Owls Across Time Zones

Choose when empty LFG groups get called off

Empty groups no longer pretend to start. A new setting under Raid automation lets you pick how long before start Hootus gives up if nobody but the poster joined, 15, 30 or 60 minutes or never, and when he does call one off the poster gets a quiet DM and the thread is cleared away.

Set an alt for someone right from the planner

Officers can now open the three-dot menu on any signup and pick Bring an alt to set an alt offer on that person's behalf, no need to make them sign up again. Choose from their known characters or look one up on the roster or Blizzard, pick the role, and it rides along on the raid post like any other offer.

Raid times are now rock-solid, whatever the clock or server

Every stored time is now timezone-aware end to end, so a raid set for 22:00 server time reads as exactly that everywhere, with no drifting an hour across daylight savings or a server move. Existing raids carried over untouched.

Signup notes are readable in the planner now

A note left on a signup used to be invisible in the planner, so if someone scribbled which alt they could bring you had no way to see it. The note now shows right on their row, so you can read what they said and act on it.

Server time now works for guilds outside Europe

Creating a raid or LFG from a Discord command used to assume European time, so a US or Oceanic guild would lock and ping at the wrong hour. The time is now converted using your guild's real timezone, daylight savings and all, so it displays and fires correctly wherever your raiders are.

Empty LFG groups bow out quietly instead of pretending to start

An LFG that hit its start time with nobody but the poster used to spin up a voice channel and announce it was starting, to a party of one. Now the group is cancelled and the poster gets a heads-up instead, while recurring posts reset for next time rather than cancelling.

Planner is usable on a phone again

On mobile the whole signup row was a drag target, so touching it grabbed the player instead of scrolling and the three-dot menu was impossible to tap. Now only the grip drags, so the row scrolls and taps normally and you can reach the menu to move, re-role or bench people when dragging is fiddly.

Planner edits show up without a reload, and the menu works on mobile

Changes made from the three-dot menu, like setting an alt or removing a signup, now appear straight away instead of making you refresh. And on phones the menu no longer hides behind a hover you cannot do, it just sits there ready to tap.