Hia,
Just wanted to inform people of some updates I’ve made to the GW2 guilds index over the last couple of days, mainly in preparation for Heart of Thorns.
A bit of background first. I launched GW2guilds.org a couple of months before GW2 was to be released; its main purpose being to give guilds an indication of which servers would be the best place to roll come launch. It was great to see all the big alliances declaring where they were going to call home, with thousands of guilds registering themselves over a few short weeks. In part this was thanks to ArenaNet who mentioned the site on their Twitter and Facebook – which actually crashed the site both times..
I later decided to support other MMOs, but the GW2 section has remained by far the most used, with over 9000 guilds currently listed.
As the years have passed, the main downfall of the site has been that many of the guilds listed no longer exist, have moved to other games, or their information is no longer up to date.
In an attempt to fix this problem, the site now sends automatic email reminders to guilds who’ve not updated their profile in a while. If they fail to respond and confirm their information is up to date, they’ll be removed from the listings. After another set amount of time, the removed guilds will become claimable by any other registered member. This will hopefully prevent situations where guilds can’t edit their own profile because the person who originally posted the entry is no longer reachable.
Another feature I’ve added is the ability to transfer ownership of entries to other registered users. This will allow people to hand over rights to others if they no longer want to maintain the entry.
As always I’m very open to suggestions for improvements, lots of things have been added in the past based on people’s feedback.
TL;DR
The guilds index has new features to ensure the listings are kept up to date, and should’ve been fully pruned by the time Heart of Thorns is released. There are also now facilities to allow old listings to be re-claimed or transferred.
Thanks!
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