Community Discord for Heist League - Changelog 9-2-20

Hello, I would like to announce some changes and upcoming changes we have been working on during Harvest. You can follow link and either download the app on your phone (Free, just search "Discord"), or use your web browser on your PC to join this community. https://discord.gg/UCshcMS

GGG is active in the server, but this is an Unofficial server made by the community and is in no way affiliated with or involves Grinding Gear Games in decisions, moderating or features.

Deployed Changes

- We have implemented more bot commands for moderators to utilize for logging purposes.

- Discord has implemented a new "Insights" feature, directly baked in to the server settings menu. This allows us to see how many new users there are per week, user retention (how many new users stick around), weekly visitors and weekly communicators (how many people actually posted in the server).

-- The insights feature was implemented around the dead time of the league, but we will post the statistics for reference.

--- Weekly Visitors: 398 > -5.1% from last week
Weekly Communicators: 124 > -8.8% from last week
Weekly New Members: 17 (This filters out bots) > +13.3% from last week
Weekly New Member Retention: 29.3% > +1.3% from last week

---- More statistics can be viewed in the server-stats channel in the Discord server.

- We have fallen below the level 3 boost perk level which requires 30 boosts from the "Nitro Boost" feature. That perk dropped our custom tag of discord.gg/poeconsole

- We implemented a new "Crafter" role that allows our most trusted users to be tagged whenever someone needs a craft done. This is not an applicable role for users, instead it is a gifted role to people who have been in the community for years and generally are very well liked / trusted to either be the middle man or be the crafting user for Harvest crafts / bench crafts, etc. We plan to implement a "Vouch System" that will allow access to this role for other users, more on that below.

- Our last user infraction that resulted in a mute or ban was July 23rd. This is definitely a big milestone for us, as we have consistently been altering and amending the rules to provide a less policed atmosphere for our users while still maintaining a non toxic environment.


Upcoming Changes-

Most of our changes involve adding bot features from our custom built-from-scratch bot courtesy of LogicalFuzz

- Lottery functionality will soon be a thing of the past as we implement a new bot that will allow users to enter lotteries, host lotteries, and more with simple bot commands that even message users when it is their turn to bet or when their item is linked. This is a REALLY cool feature and we hope to have it released during Heist.

- New Roles, as usual we will be looking at adding new vanity roles and new staff roles as needed for league specific or achievement based events.

- Player Badges, this will allow us to add custom emojis to players nicknames that will be present whenever you message in the server. This allows for a more in-depth epeen measuring contest as well as a better visual vanity role system. As is, we are running out of colors for vanity roles, and we want each user to feel completely unique. This is personally my most anticipated feature in the 3 years I've had the server. I've always wanted to do something like this, and now we may finally have the capability to do so.

-- Player Badges will require a few things to pull off, and that is custom emojis (We need an artist / Graphic artist), users nicknames will be locked and only changeable in-server by designated staff. This is to ensure that our emojis can't just be used by anyone, and will let us reserve the right to give / remove those from users without them having the ability to add them to themselves. We may be able to implement a bot functionality to help automate the system, but we haven't quite worked that part out yet.

- 10k users allows us to submit our server into the Communities index that Discord has. We are still a ways off from that goal, but it is on the agenda nonetheless. We are currently at 6,628 members.

- Channel segregation and condensing. We will be looking into condensing the channels down, and removing some of the more under utilized channels. We want to eliminate some of the clutter.

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- Avic