12/3 Community Update

[Amethyst]

hi there,  i'm ame from the overwatch team and welcome to the december community update. this month, we're deleting the entire forum:

 

• Speakeasy? gone.
• Nightclub? deleted
• EXP system? toast. ...actually i'm pretty sure that deleted itself months ago against anyone's will... which makes me pretty salty about the plug-in i bought for it, but you know... whatever.
• Ace Members? dead. 
  • just kidding they're veterans now
• Veterans? anihiliated.
  • double just kidding the veterans are fine and in fact they have a lot more permissions than before
• Clubs? all traces of them removed
  • actually they're now fully available so you can make your own clubs and stuff
    • if you're a veteran or higher anyway
  • there are four kinds: public, open, closed and private. the first three are visible; private is not
  • there's rules to making clubs and stuff so administrators will need to approve them but we'll talk about those rules in a different topic soon
  • but tl;dr you need a president a vice president and at least three other members. like a japanese high school.
    • because you wouldn't be on this forum if you weren't at least a little bit of a weeb. 
      • and even if you aren't, i'm a level 89 dark weeb.
    • or it can be a private club. those are free reign.

 

gosh, overwatch has gotten weird, hasn't it?

 

with the removal of the EXP system, there's no longer any reason for us to limit rep/reactions so harshly. therefore all groups have had daily reputation limits significantly expanded.
Reactions per Day per Group:

• Members: 3 => 10
• Veterans: 4 => 30
• Supporters: 4 => 30
• Developers: 10 => 30
• Staff: 10 => Unlimited

 

Since the ace members have joined the veterans group, the veterans group has received ace's permissions wherever possible to make sure that those former aces are losing as little as possible. That includes a lot of trivial things, but some of the notable expansions include:

• Tinted name color
• Display name changes ever: 60 days => 45 days
• Increased attachment/cover photo/profile picture size
• PM storage: 200 => 300
• Can create clubs
• Can view who reacted to posts
• Attachment space: 3mb => 5mb
• Can close own polls
• Can edit posts silently
• Can hide and lock/unlock own content

I will also pre-emptively say that all of these changes are benefits I would like to be able to maintain but if these things begin to cause problems (such as if we suddenly are running out of upload space, or if hiding content gets out of hand, etc) then we will make whatever changes necessary.

 

If you had access to the Nightclub forum before, you should have received an invitation to the new Nightclub... club... ... uhm, we'll work on the name. If you were missed and did not receive an invitation, please accost me vigorously until you do.

 

Additionally, due to recent site errors (you know the ones. i know you do) we now have a new theme! ...We thought the old theme was causing our problems, but apparently that's not the case. So... that just means we have two themes now!!! You can switch between them at the bottom through the drop down menu that says "Theme". Note that on our new default theme, Brave, you can use this button...

...to switch the accent color on the forum.
No points for guessing what the color options are.

 

As for the errors themselves... no promises on them being fixed yet. But we're getting there. We might be there. Too soon to say. In the mean time, please be satisfied by this pretty theme.
please.
pls......

 

and i mean, i guess there's the community release too.
if you're, you know, into that. 

[Ojama Yellow]

 

 

good work ame im really diggin this update

[Nekarlos]

OH YES BABY I'm LITERALLY FEELING IT IN MY WEEB BODY

 

[Hycrox]

YES! GOODBYE POSTS

[ZEL]

Dunno whether to make an entirely new post or just point it out here, but I thiiink someone ought to put that Magnezone back in place on the old header & theme: It decided to start moving around rather than letting the background do so :')

I mean, I'm all for freedom for all those poor PULSE mons, but we might have to make an exception for our pal up there.

 

Other than that: I've been complaining about the "trivial" ace privileges for so long that it's honestly gonna be refreshing to finally be able to do the basic things. Thank you!~

 

Oh, and have fun @ everyone with the episode, I guess :')

[NickCrash]

• Staff: 10 => Unlimited

 

You mean to tell me Azery can do whatever he likes now? 

 

 

A big improvement in general. Well-done.

Although, that would mean some changes for the nightclub ... in game. Or not? w/e

[5hift]

[shmurda]

how do we download e17?

[Slicster]

Oh hello new permissions

[Providence]

38 minutes ago, shmurda said:

how do we download e17?

Its probably out only for selected people or the veteran guys, the public one should arrive before or when the spoiler lock goes out i guess?

[ZEL]

1 hour ago, shmurda said:

how do we download e17?

Go to this thread to find the download link:

All forum members are able to download and play the episode, but anyone not registered has to wait until the public release.

[Arkhi]

1 hour ago, shmurda said:

how do we download e17?

 

27 minutes ago, Providence said:

Its probably out only for selected people or the veteran guys, the public one should arrive before or when the spoiler lock goes out i guess?

Actually, there's a handy dandy public development section of the site. Meander there through here.

 

Edit: ninja'd by Ama.

Edited December 3, 2017 by Arkhi

[Aloysius]

The excitement is unreal. Ah but I have papers to write....Nah, they can definitely wait!

 

[Providence]

3 hours ago, Arkhi said:

 

Actually, there's a handy dandy public development section of the site. Meander there through here.

 

Edit: ninja'd by Ama.

Thanks for the link for the topic, that slipped my radar rofl.

[Shamitako]

15 hours ago, Amethyst said:

Display name changes ever: 60 days => 45 days

W8 wasn't this 30 days?

 

..Did I really abuse it that much that you had to make it longer?

[Amethyst]

2 minutes ago, KosherKitten said:

W8 wasn't this 30 days?

 

..Did I really abuse it that much that you had to make it longer?

For aces it was, yes. This was a case where I decided it might be better to keep it longer, because with that many more people having access to it, it becomes difficult to know who anyone is when it's so frequent. 

So I compromised on 45.

[Shamitako]

I figured that's what was up

 

And despite changing my name on cooldown, I welcome the nerf. Because I already have no idea who anyone is >_<

[Darken]

AHHHHHH IT'S HERE!!!!

I've been checking every week!

Thanks so much for the Xmas present :D

[krim]

Veterans?

Oh hey, that's me!

 

Neat!

 

We all know that editing posts silently is going to be my most used feature given my track record of posting before proofreading.

[Capll]

Thanks for this update, and good work with the forum ^^

[Sin Deathscream]

I WUV WYOU AWETHYSTTT *crying*

I'm gonna start all over again because I want the owl to be my first mon~

 

Anyway, thanks a lot devteam!

[Ethernum]

Someone stuck in the desert? Does anybody know how to get out of it?

 

 

EDIT: never mind. I'm so stupid. There are parts you can't cross with a bike. Someone kills me please --'

Edited December 4, 2017 by Ethernum
I'm stupid

[Zarc]

Little question concerning clubs : when we want to create a club we have to wait for a moderator to valid them. Are they receiving a notification when a new club is added or do we have to send them a message ? 

[NickCrash]

18 hours ago, KosherKitten said:

I figured that's what was up

 

And despite changing my name on cooldown, I welcome the nerf. Because I already have no idea who anyone is >_<

We used to have a list for every name an account has used. Can't we implement something similar here?

[Amethyst]

4 hours ago, Zarc said:

Little question concerning clubs : when we want to create a club we have to wait for a moderator to valid them. Are they receiving a notification when a new club is added or do we have to send them a message ? 

That's what the application is for! 

4 hours ago, NickCrash said:

We used to have a list for every name an account has used. Can't we implement something similar here?

That still exists, but I don't think it's good to make people check a list everytime they want to see who's talking too.