Voting has begun for the Queen of Elfpack contest. I will choose the queen out of one of the finalists. Voting lasts till the 1st of may.

a New photo competition is out now, it is called the Queen of Elfpack Contest, the winner will receive the title of Queen of elfpack, may the best picture win. submissions are open from now till April 15th.

Better wiki-comments

You don't need to reload the page to post wiki-comments on it anymore. There is also a button for checking for new comments on the page without reloading it. (Yes, that button looks a little ugly when you're having a wide window, but all the buttons are going to get remade soon.)

Search in GBs/diaries

You can now search in guestbooks or diaries.

A small note though: You'll only search through the 50 000 latest entries when searching on <URI:gbs.html> or <URI:diaries.html>. (Elfpack can't handle more searches than that until you throw a big bunch of money at [Hedda]...)

Another update is that the edit-forms of the diary entries and guestbook messages that you have sent is now hidden unless you press an edit-button. It should make it easier to read through the texts.

New image upload

When you upload an image to your presentation now, the new image will appear on a wiki-page. Features:

1) Click on the newly uploaded image (like the one in [Hedda]'s presentation) and then you come to that wiki-page.

2) This means that you can easily comment on others' photos.

3) The photo wiki-pages are listed on an index-page so that you can list all the previous images that someone has uploaded (unless they have removed them from the index).

4) You can import the images you have uploaded before to wiki-pages too.

5) The index-page for your images is empty at start, but you can edit it if you want to write something there.

6) The image on the wiki-page is now in high-res (it's a clickable image).

I hope the system with the index wiki-pages isn't too confusing for new users! It should be pretty straight forwards, but please drop a posting in the suggestions forum if you have any suggestions of how to make it even simpler.


More: There are a ton of small features and bugfixes activated now. You'll notice.

[Ihsahn] now has the title of Warden over Elfpack. Hopefully he'll have a better knowledge of the Elfpackers than [Hedda] has had. You're always welcome to leave comment on for example council!

If you are interested in helping out with making Elfpack contests, the toggery, the daily poem, or something else, then have a go at Apply to the crew. It's a great way to meet new people that you wouldn't have talked to otherwise!

Please note that the applications generally have been left for a year as it isn't interesting with people who don't stick around, but this doesn't mean that the application is ignored.

It's important to sort out all the ones who say they want to help, but just doesn't, so the fastest way into the council is to run your own stuff for a while or help out with various stuff (see future news and the forums!).

And if you aren't interested, just keep on Elfpacking, you lazy bun!