Future improvements to the New Lodestone?

[Rowyne]

The development team is working on a couple of additions and improvements for the Lodestone, and I wanted to pass along some of the things they are looking to do.

• Currently developing a filter feature to be added to your wall.
• Addition of a mouse-over feature for your free company’s chest.
• Looking into various measures for uploading images, such as linking to external sites, to address the image space concerns.
• Addition of direct links for URLs placed in topics and news announcements.
• Planning to provide tools that will allow you to reference the planned Lodestone data base from external sites.

Camate--

Two months now and still no acknowledgement that an RSS feed for news topics will be returning to the Lodestone. Can you please let us know if this is on the web team's to-do list?

I check the Lodestone every day just to see if this has been implemented and it's becoming a frustrating issue.

[Phafi]

one more for RSS feed!

one for both lodestone topics in addition to one for the Dev Tracker off the forums would be great.

[Rowyne]

So, imagine my surprise when a post showed up the other day in my Lodestone RSS feed... because it was from the old Lodestone!

How are we three months into launch with a bright and shiny new Lodestone that still doesn't have an essential news feature that even the clunky old Lodestone had?

Please, can we get a status update on an RSS feed for news topics?

[Onizuka]

Good evening.

In a few hours the old Lodestone will shut down. I was still at 49% of my hard disk space for image upload there. Me and other adventurers won't be able to upload pictures anymore in the new Lodestone.

I still consider the old version better and I hope the new one will get the promised improvements. Many adventurers aren't writing anymore like they used to, because of the several important features missing in the new platform and that were instead available in the old one (besides, of course, the problem of not being able to upload any more images...).
The old Lodestone really had a strong community, particularly in Japan, but now it's not like that anymore.

I hope as time goes by we'll get improvements in the new Lodestone like the one suggested here, or simply make it more similar to the old one, that was very valid. And it still is, in this last hours of life left.

Thanks for reading.

[Rowyne]

Still requesting an acknowledgement that the Lodestone devs are listening to our requests. Do they have plans to implement an RSS feed for news topics?

[Duuude007]

7. Add filters to the “Wall” in the Personal Page the “Wall” like in the old Lodestone (filtered by language or entries displayed).

A million times yes!

I hate that the wall is useless to me, as it is almost always listing japanese blogs, none of which I am capable of reading. Let me filter by language, like I can in-game with the duty finder! Then this tool would finally be useful to many of us.

[Rowyne]

Bumping for great justice!

[LalaRu]

4. Add proper text formatting (bold, colors, hyperlinks, etc.).

+1 to this, I am trying to use the Lodestone for the Free Company I am managing, but right now is very difficult resist the temptation to use external forums, due the lack of even the basic things.

[LalaRu]

I also noticed you cannot edit your own posts, if they are not the OP.
Tried to workaround the 1000 characters limit, doing two posts in same thread, but 2nd post cannot be edited, making void my try.

[Rowyne]

Camate--

Still no acknowledgement that an RSS feed for news topics will be returning to the Lodestone. Can you please let us know if this is on the web team's to-do list?

This feature is essential to community sites and RSS readers!