Guild Launch News
Version 6.7.5 Sneak Peak
Greetings,
This Wednesday we will be releasing Version 6.7.5 of Guild Launch. This release contains major forum improvements, some much needed DKP export options, and quite a few subtle but important usability enhancements. Usability improvement is a major release goal through the end of September (and longer if needed) along with focused and important forum enhancements.
Due to changes in this release we will have the site down for an extra hour on Wednesday. So until 9:00am Eastern. This will allow us to make the database modifications and ensure everything is running well before opening things back up.
We were going to call this release 6.8, but in the interest of controlling the ever rising release numbers we've changed it to 6.7.5. This version will include a few other minor things that aren't on this list.
Here are the preliminary release notes if you want a sneak peak:
Version 6.7.5 Release Notes
Major Changes
Forum Read Flags
The forum read flags have been completely overhauled. You should see much better usability from the read/unread flags. Most notably logging out and into the site will not immediately clear you unread flags.
With this changes it will be more important to use the "Mark all forums read" option at the bottom left of your forum index page so that you don't have unread posts hanging around. This will allow you to clear unread posts once you know you've read the ones you care about.
Templates
Dark Age of Camelot
This template has been asked for a lot, so a simple DAoC template has been added.
Eve Online
5 new Eve Online templates have been added. They include one general template and 4 faction specific templates (Minmatar, Caldari, Gallente, Amarr). These templates include Eve styled widget headers and Eve styled forum icons
Final Fantasy XI
Another FFXI template has been added with more Final Fantasy XI styling (as opposed to FF styling).
Enhancements
* All logins that originate from a guild site should now take the user to the guild site's login page if the login is incorrect. There were a few instances where users were still being taken to the main Guild Launch site. This has been fixed.
* The "Guild News" widget is now a full blown widget. This means you can configure it with different forums and different date ranges and different Member vs. Non-Member visibility if you want.
* The Basic Customization options have been refined and distilled down. The new page allows for an effective, but focused, set of customization options that should be more intuitive for the average user. The more advanced options are still available.
* Vimeo embeds are now available in the forums.
* Multiple pools can now be exported at one time into the DKPmon data file. There is also some sample text for the example.lua files so that you can name your in-game pools the same as the pools on the site more easily.
* When a site is transferred the unclaimed characters for that guild will now be transferred to the new admin.
* Permission groups now have improved navigation so you can configure the permission group without as much clicking.
* The timezone is now shown on calendar times.
* There is now a YouTube widescreen embed option.
* An indicator that height and width is required for Flash banners is now on the site
* The Guild Roster profile upload limit has been increased to 800k
* The Admin widget has been removed. All of the functionality available on the widget is available in other locations in the Admin area
* CSS loading has been improved to reduce "white flashes"
Bug Fixes
* A CAPTCHA validation issue that was allowing some posts to go through without a CAPTCHA has been fixed.
* Roster Auto Imports are now working. Character auto-imports will be turned on in the next release. These changes required a pretty low level change to our approach to the auto updates which is why they
took longer than we had hoped to fix.
* Some shoutboxes were referencing an incorrect stylesheet, this has been fixed.
* The YouTube embed now correctly shows the Fullscreen option
* Poll permissions have been fixed
* An issue where video embeds in Wiki and custom pages were not editable without messing up the video embed has been resolved.
Performance
* Some queries have been optimized for performance
This Wednesday we will be releasing Version 6.7.5 of Guild Launch. This release contains major forum improvements, some much needed DKP export options, and quite a few subtle but important usability enhancements. Usability improvement is a major release goal through the end of September (and longer if needed) along with focused and important forum enhancements.
Due to changes in this release we will have the site down for an extra hour on Wednesday. So until 9:00am Eastern. This will allow us to make the database modifications and ensure everything is running well before opening things back up.
We were going to call this release 6.8, but in the interest of controlling the ever rising release numbers we've changed it to 6.7.5. This version will include a few other minor things that aren't on this list.
Here are the preliminary release notes if you want a sneak peak:
Version 6.7.5 Release Notes
Major Changes
Forum Read Flags
The forum read flags have been completely overhauled. You should see much better usability from the read/unread flags. Most notably logging out and into the site will not immediately clear you unread flags.
With this changes it will be more important to use the "Mark all forums read" option at the bottom left of your forum index page so that you don't have unread posts hanging around. This will allow you to clear unread posts once you know you've read the ones you care about.
Templates
Dark Age of Camelot
This template has been asked for a lot, so a simple DAoC template has been added.
Eve Online
5 new Eve Online templates have been added. They include one general template and 4 faction specific templates (Minmatar, Caldari, Gallente, Amarr). These templates include Eve styled widget headers and Eve styled forum icons
Final Fantasy XI
Another FFXI template has been added with more Final Fantasy XI styling (as opposed to FF styling).
Enhancements
* All logins that originate from a guild site should now take the user to the guild site's login page if the login is incorrect. There were a few instances where users were still being taken to the main Guild Launch site. This has been fixed.
* The "Guild News" widget is now a full blown widget. This means you can configure it with different forums and different date ranges and different Member vs. Non-Member visibility if you want.
* The Basic Customization options have been refined and distilled down. The new page allows for an effective, but focused, set of customization options that should be more intuitive for the average user. The more advanced options are still available.
* Vimeo embeds are now available in the forums.
* Multiple pools can now be exported at one time into the DKPmon data file. There is also some sample text for the example.lua files so that you can name your in-game pools the same as the pools on the site more easily.
* When a site is transferred the unclaimed characters for that guild will now be transferred to the new admin.
* Permission groups now have improved navigation so you can configure the permission group without as much clicking.
* The timezone is now shown on calendar times.
* There is now a YouTube widescreen embed option.
* An indicator that height and width is required for Flash banners is now on the site
* The Guild Roster profile upload limit has been increased to 800k
* The Admin widget has been removed. All of the functionality available on the widget is available in other locations in the Admin area
* CSS loading has been improved to reduce "white flashes"
Bug Fixes
* A CAPTCHA validation issue that was allowing some posts to go through without a CAPTCHA has been fixed.
* Roster Auto Imports are now working. Character auto-imports will be turned on in the next release. These changes required a pretty low level change to our approach to the auto updates which is why they
took longer than we had hoped to fix.
* Some shoutboxes were referencing an incorrect stylesheet, this has been fixed.
* The YouTube embed now correctly shows the Fullscreen option
* Poll permissions have been fixed
* An issue where video embeds in Wiki and custom pages were not editable without messing up the video embed has been resolved.
Performance
* Some queries have been optimized for performance
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