We have decided to rebuild Bene once again.  However, if you are interested in applying to Bene, there will be a new forum for a guild applications, we want to know who you are, what your experience is, how you handle certain situations, what you hope to gain from Bene, what you expect from us as a whole, and how willing you are to help out your fellow guild members.

GuildPortal Change Log Entry
1/20/2012 8:26 AM

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• Welcome Letter goes live with today's update! When you have one set up, it is sent out to people when they have their access level to the site upgraded from public to member (or higher). To start using this, open your Control Panel and click Welcome Letter.
• The Idle Monitor will now let Super Admins know who received warnings for inactivity, and who was automatically disbanded.
• The Mass Move functionality in the forums editor is now working correctly.
• $block[variable] tags now work correctly in mods.

GuildPortal Change Log Entry
12/16/2011 8:09 AM

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• Multiple choice voting is now available! When creating a new poll, just click the checkbox at the bottom to indicate that it is multiple choice.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic Server Status widget is now available to ST:TOR guilds. It displays your server name, up/down status, and current population.
• The most recent posts count to display has been split out from the regular forum and most recent posts stand-alone widgets, so they can each have their own values.
• When browsing Site Mods, you now have the option to display only those that are installed on your site.
• 30 signature backgrounds were added to the signature generator background gallery specifically for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
• The crafting marketplace now requires explicit selection of the tradeskill required to make the requested item.
• The crafting marketplace now displays orders from all approved alliance guilds!
• The needs list widget now has a new field for "days/times available."
• The event signup texting reminder is now firing.
• Section wrapper opacity now allows for more fine-grained selection.
• There is a new "mailbox" in your mail widgets, called "GuildPortal Updates." It displays these entries, and is there in an effort to better communicate changes to the service to our members.
• Spaghetti is good with or without meatballs, but better with.

GuildPortal Change Log Entry
11/28/2011 11:43 AM

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Today's update includes automatic integration with ZAM's Torhead in the WYSIWYG editor for Star Wars: The Old Republic guilds. To use it, simply click the Jawa icon when editing and follow the instructions.

Also going live are two new text messaging notification options: when a reply is added to a topic you've subscribed to, and also reminders about upcoming events you've signed up for. To receive these notifications, click Profile on any guild page, and then click Text Messaging. There, you'll see these two new options, in addition to all of the other things you may choose to receive text messages on your phone for.

GuildPortal Change Log Entry
11/4/2011 9:19 AM

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A new widget called "Rally the Guild" goes live today! This beta widget operates much like a shout box, except instead of just adding a line of text to your site, it will send the text to members via either their cell phone or e-mail. For cell phone delivery, members will need to configure texting in their Profile (the widget itself provides a direct link to configure it, as well). Only those with officer level or higher access to your site may send out rallies, and only those marked as associate or higher receive them.

Also, images uploaded since the new file storage system was brought online (images that show as being located on a path that begins with /GuildImages) now show an Edit link next to them in the File Manager. Clicking it brings up a new web-based image editor that gives you the ability to crop, add text to, and otherwise manipulate images. The functionality of this editor already has planned enhancements, coming soon. It is also available from the Gallery widgets upon upload of new images, if the uploader has Images Admin rights on the site.

Over the past couple days, we ran across a hardware problem with one of the drives on our database server, causing some downtime. We apologize for this. The good news is, however, that we have replaced the drive with a mirrored array that has twice the space. Also, while they had the system open at the data center, we had them double the RAM as well, which should have a positive impact on performance.

To make things run even better, we have also brought in a company that specializes in the optimization of databases specific to the platform that GuildPortal runs on. They have completed their initial monitoring phase, and we will be working closely with them to implement their recommendations.

Other stuff addressed in this push:

• Aion armory tooltips are fixed.
• LoTRO Integration now allows manual entry of your guild name, in case your actual guild name was already taken for your server and you had to use a different one when creating your site.
• Approving/denying item requests in the bank now visually updates the visibility of the approve/deny links, giving a better indicator that the command was performed.
• A bug causing only one item to show when viewing item requests has been squished.
• SuperAdmins can now delete crafting orders from the main display of the Crafting Marketplace.
• Spotter's Order was nerfed in Rift. (Okay, so we had nothing to do with that -- we're just very, very angry about it)