Who Can Do What

Anyone can request a raid, and run their own once it is blessed

New `/raid request` lets any member pitch a raid the way leaders create one. It lands in your approval channel for one-tap Approve or Deny, and approving posts it straight away, handing the person who asked raid-assist control over just that raid until it finishes or cancels.

See exactly what a role can do

Settings, Access now has a "preview a role" panel. Pick a Discord role and Hootus lays out what it can view, what it can manage, and what it can do, straight from the live permissions. No more guessing whether a rank can see a page before you hand it out.

Know when your guild joined the roost

The guild overview now shows when your guild first set up Hootus, backfilled for guilds that were already here.

Promotions, so nobody waits too long for their feathers

Turn on Promotions and Hootus keeps an eye on who has earned a rank-up. Set a rule like "promote after 7 days" and the new Promotions tab shows who is due today and coming up, with a daily nudge in a channel you pick, and the next roster sync confirms your bump actually stuck.

The access matrix stays tidy when you save it

Saving your access settings now only records the spots where you actually moved a rank away from its tier default, instead of stamping every feature with an explicit list. Your access screen stays lean and keeps inheriting sensible defaults.

Raid leaders can call off their own raid

Cancelling a raid used to need an officer, even for the raid lead running it that night. Cancelling now sits at the raid-team tier, so a raid lead or assist can call off a raid they are running, while permanently deleting raids, series and templates stays with officers.

Setup spells out what each rank can do

When you map a Discord role to a tier during setup, Hootus now shows in plain language what that tier can see and do, and that higher tiers inherit everything below them. A new step also lets you point Hootus at your Member, Raider, Social, PUG and Friend roles right away, so it knows who is who from day one.

One source of truth for who can see and do what

The whole web app now answers "can this person see or edit this" from your access matrix, end to end. The old leadership and raid-assist shortcuts that quietly bypassed it are gone, so you set it once in Settings, Access and it holds everywhere.

Recruitment, planner and templates follow the access matrix too

More pages now honor the access matrix instead of being locked to leadership: recruitment review, the activity log, raid templates and the planner. Grant them to whichever ranks you want in Settings, Access, and server admins always get in.

Hand out the Discord and Characters tabs to the ranks you choose

The new Discord and Characters tabs are now controlled by the access matrix, so you can decide in Settings, Access exactly which ranks see them instead of it being locked to leadership. A few raid API actions also moved onto the same matrix, so access stays consistent everywhere.

A tidier guild page that tells you who is who

The guild page is reorganised into Members, Discord and Characters. Members folds each person's alts under their main so you scan people not a wall of characters, Discord lists your server members, and Characters is a searchable index with status badges making it obvious what each character is.

Light or dark is your call, not the guild's

Theme is a personal choice that lives in your own browser, so it no longer sits in guild settings where one person could flip it for everyone. Pick what you like from the theme switch and it stays yours.

Promotions actually shows who is due

The Promotions tab was erroring quietly and falling back to the empty "roosting quietly" message even when it was switched on. Fixed the crash so it lists everyone due and coming up, and a real loading hiccup now says so plainly instead of looking switched off.

Officer review notes stay with officers

The internal note explaining why a member is held for review was being sent to the page for everyone, even though only officers saw it on screen. It now never leaves the server for non-officers.

Settings respect who you actually gave access to

A handful of settings pages were hidden behind an old leader-only check that ignored the access matrix, so a role you granted access to could still be turned away. They now honor the matrix you set, and server admins always get in.