Staffing is still the primary issue.

The same people that have run it into the ground are still running it into the ground. Same folks that let certain people do whatever in the Discord are still doing that. Mahz is the biggest problem not because he is mostly absent, but because he is entirely absent.

The foundation is corrupted. It's rotting. Every attempt to fix it has failed because it is like building on top of that failing foundation.

An influx of new users helps, but there is a fairly constant influx. The problem is not so much getting people in but retaining them. That should be done via the forum and Discord, but due to the mismanagement identified here and in a thousand other places a thousand times in the past that is neigh impossible.

There's a leak that Mahz isn't around to plug and no one who is here who can plug it is willing to.

Every time someone says this place is dying the same people say "it's not dying though Smiley Face Emoji, we just got 45 new users today" but in a few months half of those users are gone forever. Half check in every few months to see how active it is. Maybe Five folks actually stick around, but 3 of them are just on the Discord and the last 2 are doing eRP in DMs.

Dion is partly right. There's still plenty of moderation on the Discord, about that he's off. But While we likely disagree on the solution we likely largely agree on the problem and we agree that it will not likely be fixed today, tomorrow, or at any point in the foreseeable future.

Every attempt to fix it has failed because it is like building on top of that failing foundation.

That's going to happen when the people who genuinely want to contribute positively to the site and improve it have been pushed out for one reason or another. Not sure its productive or kosher to go into that, but I do agree that the central component of the problems present is administrative decision-making. I feel like enough of us have spoken at length on this and are exhausted about saying it again. Those who know know.

Otherwise, my point is all that we, collectively, can do is contribute positively because no administrative changes can be made by us. It is out of our hands, so what can we do that is in our hands? That's the question to ask because Mahz and the administrative staff issues are things we cannot help with.

And I have asked Mahz, two years ago, but he basically just acknowledged the problems I brought up, said he'd ask folks to do better, and said he's got it the way he wants it and he's not going to change it. And then disappeared again. Which takes us up to current date.

Although really that only highlights how right you are, TGM, in both paragraphs.

The changes needed will not be made, so the best any users can do is try not to contribute to the problem and try to be a positive influence, or if not an influence at least make a positive contribution. It's not a very good option but it is the best we can expect here.

I'm mentioning you because I forget how to Reply and can't be asked to figure it out.

@TGM

Well, okay. Since we have this discussion like...a few times every month I suppose i'll just pitch in some of my thoughts on the matter:

If i'm just going off of everything that's been said here in the past couple of posts, yeah, i'll sum it all up - mods are useless, users come and go, and the entire site is basically at the mercy of having a stubborn old guard who loves the place and still bothers to use it.

Truth be told, i've long given up any idea that there's going to be any actual, lasting changes ever made to the site, and that the RPG that we have now is probably the RPG we'll get until the day the site goes down.

Yeah, there's lots of other Roleplaying sites that are way more active and have integrated IRC and actually have a text editor and BBCode support worth a damn. But that's also not why we're here: If that was the end-all-be-all of roleplaying then this site would have been abandoned a long time ago and here we are, all here bitching about how our usual RP site is going down the shitter. There's a billion other sites that host ten thousand cookie-cutter anime-faceclaim-only isekai SoL Bullshit RPs that are either chicken soup for your teenage soul or are actively shaving years off your life the longer you look at the interest check: And here we are.

Even as i've watched this site dissolve into a pile of its own shit as it dies a long, drawn-out death of ten thousand cuts and burns...every single time i've thought of writing off the site and just logging off one day and never logging back on, there's always been that one RP that keeps me on.

It's all down to the average RPer. And no matter how the mods don't give a shit or the contests dry up or whatever - i'll be here for as long as the folks are here. Love you guys.

The band goes down with the ship.

Maybe we can play something fun though.

Closing Time maybe?

WAP? Get it, because the boats sinking. So we're all wet.

I kill me.

It's frustrating how little we can actually do y'know?

As much as I agree with a lot of what you guys are saying, none of this is a feature request.

>I'd like to see a video insertion button added to the bar at the top of the text editor. That way we can just click and insert a [youtube][/youtube] tag in a fashion similar to image and URL links.

Now THAT is a helpful addition.

So like, what features are currently being implemented? Or what does the list look like now?

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So like, what features are currently being implemented? Or what does the list look like now?

Well, as others have said prior, the staff can't implement anything/make any current changes to the site until Mahz shows up again. But I think @LegendBegins was working on some quick, easy fixes or something along those lines that would be ready to roll out whenever Mahz came back. Things like VM changes or whatever.

At least that's what I last remember hearing in regards to any actual "updating" opposed to future feature requests.

Going to bump this thread with a quick request: Allow people to set their own time zone on the guild so it displays on the "posted/logged on/etc X mins/hours/days ago" things. The guild's current time is hours ahead of me and while military/UTC time is easy to calculate, having your own time zone makes it easier to tell when people last posted or were online.

What about a report button in the new reply window so members can alert staff to spam or other issues?

I'm sure I have a wish list around here somewhere:

-Rich Text Editor
-Left Align (ie if you want a centred hider, but the text to be left aligned)
-Image Align (would save a lot of trouble of manipulating a table to do so)
-Better tables (Let me merge cells, colour cells with hex codes, change the border colors etc)
-Fonts
-Font Size
-Embeds (Youtube, Spotify, Discord, etc)
-Ability to edit in a mention and the notification sent to the user.
-Increase the max number of mentions from ten
-VM Notifications that work correctly
-Report Button on Posts for Spam, Harassment and other Moderation
-GMs and Co-GMs to be able to hide posts within their thread
-Approve/Deny buttons in the Character Thread to use it more efficiently
-Corrected Friend System so you actually can see mutual friends and/or who has added you as a friend
-Notified when someone adds you as a friend
-Ability to filter the Status Bar to 'Friends Only', alternatively, ability to post Status to 'Friends Only'
-Ability to view a profile and see 'Threads Created By'
-Ability to subscribe to a user (ie get a notification if User has created a new interest check)
-Sort and filter PMs
-Add tabs in PMs (to optimize PM RPing)
-We have a spot on our profile to store images, it'd also make sense to have the ability to create our 'Character Archives/Test Threads' there instead of having them in a subforum. Make them more of a 'blog'.
-Ability to create a thread, but keep it hidden until it's launch worthy
-Alternatively, the ability to create a draft thread, and to be able to work in all three tabs before posting.
-Email or Push notifications for threads, PMs etc

Let's keep the thread on topic for actual feature requests. I'm reading all of your suggestions, so if I don't quote you, rest easy knowing I saw it =)

This has kind of gone away from the topic of feature requests...

As a feature request, maybe it's possible to add "zeroth" posts to test threads?

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Is it possible to be able to see revisions of your own posts outside of this? Like how the revision section shows on zeroth posts. Might also be useful for GMs to be able to see revisions made in their threads, idk.

Could you clarify what you mean by outside that? As in outside visiting the link directly? Not currently, but a button's already been implemented as a feature in the pipeline, waiting on approval. Zeroth posts on test threads can be done.

So like, what features are currently being implemented? Or what does the list look like now?

Great question! You can see the state of development here: github.com/danneu/guild/pulls.

As soon as pulls start being approved, development will pick up at a rapid pace.

What about a report button in the new reply window so members can alert staff to spam or other issues?

Good feature idea!

Automatic subscription after thread creation.
The OP will be automatically subscribed to the thread they created.

Automatic subscription after thread creation.
The OP will be automatically subscribed to the thread they created.

To add on to this: If a thread is deleted, it should be deleted from your subs as well. Though I imagine complications might come into play because deleted threads are still technically "there" on RPG, just that no one can see them.

@LegendBegins .webp support, if it's possible. It's annoying to have to go out of your way to convert a .webp file/image because nowhere except like two places on the internet actually uses the file format even though so, so many pictures are saving as .webp these days. Hell, not even imgur allows .webp to be uploaded to their site.