new feature suggestion

[Just5MoreMinutes]

I figured this might be a good addition:
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What if we would add a system that allows visitors to see upcoming roles on the website?
Since wynncraft adds new quests or other new lines to be voiced in almost every update they make (except for the smaller ones of course) it would be cool to allow users to directly view unvoiced characters when visiting the website because it allows for more possible voice actors to pick from, which is a great way for us to voice (new or re-voice old) quests a lot quicker.

As of right now, this is handled through discord - which certainly isn't bad - but I think since not everyone is on the discord, it might catch the attention of more people that are interested in voice acting.

I'm not quite sure how hard this would be to implement, but I think that would be an overall nice feature to have.
Please tell me whether or not you like the idea, I can also help with certain smaller back-end tasks if needed (if you dislike the idea that's no problem since the discord itself is probably sufficient) :)

PS.: sorry for submitting this at 1am haha, I hope I didn't interrupt you :')
PSS.: I added 2 new labels mainly for ideas (Denied & Accepted) I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do such things, if I'm not, feel free to remove it, sorry

[ShadyMedic]

Hmm, I guess that we could add a list of NPCs that we're currently casting somewhere on the index page (probably near the Discord invite). Somebody would need to update it every time a new position is opened because adding a feature to somehow set it from the administration menu would be too much work for a feature like this.

Adding a webpage with a list of NPCs that don't have any voice actor set could be done quite easily, I think. It would be easy on the backend side, at least. The frontend would depend on where would we put it. Could we reuse some of the views for this, or would you have to design a completely new webpage for this? In the end, I can create a controller that will give you all the needed information from the database and you can put it into view.

The labels are cool, I just might change the colours a little and fix some of the icons that aren't supported there, Thanks for the idea.

[Just5MoreMinutes]

Somebody would need to update it every time a new position is opened...

I'm not really sure if it's possible to automatically update the database using an external script once the website is online, but if it is, we could try making some quick script to make this process quicker and easier.

The frontend would depend on where would we put it. Could we reuse some of the views for this, or would you have to design a completely new webpage for this

If it would be right on the index page, I would just paste some simple HTML into the index.phtml file and call it a day. In case we would make an entirely new page it will take the global attributes for body, main, html and some others, so the basic view would already be given. Then I would simply reuse the same design I used on the downloads page, with some small changes of course :)
~ for short, it isn't too much work on the front-end side of things (I think)

...fix some of the icons that aren't supported there...

I didn't know some of the icons weren't supported. I thought I only picked ones that are supported on any browser, sorry :)

[ShadyMedic]

I think that we're both kinda busy now and this is one of the less urgent tasks, so I'll just add postponed for now. I believe that we'll have time to implement this eventually.

[Just5MoreMinutes]

Since it's not even implemented yet I don't think it's worth our time to actually implement it just yet. Probably we can work on it when the feature would come in handy for someone (which it doesn't really do as of right now) :)

So I think we could just postpone or close it for now :)

[ShadyMedic]

I guess it'll be useful later. I'll close it and the "Postponed" tag will make it easier to find and reopen again.

[ShadyMedic]

@Team-VoW/website-team Thoughts on this feature? I forgot it was suggested.

[Just5MoreMinutes]

Well, I suggested it and I still like the idea of having that feature. As already said, styles could be reused so it shouldn't take too long to actually style it. I'm still not quite sure how hard it would be to implement from a back-end stand-point, but the front-end could be done quite easily :)

However, maybe this could be changed to a little Announcement-type-of-thing on the top of the webpage that pops-up whenever there are spots available. Instead of showing the NPCs that are being voiced currently, we could change it to an Announcement like, "Hey, Voices of Wynn is currently looking for voice actors! If you are in interested in giving a Wynncraft NPC a voice, make sure to apply at (links to discord and ccc)"
This would have the same effect but be less work to implement. Maybe it could be toggled through the admin-page or there could be an additional section on the index page that has a text saying something like: "Toggle VA recruitment: <on/off depending on selection> with a button that can toggle between on and off or a selection with the options on/off.

Just an idea though.

[ShadyMedic]

Yeah, that shouldn't be that difficult on the backend side either, it's just adding a short JS script and one more static webpage + a simple interface for admins. @KMaxi Thoughts?