New Icons

How about those kicking icons at the top of RaidSpace? A new look and feel is in the works for RaidSpace, but those icons looked so cool I couldn’t wait to incorporate them with the current design. They were done by a good friend of mine, John Williams, who is a moon-lighting comic artist.

 

Anyhow, I hope to have some new features, and some more updates to the design soon.

Minor Release, Persistent Logins and Logging

I made a minor release to get some quick wins.

Firstly, I added persistent logins by request. After checking the “login automatically” button on the log in page, you won’t have to log in to the page every visit anymore. This will also help the raid leaders that kept a raid up all day and would have to re-login after refreshing because their session expired. Note: Clearing your browser’s cookies will reset this future.

Secondly, I added a clean error page that not only show a nicer error message to the user, but logs a lot of information for me. This should make it easier for me to trouble shoot the beta.

Thanks for the feedback!

Automatic Emails

I am thinking of putting automatic emails in the system to help raid leaders fill their raids better. This would do a few things.

• It would email a volunteer when their status in the raid has changed. For example, they were drafted into raid, or dismissed from it.
• It would send a reminder email to all the drafted volunteers 24 hours in advanced… well, I will likely make that 24 hours configurable.
• If the raid leader is having trouble filling the raid, he could send an email to all past participates of his raids, announcing the new raid.

Emails can be annoying to some people, so I will make it where any user can opt-out of RaidSpace emails. This will force me to finish the “My Profile” page… might as well put multi-character in while I’m at it I guess.