) sooooooooo difficult to use. I'd reallllllly like it if we could sort by color as well as by body part. Why is 'shin' separate from 'knee' and why is 'hair' not separate from 'head'? It turns me off. User Image


We agree, it needs some love. Don't know quite yet when we will get to it though.


Lanzer
Katara daughter of Water
Features
Has the staff been messing with the coding of favorites? For some reason I can no longer delete the avatars from my collections that I don't want any more. It's been the same for some other people I've talked to.


Sounds like a bug. I'll look into it.


Lanzer
Shiro Nishida
Features
arrow Favorites

I've been loving the favorites feature ever since it came out, since I've loved to save avatars since... well... forever it seems. (been on and off the site for the past 14 years now) but I recently noticed that if inside of a folder in favorites you possess more than a certain amount of avatars saved, pages 8 and onwards do not show up. At the moment there's a folder in my favorites with 11 pages, but from the bottom menu I'm only able to access up to page 7 and then have to manually change the page number in the address bar. Is this something that will be worked in the future, or is this working as intended?

I know, I have saved waaay too many avatars in that folder. sweatdrop too many pretty avatar combinations from friends and forum goers that have great taste, so I can't help it emotion_facepalm


That should be an easy bug to fix. I'll add it to my bug list. eek


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:24 pm


April 12th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features:

Might it be possible to be also able to favourite avatars we see in the Runway, and not just in forums?
I love a lot of avatars I see on there, more so than forums, though maybe that could be because there are Themes set for entering XD

Yes, we can look into doing that.


Lanzer
Shrimp_Man
Dress Up

Would it be possible to have a way to see an item's tags in dress up so it's easier to try and match colors?


There will be options to search and filter by tags, if that might help.


Lanzer
The Golden Boleyn
Features:

Can we have the Collections areas of the Favorites thing fixed?
Whenever I go to mine it says I have two pages but there is more than that and it glitches after you have more than seven pages of favorites as well.


Hmm, I thought I fixed that. I'll look into it.


Lanzer
Canicuss
Features

Favorites. I noticed recently that someone was sorting their favorites into different galleries and each time they moved or added an avatar of mine they had already favorited (some as far back as Jan or Feb) I got another notice. In addition to that some of my avatars doubled in the "MY TAGGED AVATARS." page.

I really like to get notifications when someone adds one of my avatars but would it be possible to suppress double notifications and to try to fix the duplicate problem? Thanks for looking into this.


Currently it's possible to have more than one favorite of the same avi in different, or even the same collection.

I can run some check and not send notifications on duplicates.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:00 pm


April 25th, 2017:

Narumi Misuhara
icey bb
features

How are you guys going on the new tagging and inventory display system?
Any info on it, like if it will be individual pose based etc.? I think that's what made that other site so good
Have options for user generated and moderated tags like steam's game tagging system?


No update yet. Might be a while as we have a number of priority projects to get done first. :/


Lanzer
Lady Saxophone
Favorites

What happened to updating this feature?
There were a lot of updates going on and then suddenly it felt like it was dropped... but there are still bugs with this feature.


Been caught up with the zOMG updates and fixes last few weeks, will get back to fixing the quest reset bugs and favorites bugs real soon!


Narumi Misuhara
rexydallas
Features - Avatar Builder

Could you add an option in avatar builder for wishlist items? It would make it a lot easier to create avatars making use of items that we want to buy in the future, as we could just find them there, rather than having to search up the name of each item individually.


This is a good idea. biggrin


Lanzer
MingSao
Features

In Lanzer's copious free time (hahahahaha), would it be possible to get an added feature on Favorites that lets us see what collections our avatars have been added into?

Like this!
User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.


Yeah I built the database to be able to show such info. Speaking of which, I should ask our intern to help on these useful features!


Lanzer
GaIvatron
Features [Favorites]

Can we see which avis of our own have been faved by other people from our own favorites page? I feel like that'd be very useful.


It's on my todo list! Should be here soon!


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PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2017 12:21 am


May 9th, 2017:

Lanzer
soultaker espada
feature ( favorite avi)

can you make it so that we can favorite avis anywhere instead of just threads? also achievement for faving avis?


Good point! I'll add achievements to the list. We'll add more places to add favorites in the future


Lanzer
The VVitch
Features

Would it ever be possible to add a feature when we customize our avatar to randomly equip items on us?


A random equip feature sounds like fun. What would be good filters to ensure that we equip what's good or interesting?
PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 12:36 am


May 24th, 2017:

Lanzer
Quos
Features - Avatar customization page

Could the item limit per page under the tabs be increased? I have a couple of pages for Hats/Items and some users have several times more.


More than 600 would be tough because it takes up a lot of memory with stacking enabled. We'll need to do some overhaul to change this.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:56 pm


May 30th, 2017:

Lanzer
MingSao
Features // Favourites

Avatar faves aren't stacking anymore? Before when I'd re-equip an outfit and new people would fave it, it would get added to the existing tally, but I noticed this time around people faving my current avi got a new spot on my list (see image behind spoiler tags). I know this avatar is exactly the same as it was before because it's one of my saved outfits for when I'm feeling uninspired to do something new - and it's only 3 items.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.


Favorite stacking applies only if the avatar has the exact same items/poses/expression equipped. If anything is slightly different, the storage location would be different, resulting in a new counter. That part of the code haven't been changed since Favorites was released I think.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:46 am


June 20th, 2017:

Lanzer
sheepcakes
Features Inventory

Can we have a little check on items in inventory, trade and Market Place sell pages that show an item is part of an avatar saved in the wardrobe.


We don't have it yet because the feature is a bit resource intensive for those with large inventories. After we get the inventory related features in place we'll work on this feature.


Lanzer
Chin City
features
can you guys start a program where users can apply/volunteer to help tag items? recolors often dont have some tags that they should that the originals have even if the recolors also have those poses as well as some items not even being tagged with their color.


Yes, that is one of our top 3 projects to do. After we have the item sorting and filter features in place, item tagging feature will be next.


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:38 pm


June 28th, 2017:

Lanzer
Quos
I was too late for last week's ATS so I'll be posting in this week's.

So 2 ATS prior, I couldn't reply to a quote since I had to get up for a while.

Lanzer
Quos
Features

Option to disable item "previews" or descriptions from avatar customization searches?
Example:
User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Make that look like this:
User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Or an option to disable descriptions entirely.

That's odd, is it blocking any feature?

It's not blocking any feature sweatdrop It just stretches the page downwards and it's sort of annoying when descriptions for items vary in length and I lose my place on the items I'm previewing. It's honestly just a pet peeve, and I'm wondering if it'd be possible to have an option disable item descriptions and just have the MP links.


This feature's been added to the wishlist. When I work on dress up next time I should be able to add it.
PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 4:38 pm


July 5th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
Quote:
Features

Any possibility of an addition to items whereby you can see what outfits this item is being used on before selling it? That way when we go to sell something it pops up a little like when you undercut but with "Warning! You are using this item on the following outfits: Outfit 60, Outfit 2. Are you sure you want to list it?"

This would really help identify items that we aren't using and which are safe to sell without an excel sheet write up every time we save one! I cannot tell you how many times I've listed items only to find out I was using them on an outfit I've saved!

We'll take note of the request and see what we can do, but it'll probably be a lower priority issue.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:39 pm


July 12th, 2017:

Lanzer
Faap
Features -

Will we ever get a colour-search in the avatar builder?


There is a item tagging system that will be worked on later, after that we will have better filters, including color filters.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:47 pm


July 18th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features
Can we get a search bar in the Outfit section of Gaia?
That way we can search a certain item that may not be listed in MarketPlace.

No search feature yet, as we are working on item tagging system


Lanzer
Memoirii
Features

Can we have an option to turn off the huge window that pops up when you try on an item you search for when making an avatar? Can you just make it so it shows up as a marketplace link without the preview? I hope this makes sense... User Image


Are you referring to avatar builder?


codemonkey37179
The Usual Insects
Features

Can you add the ability to search for items that don't have a certain tag? For example, searching for "fox -tail -ears" would search for items that are tagged with fox but are not tagged with tail or ears. Google has this in their search. (Other special search formats would be nice, like searching only for an item's name, or only searching for items that are a certain pose, but I know that this would require an overhaul of tags.)


Google also has self-driving cars....But seriously, we are making some changes to inventory as well as to the tag search, but no plans to put exclusions searches at the moment.

As soon as we are done with the Gaia self-driving car, we can work on the other features.


Lanzer
Dyre Raydrick
Features

About tag search:
Will there be unique tags assigned to individual poses for items?

Right now, when you search for an item the names of specific poses of items are completely ignored. Say, if an item has a camisole as a pose called "camisole", but neglects having that tag in the item's tags, the item won't show up in your search.

Similarly, in avatar builder, all the poses (and the normal item) will show up when you search something like "glasses", when the actual glasses from the item are only one pose. It'd be good if it didn't do this.

(Is there info on how this will work anywhere, already?)


The initial version will focus on allowing user submissions only. Hope I can find a good way of displaying poses with tags


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:27 pm


July 25th, 2017:

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In Customize Avatar, is there any way that the Runway Voting Stage could be added as one of the backdrop options? A lot of us make avatars just for it and often what looks good against the white lack of backdrop doesn't look so good against the darkness in Runway and it would be nice to be able to see how it looks at that stage, in order to truly put our best foot forward with showcasing our avatar-making skills.

It's something that could possibly and we'll see about it, but it'll be a low priority fix.


Lanzer
lilloulou
Features:

Is it possible to add a link to someone's "favorite" collection page in the dropdown under one's avatar in the forums?


Oh yeah! I was gonna do that. Let me add that to the todo list.
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