Guild Launch News
RELEASE 1.7 - Video Embedding is Here!
Today we are releasing version 1.7 of Guild Launch. This release is primarily a performance enhancement, but includes Video Embedding and some other interesting features such as the ability to designate other members as Site Admins.
Major Features:
1. Google Video and YouTube videos can now be embedded in forum posts and will show up on your homepage if embedded in news posts. The method to embed them is to paste the URL from the page you are on from the respective video service then select the text and click the BBCode button above the posting textbox that corresponds to the service.
For a sample, here is the Guild Launch Beta invite from last year (Don't make fun of us too much, we're developers not movie makers). The moonkin voice is mine:
2. You can now designate other members of your guild as "Full Admins" on the Members tab in Admin. This will give the user every ability that the guild owner has except the ability to kick the guild owner from the guild. We've put this in place for people who want to give control over to another person so they can fully manage the guild. The guild owner's account will still need to be there but a person who is designated as "Site Admin" on the Members tab will be able to do anything and everything the owner can. Be very careful who you give this ability to!
3. We've overhauled how domain pointing is done so that we do not have to be involved in the setup. Instead, the user is in complete control of the process and can dictate the timeframe and speed at which the changeover happens. Now, when you order domain pointing from us, you are given full instructions in Guild Hosting Properties for how to setup your domain to point to our servers.
4. The bank has been overhauled to work better for non WoW guilds. The bank will show a list and a count, and allwo you to add and remove items. The WoW specific verbiage has been removed.
Enhancements:
1. We have greatly improved performance of pages with many itemstats icons or links on them. Most noticeably this will greatly improve load times on the bank pages, character bags and bank lists and the character profiles.
2. We have improved some of the underlying phpBB queries that were running too often or writing more records than were necessary for our purposes.
3. We have improved the template preview mode so that your site will be navigable in preview mode and you can see how any page will work. We have also added a "cancel" button to the preview mode so you don't have to hit back to get out of the template preview.
4. The speed of rapid raid pages has been improved enormously. We have some more refinement to do in this area, but the current improvements should be immediately noticeable to our Rapid Raid users. Some of these changes have already been released in emergency patches.
5. We've switched to a different method of retrieving WoW Server status that will time out much faster and reduce the effect on the page's load time.
Bug Fixes:
1. We've fixed some wording mistakes in the content area, such as the Bank text being copied into the Who's online area. This was purely visual.
2. If the Armory is down and you use the synchronize functionality on the Armory import the unclaimed characters will no longer be deleted. Essentially, we are detecting if *any* characters were found and if none were found at all then we make no deletions.
Major Features:
1. Google Video and YouTube videos can now be embedded in forum posts and will show up on your homepage if embedded in news posts. The method to embed them is to paste the URL from the page you are on from the respective video service then select the text and click the BBCode button above the posting textbox that corresponds to the service.
For a sample, here is the Guild Launch Beta invite from last year (Don't make fun of us too much, we're developers not movie makers). The moonkin voice is mine:
2. You can now designate other members of your guild as "Full Admins" on the Members tab in Admin. This will give the user every ability that the guild owner has except the ability to kick the guild owner from the guild. We've put this in place for people who want to give control over to another person so they can fully manage the guild. The guild owner's account will still need to be there but a person who is designated as "Site Admin" on the Members tab will be able to do anything and everything the owner can. Be very careful who you give this ability to!
3. We've overhauled how domain pointing is done so that we do not have to be involved in the setup. Instead, the user is in complete control of the process and can dictate the timeframe and speed at which the changeover happens. Now, when you order domain pointing from us, you are given full instructions in Guild Hosting Properties for how to setup your domain to point to our servers.
4. The bank has been overhauled to work better for non WoW guilds. The bank will show a list and a count, and allwo you to add and remove items. The WoW specific verbiage has been removed.
Enhancements:
1. We have greatly improved performance of pages with many itemstats icons or links on them. Most noticeably this will greatly improve load times on the bank pages, character bags and bank lists and the character profiles.
2. We have improved some of the underlying phpBB queries that were running too often or writing more records than were necessary for our purposes.
3. We have improved the template preview mode so that your site will be navigable in preview mode and you can see how any page will work. We have also added a "cancel" button to the preview mode so you don't have to hit back to get out of the template preview.
4. The speed of rapid raid pages has been improved enormously. We have some more refinement to do in this area, but the current improvements should be immediately noticeable to our Rapid Raid users. Some of these changes have already been released in emergency patches.
5. We've switched to a different method of retrieving WoW Server status that will time out much faster and reduce the effect on the page's load time.
Bug Fixes:
1. We've fixed some wording mistakes in the content area, such as the Bank text being copied into the Who's online area. This was purely visual.
2. If the Armory is down and you use the synchronize functionality on the Armory import the unclaimed characters will no longer be deleted. Essentially, we are detecting if *any* characters were found and if none were found at all then we make no deletions.