Hootus Opens the Doors

Two runs, two sets of roles

Running two of the same raid in a night? You can now set a master looter, main tank, and raid assist for each run on its own, right in the planner.

Tell Hootus what your guild is about

Pick a focus in setup or in settings, raiding or social, and your dashboard leads with what matters to you: raid nights and attendance, or roster health and a clean member overview. Not sure? Hootus reads the room from how your guild plays.

Reports can be wrapped up as "won't fix"

Not every report is a bug. Hootus can now close one as won't fix with a friendly note, so nothing sits open forever.

Hootus pings you when your report moves

Get a heads up in your DMs when your report is Seen, being Investigated, or Resolved, and check the full status anytime under Help, My reports.

See your reports, start to finish

A new My reports tab on the Help page shows every ticket you have sent, its status, the whole conversation, and lets you reply right there.

Hootus tells you where your report stands

Tickets now move through Seen, Investigating, and Resolved, and the dev can ping you an update so you are never left wondering.

Poke the dev without a friend request

A new Help page lets you send a message or report a bug straight from the web. It flies right to the developer, no friend request, no chasing anyone in DMs.

Hootus keeps a diary now

This very page. Every update gets written down so you can see what changed and when, instead of guessing why a button moved.

Bring a friend to the raid

Members marked as friends can see the raid board and sign up. Officers who want a say can flip on approval under Bot Settings, Raid automation.

Reply to Hootus right in your DMs

When the dev answers your ticket, just reply to the DM and it threads back automatically. No trip back to the website.

Guild server time

Raid and event times now show in your guild's chosen time zone, set under Bot Settings, Time.

Bot Settings now grouped into sections

Settings are reorganized into clear groups so channels, ranks, roles, time, and raid rules are easier to find.

Officer review queue for verification

Officers get a queue for members who need a closer look, with friend and needs-review badges, kept out of public channels.

Public or private raid threads

Each raid and LFG channel can choose whether its threads are public or private, and signing up adds you to the thread automatically.

Move and edit raids in Discord

You can now relocate a raid to another channel and edit it without leaving Discord, and the old thread locks behind you.

Channel health checks

Hootus now warns you when it is missing the permissions it needs to post embeds, emojis, or threads in your raid and LFG channels.

Guild analytics dashboards

New web dashboards show trends for raids, LFG, loot, and overall guild health.

Request verification by DM

Officers can nudge members to verify with a direct message, and unverified members are tracked with a one-week reminder.

Take the wheel on raid night

Lock, finish, or cancel a raid straight from the planner instead of waiting on the timer. The planner home also gained an overdue list and a quick read on which nights still need healers.

Fewer blank stares, friendlier hiccups

Pages show a loading owl and a warm empty message instead of flashing blank, and when a command trips over something it owns up with a friendly note instead of going quiet. Armory links also point at the right region now.

Hootus patches his own channel access

When Hootus is missing a permission on a channel you actually use, one tap and he sets it himself, no digging through Discord settings. He only checks the channels you have wired up, and only asks you for the rare thing he genuinely cannot do on his own.

Hootus asks for less

Trimmed the permissions Hootus requests when you add him, down to only what he truly needs, and he never wants Administrator. Less to hand over, nothing scary.

Your guild page, tidied up and straight to the point

The dashboard stopped repeating itself. One clean row of numbers up top, the handful of things that actually need an officer's eye right below, and every count links straight to the members it is about.

A nicer welcome when you run more than one roost

The guild picker is centered now, with each guild's expansion shown as cover art so you can spot the right one at a glance.

Hootus sounds more like Hootus

Warmer wording across the help and support flow, from the contact form to the DMs you get back.

Reply to Hootus and it knows the ticket

Reply to a Hootus DM and it lands on the right report. Juggling more than one? Start your reply with the number, like #12.

Posting an LFG is all taps now

Setting up a looking-for-group post picks the day and the time from dropdowns instead of typing, and you can land on any hour of the day. Fewer typos, more flying.

Officer tools tucked under one /manage

The scattered officer commands now live under a single /manage, so the command list is shorter and the tools are easier to find.

Tighter, friendlier permissions

Access control was reworked so people get exactly what their roles allow, an empty setting means admins-only as promised, and admins can always get back in.

Hootus found his voice

Verification and welcome messages got a little more owl in them. Same info, more hoot.

Finer access control

Every page and command now checks a specific permission, so you can give people exactly the access they need and nothing more.

Roles and ranks per server

Roles and ranks are read from your own server's settings instead of fixed defaults, so Hootus fits any guild.

More accurate character verification

Verify now confirms your character on the armory across connected realms, so the right character and realm get linked every time.

Legacy LFO board retired

The old looking-for-others board is gone, fully replaced by the redesigned LFG groups.

LFG groups redesigned

Looking-for-group posts have a cleaner look with WoW class and role art, a guided wizard, and a one-tap join.

/lfo is now /lfg

The looking-for-others command is renamed to /lfg, with applying and difficulty choices handled right in Discord.

Welcome flow reworked

New members get a clearer welcome with simpler buttons, plus a configurable log channel and notification toggles.

Raid threads close when a raid ends

Raid threads now close on cancel and finish instead of just being renamed, keeping channels tidy.

Nobody gets locked out

Fixed a snag where members in guilds that had not set up ranks yet could be shut out of pages they should always see. If your guild is lightly configured, everyone can get in again.

Dropdowns show the right words

Settings dropdowns now show the option you picked instead of its raw code. Small thing, much tidier.

Analytics stops blinking at you

The analytics pages show a loading owl now instead of a blank screen while the numbers come in.

Contact type picker shows the right label

The Type dropdown on the contact form now reads Bug report, Message, or Feature idea instead of the raw value.

Replies stick once we start looking

Replying to a Hootus DM now lands on your report even after it is marked Seen or Investigating, not only on brand-new ones.

The changelog actually shows up now

Release notes render straight from the source, so this page stays current with every deploy instead of sitting empty.

Verify actually hands you your roles

If the armory confirms your character, you get your member, class, and raider roles on the spot, from both /verify and the welcome buttons, instead of waiting on an officer who was never pinged.

Morning reminders read the right clock

The day-of nudge now fires on your guild's own time zone, so guilds outside Central Europe stop hearing about raid night on the wrong day.

Moving a raid no longer ditches the squad

Relocating a raid with a private thread now brings everyone who signed up along to the new thread, not just the raid leader.

The nudge-tentatives button does something now

Poking your maybes from the planner finally pings them to confirm or drop, the way it always looked like it should.

Editing an LFG time understands "tomorrow"

The LFG edit box now accepts friendly days like "tue" or "tomorrow", matching what the form already told you to type.

Raids run even on a brand-new server

Auto-lock and reminders now work for guilds that have not finished setup, instead of quietly doing nothing.

Analytics charts no longer crash

The analytics dashboards now load reliably, with class icons in the breakdowns and rank numbers pulled from live Discord roles.