Anything to clear that national debt.

Gotta pay for my diplomatic events somehow!

Do we get to keep the ticket after, or is it like some private resorts where we have to give it back at the end?

If we get to keep it, I'm buying all of them!

I'm currently seeing the beta home page (I assume) without having purchased a beta ticket. Does that count as a bug?

@Windos - Yes, that's a bug. Should be fixed now (famous last words... :) )

Bought the Beta Home Page; James and Erinyes you are insane and I love the moveable layout, S+ for that alone. The Discord thing is also brilliant. I'm very curious what the Admin page is going to look like with this, but still, good so far!

Thanks James! Can confirmed that's working now.

I really enjoyed the new member homepage so far - great work! Wondering if we might get the Brotherhood Leadership & Clan Leadership as toggleable boxes as well?

just looks like the normal administration page. now how do we go back to the regular page?

@Brimstone: Go to the top menu Main > Latest News if that's what you mean. But you do have the tab for News items on the beta version as well.

I do like the customizability thus far. Being able to move stuff around to suit your preferences, deciding what is displayed, what is not, and even expanding some of the boxes, is very nice. My main note is... it is a wall of text. Currently, the home page (newspage) has some decent breaking up of the text wall via the headers on each news box. So much text, as it is, can be very daunting for some.

Echoing what Mune said. Having lived with this for a little bit now, I miss the news page and find myself frustrated when I click the site logo and don't get taken back to it.

Summary of thoughts:

• Visually very similar to the admin page, hard to at a glance distinguish between the two.
• Not as visually interesting as the news page.
• There is a news widget, but it's a very condense list
• Could the admin page and this new home page not be merged?
  • Have some items from the admin page that are mandatory, they can be moved but not removed.
  • Make sections expandable, so you can load it up with all the things, but can "minimize" them and click to expand them when you need something from that section.
• Make the news widget configurable, let me choose between this list and a tiled view that mimics the current news page within the widget.
  • This would help with the visual interest of the page.
• Add the widgets for Brotherhood Leadership and Clan Leadership that are currently at the bottom of the new page.
• Add character headshots to the characters widget (again, visual interest).
  • Also make this customizable so you can have a tiled view with a larger headshot visible for each character.

Wish list for this new page:

• Make the sizing dynamic so that it can take up the full width of whatever screen you're using. It already does a good job of dropping to a single column on mobile, but there's a lot of wasted space horizontally on desktop.
  • Suggest either upping the max columns from 3 to 5 (strong preference), or make the 3 columns expand when there is space available.
• Customizable tabs, allow me to make multiple tabs, laid out with widgets the way I want and so I can flick between them.
  • The admin page could just be a tab at that point, from a user perspective.

General site wish list:

• Reduce the vertical space used by the top navigation. I think this balooned when we switched over to the new logo, but it currently takes up an obscene amount of screen real estate.
• Customizable themes.
  • I currently use the Jennified theme, and would love to either have a dark mode version of that, or even better allow me to select the colours and background image for my own theme to suite my personal need/jedi flavour of the month.

@Mune and @Windos: Thanks for the feedback! We'll look at incorporating it into our next round of changes in another 13 years in the relatively near future. :D

Oof. Too real Erinyes, too real. Haha XD

Feedback Summary

1. Admin Page vs. New Home Page

The two pages look and feel very similar.
Because they show overlapping information, I’ve repeatedly found myself searching one page for links that actually live on the other. The visual distinction just isn’t strong enough to separate their functions.

2. Favorites Tab

The favorites tab is a great concept and reminds me of SharePoint’s “favorite anything” model—which works because of its breadth.
Right now, the feature feels limited because the number of links you can access through it is small. The idea is strong, but the usefulness feels capped by the available options.

3. Widget Resizing

Independent resizing is excellent. I really like that level of control.
However, some widgets—especially Characters and Time & Date—still have a minimum size that feels too large. They occupy more space than their function requires, which makes me consider removing them even though I want the information they provide.

4. News Tiles vs. List View

Windos’ comment resonated with me here. Having both the tile view and the condensed list view would help a lot.
If tiles could also be resized (similar to other widgets), that would be ideal—more visual flexibility without losing readability.

5. Desktop Wasted Space

There’s a lot of unused horizontal real estate on desktop.
Most of my browsing is on mobile, so I don’t see it often—but when I do, it’s noticeable. The page collapses well on mobile, but desktop could benefit from either more columns or dynamic expansion.

My only real suggestion is to make the 'Site Based Activities' 6 Big buttons on the top.

Since we're having option widgets now... Bring back ID lines? :D