Can we please have the ability to "Sticky" threads in our "My Topics" section? Since we can't delete the threads, we need a way to find ones we still use easily. Or maybe let us choose to hide certain topics? The way it is now, I am reluctant to ever post a new thread because it will spam up my "My Topics" page and push threads off to other pages.
We'll add it to the list of features requests, but it won't be a high priority update.
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:38 pm
November 21st, 2017:
[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features
So while digging around for something, I found this old thread about various features. While it does look like Gaia implemented a couple of them, one that never happened was the Art/Writing/Whatever Directory. This is definately something that I still have an interest in seeing. It would be great to just look at a page of shops and instantly get an idea of the artist's style.
Anyways, could it be possible to see this old project be brought back to the table?
This is something we could look into doing!
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Events
Would you please consider making the Halloween 2004 forums visible again? I don't see any reason why they should be hidden. Other old event forums are visible.
We can definitely do this, we'll just need to find it.
Lanzer
StarIore
Features
Could Gaia add more meaning to the tip system in forums/guilds by giving gaians the option to include a reaction or tiny message with their tips?
People tip posts for various reasons beyond just saying I like/agree with your post. I have a tendency to tip to tell people I read their post and I intend on replying later or to say thank you or I got you. It would be nice if tips came with either a special emote or a pre-written message that could communicate something to the recipient with minimum effort which would be immensely helpful for mobile users like myself who have a hard time making quick forum responses.
I see, I'll see what I can do to make a tipping history page.
Is there a possibility of more forum assistants and/or moderators being brought on? I reported a handful of threads a few days ago and they are still in the same spot. I know the amount of content that is reported on this site on a daily basis has to be staggering, but allowing this to go unchecked like it has for so long is becoming really annoying. I appreciate the hard work that the current team of forum assistants and moderators do and I'm sure they wouldn't mind the extra help. Thanks and have a great day.
Yup! We're in the process of looking into new Forum Assistants!
Jak Bauer
khionna
Misc: Moderators
I know that it's kind of on the back burner, but can we add a higher priority into hiring and training more moderators? There are people who have applications in, but no new ones have been hired in a while. This should be a higher priority because you're current mods are stretched so thin that it's starting to become difficult for them to handle everything that they need to do around the site.
This is not the fault of the mods themselves, this is the lack of mods in general.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:57 pm
December 5th, 2017:
[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features
So has there been any word on the Add Media button not being monopolized by Photobucket anymore with a list of alternatives available to use the button with, yet?
We'll look into it some more, we looked into Imgur but their embedding API is used mainly for linking to profiles and not images.
Lanzer
debased coin
Features
Can it be made possible for us to search within threads by thread ID?
Our current search engine might not have that functionality, it will take quite a bit of work to figure this one out, unfortunately.
Jak Bauer
LexT-Rekt
Misc Will there be a round of mod acceptances / rejections anytime in the near future? o3o
Zero Omega
We're wrapping up a mod training round now, then we'll be looking to bring on more moderators after that point. So sometime early next year (may mid to late January) we'll be sending out new acceptances/rejections. No promises on that exact time table, but we're committed to bringing on more moderators.
Can the character limit on signatures be increased please? Not the size dimensions, just the character limit, because I couldn't even add color to the words in my Christmas-themed signature I also don't want to rely on tinyurl.com to make all my links shorter because I want people to be able to preview the links when they hover over them and see that the links lead to legit places. Alternatively, can coding not count towards the character limit please?
We actually have some plans for signature sizes, keep an eye out!
Zero Omega
2sammygate
Zero Omega
khionna
Features: Runway
I know that asking for Runway votes outside if the Chatterbox subforum has been made against the rules. Would it be possible to make it against the rules to ask in Chatterbox or ask your friends for votes?
It seems that runway is becoming more and more a popularity contest of the user and not the entry being voted for.
You know, I can't recall why we made the rule that you can ask for votes in Chatterbox when the intention is you vote on the avatar, not the person. We'll confer with the team and adjust if necessary.
because it's chatterbox.
the bigger worry isn't people asking others to vote, it's bots. when even the most offtopic avis have hundreds of votes, you know you have a votebot issue.
Well the intent behind Runway is that you vote on the avatar and not the person, so having a rule that says, "You can't solicit votes. You can solicit votes in this one area." seems nonsensical. There is a reason why we implemented the rule the way that we did, and the admin team ultimately approved it, but I can't recall that reason outside of potentially, "They can solicit votes, it doesn't necessarily mean that someone will vote for them."
In either case, it's something we'll review along with the rest of Runway. I know we haven't been able to show it much support so we'll try to do better with that to make things more fair for everyone.
Zero Omega
Touhru Adachi
forums Can we get the forums centered like the rest of the site at some point? It's annoying the ever loving hell out of me, and it can't be that hard to add, I don't imagine. gonk
We did at one point, but there was a large amount of negative feedback about it because it broken existing post styles and messed up post formats for others.
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:44 pm
December 19th, 2017:
Zero Omega
khionna
Features: Runway
Any update on the chatterbox vote solicitation? Last week I was told that it would be talked over to see if it should be revised and I'm just curious on the current status of that. 3nodding
We haven't had a chance to discuss it yet, but it is on our list of things to talk about.
Any plans to bring on more forum assistants and mods? 4laugh
Hi there,
We just added new mods last month! And are in the process of looking at applications for the next round!
Lanzer
Vibalent
Features - Forums Could we get a way to organize our subscribed threads?
It's on the to-do list. A bit lower on the backlog though.
Zero Omega
Leonaenae
Features
Question: I know this doesn't matter to most people, but within the My Little Pony Forums art is not allowed. But within the MLP fandom art is a huge piece of it, sharing your art of ponies, your OCs, making "adoptable thread" where you use a base and color requests, selling, making freebies, showing your art of the canon characters. Ever since art threads were discontinued the forum has nearly dried up. And within the mini shops forum MLP shops get pushed to the next page in no time flat. Is it possible to remove these two rules? Or revamp them to advise no selling of art? But art trades, freebie threads, art show off threads are allowed?
The year I had quit Gaia, I came back because of this forum's creation. "Picture post threads, such things can be posted in The Official Pony Image/Video Thread thread." "Buying/selling/requesting/creating art threads. Any threads created after September 5, 2012 that revolve around the exchange or transfer of art created by users should be made in the Art Shops (and its various subforums) subforum within the Mini Shops forum."
Thanks for reading.
A lot of the time when we create these rules that seem a bit strange consider what the fanbase does it is because we find that the community gets overrun and other members in the community can't share or talk about anything else, it gets flooded. So we create these rules to move threads to forums that already have an established purpose. That being said, we can review the rules and see what changes can or if they should be made.
Lanzer
Albern Puppy
Forums:
Can we please get a way to hide the topics blocked when looking at subscribed threads and such? It is annoying to know there is a thread I can't get into, and I can't even remember what the thread was.
I see, I'll look into fixing that.
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:20 pm
January 23rd, 2018:
Lanzer
vodka_vixen
Features: Search issues in forums have been interesting ever since the new header popped up.
Trying to get to the second page of "My Topics," and keep getting the below message:
This page isn’t working www.gaiaonline.com redirected you too many times. Try clearing your cookies. ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
(I have cleared my cookies)
Yikes, I'll fix this tonight. Sorry about that!
Lanzer
Can you tell me what is the URL when this happened? It's hard to fix the bug because it's not happening on my computer. Thanks.
Text boxes. In PM's, Quick Reply Threads & Guilds, Post a Reply Guilds, and Journals you can both extend and widen the text boxes. In threads? Only extend. I asked about it once before and the reply I got was "if enough people ask about it we'll consider it" but, why are threads the only one who can't extend and widen? It would be really helpful to someone who only spends their times in the threads on Gaia.
Text box extend is on the todo list, we just have quite a bit of issues to fix before getting to the to do list unfortunately
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:52 pm
February 13th, 2018:
[NPC] Gaia Staff
Welcome Back!
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Forums/Notices
It would appear that the issues from last night broke quote notifications, coul this maybe be looked into, please and thank you?
Notifications should be back now.
Zero Omega
AvatarRoku05
Zero Omega
AvatarRoku05
Features/Forums:
Can we see Gaidin's Fishing Guide brought back to life? It says the thread is too old, but it is so relevant to new fishers and I refer them to it constantly. It isn't even on the Fishing forum's first page anymore. crying
Brought back to life how?
Interesting note, Gaidin made this when he was a regular user, he just happens to be a mod now. So really any updates would have to be asked of him as he's the OP.
When you go to reply to it, the page says: "Sorry, this thread is now old and decrepit. Please find a newer thread about this topic or create your own to continue discussing!"
Oh! That! Sure, lemme see if we can get it bumped.
[Gaidin came by the thread later and gave it the bump it needed to become unlocked to posting again. -Platonix]
Lanzer
Fibonacci To Infinity
Forums
I was wondering if Forums would ever be updated with a "Dark/Night Mode" option. It would most definitely modernize the forums more.
We'll look into doing that for the forums. Hard to do it across the whole site though. sweatdrop
We have the Avatar Item Glitch Report Thread, for layering/colouring/etc.. sorts of issues, and we have the Mis-tagged Report Thread for tag issues, but which would be best for reporting description issues?
[Animal] Kouta the Tomcat Kenji isn't a Tom who's gonna yowl on your fencepost in the middle of the night; he's more the type to blast your socks off then get called on by the police for disturbing the peace.
Go ahead and use the Avatar Item Glitch thread.
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Features
When we search for our posts, could we be able to filter it by forum? That way, if we're looking for something to check on, ideally we could narrow down the search and avoid scrolling through hundreds of event posts which are mostly spam.
Has there been any more consideration on the CB vote begging rule for runway? Last time I talked to Zero abut it I was told that they are considering removing the exception and would be voting on it soon.
We haven't had a chance to formally change things up yet, but it's still on our list.
krissizle
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Features
Any chance of removing the 'Buy a Gift' feature from the drop down list under our avatars in the forums? When you click it, the link is inactive becuase the store it was linked to was shut down, I think. sweatdrop
oh wow. nice catch! thanks!
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:42 pm
March 6th, 2018:
[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features
Can we get a way to lock our own threads that we make? So that no one except us could post in it? If not all thread, just test threads or something? Preferably all threads. It just sucks when you have a shop, or role play, or quest, or whatever that you are setting up and people decide to keep posting. Or say you have a shop, and you want things to calm down, and for however long you choose, you can lock your thread. Even if you say "closed" people would still try to order from you. Or if you have a test thread that you don't want others posting in. Yes, you can always delete posts, but once you do that is one less post on that page you can use. If you needed the 15 posts, it totally ruins the flow.
Slight Edit: If you do consider this, it shouldn't cost anything. It should be like polls, disabled voting or rolling dice. Something free you can do to your thread.
It's something that we could potentially consider for something like the test forum.
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FORUMS The 1st posting "bonus" is still stuck at 1 pt. A typical post earns 130 pt. Shouldn't the text be corrected to say "First posting penalty"?
We'll be fixing it to grant more platinum on the first post.
krissizle
Kiro_Shinigami
Forums
Guys, i LOVE the new borders! Can we expect even more? they make everything more fun!
Thankyou <3
Very glad to hear that. I'll forward your message to the team whee
Lanzer
Moving forward we will try to add more styles and borders for new events. 3nodding
Lanzer
Elementis_Dragon
Features: Is their a way to fix the "not getting an E-mail when I get quoted in forums" problem. I am still not getting notified, thanks.
A while back we were getting a lot of spam report for having sent the reply notifications so we turned it off. I will look into what we can do to enable that feature and not let our email address get blacklisted.
I've "closed" so many forums over the years that I wish they would just be deleted off of the website. Is there anyway you could create an option for us to permanently delete our topics under our "My Topics" page, even if it doesn't technically delete the forum off the website?
We're looking into ways to allow you to delete, or request a way to delete, your threads.
Zero Omega
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Features/Forums/ AMC Forum Rules
Hi Gaia Staff,
A few weeks ago, I made a thread in the Site Feedback about updating the Anime/Manga/Comics forum’s rules for posting a thread. Seeing as how it is so easy to get a thread binned in that forum, I was wondering if the rules in it could be changed in the futre?
For example, here are the current questions you cannot post about in a thread or else it will get binned:
- "Has anyone seen/read ?" - "Does anyone like ?" - "What do you think of ?" - "I love/hate " - "Does anyone remember ?" - "Is anyone watching/reading ?" - "What show/character is this?" - "What show is from?" - "Recommend me an anime" - similar one line response topics
Now seeing as anime is a niche market now and is not as popular as it once was, I think the forum rules post guildlines should be more like this… If you post a thread in the AMC, these topics must be covered:
- I like ‘X anime’ - Why you like ‘X anime’ - Explain more about why you like ‘X anime’ - Added optional fluff like asking what everyone’s favorite characters of ‘X anime’ is, comments about its mangaka, DVD/Blue Ray releases of series, etc.
The old rules as they are absolutely dreadful when one wants to discuss an anime and the only thing you can ask the forumsa’s audience is if they like the anime you want to talk about which is breaking the current forums rules. In other words, it is almost impossible to make a discussion topic about any old anime. The forum is THAT SLOW.
Can you please update the AMC’s forum rules in the near future? It will really help getting thing up to speed in that forum again.
Thank you! emotion_bigheart
I agree that the rules for A/M/C are pretty outdated given the speed of the forum now and am totally in favor of having new rules/stickies/etc. That goes in general for the rest of the site where we need to review forum rules, but A/M/C has a special bias in my heart because it was my home forum as a user and home forum as a mod.
Lanzer
NakedUnicornSexParty
Miscconfused
So when you block someone their threads still pop and but you can't view them same when someone has you blocked is it supposed to be that way or is that a glitch
Which URL is the page that is displaying the thread for you?
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:36 pm
March 27th, 2018:
it amy
iCubie
ITEMS
Hey there! There are alot of user recolor items that are ridiculously expensive, and I know the rules state that the recolored items can be released in the CS at any time.
I was wondering if we can make a new sticky forum or something to suggest items for re-release in the CS?
The only one we have so far is for Rococo, and many of my item suggestions don't go through because they are user-made items. I know that many people want certain ones, for example Bats a Lash, etc.
I think this would be a great idea to implement and would help out many users 3nodding
Please let me know what you think heart
There is also this thread that just blankets the topic "items you want to be re-released"
Hope this interests you!
Zero Omega
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Features/Gaia Forums/Anime/Manga/Comics Forum
This question is directed toward Zero Omega, but also to any Gaia staff member who can answer it.
From my last question on last week's ATS to Zero Omega, which he responded to, he said that the Anime/Manga/Comic forum's sticky rules needs updating along with other Gaia forums' sticky rules as well which I highly agree with.
I was wondering when the Gaia Staff was going to get around to doing this? Is there a specific date you guys are aiming for or is it a future project you guys would like to tackle at some point?
Would love to know! Thank you! emotion_kirakira
It would definitely be a future project that I'd like to have done sometime this year. Right now our focus is building up the moderator team, building up other members of the moderator team (such as our Global moderators), and working through our ticket backlog, ticket submission flow, and Help Center updates to make that process a lot more stream lined.
Lanzer
Super Skagz
Features
The inventory display box has been broken for ages. When I click on post action ---& display inventory, it always says you have no items to display. It's been this way for everyone. Can we see a fix soon please? It'd be to have for those of us in the exchange.
Awhile back, you stated a review of the My Little Pony forum would be made to see if it could allow art again, please look into this consideration. As, the My Little Pony fandom is primarily artists, wanting to share their art, OCs, fanart, trade/sell art.
These threads get lost in the art forums.
Also please consider updating the description away from Friendship is Magic, as Friendship is magic is only the most recent installment of MLP, this fandom dates back to the 80s.
We haven't yet gotten to this consideration yet but it's something we're still keeping in mind. Thanks for the feedback!
Lanzer
Twisted Lady
Events
For years now, forum events have been impossible to complete while using the Forums Lite option. Can this information be added to the Gaia Labs page, so users are informed about the issue before they activate it?
That makes sense, I'll look into updating the description.
codemonkey37179
Sight Ninja
Lanzer
Starry Lemonade
Features
For codemonkey; is a bbcode update anywhere in the stars for Gaia? heart Support for divs would be nice!
((Also hi, I think you're a great dev))
Any specific bbcode you'd like to see?
Knight Yoshi probably has the most comprehensive answer to this question, but I do believe Codemonkey (or somebody?) had a really detailed suggestion of BBCode changes a few years ago, but it doesn't seem like it was ever implemented.
I can assure you it wasn't me! Support for divs? What will you do with divs?
Zero Omega
Sight Ninja
I need to find a list of previous developers then. :c It was definitely a well known dev, but not you or Pannagrammic...ugh. Darknrgy maybe?
I think you're thinking of carbonphyber. I would always bring up the BBCode parser suggestion that someone brought up in ATS and he replied to, and his response was, "AARRRGGGHHH WHY DID I GET MYSELF INVOLVED WITH THAT POTENTIAL GIANT MESS?!"
Zero Omega
Tsuki_Kirkland
Misc
So I was wondering, since forums are slower now, are rules gonna change soon with some of them that are specified to one topic like the AMC ?
I touched on this a couple weeks back with AMC, you can see more about my thoughts on that here and here.
Lanzer
Oh You Betcha
Forums? Hello! When typing a topic/reply in forums, when you preview them the BBC coding is broken and doesnt show. This makes editing large threads kind of annoying since you cannot see what you are changing!
