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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:09 pm


June 13th, 2017:

pyawakit
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Features

Can we get more gift wrapping options to correspond with current popular colour schemes please? emotion_kirakira


Oh that's such a cute idea! We'll look into it! heart
PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 8:23 pm


August 1st, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features

Hi! Recently we've noticed the stripping of BBCode from gifting.

What's currently been done to disable it is when you send a present with a code like so:
Hello!

Once sent to a recipient, it'll look like this:
Quote:
{color=red]Hello!{/color]

By turning the start of any opening bracket into an opening curling brace, in effect disabling it.

We understand why you've done it, but could you please consider the following, so that we could perhaps have at least some harmless BBCode still? Some of us like a bit of fancy and color in the messages, you see, to brighten it up.

Allow italic tags, color tags, size tags, alignment tags and bold tags. These are mostly harmless as they don't embed any media.

Disabling video tags remains. That means turning any tag with video in it to one with curly braces. It'll disable videos from being embedded.

Disabling url tags remains. (these are the ones used for phishing) A gifter can just use the site address if they want to link out, so users know what site it really is. It'll be quite alright to change the url tags into tags with curly braces.

Enable img tags, but only for white-listed sites. This would ensure images can still work, but mostly filtered/clean ones as dictated by the white-listed site's modding. imgur and Photobucket have heavy filtering and moderation I was told, which was why they were white-listed. So, if you checked within the img tags and saw that they weren't imgur or Photobucket urls in them, you could opt to just turn those tags into curly braces, or strip part of their url so they won't appear?

Thanks again, if you've read this and considered!

That seems like something we could probably do. We can't currently do that for white-listed sites with regards to images though.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:58 pm


August 8th, 2017:

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I know I'm gunning for impossible right here, but could you please consider at least allowing img tags in gifting?

You can keep url and video tags disabled.

Some of us enjoy sending anon art and it would be nice to have them pop up when the gift is opened, so that they'll see a happy surprise, you see. They could technically click on a link that says there's art there, but that would take a recipient offsite to a questionable image or a phishing one too.

So please consider? Thanks!

The reason why bbcode was disabled was because of abuse from hackers posting images that pulls user information. (that's why we can't have nice things!) We have restored BBCODE for all other tags but image tags a few days ago.
PostPosted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 8:59 pm


October 10th, 2017:

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Can gifting be upgraded so that for a reasonable fee (or hopefully free), we can send like...care package gifts to people? gifts that contain 10 items at max


That might take some time to code since the system isn't ready for multi item. Might be a while until we can work on this.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 22, 2017 11:46 pm


November 21st, 2017:

Lanzer
Piggyback-Chan
Features: Gift History

Is it possible to increase the amount you can check in your past history? 10 isn't enough.


I'll increase the size as soon as I get a chance to. 3nodding
PostPosted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:32 pm


December 5th, 2017:

Lanzer
Heimdalls Sight
Features!

Any chance we can have a 'give gift from inventory' selection in the little user drop-down menu here on the forums?
Right now we do have a quickie gift-gifting option, but it redirects to La Victoire for cash shop presents.

Its the holidays and I love to play Santa so pls ho-ho-hold this suggestion in your festive thoughts. 🎅🎄🎄


That's a really cool feature! I'll look into implementing that, but deadline for Christmas event is pretty close and it might not make it for this event.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:52 pm


February 13th, 2018:

Lanzer
Castiel Lover
Features

Could we get a refresh button in trades? As it is, we have a popup notification we have to click when we refresh to submit the form again.

And also for trades, could we get a second type of trade that lets us just send a bunch of items to someone without getting anything back or having to wait for their acceptance? Like a bunch of unwrapped (or wrapped would be cool, too) gifts?


We could add a refresh button. Though it would be nice to get real time updates on things like these. Having a second option to gift vs trade can be done, though the trading code is pretty old and I don't know if it might end up being a big time sink.

The new site header was supposed to be fully capable of real time refresh, and if other pages are written the same way then everything would update in real time. Unfortunately converting all the pages would be too big of a project.
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2019 8:28 pm


May 14th, 2019:

Lanzer
Sue Z June
Features: Will we ever be able to gift items from our Game and zOMG tabs?


I'll look into gifting for game and zOMG items. As long as they're not soul bound it should be ok.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:14 pm


October 22nd, 2019:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Gifting:Currently you are only able to send gifts to other Gaians in real time, as in the moment you complete the gifting process the gift sends. Would it be possible for staff to look into implementing a way to prepare gifts in advance to send at a later date? This would be very useful during the holiday seasons, especially for anon gifting!

As an extension of this suggestion, it would also be nice if we could see what is inside a gift we prepared in advance, perhaps either by hovering over or clicking on it.

I understand staff is swamped but I'd appreciate if it could be added to the To Do List, please and thank you!


We will consider the two features. Probably be able to add the feature to view wrapped gifts earlier.
PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:48 pm


January 21st, 2020:

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Shops - Marketplace

Would it be possible to add the -Gift- option to the Marketplace?

It would be really helpful to be able to purchase gifts for people in the Marketplace the same way you can in the Gold Shops and in the Cash shops.


Yes we'll add this to the to-do list. Will have to run this through with the mod team to ensure that it cannot be abused by hackers and what not.


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