GP Newsletter 5 (6.24.19)

[Impulse]

Newsletter #5, if we’re just to suffer, why alive

Hey, welcome to the fifth official newsletter for GamePress’s Community! Quite a few changes and little tweaks have happened over the past few weeks and I wanted to recap the updates we’ve done for you guys.

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What’s Poppin’?

Since the newsletters are pretty much monthly, this section can get really quickly outdated with how fast paced things can be. Of note, FEH is finishing up prep for Round 4 of Mafia, and look forward to FGO Mafia as well run by @lordhelpme!

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Personal Thoughts

I’ve been pretty involved with helping set up our Revue Starlight site, and I realized that a lot of people do have a really weird understanding of the company. We’re not some corporation that needs to please shareholders, because we’re privately owned - we were founded specifically by 3 college dudes to create good resources for mobile games for players. All of our writing staff are literally just people on the internet who had some knowledge about the game and wanted to share it. Heck, I was one of them! I wrote for FEH back when the game was in its first year, and eventually ended up where I am now.

One of the things I hope is that more people catch onto this over time. Our full-time staff, just about 10 of us, all wear a ton of different hats to make sure information that guys want is released ASAP, so please be patient if you wonder why we can’t get to everything right away!

As for the community forum, as mentioned before, we’re going to start and localize games inside each of the Categories instead of having them forum-wide! Each Category’s culture is different from the others, so I think you guys might enjoy it more that way.

– Justin, AKA Impulse

Changes to Forum

• TL3 (Regular) changes: Adjusted so that active users in smaller categories don’t need to visit other sections to inflate their % of topics viewed.
  Posts in unique topics needed over the past 100 days: 10->30
  Topics viewed and percentage of posts: 10%->2%
  Minimum duration as TL3 before a demotion can happen: 14->30 days
• Quality of Life Changes clearly not for Mafia hosts
  Max mentions per post upped from 10 to 25
  Max PM’s per day upped from 20 to 30
  Max Likes base doubled from 100 to 200 per day
• Site Layout:
  Categories collapse into fewer for smaller games
  Creative Corner merged into Lounge
  Other Games categories created

GamePress HQ News

New Sites

• Our Harry Potter Wizards’ Unite site has launched in conjunction with the game! Come and discuss!
• Our Magia Record site is pretty much ready for the EN game release!
• Jurassic World Alive has been released!

Restructuring

• Site Leads now have a new model for the way their sites work. This should really help with getting them set up properly and will result in more prizes/gifts to the community!

Features/Bugs/Dev stuff!

Features in Development/Noted Bugs

Prioritized

• Refining the Reply System
  Our Discourse developer is currently working on this project since there were some bugs.

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Other Bugs/Feature in Dev

Most of these have been paused - our devs have been almost entirely focused on grappling with all the sites we have launching.

• When undeleting a post, any previous edits/changes made to that post are not restored. Only the original text is restored.
• 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.
• "On ““user recent activity”” emoji are displayed as a string of text rather than an image.
• Ctrl+F keeps searching forum instead of using browser search
• Mobile App: New Replies can mess with responses being typed
• Posting to Category bugged - sometimes you can’t change the category of the post easily.

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Features Added/Coming this Week/Bugs Resolved

• Ghost Notifications: Due to server lag. If left alone, they should go away within a few minutes.

Did you know?

I actually forgot to update this

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Finally, a poll: How do you like the new Forum homepage defaulting to “Latest?” Do you prefer the old format?

New Format

Old Format

No Preference

What did you think was gonna be here?

• • New Format (Latest)
• • Old Format (Categories + Latest)
• • No preference
• • What is the meaning of life

Thanks for keeping up with GamePress’ news! As always, I’m around to answer any questions and address any concerns that you may have had.

– Justin

[SweetiePie]

thank u impulse

very cool!!

[Someone_Person]

Hey Impulse!
Thanks for releasing these newsletters.
They’re wonderful for letting us know what’s happening in the forum.
I personally like the old format, but I could see why people prefer the newer one.

we’re going to start and localize games inside each of the Categories instead of having them forum-wide

This makes sense. Each community seems to be in it’s own little bubble, and don’t meet people from outside. (Besides the Regular’s Club, where we talk about how we’re all Impulse)

Quality of Life Changes clearly not for Mafia hosts

I wonder who that could be for…

Of note, FEH is finishing up prep for Round 4 of Mafia, and look forward to FGO Mafia as well run by @lordhelpme!

We’re trying our best everyone. Be ready to start soon!
I hope you’re all excited for some Mafia!
I might peek into the FGO Mafia as well, despite not being in that community.

Thanks again for all the notices Impulse!

[Kirchou]

FEH is finishing up prep for Round 4 of Mafia

AAAAAAAAAAAAH

I particularly like the quality of life changes.

Thank you and all the staff for your hard work for the forum and the GP site

[Kirchou]

We’re trying our best everyone. Be ready to start soon!

Can wait for being @ 20 times for the game while I’m sleeping

I hope you’re all excited for some Mafia!

AAAAAAH

[LeadChips]

Thank you all for your hard work! You all are awesome for maintaining this site!

I think the old format looks more appealing to the eye. I still see why the other one would be desired though.

[myrrhder]

I might peek into the FGO Mafia as well, despite not being in that community

Same.

[GrailedAstolfo]

No mention of the changes made for Regular title?

[MUGI]

neither format matters to me, since I only ever go to the fgo section myself currently. but forum categorization on the main page should be the standard imo, so old format

[ShinxDaSphinx]

clearly not for Mafia hosts

*Nervous laughter
Why would you think that?

[Impulse]

No mention of the changes made for Regular title?

Changes? Oh, TL3 is Regular. I should have clarified that. Editing that part of “Changes to Forum” for clarity.

[Lost247365]

Yah new newsletter!

[Someone_Person]

@Impulse
New profile picture?
Does Lord really like beans or something?

[Impulse]

@lordhelpme
See his profile picture? The things I go through for this bean

[Someone_Person]

I saw
Did you plan it?

[Impulse]

He did

[Someone_Person]

Who is that in the profile picture?

[lordhelpme]

Mine is BB and his is Meltryllis from fate.

[Someone_Person]

They look so similar, I thought it was the same person
Wow I’m dumb
Why did you pick these two specifically?

[lordhelpme]

They are kinda the same person, there’s a whole group of lookalikes. They were made from different aspects of a singular character’s (Sakura Matou) personality.