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TWW Season 3

Hello everyone, TWW Season 3 is here and we’re thrilled to bring you a wave of new features and improvements!

Season 3

GoW is ready for Season 3! Check your guild, refresh your recruitment, events, teams and spreadsheets. Good luck on your S3 journey!

New Spreadsheet v3.1

• Improved functionality,

• Adaptable tables,

• New character details view,

• Performance boosts,

• Bug fixes,

Manage here: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/spreadsheet

Search by Category

Search guilds and recruits by region categories (e.g., Oceanic, Anniversary).

Guild Boosts

Guild page header now shows total boosts and members who have pledged.

Audit Preferences

You can now enforce gem and embellishment requirements for team audits.

API

New API endpoint available for event details.

Blocking Guilds

You can now block guilds to prevent them from sending messages or invitations.

Recruitment Updates

• Multiple UI updates for a smoother recruitment application detail page,

• Applications now show if the applicant is already a guild member,

• Reassign applicants to a different team,

• Set applicant’s spec and team role during review,

• Improved 'send message' button for public recruitment posts,

Discord Updates

• Redesigned event embed showing pending attendees,

• Cover image support for native events,

• Option to link directly to Discord event messages,

• New “snitch” command to snitch on guildmates,

• Added realm status webhook,

• Webhooks now support threads,

Manage here: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots | https://guildsofwow.com/manage/webhooks

Addon Updates

• Added officer notes functionality,

• Added WeakAura support for events,

• Option to reduce logging,

Manage here: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/addon

Hope you enjoy these changes, have a great season

May Patch Notes

May is here 🥳 Let’s take a look at the latest updates and improvements!

⭕ New Recruitment Experience

• It’s now easier than ever to apply with the redesigned recruitment flow.

• APPLY buttons now open a dialog showing team selection and/or the recruitment form directly.

• This gives users a better preview of recruiting teams and makes applying from the LFG page faster and smoother.

• If a guild has recruiting teams, a dedicated pane shows the guild and its teams, including open spots, recruitment rules, and any high-priority specializations.

• After selecting a team, users go straight to the recruitment form, without leaving the dialog.

⭕Audit Preferences

• Explore the new enchantment enforcement option and hide specific weekly columns from report for both guilds and teams.

• Weekly events are now included in audit reports!

⭕ Nickname Manager

Your Discord members deserve better nicknames. Our Nickname Manager Bot makes it happen 🫡

⭕ Season of Discovery Season 8

You can now fully utilize your SoD guilds for the current season.

⭕ Discord Bot Updates

New role rules for applicants and non-guild members are now supported.

⭕ Team Management Improvements

• Many UX updates on the team management page.

• You can now set a mindset for each of your teams.

➡️➡️➡️ https://guildsofwow.com/begin

Hope you enjoy these changes, have fun 🥳🥳🥳

Feedbacks: https://gow.gg/feedback

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April Updates

Let’s take a look at the April updates, heavily focused on audit reports! 🎉

• The Weekly Raids section now shows raid bosses defeated during the current reset via tooltips.

• Previous week's Mythic+ dungeon runs have been added.

• Raid Finder kills now appear in the Raids tab.

• The Great Vault summary has received a visual buff.

• Introduced a new Condensed View that displays more rows and data in the table.

• Added a new team option to require all gems to be socketed, affecting audit reports and events.

• Added an Enchantments tab for tracking, well, enchantments.

• For guilds with teams, the homepage audit button now has links directly to their team audit reports.

• Elevated queues for higher-tiered guilds are now even more elevated.

Enjoy the changes 🥳🥳🥳

Guilds of WoW: Rolling into Season 2!

Hello everyone, TWW Season 2 is now live, and we’re excited to roll out new features and improvements! 🎉

GoW is now ready for Season 2 🥳 Check your guild, update your recruitment, events, teams, and spreadsheets.

⭕ Recruitment Priorities: You can now set priorities for recruitment applications, helping you focus on the most important ones first.

⭕ Recruits Team Search: Search for public recruits directly through your teams. Selecting a team will filter recruits based on available spots.

⭕ Addon Team Roster: The in-game addon now lets you view your team roster, apply filters, and invite members to your party individually.

⭕ Additional Discord Reminders: The Discord bot can now DM event members who have signed up.

⭕ Discord LFG Tool: Use the command /show-lfg-tutorial-message in your server to display a tutorial message for your Discord members.

⭕ Welcome Honolulu: Guild Honolulu is now a GoW partner 🔥 Welcome to the family 👋

Wishing everyone an incredible journey in TWW Season 2...

 

Feedbacks: https://gow.gg/feedback

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New Twitch Extension

A brand-new frontier, a fresh application and of course, a whole new source of bugs, now available for your eyes 👀

Guilds of WoW, Twitch Extension is Now Live!

You can now showcase your guild info alongside streamers and team data in this compact yet powerful extension. It can also be a valuable tool to boost your guild’s efforts and recruitment applications.

Try it out here: https://dashboard.twitch.tv/extensions/o1m1lt97rcjcm9ssbsnims7ox6blrq

Winter Updates

Hello everyone, it's been a long time without any announcements, here are the latest most important changes and improvements for your eyes!

⭕ New Side Nav – We've revamped navigation! The new side nav makes it easier to view all your guilds and teams at a glance.

⭕ Team Logos – Teams can now have their own custom logos 😎

⭕ Discord LFG Tool – Introducing the LFG tool! Run /lfg-setup on your server to set up Mythic+ runs via Discord.

⭕ Discord Event Reminders – The Discord bot can now DM event audiences who haven't signed up.

⭕ Discord Private Threads – Private threads are now supported. Manage Bots

⭕ Discord Welcome Message – Use /show-link-account-message in your greetings channel to create a welcome message with Connect with GoW and Discord buttons.

⭕ Bulk Chat Operations – You can now mark chat threads as read or leave them in bulk.

⭕ More Links – You can now add your TikTok username and external site/shop URLs. Edit Links

⭕ In-Game Addon Updates – Various performance and UX improvements, including a new event warning dialog for the in-game calendar.

⭕ WCL Teams – WCL teams can now be used for logs in addition to tags. Manage Logs 

⭕ You can now change the expiry duration of recruitment applications.

⭕ You can now change the deletion period of Discord bot upcoming event messages.

🎉 More good news! Classic guild APIs are now fixed by Blizzard, and both Classic Era and Cataclysm guilds are back in action!

🎁 GIVEAWAY! 

To celebrate these updates, we're giving away 3 Gummi pet codes!
Follow Guilds of WoW on X for a chance to win one until tomorrow!

Hello The War Within

🔥 Welcome to 'The War Within' 🔥

Adventurers, the epic "TWW" expansion is here, bringing new challenges, thrilling quests, and countless adventures.

Level up your guild management with Guilds of WoW::

• Comprehensive Spreadsheets Integration: Audit your teams and rosters with ease, ensuring optimal performance and strategy via spreadsheets in addition to web audit.

• Event Scheduling & Reminders: Never miss a raid or event with our seamless scheduling tools, synced between GoW, Discord and in-game calendar.

• Discord Bot: Use the GoW Discord bot to facilitate event RSVPs, manage combat logs, Discord roles, handle recruitment, utilize the LFG tool and track keystones.

• Advanced Analytics: Get insights into your guild's performance..

• Roster Management: Keep track of all your guild and teams members and roles, and plan your roster effectively.

• Recruitment: Find and recruit the perfect members for your guild and teams using recruitment forms, filters and search options.

🛡️ Join the Guilds of WoW community today! 🛡️

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Pre-TWW Updates

Hello everyone, we're just about to go crazy!

Let's see what has transpired on Guilds of WoW during the last few months.

Guild Recruitment Updates

⭕ You can now manage your guild recruitment applications easily via our Discord bot. Feel free to create separate connections for your team's applications.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots

⭕ You can now see which officers have reviewed applications.

⭕ You can now vote on applications via the site and Discord. It's easier than ever to see what your officers think about new applicants.

⭕ You can now change the expiry duration of applications from the default 3 months.

⭕ On the recruitment page, you can now collapse tables by clicking on status headers, providing easier navigation.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/recruits

⭕ A new page has been added where you can view, filter, and sort all recruitment applications on a single page.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/recruits/all

New Members Page

⭕ Managers with master permission can now access all member information through the 'Members' section.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/members

Events

⭕ Recurring events can now have an end date.

⭕ The bot deletion period of 3 days can now be shortened.

⭕ The auto-lock maximum duration can be extended up to 7 days.

Sync Client

⭕ We are happy to announce that the GoW Sync Client is now available for both Apple Silicon and Windows on ARM computers 🥳🥳🥳

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/addon

UI Updates

⭕ There has been another huge UI update done under the hood. This was mostly focused on improving component quality and making new development easier.

⭕ A new save experience has been deployed to many places on the site.

Some Cool Moments 😎

We're proudly sponsoring Recruit a Friend Season 5 and the Dungeon Dojo Invitational (27-28 July). Listen to the podcasts, check out the events and have fun!

https://www.youtube.com/@Recruit_a_Friend

https://twitter.com/dungeondojowow/status/1812278208311791797

Hope you enjoy these changes. Buckle up and let the war begin 🎉🎉🎉

Two Brand New Subscriber Features 🥳🎉🎈

Hello everyone, two new features for subscribers have arrived. Check them out 👀

Discord Role Engine

Guilds of WoW bot and role engine allows your Discord members to be dynamically assigned to Discord server roles based on defined rules for guild members and non-guild members.

⭕ You can create different rules with specific filters (guild rank, teams, item level, Mythic+ rating, PvP rating, professions, etc.) for each role.

⭕ Option to remove roles from non-eligible accounts.

⭕ Option to filter by highest ranking.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/role-engine

Discord Events Auto Sign-Up

⭕ Ability to automatically sign-up guild members based on guild ranks.

⭕ Option to invite all characters set as default via the Discord bot.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/events

General site updates 

⭕ Team management now displays player and report sections with a new main-only toggle.

⭕ Performance enhancements have been implemented on the site and Discord event RSVP flow.

⭕ SoD-specific specs are now supported.

Now onto recruitment updates 🏃‍♂️

Hope you enjoy these changes, have fun 🥳

January Patch Notes

Hello everyone, there has been many enhancements on events and here are the updates completed during January.

⭕ Events have new max. limitation settings like Tank, Healer, DPS, Melee and Range DPS limits.

⭕ You can now lock attendance of your events. T2+ guilds can also enable auto-locking.

⭕ Discord bot now sends an initial message to threads for events with mentioned roles (if any) and a set attendance button. Mentioning roles also invites people to that specific thread.

⭕ For attendance requests without any eligible character both app and bot now display event audience requirements for making things more clear.

⭕ Team members who are not guildies can now see team events on app calendar. This is especially useful for cross-faction guilds.

⭕ Attendance notes are now being posted to event threads (if enabled) by Discord bot automatically.

⭕ There has been many bug fixes and polishes around events functionality.

To manage your events => https://guildsofwow.com/manage/events

To mange your bot => https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots-and-webhooks

This has been a productive month for events hoping that these changes made your life easier. Although before continuing on the February road map, there are still a few more items I would like to achieve. Buckle up, enjoy and have fun 🥳🥳🥳

2023 Guilds of WoW Roadmap

Hello everyone, happy new year to y'all. 

I'm happy to announce 2023 GoW Roadmap. Each month will be focusing on a different aspect of the project with many enhancements and new functionalities.

Hope you like the plan, feel free to send your feedbacks. Enjoy and have a good year with many GGs 🎉🎉🎉

https://guildsofwow.com/feedback

https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

https://trello.com/b/oeOty47D/guilds-of-wow

What's New: October 2022

Hello everyone, hope you are all having good times with Dragonflight prepatch. The future is bright and new expansion looks quite solid 🤩

Anddddd let's check what has transpired during the month of October.

UI/UX OVERHAUL

Since Dragonflight is making a UI overhaul to in-game layout this also pushed me to make some changes to GoW UI as well. UI & UX is a never ending progress and since it's been almost 5 years GoW needed some refreshing touches too.

This started with changing the guild and profile headers to left aligned for having a more readable interface and making use of the screen real estate better. 

For having a unified design language on site, all elements are now rounded. Wink wink Windows 11 😉😉😉

During these 5 years I learned a lot about UI development and in the mean time web technologies didn't stop evolving. I'm following and/or trying to catch new tech as much as I can, there has been many under the hood updates and more will be developed especially around web-component usage.  

Since all UI components are being developed in-house they needed some love too. There has been many enhancements to components focusing selects and dialogs. In the future you will see a more unified component experience.

One of the sections that changed is event attendance. It's now inside a modal instead of full layout with new select component and this makes the experience much more simpler and quicker.

DESKTOP SYNC CLIENT

Desktop sync client does its job like a chief conductor of a symphony orchestra. It uploads and downloads without getting tired day by day.

However installation process of this application was quite tedious. Windows may see applications as a threat with low installation counts and unfortunately some users were having a bad taste or even stopping the whole setup.

In order to bypass this and to have a more up-to-date product GoW Sync App is now on Microsoft Store. It's now much more easier to reach & install. During this preparation electron is also updated to latest version so it's highly encouraged to migrate to Store app if you are using the previous standalone version to have a faster and more secure application.

To download the app simply visit: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P57F9XLGJMW

For instructions and migration support: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/addon

If you have any questions feel free to contact via Patreon or following channels:

https://guildsofwow.com/feedback

https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

Hope you like these changes. 

Fingers crossed for Dragonflight 🤞 Be prepared, enjoy & have fun 🥳🥳🥳

Teams are now on steroids

Hello everyone, happy to introduce you this month's update 👀 Let's welcome autonomous teams 👋

⭕ Auto-managed teams are here. You can now define rules to your teams which will automatically manage your roster.

⭕ Filtrations include; guild ranks, item level, M+ rating, PvP rating & achievement points.

⭕ Target team roles (Main, alt, backup and trial) can be set for each rule.

⭕ When removal of non-eligible option is enabled, system will convert roster management to fully autonomous and remove all members who don't match with any rules' criterias.

Just enable this new feature and save your team detail. GoW will gather your team members without any hassle. 

⭕ Team max. roster size now increases with each guild tier consecutively. 

Tier 1: 50

Tier 2: 100

Tier 3: 150

Tier 4+: 250

⭕ You can now mass remove or change role of team members with new bulk operations functionality.  

Click to manage your teams: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/roster

Apart from GoW updates Patreon announced a really cool change. FINALLY Patreon published subscription based billing 🤯 You can now subscribe and be charged after a month instead of 1st of each month.

This month's update got delayed a little bit and I'm sorry about this. Since things are settled on my side, know that development is going with full force here.  Hope you enjoy these changes. 

Buckle-up for future updates, enjoy and have fun 🥳🥳🥳

What's New: April - May 2022

Hello everyone, here you can find another patch notes for your eyes including last two months of updates 🥳

CROSS FACTION CHANGES

Hello 9.2.5 which includes amazing changes including opposite faction events 👋👋👋

⭕Guilds of WoW now supports adding members from opposite factions to teams and events.

TEAMS

⭕ Player profiles now display that player's teams and characters. This will make navigation to team detail page quite easier for team members.

⭕ New team member roles. Apart from trial, team members can also be marked as alt or backup. Members within these roles are being displayed separately from main roster.

⭕ Teams now have a purpose field. This option changes the display of team member metrics on homepage.

⭕ Average iLevel, mythic+ & PvP ratings of teams are now displayed on both guild home page and team detail.

⭕ Team posters can also be generated on management.

⭕ Players can now remove their characters from teams on profile page.

For managing teams: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/roster

PROGRESS

⭕ Guild raid boss progresses are now visible everywhere. Literally EVERYWHERE!!! Guild progress section, reports, search, rwf, followed guilds all of these sections now display guilds' current tier raid progress.

⭕ Progress webhook messages are also now much richer. Progress boss details per difficulty will be shown on webhook messages.

⭕ If you are using Discord bot you can also hit /show-guild-progress for viewing your latest raid progress.

AUDIT

⭕ Audits now include set pieces and total sockets.

EVENTS & CALENDAR

⭕ Event generation time changes. Auto generated upcoming events now have a default creation time which can also be overridden.

⭕ Events now get to completed state much more quicker.

⭕ You can override default realm timezones for events.

⭕ WCL logs are now accessible via calendar.

⭕ Calendar now has a settings panel which you can set start day of week.

Calendar & Upcoming Events:https://guildsofwow.com/upcoming-events

BOTS & WEBHOOKS

⭕ Combat log bot is now supporting threads for posting details about boss fights. You should be enabling threads on your channel connection for enabling this functionality.

⭕ Discord RSVP flow is rewritten from the ground up. It's now much more easier to submit your attendances via Discord bot.

⭕ GoW Discord bot is now approved on Top.gg 🤩 Waiting for your feedbacks and ratings 😉 https://top.gg/bot/760511701236973610

⭕ Guilded webhooks are now supported. You can now use Guilded.gg webhook urls similar to Discord webhooks.

For managing bots & webhooks: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots-and-webhooks

ADDON

 ⭕ Sync client installation page now shows more guidance. There're now more details about setup process and in-game calendar integration.

⭕ Some in-game addon enhancements and bug fixes completed. Invites are now much faster and addon posts more info about processed events.

Addon management: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/addon

COMMUNITY

⭕ Guilded community server is now live: https://www.guilded.gg/i/kKJWevn2

⭕ A new YouTube channel is now live. But not the kind of one you would expect 👀 

Ambience like gameplay series will be weekly published with 4K / maximum graphics, which you can watch while working, studying or dozing to relive your old memories. More videos are on the pipeline.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXhwkoQ5qH_wxu6d0a40GZA

Hope you like these changes. Enjoy & have fun 🥳🥳🥳

Moar Bot Updates

Hello everyone, there has been more bot updates and WCL integration improvements completed.

⭕ Bot will now send reminders 15mins. before the event start  (You can also add roles to your channel definitions https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots-and-webhooks#bots for mentioning),

⭕ Discord scheduled events will automatically be started 15mins. before the event, 

⭕ You can now use /my-attendances command for listing your current event attendances.

For enabling slash commands make sure that you've added the latest version of bot to your server.

https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=760511701236973610&permissions=406143367232&scope=bot%20applications.commands

⭕ Bot automatically triggers guild and audit refresh before 30mins of event's beginning. 

⭕ There has been various enhancements on WCL log integration and bot refresh process. These changes will reduce the total sync duration of logs and new changes will reflect quicker to bot messages.

⭕ When events (for guild events) or teams (for team events) are bound with WCL tags, bot will try to match events with appropriate WCL logs. If found both event and log messages will show navigational links. 

One quick reminder is that Discord's bot privacy changes are incoming and bot will not be able to update webhook messages when these changes goes live. If you are using both event/log webhooks and bots at the same time you may see duplicate messages. It's recommended to remove event and log channels from webhooks in this case.

For managing bots & webhooks:https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots-and-webhooks

Hope you enjoy these changes, have fun...

Discord Bot Changes

Hello everyone 👋👋👋 There has been many developments during the last month about Discord bot so here's a list of changes for your eyes 👀

⭕ A brand new bot connection process has been developed. Instead of using bot commands you can now use website and apps directly for connecting with channels. After initialising your guild with bot you will see 'Add New Channel Connection Button' on bot management section. 

⭕ You can now bind one-off upcoming events just like recurring events with bots. This can be done either bot management page or via upcoming event update. 

⭕ Creation of attendance messages and Discord native calendar events can be toggled on/off for each connection. 

⭕ Logs can be bound via combat logs tag for separating channels with teams on bot connections. 

⭕ Discord native calendar events now support 'Interested In' functionality. When players click this button, bot attendance flow with 'Attending' status is being triggered.

⭕ Some changes about scheduled events: Prevented creation of more than one native calendar event on Discord when an error happens while updating. Now title and description aren't being updated every time so you can alter these fields freely. I've seen that Discord added image support to API so in the near future I'll also implement this. 

⭕ Increased bot connection creation limit by 1 for each tier

⭕ I've started implementing Discord slash commands. There's a great foundation which I've not tapped until recently so I'll be developing some bot commands in the future. Have cool ideas here. Since bot requires additional scope for command usage, it's mandatory to re-add bot to your Discord server. https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=760511701236973610&permissions=405874931776&scope=bot%20applications.commands 

⭕ Roles can now be mentioned on messages. Just visit your channel connection pane and select the roles you want to be tagged.  

⭕ You can now enable creation of threads for each message. I've some more plans for this feature, like sending reminders or event/log updates to thread instead of main channel. But for now bot will only create separate threads for additional conversations.  

⭕ For Discord events you can now target voice or stage channels instead of GoW event link. Discord events work quite nicely with channels IMO so it's up to you if you want to use them this way.  (If you select any channel instead of event link, GoW event link won't be shown in this case.)

Bot management: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots-and-webhooks#bots

Hope you enjoy these changes, have fun 🥳🥳🥳

It's Been a Long, Long Time

It's been a lil' long time since my last post. I've been constantly publishing new announcements to Discord but kinda neglected here. Sooooo let's wrap things up.

Events 

⭕ A new notification pipeline has been developed for attendance notes. This is enabled by default. You can also setup a webhook connection for this purpose.

⭕ iCalendar (a.k.a. iCal) integration for events is now completed. You can either link default WoW calendar or create other calendar integrations for your audiences and add them to Google, Outlook calendar etc.  Simply visit events calendar and create add button on right side. https://guildsofwow.com/upcoming-events

⭕ In addition to monthly view, daily and weekly view has been to calendar. You can toggle views from up-right corner. Mobile apps show daily view by default which provides a much better experience on small form factors. https://guildsofwow.com/upcoming-events

⭕ You can now set less than 7 days for event generation prior days.

Guild Operations

⭕ You can now change your guild slug on management. Previously guild slug could only be set while creating the guild so if you are unhappy with yours, here you go: https://guildsofwow.com/manage/options#guild-slug 

⭕ You can now migrate your guild. If you have used WoW guild migration you can move all your guild data to your new one. https://guildsofwow.com/manage/options#guild-migration

⭕ Blizzard APIs were quite problematic and I had to revisit some of the connection infrastructure because of this. One of the side-benefits of this iteration is to BYOK feature. You can create your own API keys and system will be able to refresh your guild quicker. https://guildsofwow.com/manage/options#byok

Recruitment

⭕ You can now add webhooks to your recruit alerts. When enabled a message will be sent immediately after a suitable recruitment listing gets created. Simply visit 'Recruitment Alerts' section and update your previous alerts. https://guildsofwow.com/recruit-alerts

Audit

⭕ Audit reports are now collecting up to 4 weeks of data, so you can view past weekly reset scores, 

⭕ A vertical separator line is added for showing weekly reset dates,

⭕ Chart tooltips can now be mouse hovered for viewing details, 

⭕ Chart tooltips are being positioned with a more wisely manner on both desktop and mobile.

PvP Ratings & Progress Achievements

⭕ PvP ratings have been implemented. Character cards, public recruits and all reports now display highest ranking and tier name.

⭕ Public recruits now display earned progression achievements (e.g. Aotc, Keymaster, PvP tiers...)

⭕ Guild reports display average M+ ranking of top 5 characters and average PvP ranking of top 3 characters. These average rankings and raid progress summary will be displayed on guild search in the near future for showing brief information about guild activities.

⭕ Audits now show earned weekly rated PvP honors. Players gain scores calculated by the earned honor.

Connections

⭕ Profile settings now include a connections tab. You can manage your Twitch, Twitter, Discord and Patreon connections from this section. 

https://guildsofwow.com/settings/connections

⭕ Guild integrations now include Twitter connections. Just like Discord webhooks you can bind social profiles to your guild for auto creating posts with the channels you want.  ATM following channels are supported; gallery, posts, progress, live streamers

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/social-connections

Custom Domain

⭕ You can now enable using your domain for e-mails, webhooks and bots. Links will redirect to your domain instead of guildsofwow.com in this case.

⭕ A custom Google Analytics tracking code can be set for your domain.  Simply visit custom domain options panel for updating your preferences. https://guildsofwow.com/manage/options#custom-domain

UI / UX

⭕There's been many UI updates and enhancements within these months. Removal of jQuery from the system, updating all web dependencies and revisiting places where mobile experience was lacking are some of these undertakings.

⭕ Added splash-screen images for newer Apple devices. If you already have added GoW to your homescreen and don't see any splash, you can remove and add again. https://guildsofwow.com/install-applications#ios-app

Hope you enjoy these changes 🥳 More developments are baking in the kitchen. Let me check the ove... oh shi.......

Gow July - August Updates

Hello everyone 👋 Since there wasn't many new features to announce recently I delayed this post a little bit 😁 Blizzard services are messed up over a month and I did my best to mitigate the issue. These enhancements and modifications took a lot of my time.

Other than that, here you can view the combined developments completed during last 2 months.

EVENT PLANNING

⭕ On Discord bot, team events will have a direct initial attendance if the player has only one character on that specific team.

⭕ Team events now have a toggle for forcing team character spec. When this feature is enabled, players cannot set their spec on site and Discord bot while saving attendance. Managers can still alter specs if needed.

⭕ Guildie events with rank filtration now has an option to hide the displayed rank names.

⭕ Some bug fixes have been done while saving and validating events (both recurring and upcoming) on management.

⭕ Now you can add a secondary team to team based events. This way you can set double team rosters as eligible on upcoming events.

⭕ Now attendance summary displays attending, tentative and not attending character counts.

⭕ Event managers can see pending attendances.

⭕ Tentative attendances are being shown separately on roster view.

⭕ You can disable deletion of inactive events on Discord.

⭕ Discord event messages now have a new compact mode which hides attendance details but only shows attending and tentative numbers.

TEAMS

⭕ Team members can now be set as trial. Members who are on trial will be shown inside a different panel on team detail. 

⭕ Melee and Ranged dps are now being shown separately on teams and upcoming events.

GUILD LOGS

⭕ Logs section on site and discord webhooks now show WCL, WowAnalyzer & Wipefest links. Title is also being stored and displayed instead of zone name.

⭕ You can use bot for guild logs. With this way bot will be able to update log messages unlike webhooks.

⭕ WCL API v2 is implemented which provides much more integrations and data. With this development logs now show fight breakdowns on site and Discord bot.

⭕ You can bind your teams and events with logs via WCL report tags. If you already have tags on your reports, visit management and set matching 'guild logs tag' on teams, recurring events or upcoming events for logs to be shown on team detail and upcoming events.

SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE ENHANCEMENTS

⭕ Tokenization infrastructure have been improved.

⭕ Progress service has been optimized and I'm now expecting much faster refresh rates, especially about WCL logs.

⭕ A lot of back-end packages are updated which needed some modifications on code base.

⭕ I've developed selection component from ground up by having a better mobile experience mindset. All selections on site now show a better UI on mobile. I also added some more functionalities to this component and got rid of layout problems on all form factors. This wasn't an easy task so it's worth mentioning here 😁

CUSTOM DOMAINS

⭕ Now GoW provides a full fledged custom domain setup process. Previously it was a manual process which needed a direct support from me. It wasn't on the same service quality with other aspects of the project so I've decided to write a brand new pipeline for custom domains.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/options#custom-domain

Now you can bind your domain easily with guidance and settings. This was a tremendous work because it needed many service implementations. In the end I'm happy with the result and hope you like this development also.

This month I'll continue enhancing custom domains a little more. There's still room for more developments. Then I've some plans for more integrations 😁

Hope you enjoy these developments. On Discord we are brain storming on all the aspects of the project so feel free to join if you haven't already 👋 https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

Thank you everyone for your support, enjoy & have fun 🥳🥳🥳

GoW June Updates

Hello everyone, another month passed and here we are with 9.1 and Season 2 😁😁😁

June was the month of event management on GoW, so there have been many enhancements on event planning and Discord bot. Here are the details 🙃

DISCORD BOT

⭕ Attendees show a clickable gear penalty and will navigate to website with a popup when clicked,

⭕ Attendance data is being saved after selecting spec. Notes step is totally optional now,

⭕ Bot now provides some additional guidance while setting up event connection,

⭕ Connecting with Discord bypasses welcome page,

⭕ After saving attendance via Discord, gear warnings are being included into the direct message (if any),

⭕ Bots section on management displays errors occurred on Discord (if any),

⭕ Bots are now available to all guilds. Tier 1 guilds can create a single channel for trying event bots. Each increasing guild tier gives more quota for bot connections,

⭕ When selecting tentative as attendance status, entering a note is mandatory on both web and Discord bot,

⭕ Discord bot sends a reminder if attendance is not completed after a moment,

⭕ Completed or cancelled events are being colored red,

⭕ Old events are automatically deleted from channel,

⭕ Discord bot is now verified 🥳

EVENT PLANNING

⭕ Now recurring events can be set as disabled. Previously they could only be deleted. This option will be useful for canceling events temporarily,

⭕ Upcoming event default roster view now shows not attending characters separately,

⭕ You can add events to your Google, Outlook and Office 365 calendars by clicking the calendar button near upcoming event's start date,

⭕ Recurring events now have a dedicated Attendance Report on management with more filters and options,

⭕ Management has another page for viewing all upcoming events including canceled and completed ones. For visiting this page simply navigate to events page on management and click 'View All' button on Upcoming Events section,

⭕ You can now migrate a recurring event date and all of it's data to another one. This way you can change or fix your attendance data grouping and bot connections. To use this feature you can navigate to one of your guild event dates and click the 'Migrate Event Date' button,

⭕ There's a dedicated event generator service which will create and update events on a more timely manner,

⭕ Event detail page has some enhancements and fixes for saving attendances. Also event managers can now alter all attendances with a new user interface,

⭕ Events module on guild home page now has a "View Calendar" button which will navigate to that guild's focused calendar,

⭕ On event detail page you can now export attendees to excel including attendance and audit data,

⭕ Event detail page has a view team button (if it's team event),

⭕ On management you can easily cancel upcoming events without navigating to event detail page,

⭕ Event detail page now shows both local time and realm time. Clicking date toggles between these two,

⭕ There's now a timer on event detail page, which shows how much time left for event start,

⭕ Calendar shows all events on local time and with correct time formatter,

⭕ Calendar now displays WoW weekly and holiday events,

⭕ There's now a 24hr toggle on guild options page. This selection is effecting e-mails, Discord bot and in-game addon. By default guilds in North America and Australia use AM/PM and all other guilds use 24hr format. For changing your guild's time format you can visit Options > Localization,

⭕ A new guild rank filter has been added to events. This selection will be able to quickly filter guildies by their ranks,

⭕ When a character sets an attendance all of that character's audit data automatically gets refreshed,

⭕ Event detail page now allows more than one character attendance for supporting merged Blizzard accounts,

⭕ One-off upcoming events can be bound to recurring events,

⭕ Upcoming events are automatically generated when a new event date gets created or creation of upcoming events turns on.

ADDON

⭕ In game addon has a new button for directly inviting to party. This button is suitable for guilds/events which calendar events are not suitable or required,

⭕ Events listing order has been reverted.

GUILD SEARCH

⭕ After character selection you can now select if you are willing to transfer realm or faction.

M+

⭕ Blizzard M+ rating service changes have been implemented. This change created another benefit that refreshing guild data will sync all the m+ ratings at the same time,

⭕ Home page team rosters can now be sorted by M+ rating.

OTHER

⭕ Welcome screen shows recommendations for wrong Battle.net account login,

⭕ Chat message hours both work with AM/PM and 24hour formats depending on your system localization,

⭕ Non tiered guilds show last guild and audit refresh dates separately.

BUG FIXES

⭕ Guild search by character now also includes connected realm guilds,

⭕ Fixed a lot of UI elements for having more visual consistency and a better mobile experience,

⭕ Public recruit alerts service fixed,

⭕ There has been many under the hood changes for performance improvements,

⭕ Team poster images have been fixed,

⭕ A bug with public recruit dps search has been made,

⭕ A bug fix has made for attendance sync via desktop client,

⭕ Some timezone issues have been fixed with in-game addon,

⭕ Fixed an audit bug about two handed weapon enchants,

⭕ Some HTML markup fixes have been done for posts, guild info and recruitment sections,

⭕ Fixes have been done for non-guildie audit and attendance records.

Hope you enjoyed these developments. On Discord channel we are brain storming on all the aspects of the project so feel free to join if you haven't 👋 https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

Thank you everyone for your support, enjoy & have fun 🥳🥳🥳

About Patreon Tier Issue

Today an issue appeared on Patreon service which dropped some of the guilds active tier to 1. It's now under investigation and will inform you when the problem is resolved.

Thank you for your patience, have fun...

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Status Update: Yesterday all annual patrons were locked out of content globally on Patreon's site and applications and API stopped returning any entitled tier for these subscriptions. Monthly subscriptions are not effected by this incident.

Today Patreon fixed their APIs so everything went back to normal 🥳

Please check your tier and and if you have any other problems, just let me know. Have fun...

GoW May Updates

Hello everyone, hope you all had an awesome May, maybe having more days with less Covid news 😁

On May my main priorities were Teams and Discord integrations. Teams feature has a little more gap to fill but the majority of the job has been completed. Let's wrap up what has transpired during the last month.

⭕ You can now set whole different subset of recruitment rules for your teams including flows, minimum level, item level, spots and questions. Questions module now support binding to teams directly. You can also enable a setting for using your guild questions apart from team questions. Just navigate to your team management detail page and toggle recruitment for additional settings.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/roster

⭕ Team page shows your recruitment section and applying navigates to that team's specific recruitment page. Later players can change their recruitment target if you have at least one team open for recruitment. Also highlighted teams on guild home page display an Apply button for recruitment enabled ones.

Now following scenarios are being supported;

⭕ You have a generic guild recruitment without any recruiting team,

⭕ You can have a generic guild recruitment with one or more specified recruiting teams,

⭕ You can disable guild recruitment and force applying to teams only.

Additionally for teams;

⭕ Last sync time and sync button is added to team page for guildies,

⭕ Exporting to excel button is added to team page for guildies,

⭕ Now recruitment module shows recruiting teams (if any) as tabs on homepage recruitment module,

⭕ You can hide team detail pages and prevent being visible on reports. This setting can especially be useful for management teams,

⭕ Guild header shows Apply button instead of guild chat button all the time, regardless of visitor being a guild member or not,

⭕ Some UI fixes about team recruitment have been implemented.

⭕ You can now create team-bound posts. These posts will also be displayed on team detail page in addition to guild posts section. You can target only team members as audience for these type of posts for privacy and notifications. https://guildsofwow.com/manage/posts

⭕ You can also bind webhooks with teams. So you can target specific channels for each of your teams separately. While sending webhooks, if system finds a team-bound webhook then default guild webhooks will be ignored.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/webhooks

And here comes the beloved Discord bot 😁 It's quite new but some guilds started to experience it. IMO it is nailing it's purpose right now but there are some more features to be developed of course.

⭕ Apart from site and in-game calendar, players can now use Discord bot for setting their event RSVPs,

⭕ These attendances will sync back to GoW bidirectional and will reflect to in-game calendar if sync client is set up,

⭕ Attendees show tentative, late status and audit gear penalties with different emojis,

⭕ Discord bots are available for all Tier 2+ guilds.

In order to setup Discord bot, visit Bots & Webhooks page and simply follow the instructions on Bots section. https://guildsofwow.com/manage/bots-and-webhooks

TBC Classic launch was perfect and I've also started to level my char 🥳 Only thing that bothered my mind was to see Blizzard not having a plan for TBCC APIs. That's quite sadge but it's what's right now. Let's hope they put Classic APIs into their pipelines in the future. 

That's all for May. Don't forget to follow Discord channel for following frequent updates and more 🙂

https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

Thank you everyone for your support, have fun 🥳🥳🥳

GoW April Updates

Hello everyone, hope you are all having fun while waiting for 9.1 (or Classic TBC 😁).

On April posts module was my main priority because it lacked behind a lot comparing to the other modules. So here's the list that have been completed;

⭕ Now you can add polls to your posts for asking questions or getting feedbacks. Simply create a new post or update an existing one and enable "Add Poll" toggle.

⭕ In-game sync app is now more talented. New items have been added for synchronization. Now following data of your guild roster are being migrated back to GoW.

- In game character notes (including officer notes)

- In game rank names

- Last login date

All of these informations can be seen on roster, audit, team and upcoming event pages. You can also export your audit data with these added columns to excel file.

For installing addon 👉 https://guildsofwow.com/manage/addon 

⭕ In-game addon now has a default tab with character audit data. This's the initial development for this tab so expect more enhancements in the future.

⭕ Now addon won't be popping up automatically when there're new events to be formed.

⭕ There's a new type of posts called announcements. Announcements are basically for creating quick posts for your guildies without the hassle of photo selection and filling some other required fields.

⭕ In-game addon now synchronizes guild message of the day back to GoW. Guild info module on your home page will show this message for guild members. Please update your in-game addon via sync client if it's not updated yet for this integration.

⭕ You can enable a new feature for creating announcements from guild message of the day directly. When you change your in-game MotD, this will reflect to GoW and an announcement post will be created automatically. If you change your MotD within a day then latest announcement will be updated.

https://guildsofwow.com/manage/posts 

⭕ On recruit detail page you can see other applications of that player to your guild, if any.

⭕ Team detail page now shows related recurring events

⭕ Recruits page on management is now more colorful

⭕ Fixed non-guildie data on audit and excel export.

Next big change will be about team recruitment. System will allow setting different specs and questions for each team. Applicants (also guildies) will be able to apply to teams directly.

There's still no announcement about Classic TBC APIs so nothing to share there yet.

Don't forget to follow Discord channel for following frequent updates and more 🙂

https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

Thank you everyone for your support, have fun 🥳🥳🥳

GoW March Updates

Hello everyone 👋 I post updates when they're published directly to Discord but don't post any updates here. Some of you guys are already on Discord, but for beloved patrons who don't use Discord or didn't join there, I'll post patch notes to Patreon monthly 👌

So let's see what was completed from the beginning of the march till now.

⭕ Now you can add non-guildies to your teams and upcoming events. Since mythics now allow cross realms this feature will be more useful for mythic raids and cross-realm guilds. This also effects team bound events and in-game addon for non-guildies for easier invitations.  Simply navigate to your team detail on management and navigate to: Add Character > Non-Guildies or navigate to  any upcoming event page and click add 'Manual Attendance' button.

⭕ It's 2021 and now you can toggle which characters to be shown on your profile 😂 You can hit 'Toggle Characters' button on your profile page for accessing character selection pane. 

⭕ You can select which characters to be tracked for your player reports. This feature is especially more useful for patrons who can select more than one character for tracking. You can click 'Switch Character' button on your player reports page.

⭕ Posts now can be liked & disliked

⭕ Now you can save a post as draft or unpublish an already posted one

⭕ A new priority field is added for sorting posts by first priority then creation date

⭕ Post summary has been added to post header

⭕ In addition to jpeg files you can now upload png files to management library to be able to use in posts.

⭕ Now officers can add notes for recruitment applications. These notes are private and will only be notified to recruitment managers

⭕ For tech nerds 💻🤭 Project has been upgraded from 3.1 to .Net 5.0. Microsoft lacked the ability for supporting Azure Functions on .Net 5.0 till march so I had to delay this transition for a few months.

Hope you enjoy or already liked this developments. 

This month I'll enhance post experience by adding announcement type and comments. I also think in-game addon has much more potential as a guild management and integration tool. Expect some new announcements there 👍

I'm following developments about TBC Classic closely. I don't have high hopes but if Blizzard provides TBC services I'll definitely integrate them.

Thanks for being here and supporting the project, GoW wouldn't be what it's like now without your support 🙏 🙏🙏

Take care everyone, eat well, drink water & have fun 🎉🎉🎉

Annual Membership

Hello everyone,

I've some good news for you. Guilds of WoW now accepts yearly memberships 🥳 

And until Shadowlands releases you will get two months free when you pledge annually 🥳🥳🥳

Also Tier 4+ guilds receive a free domain to be used on custom domain site if you don't have any registered one 🎉🎉🎉

I think some may prefer a yearly subscription over monthly subscription so here it's for your consideration 🙂

Have fun & see you on Shadowlands...

Pledging in Euros (€), British Pounds (£) or U.S. Dollars ($)

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share some good news about patronage.  Everyone in the UK, EU and U.S. can now pledge in their local currency of Euros (€), British Pounds (£) or U.S. Dollars ($). This  will help prevent you paying extra conversion fees from your bank or card when pledging in a currency that’s not your own. 

Any new visitors to Guilds of WoW will see tiers priced in their local currency of €, £, or $. For those of you who would like to switch your preferred currency you can follow these steps:

1. On Patreon.com, hover over your avatar in the top right of your screen.
2. Click Manage memberships.
3. Find this page, and click Edit.
4. Under Currency, choose your preferred currency.
5. Click Update to save your settings.

For those of you outside of these currencies, you’ll continue to see your pledge priced in USD.

Check out this help center article if you have questions about changing your currency, or this article if you have questions about how tiers are priced in these new currencies.

Thank you everyone & have fun...

Patreon Discord Benefits

Hello everyone 👋 

Lots of you know that GoW has a Discord channel and joined to it. I would like to post another notification for the patrons who haven't heard / joined it before. I recommend you to join the Discord channel for periodic updates and sending feedbacks easily.

https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

Also Patreon has a Discord integration and if you connect your Patreon account with your Discord account (which I highly recommend) you'll automatically join the channel by having the GoW Patron special role. Here are the details:

https://www.patreon.com/settings/apps

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Get-my-Discord-role

Hope to see everyone also there, thanks & safe travels...

GoW Survey

Hello dear patrons,

I've created a survey for Guilds of WoW. I would be really happy if you can spare just a few minutes of your time and share your feedbacks.

https://forms.gle/T2pe9f9KqW5ELe4X7  

Thank you so much, have fun...

Recruitment Alerts

Hello dear Patrons,

I've not posted here for a while so I would like to say thank you again for your Patreonage. I'm posting to Discord channel regularly so please visit there for more regular updates.

https://discord.gg/VfGJnCS

There's a new Patron only development.  All Patrons can now create recruitment alerts by the filters you select.  You can create as many alert as you like. 

Notifications will be sent to  you daily or weekly per your choice.

Just visit 'Recruits' selection  page (https://guildsofwow.com/recruits), change your filters and click 'Create Alert' button.

Hope you like this feature. Please tell me your feedbacks and opinions.

Thanks & have fun...

Guild Reports Changes

Hello everyone, there's a new development just deployed for guilds reports. These changes are exlusive to guilds with Patreon tier 3 and more.

In addition to class reports, guild reports now have role and spec breakdowns. You can simply visit your guilds report and navigate to 'Breakdowns' section to see more details. Results on these charts are also filtered by minimum item level.

Hope you enjoy these new charts. Have fun...

Discord Channel

Hello everyone, recently I've created a new Discord channel. Come and join to have a nice chat 😊

https://discordapp.com/invite/VfGJnCS