Members, Friends and PUGs

A Discord tab for managing everyone in the server

The guild page has a new Discord tab listing everyone in your Discord server by their Discord name, not just the WoW roster. Search by name or @handle, filter to people with no character yet, and set anyone up, mark them Member or Friend, rename, or reassign right from there.

Reassign a character to the right person

Linked a character to the wrong Discord user? A member's menu now has Reassign character: pick the character and the person who actually plays it, and Hootus moves it over. If that person was not set up yet, they become a member with that character in one go.

Flip someone between Member and Friend

A verified member's menu now has Convert to Friend, and a friend's menu has Make full Member. Handy when someone you set up as a member is really an out-of-guild friend, or the other way around. Their character stays attached either way.

Add a person straight from Discord

The guild page has a new Add person button. Search anyone in your Discord server by name, pick them, then add their character (searched across every realm) and set them as Member or Friend, no need to hunt for them in the list first.

Rename a member on Discord from the guild page

Click a member or friend on the guild page and pick Rename on Discord to set the nickname Hootus and everyone else sees, handy when their character name and the name you call them are different. Their character stays untouched.

Mark yourself absent for a raid

Raid posts now have an Absent button next to Tentative. Tap it to tell the leads you can not make this one. Absences show in their own section on the post and stay out of the roster, groups, and start pings, so leads can tell a clear no from someone who just has not answered yet.

Bring in friends from any realm

Officers can now add a friend who plays in another guild or on another realm: just type the character name in the verify panel and Hootus searches every realm on the armory. If the name exists on more than one realm you pick the right one, then mark them a Friend and add their alts.

Reset a member without losing the trail

A new Reset verification action sends a member back to unverified and clears their main so they can start the verify flow fresh, while keeping their record, notes, and history for the audit trail.

Choose whether PUG signups need a nod

Settings → Raid automation now has a switch to require officer approval for public PUG signups, sitting right beside the friend toggle. Off means they confirm themselves, on means an officer gets a clean one-tap approve or deny.

See who is who, in-game and on Discord, in one place

The Members page now shows each person's Discord name next to their main, with a clear marker for who is linked and who has no character. Officers get an In-game / Discord switch to flip the whole roster between the names they know best, so the separate Discord tab moved in here.

Friend role drops the Member role

Giving someone the Friend role, or converting them to a Friend, now removes their Member role automatically so the two do not stack. The member menu is also tidied into clear sections.

Find anyone by their Discord name

Member search is now fuzzy and looks at Discord username and nickname, not just the character name. So you can find a verified member by their Discord handle even when Hootus lists them by their character, and small typos still match.

Tidier roster on the raid post

The signup roster no longer doubles up the class icon on every line. Each player shows their spec icon when we have it, otherwise their role icon, with the class kept on the group header.

No more accidental double signups

Already on the roster? Tapping a signup button again just reminds you that you are in and points you at Withdraw. To change role or character, withdraw first, then sign up fresh.

PUG approvals always have a home

Turning on PUG approval now asks you to set up a PUG approval or officer channel first, so reviews always land somewhere an officer will see them instead of getting lost.

Know exactly where your PUG signup stands

After you apply, the signup page tells you plainly whether you are pending review, approved, or not picked, and reminds approved PUGs that the one-time Discord invite arrives in their DMs when the raid locks.

Comms PUGs land in the right voice channel

A PUG who hops in for one raid now only gets that raid's voice and thread, not the run of every raid channel. After the night ends they keep their spot and are welcome to stick around, no boot from the door.

Find people by their Discord @handle

Add person now searches a member's Discord username, not just the nickname showing in the server, so you can find someone by their @handle even when their server nickname is different. Their handle shows in the list too.

Finishing a raid no longer disconnects everyone

Finishing or cancelling a raid from the web used to delete the voice channels without moving anyone first, so the whole group dropped out of voice. It now hands the close to Hootus, who shuffles everyone to the fallback channel before the raid rooms close.

Raid-day pings land where people can see them

The morning "raid today" ping now always posts in the main channel rather than inside the raid thread, so raiders who have not signed up yet actually get the nudge instead of it landing where only the people already in get to see it.

PUGs on sister realms can finally sign up

The public signup link now finds your character anywhere on the connected realm, not just the guild home realm. If you were getting a "no data" wall before, give it another hoot.