GP Newsletter 1 (3.13.19) - So many posts!

[Impulse]

What’s changed?
What’s in development?
Is Impulse a boy? Or a girl?
What’s splashing about the forum these days?

Hey, welcome to the first official newsletter for GamePress’s Community! I’m gonna be as transparent as possible so that you guys know exactly what’s in store for your forum. I plan on making these posts regularly – either BiWeekly or Monthly. Let me know how often you’d like to see them.

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What’s Poppin’?

There are a few things to check out in the forum right now!

1. Mafia Round 1 Signups: Want to get involved in an amusing forum game? Sign up at the link above!
2. Fire Emblem Protagonist Survivor: Who will be the last protagonist in FE standing? I almost want to make a bet pool for this. The thread changes each day, so check the FEH category for the latest one!

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Personal Thoughts

My dudes,

There are a ton of posts: a ton of activity. All thanks to you guys, of course, and it’s absolutely amazing to see but –

– Holy crap, there are a lot of posts for me to read each morning. Some of them are harder to get through than others, especially if I don’t play the game and don’t know what you guys are discussing. So, why do I make a point to at least skim through everything? Because I want to know how you guys think, what you guys want, and how you’re all feeling.

And if there’s one thing that has impressed me, it’s how absolutely encouraging you all are. Whether it’s:

• The FEH category always pushing the limits on how you can get beloved units to blow through the roof
• The FGO category suffering in gacha salt together and bonding over the Servants you adore
• Or the PoGo category for discussing the latest things while always keeping a hand out to help any newcomers

– There have been so many less issues and flags than I expected. Our community is shaping up to be incredibly positive, and you all deserve a big thumbs up for that. I know that there are still some rough patches and a particularly long Topic out there that won’t stop coming back to life over a bit of toxic history, but we’re making progress.

Keep at it GP community, and know that I’ve got your back.
Well, as soon as I manage to get through the new hundred posts that were made since I started writing this.

Oh, and please sign up for mafia

– Justin, AKA Impulse

GamePress HQ News

We’re going to be launching sites for the following games sometime soon!

• Wizards Unite!
• Epic Seven
• Azur Lane

If you are interested in helping out, send me a PM and we’ll work something out!

Ads are incoming...

Since the staff do have to eat (I wish we didn’t), we’re going to be trying to integrate ads into the forum later this week. We’ll do our best to keep them from being too intrusive.

Features/Bugs/Dev stuff!

Features in Development/Noted Bugs

Prioritized:

• The Q&A:
• • Will be changed to a different format; you guys noted that the upvote button really doesn’t do much since people prefer to give out Likes anyways (or, well, at least that’s me?). We’ll be updating it to this plug-in that allows the thread creator to “pick” a solution. We’ll have Badge integration with this, so people who consistently get chosen for their answers will earn a unique Title!
• A navigation bar:
• • A tool to take you back to the main GamePress site will be added to help with flipping back to GP for reference!
• Reply Chains are really confusing right now. Trust me, I feel you, especially when I read/skim every thread on the forum. Right now the Dev Team is working on two solutions:
• • Moving the “Replied to” icon from the right side of the post to the left side to make it clear the user is replying to someone.
• • Making the “Reply” button Quote the user’s post so everyone can see the context.

Other Bugs/Feature in Dev:

• Having the sidebar on our main site that displays recent posts update more recently (currently once an hour atm)
• Pinning posts to said sidebar
• A “Jump to Top” button that’s easy to see: Right now, you can click on the topic name at the top of the page to get pulled back to the top. A bit un-intuitive though.
• Profile pictures occasionally shrink. Even if they like getting small, that’s not gucci for a pretty-looking forum.

What we won’t be able to change:

• Making the “More Options” button on a post be expanded by default: We haven’t figured out a way to change this without gutting too much of the existing code.

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Features Added/Coming this Week

• Maximum Likes per day for newer users have been increased from 50 to 100.
• Email timer for threads and private messages have been extended to 1 day and 1 hour, respectively, to reduce the amount of emails you guys will get.
• Q&A now sorts by Topic Creation Date to make sure the recent questions are noticed and answered before they’re drowned out.
• Regular forum games like the fore-mentioned Mafia should become a standard now!
• The #Creative Corner category will be made public soon – @Sylvr will be taking care of it and organizing official competitions!
• A category for any other minor games you’d like to discuss will be coming out later this week as well!

Thank you to these users for the help with the forum!

• @Sylvr, @milkyytoast, @DRAAAAAVEN, @Kawaiitely, @SkyKawaii, @Tcommando131, @aSp, @Faversham71: Our mod team who’ve taken on a mostly thankless job and volunteered their time for us!
• @Seeker and @SweetiePie: They’ve spoken with me at length about improvements for the forum and given their honest and constructive feedback.
• @Oni: He graciously provided us with many FGO emoji!
• Those in the Discord server for helping us seed content and volunteering for roles!
• Everyone else, for making this forum what it is today! I’m proud to be here with you guys.

Did you know?

We have some custom emoji that you can use! They’re at the very bottom of the emoji selection box (dunno how to work around this yet).
:feh_bartre:

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Thanks for reading this newsletter. Let us know what you’d like to see in these! If you have questions, post them below!

Lastly, if you continue to read these Newsletters and click the Like button/Reply to this Newsletter and the next two Newsletters, you’ll earn a special Badge for keeping up with the community news!

– Justin

[aSp]

Just wanted to pass on my congratulations.
Adding forums is a big job and the team seem to have achieved ‘go live’ seamlessly - and that is indeed impressive.

…so thanks for the teams’ efforts , and congratulations on the successful rollout.

[Seeker]

Thanks for your work and for the report. Good things to look forward to, and more importantly, very nice to feel connected to the staff. I’m going to miss the nested format for replies on the Q&A but I’m willing to give the new system a try.

[Makina]

Thanks for the news. as for the how often the news should be, If Weekly it might be more detailed and short and you don’t have to read as much when compared to a monthly but with a monthly it will take longer to read but you only need to read them atleast once a month instead of every week.

but that’s just me. and already thought that you were a guy and I think I’m right because of your name.

[LeiCiel]

First… Thank You for this forum. I know we already had that ‘Thank You’ topic but I really can’t say this enough. Seriously, you guys are amazing.

I’ve no problem with having ads and understand the need. I’m sure you guys know how annoying they can be so no doubt you’ll make them as bearable and unobtrusive as possible.

Yeah, the reply chains get quite confusing. Especially when an answer in the Q&A tags gets voted and then gets moved up. Also, quick question, but will the Quote from using the reply button quote the entire post or will be contracted to something like “Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc…” And then just trail off into ellipses after the first line or two? Quoting and showing the entire post, especially a long one, would probably get annoying quick

Looking forward to see how this all goes forward.

Again, thanks for all the hard work.

[Lost247365]

I also want to thank all of you again for all the blood sweat and tears you put into this site!

[LightsidR]

Also Thank you for all the work you put into this forum, even though there are still some things I don´t like as much as they were in the old Q+A Section or which I still have to get used to, the overall feeling is really nice and much better than the old one.
(Still a little bit confused why I don´t get the badge for completing my profile since I did this but well XD )

[Impulse]

Aww, thanks.

And err, yeah, the badges have been kinda odd, aha. We’ll see if we can figure them out but a lot of the default ones are pretty back-end.

[Linvia_7]

Thank you very much Impulse and others who worked so hard to keep this forum up and buzzing! There are certainly some situations where the old Q&A will be better but so far this forum format has really helped sort the topics of interest, which is always good for people with time constraints. Keep it up, we’ll be rooting for you guys ^^

[ShinxDaSphinx]

I’m just here to get the ‘In the Loop’ badge, don’t mind me

[Someone_Person]

[Makina]

I wonder what happened to the monthly newspaper?

[Someone_Person]

@Impulse
GP Newsletter 6 when :birbpeek:

[Unu]

badge :D