[5.1] Fellowships are incomplete and poorly implemented.

Fellowships have some potential to be useful but with third party applications existing such as Discord and Line in Asia, they need to do more to become and stay relevant. The current implementation is an incomplete product that never should've been released.

Here are a few suggestions (more than most other threads have) on how to improve fellowships beyond their current incomplete state:

• Allow more advanced searching for fellowships by adding additional fields including name, world (homeworld of creator), fellowship size (e.g more than x members or less than x members), and by multiple activities (e.g a fellowship that is both casual and battle).
• Create a context menu (right-click or whatever on a controller) on each message within the message board to allow sending a friend request to the poster, tagging (see below), and potentially more. Additionally remove the "X" at the end to delete the message and add it to the context menu. The "X" just looks like outdated UI design.
• Tagging (mentions): allow a user to tag another user in a message post. This would notify the tagged user "hey you should read this".
• Subscribe: opt-in to get notified when a new message is posted on a fellowships message board.
• Add a way to publish notices to users. This adds a way to interact with the users of a fellowship since as is, the fellowships require the user to actively engage with them and little ways for the fellowship to engage the user; making it pretty useless. Published notices would allow the fellowship to actively re-engage users for fellowship activities.
• Deleted comments should not remain on the message board. This is unnecessary clutter.

I was really hoping to join some fellowships to get more active and be able to do things like extremes, hunts, treasure maps and what not since I don't have the oomph to hold a guild together in this game anymore, but all the fellowships adverts I saw were mostly jokes or trolls. Like LL chat taken to the next crazy extreme.

Some sort of filter would be wonderful, esp server and content restrictions since I have no interest in server hopping to do stuff and have even less interest in RP. Hopefully it will change at some point, but after a few minutes of browsing the posts the past few days I have no interest in even looking right now anymore.

Personally I was really hoping fellowships would have a chat "channel" (much like linkshells) rather than more or less being messageboards. It's a lot easier to see if you actually gel with a group of people (for organising content or whatever) if you can actually talk to them in realtime, and for folks with certain levels of social anxiety like myself, it just feels easier to engage in a familiar form of communication.