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Platonix

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 6:59 pm


January 8th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Features:

Halloween 2018 recovery tool does not work! I have tried it on my 3 remaining avis and it just says that nothing is to be found!! Those Christmas gift bags that are from 2016 are still there. They should have been traded out for the Halloween 2K18 ones. Anyone else brought this to your attention??


Looks like the recovery tool isn't working for some people, I will make some changes tonight to fix the issue.

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Items

It has been requested several times that this item be put back into Bifrost as it is necessary for alchemy formula with the others. Please return it to the shop where it belongs.


You might wanna go look in the store ninja

Quote:
Features-Inventory

The inventory arranger still wont let me put my paw items that are in my locker/temp storage in the paw tab, when will this be fixed?

Also when will the random item shuffling stop being a thing? (It makes these item donation events more tedious than they need to be)


The inventory arranger issues are still being looked into, sorry a few other bugs still need to be resolved first. Same goes for the item shuffling issue. It's not happening on most accounts so it's taking more time to fix.


Lanzer
Vro
Items
Hey, y'all! heart I don't suppose we have any Year of the Boar items incoming? Dying for some of that good, good piggy content.


A lot of my friends are Boars too (they just call themselves pigs), hope we have some items for this year's zodiac.


Lanzer
Poison_The_Well
Items

Question = can we get Animal versions of the sash we joined in,for example i joined in 2004 and would love to have a animal version of those soul bound sash of year i joined


I'll ask the art team. Wonder what it looks like if we use the regular version. sweatdrop


Jak Bauer
Canicuss
Moderators

Have there been any decisions made on adding moderators. I know Gaia has a very loyal user base that wants to help out in several ways. I know a couple of people that have applied but haven't heard anything back.


Hi there,

Due to me getting sidetracked this had been put on hold. But I should be able to give it more attention now, so we should be getting some more in training soon!


Lanzer
Dragonmasterknight88
I've been trying to add my contacts, but it wouldn't sync to my Gmail account. What's wrong?


Is that for the friend referral feature? Sorry we haven't worked on that for a while. Please give me a bit more information such as the URL you were at, or any screencaps. Thanks.


Lanzer
khionna
Features: GoFusion

Are we ever going to see any updates or new items for GoFusion? If not, would it be better for resources to overhaul and remove the system and find some other use for the charms?


Though we released plans to remove GoFusion in the past, we still need to make sure that all items in GoFusion can be obtained elsewhere, so GoFusion is still around. We will have a plan for it later in the year.


Jak Bauer
khionna
Moderator Applications

What is the status on the moderator application queue? I know that at least a few have been reviewed and accepted but I'm unsure where this stands since Zero left staff.


Hi there,

I have actually been in charge of the ModApps for awhile now. I will be giving it more attention in the coming weeks.


Lanzer
[Nix]
Games: zOMG

When will Jabber be brought back up? Or are there still issues from the migration to be sorted out?


We lost the Jabber server during migration and have to install a new one, we have a few big issues to sort out and afterwards will look into putting the server back. sweatdrop


Jak Bauer
Happy _Tropical_Flower
AMC Rules and Guildlines Changes

Lat year, Jak Bauer siad that the rules of the AMC would get changed so more discussion can happen within that main forum, but the year came and went, and there were no rule changes to the forum's Sticky... sweatdrop

I know that changing any main forum's rules are probably at the bottom of the priority ladder for Gaia at the moment, but may I please have an update on this issue? The AMC is dying here. gonk


Hi there,

Rules stickies for not only that but other forums are under review and once we have them in better shape we will start rolling them out.


Jak Bauer
Jisen Meizuki
Event

I'm aware there's an email if we have an user event we want to be announced, but in case we don't get a response, is there a staff who checks on them or to contact?

Two of the staffs I know have left Gaia, so I like to know who will hold up the mantle in case us users are hosting user events.


Hi there,

I can look into it. Please send me a PM with details on the email you sent.
it amy
Jisen Meizuki
it amy
Have you sent something to the e-mail yet? (I checked and have not seen anything :O)

You're always welcome to message me as well! (Whether you just want to user private messages as our form of communication, or to just poke me to check the inbox!)

Oh, we haven't send the email yet (we're still in the process of planning.) I'm just curious who's currently check the user event email when the previous staff left as well as being prepared in case of lack of response through email.

it me!
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Lanzer
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Did you get my Gaia Fanmail?/A food question

Hi, Gaia Staff!

Hoping you guys liked my Xmas card if you got it yet! emotion_kirakira

I was going to ship a bag of See's Candy chocolates to Gaia HQ as an early Valentine's Day gift to all of you! I was just wondering how many employees or a rough estimate of how many employes work at Gaia HQ currently since Lanzer mentioned that the number of employees was a little less now starting in the new year... sweatdrop

I think Lanzer or another Dev said there were about 40 people working at Gaia HQ last year, so I am just wondering if that number shrank a little or a lot... sweatdrop Depending on how many people there are at Gaia HQ now will make my decision on what bag of candy to buy a little easier. emotion_kirakira

Thank you, Gaia Staff! x3


Thanks for the kind offer. Today there are about 20 people working in Gaia HQ and many work at home at certain days of the week, so you see about 15 people in the office on a typical day.


it amy
kay_the_anon
items that have zero listings

I've been questing this item for a long time
The item name is Merciless feelings
I've been wondering could it be in an acc that has been banned for a long time I posted my unlisted item in a forum


Did you post it in this forum: https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/what-items-would-you-like-to-see-re-released/t.103672165/

This thread (or the other one linked inside) is the best way to notify us on which items go unlisted for large periods of time!


Lanzer
pokepuffs
features
last week you said you'd fix the search server error, but it's still not working.
do you know when that issue will be fixed?

pics for proof:
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Oh I see, I was testing keyword search, but I needed to make sure that the search result will include the name of the person who made the post. I missed that function during the migration to the new server. Will add that in later this week.


it amy
Rysabi
Items

Lake Kindred has been on the backburner for quite a while, understandable since we need to work on more pressing issues. However, we have a major issue with kin-egg supplies. You're not doing a good job with supplying them and it's causing shortages and inflation. This has become a major pain in the neck for the Lake Kindred community. Gaia needs money, this is beyond apparent. You have a great chance at making a profit if you start selling kin-egg rigs or kins by themselves in the Lake Kindred Pet Shop for Gaia cash. One of Gaia's biggest problems is ignoring features that have the potential to bring a profit. Lots of people rely on Lake Kindred to make plat/gold for their quests. Lots of people like to collect the items that the kins give out when you level them up. Some people that are questing for one of each kin are having a hard time because they can't find sellers for certain kins. Time to use your newest game to make money. Staff, will you please look into fixing this irritating supply issue, please?

Before someone asks "well did you put any of them in the Rococo thread?!?" Yes, every single one of them.

I've created a list of kins for you to take a gander at, staff. I don't think you're fully aware of how many need to be reintroduced. I've griped about kin supplies before but nothing was done about it, so I did homework for you.
    * Some kins have zero listings or very few listings.
    * Some kins only have high level kins for sale, no lower levels.
    * I included kin evolutions to show that those are having issues with rarely being listed due to a crappy supply as well.
    * Some are user-made that could use a re-release.
    * Some were from old events and they are now a pain to find.
    * I did try to leave out kins that were avalible in-game, but I could not remember all of them. If any of those made it in the list just ignore them.

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Thank you for compling this list for us, in the past few weeks we've been putting Kindred into Rococo, Mecha Neko and in La Victoire. Some for direct purchase and others in bundles themselves.


[Thanks mostly to that Spoilered list, today's By Date answer compilation passed the post limit of 50,000 characters for the first time in over three years. See next post for the rest!]
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 7:01 pm


[And now for the thrilling conclusion to today's By Date compilation!]

Lanzer
meatballhead15
Features- Daily Chance

Question: Hi Staff ^_^ I've noticed that the Daily Chance (the red gatcha machine on each landing page) has been only red, and not turned to gold despite my attendance. Is this another loose end, or is it no longer meant to change color? Thank you so much for this clarification!


That is an illusive bug that haven't been able to hunt down, it works for all the staff in the office. I will do some testing with your account info and see if I can find out the root cause. Sorry I haven't been able to fix this yet.


Lanzer
Kuro Kori Ryu
Hey staff
Items /Kindred?

Would it be possible to add a sellback option to the Wind-up Mice/Drummer Mice/Soldier Mice since they have a pretty frequent drop rate and are plenty on the MP (like 4 pages for wind up mice).
I really don't want to trash them...and pretty much every other drop kin has a sell back except the Mice


I'll check with the art team first, probably isn't a problem


Jak Bauer
jenru
how do i recover the password for a mule account that has a debunked email address. (no idea what the address even is anymore...)


Hi there,

File a General Inquiry ticket in our Help Center.

When they get to your ticket they will probably ask some questions to verify the account is yours. If you answer the questions correctly you should regain access to it.


Lanzer
HpIar
Features

I haven't been able to submit a post through quick reply for probably over a year now when a captcha pops up. I'll do the "confirm
you're not a bot" and the green checkmark will appear, and i'll click the submit button, but the page will never update. It'll just
be stuck forever so, instead, i'll have to go to the reply page, redo the captcha, and submit. is there anyway you can get this fixed?

literally just encountered a captcha for this post


Forgot to add this to my to-do list last time, I'll add that to the list, will have it fixed this week or the next.


Yuroppa
Neshira Namea Returns
items
So there are many times when I like to use older items. Items for which the artists may no longer be present on Gaia. In these cases, when I find a bug in the item and post it in the item bugs thread, is it looked at? Who fixes the artistless items? Who is this superhero willing to fix one of the longest standing bugs that ruins a favourite avi:
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We still fix issues with older items! If the original artist is no longer around, someone else usually takes a look at it. But unfortunately not everything can be fixed.

As far as I know, the glitch thread is mostly up to date. If you posted something a while ago that hasn't received a response, go ahead and repost it for us to look into!


Lanzer
ladykayra
Items
Have you guys considered using Creative Commons content as inspiration for items?

Sometimes there are some limitations but if it's something like CCBY you would probably just need to put the BY part in the item description or on a separate page featuring all BYs you might have. Creative Commons content feels like it is becoming more accessible so I think it would be a decent resource to look into.

A lot of things just went into the public domain this year too. It's items from 1923 but hey, that was a pretty cool time in history, I'm sure some ideas can be gleaned from there as well. That content may be a little slim as archives work through getting it digitized but each year we'll be getting more and more. Next year will be items from 1924


Thanks for the suggestion! Will share that with the art team.


Lanzer
Intoxicated Tentacles
Just a heads up, your "Contribute" and "Advertise With Us" links at the bottom of the page are busted. :c Edit: Also getting a "too many redirects" message off of a few links too.

Secondly, I wanted to ask - what are Gaia's priorities right now? Money of course to keep things running, but what else needs attending to?


Will look into the broken links.

Today we are focused on events as usual, with prepwork and programming for the upcoming Valentine's event. We are also working on Gaia Mobile, and thinking through what are some of the most essential features on Gaia plus what we can do to make a better experience for new users, especially when they use the mobile app as we can streamline the experience. A lot of work still need to be done to make sure the site is stable after migration, but hopefully after that we'll have more time to focus on features.


Lanzer
ladykayra
Features
Is there anything we users can do to help out here? Besides donating.

Are there projects you can't get to we could help with? Would it help if we compiled lists of references for interesting themes? Compile lists with minimal help from staff that could be useful, like the guides in Guides and Resources but with some confirmation. Lists of anything really? Can we all brainstorm some ideas for a cool community project that might help bring in new members? There is a fan animation project idea, does that seem interesting?

(I asked near the end of last week but figured there wasn't enough time to answer. Also I say lists because that's what I can do but I'm sure people would love to do all sorts of things. I saw someone mention giving royalties to Gaia if they could do merch, though I know that's a tricky one)


Thank you for the offer. We currently have our hands full in the current projects, but if we have the bandwidth to involve the Gaia community in any aspect I will definitely not hesitate to ask. Will check out the animation project later today.


Lanzer
Bugberry Beetle
Anyways...Question, is the gaiapledge complete for the month of January?


Depending on our revenue for the month, we might have another drive for the end of January.


Lanzer
NakedUnicornSexParty
IP verification is still down


Are you not getting the prompt which tells you to check your email? Or are you not getting the email verification letter? Still hunting this issue down.


Lanzer
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Gaia Website "Face Lift" Design-wise

Lanzer has said in the past that after the Site Migration that he expressed interest in giving Gaia a "facelift" site design wise. I was wondering if this was going to occur starting in the new year? sweatdrop


We have a lot of new designs for the mobile app made, if the designs are well received we will use a lot of it on the main site itself.

Have a great week everyone!


Platonix

Captain

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