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Hey there all!
Today we are releasing a new announcement with some pretty cool changes!

Forum Reorganization
We’ve made further reorganizations to make our forum easier to navigate. The changes that we’ve made are that we have:​
  • Renamed ‘Minecraft Products’ category to ‘Products’.
  • Renamed ‘Minecraft Services’ category to ‘Services’.
  • Merged ‘Miscellaneous Marketplace’ category with ‘Products’ category.
  • Made resource threads forum hidden.
  • Renamed ‘Server Discussion’ forum to ‘Server Showcase & Discussion’
  • Removed ‘Community Guidelines and Rules’ redirect forum. Access to the rules and terms of service is available in the footer of every page.
  • Removed ‘Discord’ subforum and merged existing threads into ‘Other’ subforum in ‘Social Media Accounts’
Staff Changes
Recently we’ve had a huge amount of staffing changes. A total of 3 new chat mods have been promoted who are Longze, BucketOfSloths, and DiabloTurtle. We are looking for a second developer and scam resolver to join our team so expect to see some new promotions again soon! Doge has been demoted from his position and Shattered has moved down to being a chat moderator.

TechBanana will also be taking over the responsibility of handling name change requests. If you’d like to request a name change, you may access the form in the dropdown of the support tab in the nav menu, or by clicking here.​

Wiki Updates
Over the past few years the MC-Market Wiki hasn’t received much attention or love, but today we’re releasing drastic changes to the way that the wiki works! The changes that we’re making to the wiki are:​
  • Added a wiki article about redistribution rights.
  • Added a wiki article about business accounts.
  • Added a wiki article about responsibility with investments.
  • Updated wiki article about MC-Market’s history.
  • Renamed ‘Guides’ to ‘Community Guides’.
  • Renamed ‘MC-Market’ to ‘Official’.
  • Adjusted permissions to prevent users from adjusting official documents.
  • Moved rules and terms of service to wiki.
Over the next few weeks we intend on working more on making the wiki better by redoing the index pages to make it easier to navigate, and also adding in new articles!
New Splash Messages
We have added over 100 new loading messages on our Cloudflare splash page! Written by Justis, the new messages contain memes, references, quotes, tips and facts. If you’d like to submit your own splash ideas, please use this form!​

Other Changes
Along with these great changes above, we have also made a bunch of other minor changes since our previous announcement. If you’d like to stay updated of the changes as they happen, please follow our twitter account!
  • Added requirements to create suggestion threads on the site to prevent postfarming.
  • Added several new user titles for non-Premium users.
  • Added rule 1.19.1 to clarify that unsolicited conversations aren’t allowed.
  • Added reactions to Currency Conversion forum.
  • Adjusted rule 4.5 to “Do not require, suggest, or mention connecting to any social media/community within a giveaway.”
  • Adjusted rule 9.1 to “Do not give reputation which is not truthful, relevant and informative.”
  • Adjusted rule 9.3 to “Do not hint, suggest, request, or imply in any way, a specific reputation rating upon yourself or another member."
  • Adjusted rule 9.4 to “Do not use reputation as a currency, reward, condition, incentive, punishment or deterrent.”
  • Adjusted grammar on Up Thread page.
  • Adjusted descriptions of account upgrades to be more up to date.
  • Adjusted resource reviews so they require a description.
  • Adjusted resources so that when deleted, they don’t send an automated message.
  • Removed all reactions from Appraisals forum except for Agree and Disagree.
  • Removed the ability to react to posts in the Accepted Suggestions forum.
  • Removed notices telling users to turn off ad blocking extensions.

If you have any questions or concerns with any of these changes please let me know below or through a thread in suggestions.

Thanks!
 
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It was literally just information centralisation I guess, more of a changelog than an announcement.
Which is exactly why I'm underwhelmed.

The last announcement/update was almost 3 months ago. There was some cool stuff in there (like OP tag) but also "sidebar polls" which I haven't seen used once (maybe I've just missed them all?)

When Mick said the following (not long ago), I thought there might actually be something exciting to look forward to in the next update:
we've got other priorities to handle first as I'm sure you'll agree

I mean just look at some of the stuff that might have been coming soon™:

REST API for update checking - https://www.mc-market.org/threads/284983/ (09 Jan 2018)
(Idc too much about this since it's not hard to "bypass" Cloudflare and read the current version number. Or just host own API which returns the version number. But still would be a cool feature)

Subscription Resources - https://www.mc-market.org/threads/299764 (01 Feb 2018)
(Again, not really for me but would be a great addition)

Enter Giveaway Button - https://www.mc-market.org/threads/278579/ (19 Dec 2017)
(This one could really help the giveaway section)

I'm on my phone so I cba to post more, but there's some "pending suggestions" from almost a year ago, and all we get is a housecleaning update?
 

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Which is exactly why I'm underwhelmed.

The last announcement/update was almost 3 months ago. There was some cool stuff in there (like OP tag) but also "sidebar polls" which I haven't seen used once (maybe I've just missed them all?)

When Mick said the following (not long ago), I thought there might actually be something exciting to look forward to in the next update:


I mean just look at some of the stuff that might have been coming soon™:

REST API for update checking - https://www.mc-market.org/threads/284983/ (09 Jan 2018)
(Idc too much about this since it's not hard to "bypass" Cloudflare and read the current version number. Or just host own API which returns the version number. But still would be a cool feature)

Subscription Resources - https://www.mc-market.org/threads/299764 (01 Feb 2018)
(Again, not really for me but would be a great addition)

Enter Giveaway Button - https://www.mc-market.org/threads/278579/ (19 Dec 2017)
(This one could really help the giveaway section)

I'm on my phone so I cba to post more, but there's some "pending suggestions" from almost a year ago, and all we get is a housecleaning update?
Unfortunately at the moment our limiting factor has been custom development. There are several months worth of custom development which I have planned, but we have been unable to get any work done due to NixFifty being busy recently. I am looking into hiring a second (and maybe third?) developer to make sure that we're able to put out updates as fast as possible.
 

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You're not gonna motivate Mick to fix that by offering him money to not do so ;P
I just wanna see what happens
 

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Damn, mcm got even stricter
 

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It really seems like you cleaned up a lot of sections/areas which is a blessing. Excited for the new staff, hopefully M6 can get some help so those can get sorted out. I was hoping for more name colors, but hey, I can dream. :rolleyes:
 

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Just to clarify, would an unsolicited conversation be something like this where the conversation starter advertises their product in pms?
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Noiceee. I guess some changes where needed?
 

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This announcement had interesting information! Glad to see the forums being cleaned up, and sorted out. I agree with fawny, too bad we didn't get a new username color's :oops: I wish everyone luck on including Longze, BucketOfSloths, of becoming staff. <3

Hey Mick if you haven't found another scam resolver, let me know! ;)
 
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