Sorry for the lack of updates! It's been a busy few weeks. The good news is that I completed the recruiting flow for staff, although I still have some work to do on the onboarding side. This means that I'll shortly be crossing an item off our roadmap: Expanded moderator & GM team. It also means that we can open staff applications, which I'll be doing shortly. Next on the list for me: Modmail and OOC direct messaging. The OOC direct messages will be called "private threads;" they are going to work essentially just like a normal thread on the forums but only accessible to you and the player you create it with.
It's gratifying to see the new admin panel filling out with new functionality, but it's also not lost on me what a tremendous amount of work all this is. It's basically been like creating a whole new game! Not only did I rebuild the entire client from the ground up, I created an entirely new layout for the website and rewrote most of the admin panel, on top of all the new administrative functionality I've been adding to the website and the new features to come. I definitely don't think we could have accomplished it while also running the game on the side, but they're really important and necessary for the future growth of the game, as I'm sure I've said many times already. Thank you for all your support and patience!