Static, searchable RP ads system.

[Dhwty]

Kira: The ad system is ineffective and doesn’t address the general needs of those looking to find people. It also leads to the situation that is currently in place where you have people who do nothing but post ads to a channel as soon as the timer expires, leading to a continually scrolling list of repeated ads, also known as spam.

Migrating this to a tag based system that can be filtered by tags would be one of the better solutions. Users have a description or ad text attached to the tags as well. An ad can be posted and stored on the characters account and activated or modified as needed, as well as augmenting the current status system. As this would be done using a web server it would only need periodic updates from the chat server to know which characters to display. Various sorting methods can be applied to this list and it can be paginated as needed, without having to send the whole list to the user each time(server side filtering)

A limit on tags should be applied so that people focus their tags on items that are important to their ad, perhaps 10 items.

[Dhwty]

So, some chatting with Nats and Lurue resulted in extending this idea a bit. For one, an option to save the ad (with tags) that you use most often for each character. Also, possibly extending that to 3 ads per character for subscribers. Still, you'd only be running one ad at a time, either one you selected from your stored list or one you made on the spot.

Sorting the list should probably be by status, with 'Looking' results coming up first and 'DND' coming up last or not at all. Optionally, sorting the status sections so subscribers get bumped up to the top of their status section.