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Our New Forums: The Temple Of The Gods - A Thanksgiving Message

AvatarHigh Priest Zevios Metathronos5 min to read
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Greetings to everyone in our Zevist family,

This is a public announcement to announce two things. As you can see with proof in front of you, the Temple now has these phenomenal forums, sitting at the edge of beauty, latest technology and maximal functionality. You will fall in love with the new technology here, which is the gateway to your learning, to your spiritual journey and self elevation in the company of the Gods and our Zevist brothers and sisters.

I want to publicly thank NG Maelstorm for the creation of these magnificent platform and this major upgrade, which will affect all Zevists for years to come. We all owe a thank you for NG Maelstorm for bringing this in manifest form, proving his resilience, hard work and merits in front of the whole of our Community and bringing the Community closer to the Gods through is works.

Further, I would like to announce, that Maelstorm has secured his position as a Temple Guardian [TG] through applied and sustained effort to evolve us technologically with the most recent and cutting edge standards. Therefore, let us both thank TG Maelstorm for his works, and let us also henceforth call him Temple Guardian Maelstorm, for He has both guarded and elevated the Temple of the Gods.

May he be blessed for his works, may he be blessed in his new office, which is both incumbent with major glory and major responsibility.

This post must serve as testament to how a brother or sister in our Ranks, rises on Merit. The core Merit, is giving, creating and uplifting: There are many means, yet our Brother here has displayed his creative tenacity and vision to embark on one of the most important topics. We all do our part of the Temple, and when this is done, honor, glory and immortality of name, is etched on the Community which serves the Gods, in great happiness by everyone and with splendor of works.

We must all send him a blessing and a good word, for as we can see, the greatness of all of us is made manifest, we do great acts for others, Gods and people alike.

It must also further be noted, that our brothers and sisters from Turkey are venerated by the works of the people of the region, which prove beyond all doubts, that Turkish Zevists are a great and formidable force in channeling the light of the Gods. May everyone take example of this, for people of all under our wonderful earth, have come together to instate the Gods in front of Man, and bring Man into the path of the Gods.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank every single Guardian and Priest, and above all, the ardent supporters of the Temple who allow these things to occur with their verified and elegant help; we respect you and venerate you. We bless them for all their efforts and their labors, which must be recognized by us all.

The largest proof of recognition, is when all of us can behold something greater and above us all: the Great Gods being venerated and upheld in their presence, bringing the manifest powers of the Gods into the earth, as a blessing upon mankind. That is the blessing of blessings which supercedes us all, and upon which, we must look in divine aspiration, awe and loving-kindness as it descends upon us. It descends upon us, when we rise to it; like all the heroes of the Ancient World alike.

The Temple is creating, curating and growing such heroes who are all in themselves, in their own struggles, arise to draw down as a singular unity, the Light of the Gods, and express it on the Earth. Those who allow, those who give, those who create, those who help, and those who extend their hands for this, may their golden hands and golden souls be blessed always.

In this project, SG ApolloAbove has worked a for it's manifestation and implementation into the actual forums. We thank them both for these implementations and I have to further thank and give credit, to all the team of the Temple of Zeus, who has most earnestly worked to provide purity of content, advanced tools and a pure atmosphere that the Gods deserve in their House.

I would write a book if I had to say, what some people have done for this place, and maybe one day I will: What is for certain, is that, where everyone is concerned, remember that your labors and the rocks you lifted, are observed not only by the men and women here, but by the Gods themselves.

For blessed is the Creator of the Temple above all, even in the land of fall, and his destiny shall be his rise as our divine writings say: "Creation, my daughter, verifies itself. Because we live in a universe where destruction is easy, but creation is infinitely more worthwhile. That was designed in the Universe so that all beings in this world understand the value of creation and that worthy souls discover this heavenly power, which is reserved for the brave and kind-hearted" - Aphrodite's Virtue Γ

May the Names of the Gods be venerated, may the Great King Zeus observe us, and may He and the Esteemed Gods look upon our verified and proven love, and return it back to us, individually and as a whole.

-High Priest Zevios Metathronos

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I studied ux/ui design, & my favorite details are the many icons. I also like the cool colors with the earth & gold. Fantastiche!

#91

Honestly I would prefer the forum to go back to how it was in 2017 compared to how it is now. I have never had problems until recently. It had more functionality then than it does now, for the important things. It is the most beautiful looking today than it has ever been before, and also the least usable.

No ability to sign in with username and password. No list of unread topics so I can't see what is posted. Conversations and replies all get lost into these subcategories inside of other replies. This does not feel so much like a forums or a community anymore, it feels just like a homepage that is blocking me and not allowing me access into the actual forum. We can see a few posts that are put on the home page, but are not allowed inside.

In 2017, I was able to log in with a Username and Password in just a few seconds. There is not even a username and password at all anymore. I was able to have the full list of all unread topics and was able to go down the page reading and responding to all of them. It looked very basic and simple and there wasn't a lot more than this, but this is the most important fundamentsl things. Private messages or conversations were added in the previous version, and that is a valuable feature. The reactions and points are fun, but they are not the most necessary thing.

This forums here was one of the biggest things in my life and I feel like it is lost. I want to be optimistic but I am very sad and disappointed. I wish for the community and the forums that we used to have, where I could participate every day and try to help people on every topic. I want to be here and I want to participate as much as I always had, but I feel like almost none of it is possible anymore.

Now there is only a homepage that takes forever to get signed in to, and then stuck on this basically blank homepage with just a couple topics unable to get into the actual Forums that used to exist. Even the very few topics that are shown are more difficult to read with all of the comments spaced far apart and mixed together.

Are people using computers having a much better experience? Do they have a forums and a view of all topics?

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Maelstorm [TG]

No ability to sign in with username and password.

We’ve switched to a new login system and this applies to all of our sites. The VT platform has been using this for a long time and we've just migrated the forums to this new system as well.

To solve your problem, all you need to do is just using a browser that can save your cookies, then you won't have to login every time you visit this site, as I explained to you in private.

No list of unread topics so I can't see what is posted.

We are working on this feature and we expect it to be released in the next update.

Conversations and replies all get lost into these subcategories inside of other replies.

This has been explained to you in the past why this change was required.

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Ol argedco luciftias
This is the targeted reply.

No ability to sign in with username and password.

We’ve switched to a new login system and this applies to all of our sites. The VT platform has been using this for a long time and we've just migrated the forums to this new system as well.

To solve your problem, all you need to do is just using a browser that can save your cookies, then you won't have to login every time you visit this site, as I explained to you in private.

  1. There are valid reasons of privacy why some people would not want to use that type of browser. To not leave open tabs or history of coming here. An extreme example would be like members in muslim countries who could get their heads cut off for coming here. If there is a way around this, it is still a restriction that is making the user experience worse.

I do not encouter this problem on Vultus Templorum with this login system because I do not go there anymore. I used to go on there and would like to again, but since that has been updated it is basically entirely unusable on a phone web browser. It is very difficuldifficulty to read the messages, and almost impossible to write messages because it is not possible to see what is being written.

2. Thank you very much for that. That will be by far the most important feature.

3. It is not necessary. It is an opinion. There are some benefits, and as I explained in my reply there there are also serious problems with that system. It is an experiment, it is another way to do it, but it is not required and in some cases causes major problems.

One quick example is that it is impossible to go to a topic now and instantly see what are new replies. We are no longer taken directly to the new comment that we have not read yet, and are not even taken to the last page. We are taken to the first page. And new posts that we have not read yet can be mixed into all other comments on every page of the topic. If a topic has 50 pages, we possibly have to search through all 50 pages to find what are the new replies that are lost mixed in everywhere. When before we would only need to click once on a previously viewed topic, and instantly in a few seconds be taken directly to the first recent reply that we have not seen yet.

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Maelstorm [TG]

We are no longer taken directly to the new comment that we have not read yet, and are not even taken to the last page. We are taken to the first page.

If you click to thread title, it will go to the thread.

If you click to the date of the reply or message, it will go to that reply or message.

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Ol argedco luciftias

We are no longer taken directly to the new comment that we have not read yet, and are not even taken to the last page. We are taken to the first page.

If you click to thread title, it will go to the thread.

If you click to the date of the reply or message, it will go to that reply or message.

I am not necessarily talking about notifications for replies to us. I see that the notifications work fine. But I do not only care about what is directly a reply to myself. I care about following along with the discussions and conversations in the topics.

I am talking about how on all topics that we have viewed before, even without posting anything on that topic. The next time I click on it, I will go immediately to the next newest comment that I haven't read yet. If there are several that I haven't read yet, it will bring me to the first one and I can read all of them.

I don't see anything like this being possible anymore. Maybe I can view the absolute last comment that was posted the most recently on the topic, but I can not go to what I have not viewed yet if there are multiple other unread comments before the last one. And it is not even as simple as scroll up until I find where I left off, because as we know there can be many responses under every single other comment not in a chronological organization. New replies can be stuck under any other comment on any other page where it is impossible to find. Maybe I can find the absolute last latest response, but it would not show all of the ones that I haven't yet seen.

This new system is perfect for only wanting to look at the main post like a Sermon, and expecting to never want to follow along with any other comments unless choosing to maybe look at a few occasionally. This system is great for something like youtube where the original post or video is the only thing that matters, and nobody looks at the comments except to glance at a few of them. But for actually wanting to follow along with the discussions and wanting to keep updated with seeing all of the comments on the post, it just does not work. Unless there is some new feature that I am unaware of. In many topics that appear, the discussions and conversations are very valuable and constructive.

#92

I'm not trying to be a dick and I'm not trying to just complain. But I am genuinely extremely sad and disappointed. I have lost a large part of my life by losing the community here. I feel worthless because I am not able to try to help people here as much as I want to and as much as I used to. I am not able to help and guide people and answer people's questions. I feel like I have been locked outside of a home.

I wish it could go back to how it was when everything worked perfectly. In the previous version, everything worked perfectly. Even in the 2017 version, for how simple and plain that it was, it had everything that I cared about or needed. It had every important feature, which is the basic thing of being able to come here and read all of the topics and reply to them.

#93

and then stuck on this basically blank homepage with just a couple topics unable to get into the actual Forums that used to exist.

I had to read this multiple times as I wasn't sure how you are confused... Click on the subforum you want to visit: Clergy subforum to read posts by Clergy, main subforum to read the non-clergy topics, and so on. Same as before. These forums simply added a list of latest active posts above those, just scroll down to click on the subforums.

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Ol argedco luciftias

Maybe this is something that has been improved recently. Maybe many of the times that I came here recently, the page did not load fully. Because many times I did not see english language subforums. I would see a few pinned announcement Clergy topics, a few normal topics, other languages, and other websites. I recently saw the other subforums. Maybe this is my own problem from bad internet connection or maybe this is also being improved.

Before I always was on the Unread Topics page that shows all topics from all subforums that I have not read. I never used to go to an individual subforum because all of the topics are spread across many subforums, so only viewing one means missing what is from the others. But it looks like this will be added soon so I am hopeful about that.