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Spring Cleaning is winding down, but there are still bug fixes that will be live on the site in coming weeks, so we wanted to bring you up-to-date on the latest and point you to some threads that you might want to follow.
TL;DR: This is the last PM update for Spring Cleaning; further updates will be in the
main Spring Cleaning thread, so subscribe in order to stay up to date on the latest.
What Happened Last Week?-
A new potion in Skin Tyte, the Gender Bender potion, that allows you to transform yourself into the opposite gender. Some users were asking about their free gender changes, and in response, we're currently working on changes to account settings that will allow you to get up to two free potions.
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Unfriending was fixed, meaning that if you unfriend a person, you will be taken off their list as well. Along with this fix, we fixed some exploits in the invite friend feature, and also added proper checking of ignore lists in aquarium and My Gaia.
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Selling and discarding of multiples is live. You should be able to trash multiple items, and we'll be pushing out a change later this week that allows you to sell back multiple items, as well.
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Trade window is undergoing a massive revamp -- take a peek at the thread if you're interested in what it might look like. This will take us a couple of weeks, so it's going past the two weeks of Spring Cleaning.
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New preview options in marketplace is another feature that's going to take longer. The thread has screenshots of what the feature may look like -- basically, you'll be given tons more options in preview in order to make your shopping / marketplace experience more enjoyable.
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Inventory Search is currently in internal testing, and will show up in Labs soon. This feature will allow you to easily find stuff in your ever-increasing inventory.
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Guild Homepage revamp is still in process and should hit testing later this week. The thread has screenshots of what it will look like, and we are also adding some much-requested features (such as the ability to remove users from a guild).
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Sparklies are now disabled completely by account settings, and some of the positioning issues are fixed -- there are still some pending bug fixes for positioning under some browsers that will be patched out later.
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Hiding soulbound items when selling on MP is now live -- there is a checkbox that you can click that automatically hides everything that is soulbound.
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Reporting of profile comments is now live on the site. This should make it much easier for you to report problematic comments to moderators.
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Canceling of listings with no bids outside of the time limit is also live.
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Signature length will be changed shortly. Instead of giving you 256 characters of URLs and 256 characters of text, we're just going to open it up to 512 characters of text.
Longer TermFlash issues came up as extremely important to the users, and we're still trying to figure out exact timeframes and features and whatnot.
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Fishing was mentioned as definitely needing some work, and we're currently looking at the codebase to try and figure out the right way to proceed.
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Towns 2.0 was also extremely popular, and that is also something that we're currently in the process of evaluating.
Other Stuff-
Removing the floating footer is a proposal that could use your feedback, if you feel strongly one way or the other.
- We are still going through the remaining proposals (including the user
Spring Cleaning proposals) to get a sense of what is important to the users. At some point we're going to lock the forums down, but we'll keep them up for at least the next week.
But there were tons of other fixes, as well. A
partial list is
in this thread, and we'll be updating the main Spring Cleaning thread as other stuff goes out. Many of the bug fixes that we'll be rolling out over the next week or so were based on feedback from the
Spring Cleaning Proposals forum.
Some examples of bugs that were fixed: Performance improvements, little changes everywhere to try and make the site better (reworked buttons, adding commas to price confirmation in the marketplace), many UI tweaks, profile changes (report capabilities, "reply back"), fixed some problems with the inventory arranger, made forum search go back MONTHS instead of just two weeks, many My Gaia tweaks (forum notice not showing up if email notification was turned off, paying attention to ignore list for friend suggestions), and many other things!
One last note: If Spring Cleaning is at all a success, it's a success because of the involvement of the community. We might not have fixed everything that everyone wanted, but the developers and artists of Gaia did enjoy trying to fix a lot of the things that users had been mentioning for a while. We'd love to hear in Site Feedback what you thought about Spring Cleaning -- was it worthwhile? Is it something that we should be doing again? What worked and didn't work about it?
Thanks,
The Gaia Staff
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