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More on Gaia Favorites
UPDATE: Just fixed journal commenting. You can comment in the journal system once again. 3nodding
End of my second week here and things are happening at light speed!
Talked to so many Gaians and all of the Gaia staff to collect opinions, while putting together spreadsheets after spreadsheets of bugs, features, and to-do's.
All the while I found my old code for a Gaia Favorites system that lets you to bookmark any avatars you see around the site, allowing you to build different collections to share, or to reference and check what items are in an outfit.
Beta testers had been testing the feature and it's pretty much done, but I realized that I've made a big mistake - I used a non-relational database structure to make things easier to build. That means while you can view your set of bookmarks, the Gaian being bookmarked will not be able to search which one of his/her avatars had been bookmarked and for how many times. Uh oh.
Need to spend another day building a proper database for this to work, then I can release the feature for everyone. Stay tuned for updates!
The system also allows forum posts and guild posts to be favorited, but I've disabled that for now to focus on the core feature of favoriting avatars.
And now, to forward something I wrote on Site Feedback:
My philosophy is this - as a member of Gaia staff, we need to proof to all Gaians that we're focus on bringing you all great features, creative events, and a fun place that you would like to call home. And we would ask for your monetary support if you deem that our efforts are worth supporting. We're not at that point yet, and I hope that in 2017 we can proof to you that we are a team who see your interest and enjoyment comes before everything else.
I'm 2 weeks in and we're at a transitional phase right now. I hope that we'll get to the point where I can achieve what I mentioned, so that we will have the resources to hire some of the old staff members who loved working for all Gaians.
I've talked to CodeMonkey already and he would love to be back. But first, we need to establish step #1 - to proof our worth, before we can get to #2 - regain monetary support from Gaians, then we can reach #3 - hire more staff members to build even more features. Please be patient with us as we finish planning what to tackle next!
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