iv Changes at Icy Veins!

[Valks 2,375]

Things are changing to help you, our users!

A number of changes are coming to the Icy Veins site and community, all of which are tailored to creating a better experience for all of you!

As you have all undoubtedly noticed, the main pages of Icy Veins received a huge makeover earlier this year. It was the first in a number of planned changes that we hope are going to transform Icy Veins for the better.

 

The next visual update will be coming to the forums, an area that we feel needs some overdue love! It's a place for our community to come together, discuss and read about the latest news in every game we cover. To some extent, it has received less attention from us than we would have hoped. While our introduction of a new team of news writers did bring some more life to it, we feel that we need to give it another push.

 

To do so, we have decided to assign a full-time position for the site as a Community Manager. While it might seem strange for me to be doing so, I'm here to introduce myself as the CM for the site. Some of you that are more focused on WoW might know me from writing the news there, but I will be aiming to expand my reach across all 5 games that we cover. 

 

As a CM, there are a number of things I will be aiming to do to help everyone here as much as possible, including:

1. Making sure the readers and viewers have a direct line of contact to everyone at the Icy Veins team. If you feel that there is a specific problem that needs to be addressed, but don't know where to put it or post it, you can always send it to me. You can tweet it to our official Twitter (@icyveinscom) or to me personally (@BlainieWoW), you can send it via a message on our Facebook, send a message to me on the forums or just leave a message on our Discord! It will be passed on to those that it concerns and we can then work to improve on that. If you wish to make a comment regarding the improvement of a guide, you can always just use the guide comments forums.
2. Presenting weekly updates on what has changed on the site. It can become difficult for you to keep track of everything that has changed, so we want to make sure you're aware of exactly what is going on and when. These updates will include changes made to the guides on the site, the site itself and any notable pieces of news that are coming from our writers.
3. I will be on the lookout for members of our site and forums to act as moderators in the future. We have a wonderful team of moderators already on the site, but enthusiasms change and people grow disinterested with games. As time goes on, notable contributors will always be considered to be added to our team of mods!
4. Making sure that we have in-game communities for you all to take part in. While it's fun to chat on our Discord server, sometimes you just don't have people to play with. In-game communities such as in Diablo 3 would allow our readers the chance to interact with one another, while still playing at whatever level they wish to.
5. Events! We love having fun with the people that make all of this possible, so why not do it more often? We will host in-game events for people to take part in, with prizes to be won and bragging rights to be earned.
6. There are a number of other new additions that are coming soon, but we're going to be keeping them a secret for now! I assure you, you'll be updated as soon as we solidify our plans, but for now, we'd rather not give you all false hope! In my opinion, these new additions are worth the wait!

So what does this mean for the rest of the site? Well, we are going to continue pushing forward, continue bettering our guides and continue making sure that we give you the best experience that we can, every time you visit our site. These new developments simply aim to ensure that we hear every piece of feedback you give us and can appropriately react.

 

We're looking forward to seeing you all with us for years to come!

[positiv2 952]

Is there a specific date for the visual update, or is Damien's Soon™ still the most official "date"? :D

It is pretty cool that there will be a community manager, and congratulations on your new job!

Definitely looking forward to the secret stuff, whatever it will be. 

[Valks 2,375]

Is there a specific date for the visual update, or is Damien's Soon™ still the most official "date"?

It is pretty cool that there will be a community manager, and congratulations on your new job!

Definitely looking forward to the secret stuff, whatever it will be. 

 

I think we're still at Soon :P

 

Thanks, hopefully I can make a decent impact! The secret still will be amazing, I'm sure of it

[Khalidus 1]

Hey, just made an account because I thought I'd try and mention this somewhere you guys can see.The other day I tried unblocking your ads, y'know, trying to do the nice thing and support sites that I use yadda, but there is something...not quite right with your ads. After I unblocked them I noticed that Firefox, on any of my tabs, started locking up and acting incredibly sluggish. Disabling your ads once again solved the problem. No idea if this issue is prevalent or on anyone's radar but I thought I'd throw it out there. Maybe it can be one of the changes?

 

On to happier news, your site and the information it provides has been a big help for me. Thanks for keeping the site going!

[Peelyon 416]

Cheers for the feedback Khalidus.

 

I will pass this feedback to Damien who will have a look into it.  If you're interested there has been a post on our use of ads previously so go have a read 

 

https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/2781-our-stance-on-ads-and-ad-blockers/

 

Glad you enjoy the site and hope you feel you can contribute now you've sorted your account!

[Damien 1,514]

Hey, just made an account because I thought I'd try and mention this somewhere you guys can see.The other day I tried unblocking your ads, y'know, trying to do the nice thing and support sites that I use yadda, but there is something...not quite right with your ads. After I unblocked them I noticed that Firefox, on any of my tabs, started locking up and acting incredibly sluggish. Disabling your ads once again solved the problem. No idea if this issue is prevalent or on anyone's radar but I thought I'd throw it out there. Maybe it can be one of the changes?

 

On to happier news, your site and the information it provides has been a big help for me. Thanks for keeping the site going!

Hey there,

The kind of problem you describe is why we've started looking for different sources of income (such as premium or Patreon). I don't really know what to say, I send reports every week to the ad agency we work with and these problems just never seem to stop. If you are willing to help us track down these ads, so we can investigate the problem, please send us a message at [email protected]. We'll do our best to help.

[Damien 1,514]

Is there a specific date for the visual update, or is Damien's Soon™ still the most official "date"?

It is pretty cool that there will be a community manager, and congratulations on your new job!

Definitely looking forward to the secret stuff, whatever it will be.

It's hard to say, but I'm going to work a lot on this for the next few days and see where that gets me. The main issue I had to face is that bbcode is disappearing from the forum software. It's actually a good thing, because the rich text editor really works now. It's just that I had to replace all of the custom bbcode I had created for these forums with editor buttons. The development process for these buttons is a bit clunky so it took like forever, but I've finished last week. I even made some nice drop downs for Hearthstone, Diablo, and Heroes (like, you click the button, start entering text in the dialog window that appears and it autocompletes to show suggestions based on what you typed - super handy, Sottle tested it and loved it).

[Phoenix42 0]

 

Hey, just made an account because I thought I'd try and mention this somewhere you guys can see.The other day I tried unblocking your ads, y'know, trying to do the nice thing and support sites that I use yadda, but there is something...not quite right with your ads. After I unblocked them I noticed that Firefox, on any of my tabs, started locking up and acting incredibly sluggish. Disabling your ads once again solved the problem. No idea if this issue is prevalent or on anyone's radar but I thought I'd throw it out there. Maybe it can be one of the changes?

 

On to happier news, your site and the information it provides has been a big help for me. Thanks for keeping the site going!

Hey there,

The kind of problem you describe is why we've started looking for different sources of income (such as premium or Patreon). I don't really know what to say, I send reports every week to the ad agency we work with and these problems just never seem to stop. If you are willing to help us track down these ads, so we can investigate the problem, please send us a message at [email protected]. We'll do our best to help.

 

 

this is the reason i had to disable ads again as well.. doesnt seem to matter which browser im using either.. also even though they arent supposed to be there, it seemed everytime i logged on, i had videos autoplaying, which started screwing with other things i was trying to do.. that being said.. i love this site, its helped me a lot, and considering the time you all put into it, i wouldnt mind paying a reasonable fee for a premium or patreon membership.. 

 

Blainie, congrats on the new position! looking forward to the incoming changes :)

[Valkyr 55]

Love the Idea of in-game events! Also love the Idea for in-game communities. Also love the idea for weekly updates! Keep it guys guys!

[Valks 2,375]

 

 

Hey, just made an account because I thought I'd try and mention this somewhere you guys can see.The other day I tried unblocking your ads, y'know, trying to do the nice thing and support sites that I use yadda, but there is something...not quite right with your ads. After I unblocked them I noticed that Firefox, on any of my tabs, started locking up and acting incredibly sluggish. Disabling your ads once again solved the problem. No idea if this issue is prevalent or on anyone's radar but I thought I'd throw it out there. Maybe it can be one of the changes?

 

On to happier news, your site and the information it provides has been a big help for me. Thanks for keeping the site going!

Hey there,

The kind of problem you describe is why we've started looking for different sources of income (such as premium or Patreon). I don't really know what to say, I send reports every week to the ad agency we work with and these problems just never seem to stop. If you are willing to help us track down these ads, so we can investigate the problem, please send us a message at [email protected]. We'll do our best to help.

 

 

this is the reason i had to disable ads again as well.. doesnt seem to matter which browser im using either.. also even though they arent supposed to be there, it seemed everytime i logged on, i had videos autoplaying, which started screwing with other things i was trying to do.. that being said.. i love this site, its helped me a lot, and considering the time you all put into it, i wouldnt mind paying a reasonable fee for a premium or patreon membership.. 

 

Blainie, congrats on the new position! looking forward to the incoming changes

 

 

Yeah, it's really frustrating to have it happen. We're trying to fix all of this kind of stuff, but it's encouraging to hear that people are willing to look at other options with us. It gives us the freedom to explore possibilities!

 

Thank you and I hope we can get them out to you soon!

 

 

Love the Idea of in-game events! Also love the Idea for in-game communities. Also love the idea for weekly updates! Keep it guys guys!

 

Hopefully we'll get these events and communities running ASAP, mainly so that I cheat and win all the events. Just joking. Or am I?

[Brollgarth 0]

I love the new logo guys! Great job to the culprit!! :)

[swqsldz 0]

the new logo looks pretty cool!

[Damien 1,514]

Is there a specific date for the visual update, or is Damien's Soon™ still the most official "date"?

It is pretty cool that there will be a community manager, and congratulations on your new job!

Definitely looking forward to the secret stuff, whatever it will be.

Now, I can tell you that it will be next week

[Endlessrain 0]

i like new logo