Business System Upgrades, Staff Changes, and More

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  1. Jayson

    Jayson Emerald
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    This month, we've made various adjustments to improve your experience here at MCTrades. We hope you enjoy these changes and any feedback is appreciated. Thank you all for being part of the MCTrades community.

    Performance, Security, and Stability
    Over the past month, our team has worked to improve your experience here at MCTrades. One of the minor changes in which assists both the members of our community in terms of bandwidth and time along with the stability of our services is changing how our defer system runs. By default, the XenForo platform makes visitors of a forum run a deferred process. These can be said to be cron entries. While this does provide the benefit of only executing while members are online, we have members online around the clock. Instead, we've completely removed the defer trigger from pages and it is now executed by our server automatically.

    A new dispute notice has been created to improve the chances of receiving a response. The notice cannot be dismissed until the defendant responds.

    For our moderators, we've created an entirely new line of preset warnings. All of them have expires at this time. Warnings that include a caution banner, account limitations, and/or feedback limitations may now also have their titles customized to make knowing what you did wrong that day even faster.

    On June 22nd...or June 23rd for those of you on the other side of the world, we completed a thorough diagnostic in relation to connectivity problems while using specific protocols. We released a patch within hours of being notified regarding the issue and the maintenance period's data will be used to make a more permanent solution to the error. The issue impacted functions such as email and reCAPTCHA token validation (primarily while registering).

    Although there were no reported errors in regarding this, we've tripled the amount of memory available to our web server to future-proof our services.

    With your privacy in mind, Google Analytics is now only present while you're logged into our services.

    Ever had that moment where you changed your username and someone simply stole it? Well, fear no more since usernames are now locked for 35 days before being released to the public. Business accounts also now feature one free username change.

    We've started developing a new business accounts system, built to be more secure. It also features the ability to create a business account without a email or password and inherit their creator's style and timezone preferences. To get access to it, please visit our Business Beta form.

    Due to a lack of use, multiple websites have been removed from the [MEDIA] BbCode.

    Prices for sticky threads have been adjusted. Sticky thread prices have not been adjusted by more than a dollar, however some have decreased by more than that.

    Experience
    To help moderate the community, please welcome Avery and Jet to our moderation team. Avery will be executing normal moderator duties while Jet will be assisting with moderating the chat.

    Your experience here at MCTrades is important to us and we've worked tirelessly to improve it. We've changed two forum names, specifically "Giveaways" to "Contests and Giveaways" and "MCTrades Discussion" to "Discussion".

    Thread prefixes have primarily been deleted and existing ones are being made more generic.

    To help you post your thread easier, the floating create thread button has been added back to all our forums. This also comes with the changing of our form URLs to ensure nothing fishy goes on.

    Forms have been modified again to improve your experience and allow the easier usage of them. We've also introduced a new associated account selection dropdown for our forms within forums dedicated to selling your Minecraft account. They feature your username and UUID within them, however will only post the username. For the ranked accounts form, have no fear about posting your username. Usernames are now automatically redacted, simply look for the "*" at the end of options to confirm. While posting a dispute, the "Username of person you’re reporting" field now automatically completes usernames and the fields of "Reported user’s aliases," "Your aliases," and "Other individuals who witnessed this occur" now support username auto completion in list format. A bug causing the entry of "0" into forms counting as not providing an entry has also been repaired.

    To make things a bit more consistent, all gradient name colors now provide a font weight of 900.

    We've reverted changes to the "no permissions error" as the information within it partially became invalid due to recent changes.

    Several websites have been added to the [MEDIA] BbCode including IGTV.

    We know many of you love playing games. Thus, we've created a new Game Items category. Within are the community's picks for games...and of course a "Other" forum.

    In modern society, we've come to think that less is more, and so we've added new routes. use /t for threads, /r for resources, /m for members, and /p for posts.

    Ever logged in just to realize your name color preference was once again reset? Ever wanted to scream at us through your screen because of it? Well, we've heard your complaints and have introduced a solution specifically made to tackle this issue. From this point forward, setting your name color will make it stay like that unless you loose permission for the color or change it.
     
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  2. Avery

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    Senpai noticed me
     
  3. Cole

    Cole Java Developer
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  4. Blaze

    Blaze Blazing Moderator & Minecon Capes Collector
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    Nice Job Team.
     
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  5. Etheral Solutions

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    Lol