April 9th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Feature
Would it be possible to add a link to someone's wishlist in the drop down under someone's avatar?
Asking because some profiles ( like mine and others) don't have or show a wishlist section.


We will add the wishlist to the to-do list.

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Events: Valentine's Day Event Excess Platinum/Gold Grant Bug

Team Fondue again here.

I'm wondering if there are any new updates/information regarding the status of this issue? It's been five weeks now, and many of us still have the excess plat/gold that was granted on our accounts.

I know it was said that another fix would go out to tackle this issue, and remove the excess plat/gold. But, I'm not sure what's going on, as there are users, myself included who still remain affected by this bug, and haven't had the platinum/gold removed yet. We've been bringing it up constantly for weeks now, both in ATS and the Bug Forum. Will there be a solution to this?

Personally, I have not bought or sold anything since this bug began.


We ran another round of the recovery script. If your account was not affected, please PM Lanzer with your issue and we will have it fixed ASAP.

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Since the update on the wishlist it sets the private as default, meaning that our wishlist will be private everytime we update our wishlist (aka: adding new items to wishlist, remove item from wishlist, etc.). And it's really frustrating that we have to check our wishlist to public every time we update, especially if we have a long wishlist.

Can you change the setting of public as default so we don't have to check our wishlist as public every time we update?

Or better yet, add another check where we get "check all items public" like the "delete all items you own" check. I'm aware Gaia Upgrade and another third party extension have that feature, but there are few people in the community who don't use third party extensions.


The wishlist bug will be fixed later today, and the default will be set as public.


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Embedded links

Add Open Graph and Twitter headers that display images and descriptions. For instance when linking to a thread (or maybe even a particular post) to see the post content as the description. If you added headers to the pages instead of generically showing the "Guest Authentication blah blah blah" for embedded links that would be much better.

Also if you ever look at Gaia on the Wayback machine, you guys use iframe escaping techniques that effectively make it impossible to record the history of Gaia and look back on anything. Please change this.


Thanks for the heads up. There are quite a bit of housekeeping we need to do for Gaia, as we prioritize on issues we will find out where header updating stands.


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Bug: Search Bar Auto-Complete & Guilds

When using the search bar links to navigate to a guild, for instance the Gaia Tools guild. The URL is
www.gaiaonline.comm


Yes, with a second M on the TLD. Thus making the URL invalid. Please fix.

This has been an issue since you reverted the header from when Ruce made that other header that didn't pan out.


Please clarify which link you used to receive the malformed URL. Typically searching with keywords results in a listing of various guilds, in which the link for the thumbnail or the guild name will navigate you to the corresponding guild, but it sounds like you're referring to something else?

It's when you click an auto-completed link for any guild, for instance the SCAS guild or the Gaia Tools guild.
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Oh it's the autocomplete script. Okay I'll see what Ruce added during that time.


Lanzer
Woo Mee
Features

Can you make it so completely new announcements are seen before repeated ones?
We have a maximum of 5 announcements kept if we're away, which is fine, but I want to see NEW ITEMS and not things I've seen a hundred times already.
It's frustrating, especially when I don't always check the previous day's csu to see what I've missed, and it's not something everyone else may do either.
Please consider somehow doing this, not everyone is in your time zone and not everyone will be awake when new updates happen, so you miss out on possible item sales because of it.


We will look into doing that.


Lanzer
Eclipse Leona
Manga
Manga updates? new story?
something?


Once resources opens up we will definitely be adding more manga storylines. Sorry we've been lagging in plot updates.


Lanzer
Nimty
features

when do you think the full store listings issue could be fixed ;u;
having to fully exit the tab just to continue my business is a bother User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.
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I'm just about done with this bug, expect a fix to be released later tonight.


Lanzer
Kanaxai
Features - Trade Cancellation Bug

Since the public feedback over the trade cancellation bug in last weeks thread, status on the current fix? The recovery tool link associated to trading has been disabled for 7 days.


I'm still working on a fix, sorry. We should have one ready before the end of week.


Lanzer
Radix Malorum Cupiditas
Question Category: Features

Question: I notice I can no longer expand the private message window width-wise, but it still has the triple lines in the bottom right corner. Is this a glitch or can we only expand the window vertically now?


This is odd, as we haven't changed any template on private messaging. I'll have a look when I get a chance to see what's going on.


Lanzer
Woo Mee
Features

A while back I asked about if my favourites collection will get fixed since it still shows broken images of avatars I saved around the time of the server migration. I was wondering if these would ever be able to get fixed?

This is what a row looks like to me on page 2 of my main collection User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.
In total 9 are this way.


Whoops his issue fell under my radar. I will have it fixed later this week.


Lanzer
Julizard
Games

Will there be any games that can be mobile friendly to earn plat/gold for mobile users?


Any games we build moving forward will be HTML5 games that are mobile friendly. Though we still have to finish working on the mobile app itself. We have a long way to go!


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
inquiry
What is the search engine you guys use? We plan to use Elasticsearch.


We migrated from Solr to Elasticsearch last year. There are a number of features that we should take advantage of, but haven't gotten the chance to use them yet.


Lanzer
Sir Valen Pureheart
Games: zOMG

Old Station/Old Tutorial Comeback Update
How's the progress so far in bringing it back? Thanks!

Whisper/Clan Jabber Fix
Any updates on restoring this feature?

Fountain Game
Where there any references to the swf files that are needed to make it work? Because if the groovy script exist, there must be a refetence link to it somehow.

zOMG Groovy Scripts

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Anyway, I think it has been forgotten already but there used to be zOMG scripts that was released from previous Dev Meats for everyone to see and try to understand. Not every Area Scripts was released (Only for Barton Town, Village Greens and Bills Ranch) and I was wondering if every Area Scripts could be uploaded ? As well as for Rings and Player Stats and User Interface scripts?
It would be nice to make all of zOMG's code open-source and free for all now and release them for viewing for all Gaians to see? Thanks! It would be helpful for finding out and understanding zOMG more! whee


I'm still stuck configuring the Jabber server. So everything else has to wait.

I'll upload more groovy scripts, though the most UI related scripts will be quest menu related. All other menu related elements are not in groovy but are either in Java or Flash.


Lanzer
Drugasm
Hi one of my trades got canceled and I
haven’t received my missing item back, when
will this be fixed?


It will definitely be fixed this week. Sorry for the delay


Jak Bauer
Flint Jakobs
The Golden Boleyn
Flint Jakobs
The Golden Boleyn
Items:

Gentle request for literally any African American, Native, Hispanic and Indian cultural representations translated into items!


Turning marginalized people into a commodity probably isn't the best look imo, even with the best intentions.


It’s about representation because there really isn’t any especially Spanish cultures who have amazing dancer outfits that they could do. There are options if they really cared to make more people feel welcome in their own skin and cultures here.


As a black man, I get the sentiment, but representation doesn't work like that, especially where money is involved. Even if it's meant as a tribute, if you take designs or ideas from a culture and turn it into something to sell, it's profiting off of the labor and ideas of a marginalized group, full stop. There's way more to the situation than the idea of representation.


Hi there,

There are many different interpretations of it. As a black man as well I can see both sides. Wanting to have something that lets you display you as you see yourself is important tho, and providing users the ability to do so isn't necessarily profiting in the way you mean.


Lanzer
Sir Valen Pureheart
Games Monster Galaxy and its App Store Versions (Zodiac Islands, Exile)

These games have been down for quite awhile, and would not connect even if you are connected to a network in Monster Galaxy Exile.

The error says "could not find monster galaxy ssd. api" or something like that.

Can we use Gaia Cash instead to buy Moga Cash in game? We have to link our Gaia Accounts anyway.

Thanks! heart


Uh oh, we haven't maintained those games in a while, I'll have a quick look and see if we can fix them easily.


it amy
Loraelei
Events

I miss having events around the site that I could chat with other users about. Forum-based events are really great fun because I feel like it brings a lot of the community together that either doesn't normally interact or just wants to enjoy the events. Are there any plans for some of these in the near future?

Aside from that, thank you for taking the time to try and bring the community back to this site! It seems like a lot of work, but it's really appreciated. I really enjoy being here and I can't wait to see what you all will do next.


Yes! There are actually several plans in the works, I'm looking forward to them 👀


Lanzer
HpIar
Features

wondering if you could implement a 'wishlist' search option for Avatar Builder when
viewing another user's inventory. would be very handy for inventory ghosting sales as
clicking through each page for a 'wishlisted' icon can be quite tedious when there's
hundreds of pages to look through.


That's a great idea. I'll add that to the to-do list.


it amy
jenru
Bundles

will there be one more bundle for the Logging On RNG set before it disappears?
yah know with the exclusive recolor and either 9 regular RNG or 5 Plus RNG.
PLEASE!! I've been saving my GC for another one.


We weren't planning on it, but your enthusiasm for it got us thinking 👀

I'm gonna give you a quick: soon™


Lanzer
ladykayra
Feature - Guilds

Hello, I hate to be a bother. Has the dev team had a chance to look into the guild issue with non-member permissions? Or, at least, I hope it's still on the list as something to look into

Here is a link to the thread I made with info that a dev could look at at their convenience


Thank you for the report. I will use that to help fix the permission bug.


Lanzer
Leo Odjin
Features

So a friend of mine had brought this to light and made me realize why I started participating in the ats in the first place and I wanted to see if it may be possible to add a banking system. the Gambino bank has been part of the manga and storyline of Gaia online but in terms of features other than the marketplace had no other role. the whole purpose of a bank is to make bank notes, deposit and withdraw money, and fill out money orders to give legal documentation of money to send via mail and wire x amount to another person's banking account. Currently, they use an empty trade to "save x amount of gold/plat". could it maybe be possible to have this become a feature? I feel it may be easier for the ones who are coming back or are new be able to save up for certain goals on their wishlist. while if it is possible maybe be able to set a time where you are unable to use it. for ex.

deposit: 14.9kplat

unable to retrive ammount until: 10/18/2023

or
transfer x amount to username:

Transferred from Username:


A banking system is something that we talked about many times before. I do hope that we can have a meaningful feature that does more than just accumulate interest. Though for the time being it's still a topic of discussion.


Lanzer
The Gustaff-Z
Features

Will there be anymore Pop Square Live Streams? The reason I ask is because the forum is still in the hot topics. I enjoyed some of them and I like it whenever I see videos with the staff members.


Sorry as budget tightened we no longer have Pop Square live streams. We will be removing the forum from Hot Topics soon. That team was on another project, too bad we couldn't make it work.


Lanzer
Silverstar_Cross
Features: Account Registration

How come newcomers can't register through Protonmail to get new Gaia accounts with, but virtually every other e-mail service like Yahoo or Google Mail can be registered just fine?
Is it because Protonmail is too new a service to be used, or is it because no one's ever thought about it until now?


It's more likely that the flagged us as spam and blocked our email. I'll ask our IT manager to look into it.


Jak Bauer
LiI Mama HeI
Jak Bauer
LiI Mama HeI
maybe hold your mods accountable for the incredibly egregious bs they are openly kniwn to engage in and this wouldnt be a suggestion smile


Hi there,

All Moderators are accountable for their actions and if you have specific details of wrongdoing please let me know or send an email to usertalk@gaiaonline.com.
1. No they arent. This is as flimsy as saying 'all cops are accountable for their actions' when we have no oversight or transparency and we know that policing organisations protect their own. Mods hide behind a vague 'process', refuse to discuss 'details', refuse to engage with people on a public or personal basis...so no. Nothing is 'accountable' to us on the actual forum side.

2. I shoudlnt need specofic details of wrongdoing when i tell you a real grievance about a real janky situation. Just go and inspect it and make a judgement. That's sort of how these things wor. But apparently you need the dissenting parties to have four notarized accounts of mod wrongdoing in triplicate. rolleyes

3. Dont direct me to a defunct email. This is ask the staff. Answer me and everyone here.


Hi there,

1) Moderators are accountable to me. Full stop. I have, and if needed in the future, will remove Moderators if necessary. Will I tell you about such an issue? No, just as I wouldn't discuss an issue with you or your account with the rest of ATS, due to privacy issues.

2) Making vague accusations saying "I don't need to go into specifics" is a specious argument. You are saying I don't need proof for me to be right. And, just because we ask for proof and then judge the proof provided as not holding up in your eyes doesn't make the decision we made any less valid. We do our best to be as fair and balanced as possible, but sometimes the decision will not go your way. By the same token I have reversed decisions made by Moderators when appropriate. Will I now tell you about those? Nope, just as any company wouldn't discuss such things in public.

3) I actually was providing information for not only you, but anyone who has an issue. You have already PM'd me with the issue you have but if you wanted a different place to discuss your topic I was providing it.