Trying this out for a week. Feedback please!

Hi everyone,

It's been 10 months since we went live. It's amazing how much the community has grown even with all of the hardships and bombshells, especially over the last few months. HoD has endured and adapted!

I want to thank everyone who has helped me so far in helping to contribute to help maintain and offset the website and community mumble costs. All of this wouldn't be possible without your donations!

As we near our anniversary, I'll be implementing a change purely on the aesthetics of a person's forum profile.
Beginning one month from now (May 25th, 2013), the Founder badge will no longer be available to obtain on these forums.
Instead, it will be replaced with the Donator badge.

The badge is my way of giving that extra thank-you perk to those in the community who helped with the foundation of this community. One of the best ways we can express our gratitude in these early days is by allowing this limited-edition unique title to stay with our Founders for life!

If you are interested in contributing to the community site or mumble, please click here for either a single donation or a monthly donation.
If you wish to contribute in other ways, we are still looking for volunteers to fill vital community positions, including an official news poster, and a features manager (to update the front-page featured guild, among other things). You may read about them here.

Finally, if you're guild is looking for VOIP mumble hosting, we are more than happy to host for you for absolutely no cost to you.
Please check out this link for more information!

Again, thank you everyone for your continued support for our Henge of Denravi community here!

If you have any questions or comments, contact Tlaloc.

Due to the recent influx of posts where people are venting, the Staff has decided to create a new board to allow venting for in-game issues.

This board will be hidden to everyone, until registered users opt-in to see it.

To opt-in,
1. Go to http://www.hengeofdenravi.com/index.php?action=profile;area=groupmembership
2. Towards the bottom you will see: "Available Groups" | Across from "Airing of Grievances," there will be an option to "Join Group."
3. Click that to gain access to this board.


Moderation:
The board will only be moderated when topics do not pertain to in-game events, or begin to involve extreme personal attacks.
However, the board will be moderated by Tlaloc, and posts will be locked at his discretion only.

Comments? Post in reply.

Hi all,

We're going to have a few changes to the forums.

1. Referral system: The referral system will be a way for you to refer people to the website. Vixen, one of our Staff Community Liaisons, will have more info about this in an upcoming post.

2. Limiting Guest Access: Starting today, we're going to have a two-week trial period limiting guest access to all forums with the exceptions of the hosted guild forums and the news forums.
Depending on the results, including the feedback given over the two weeks, we will either keep the change, or move to partially limit guest access to specific forums only.

3. Shoutbox change: Some people have expressed interest in having a timestamp on the shoutbox. Unfortunately the time and shout are clumped in the side widget, and it becomes ugly to read. The only other viable alternative would be to have the shoutbox on the main index (menu bar HOME), above the features menu.
We'll have up a poll soon to see which people prefer overall.

4. New Staff Members!
Over the last month, we've welcomed three new staff members who have each joined us as Community Liaisons, to help this community grow. Please welcome:

Vixen
Keyblade-Riku
ayleidex

They have signed on as volunteers along with our veteran Staff Forum Moderators, Felhad and Chiz.

Please thank them for volunteering their time if you get the chance

5. Tapatalk:
We will be adding Tapatalk integration within the next week. Tapatalk is a mobile-app for friendly forum access. We will let you know once it has been implemented!

6. Forum Calendar:
This is a change from earlier in the month, but the forum calendar now allows access for individuals and guilds to post events. For more information, please refer to this post.

They're now embedded on the bottom-right of the website. If you don't want to see them, you can "hide" it by minimizing that widget.

Feedback!?

With the growing community, we are in need of more volunteers to dedicate a bit of their time to help sustain the community.

We have three positions open, Features Manager, News Manager, and Community Liaison.
Please click here to view what each position entails!

Thanks for your interest!