Guilds - Info & Questions

[Melooon]

Greetings  I hope you are having a nice day! I am here to talk to you about the (upcoming) Guilds feature!

What is a Guilds?? 
Aha you've come to the correct subheading to answer that question  (omg why am I writing like this today)

ANYWAY, here's a back story. When the Everyone Site was first setup I'd planned to allow people to create their own mini-everyone sites. However an everyone site with only one person is a bit of an oxymoron, so really it needed to be mini-everyones sites that people could invite others to collaborate on!

That was always a sticking point though; coding a whole collaboration management system just to add a small feature to one of the lesser known projects here was not really worth the time. BUT a few months ago I spotted this video on Neopets Guilds by harke ~ it made me realise that creating groups didn't just have to be a hidden setting somewhere, it could be a really fun and memorable addition while also solving the everyone site issue  So I got to work 

Where are they? 
(when finished) At the top of the site you'll see a new Guilds tab next to the Art tab, click it and you'll find yourself in the Guilds Hub, a new section of the forum dedicated to guilds! Here you can see your guilds, find new guilds find guild related features!

What do they do?
Anyone with Jr Member status or higher can create guilds, and any forum member can join a guild. Guilds offer these features:

• A customisable page on the forum, with full profile-style CSS + HTML modding.
• A dedicated mini-everyone site that only members of the guild can edit, but anyone can view.
• A fully automated webring for guild members with an onionring-style widget.
• A discussion/notes thread for each guild.
• Guild members can create events that are aggregated into a forum-wide events feed, with RSS support!
• Guilds can be public for anyone to join, or guild managers can approve all members joining their guild.

In the future my plan is to offer guild tie-ins to many other ML features, including things like creating dedicated guild banners 

Wawawaa
Thats not a real subheading!!!

Ooph, if you have questions, feature requests, ideas, bug reports or other THOUGHTS, trap them here and I will consume them with my mind 

[larvapuppy]

I can't wait for this to be released. I think it will be a great way to make friends on here. I love the collaborative and fun direction the forum has been heading in; thank you Melon!   

Can the guild threads also have css customization for members? I think that would make it extra fun......