Snahp.it Update

Important Updates - 21/04/2019
Post  by LiM » Sun Apr 21, 2019 6:07 pm

Hey all,

Here's a jist of the updates made to the forum;
New User groups have been added;
Junior Uploaders
Donors
Junior Uploaders is a new user group which is what users would be able to apply for. They're basically registered users but with the ability to post in Apps/Games. They have no other permissions that trusted Uploaders do - including access to the post generators or the Uploaders forum or even invites.
On the basis of how a user is doing as a Junior Uploader, they may be promoted to the rank of a trusted Uploader.
Obviously the most prominent change on the index must be the change of colors to the user groups - it'll take a little getting used to. The following user groups have had updates made to their color codes;
New Users
Regular Users
I've finally got a donation page set up - sorry for the delay, @@doc - you'll find a link to the Donation page in the navigation bar (thanks @@doc) - https://i.imgur.com/NxgTF99.png
Donations come with perks, which are again mentioned on the Donation page. This is an attempt to invite people to donate and help us keep the servers running. Regardless of the amount of donations we receive (if any), we will not be adding adverts to the forum, like we do have on the blog and the link protector.
As @@Mikola921 had asked elsewhere on the forum - if you're already an Elite/Uploader/VIP but still plan on donating - you'll get the best for both. So if you'd like to have the permissions of an Uploader (ability to post in apps/games) but still have the perks of a Donor, that's completely do-able. Whatever color/perks/permissions you'd like, that's completely your call. I'll just have to manually edit your permissions is all :)
We've started giving out invites but for now they're only limited to users that are Uploaders or above (so Uploaders, VIPs, Elites, Staff). Eventually the plan, as @@rotalus mentioned over discord, is to start conducting interviews for invites so that people that do not know any senior members here can get a chance to join the forum. Don't take anything for granted just yet - we're not sure how we'll be proceeding with them for now. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know.
Changed the names of the groups shown on the Who is Online legend on the index page. Changes are as follows;
Administrators - Admins
Global Moderators - Moderators
Registered Users - Regular Users
Newly Registered Users - New Users
We've added Rank images to help our mobile users easily differentiate between different users (especially more seasoned Regular Users from the new ones - both that share the same user color) - they go from Level 1 all the way to Level 60 (WoW inspired - thank you, teebling). They're as follows;
Image - Admins
Image - Moderators
Image - Developers
Image - N/A for now
Image - Elites
Image - VIPs
Image - Trusted Uploaders
Image - Donators
Image - Junior Uploaders
Image - Regular Users (1000+ posts)
Image - Regular Users (100-1000 posts)
Image - Regular Users (6-100 posts)
Image - New Users (1-5 posts)
They're mostly pretty trivial at the moment and you'll be working your way up through the ranks on the forum. So a New User starts at Level 1 for instance and can go up to Level 15. Level 20 on-wards are special ranks and they're allocated to Uploaders, Donors, etc for instance. Like I said, trivial for the time being.
After discussion with the staff, we have decided to change @@indigo6alpha from a Mod to a VIP - he seems to have retired and we're glad to have had him with us. @@indigo6alpha - you're more than welcome back on the team whenever you'd like. Thank you for all you've done.
UPDATE:
The color for Mods and Donors has been changed so that they don't coincide with any other ranks.
Added post summary to the rank images above.
Forgot to mention in the original post that we had re-enabled the captcha on the link protector.
Updated the Donations page - the wallet address was mentioned in CAPS on the previous edit.
That should be all. Not a lot of technical stuff going on, mostly cosmetic changes to the forum.

Happy Easter and thank you for your time. Have a lovely rest of your evening, everyone!