Squidboards Update #5 - Initial Launch of Groups

Hey everyone! We've got a bit of a late night update today in the form of groups.

This system will allow everyone to form groups for stuff like their dedicated Teams of 4, larger Squads or clans of friends, as well as discussion hubs for Regions or other topics.

As this is just the initial rollout, there may be a few quirks and such, so keep an eye out and let us know if anything seems off!

We hope this feature further strengthens the Squidboards community as we move towards the launch of Splatoon next weekend!

 

I'm glad @Warchamp7 was able to put something together so fantastic as this. I hope everyone enjoys the new Groups feature, and please let us know if you have any feedback or problems with Groups back in the forums!

So This is like my thread but official and with social capabilities and some other tweaks and features? Is this the "More than just a board" one you mentioned earlier? Or there's more coming down the road?

 

So This is like my thread but official and with social capabilities and some other tweaks and features? Is this the "More than just a board" one you mentioned earlier? Or there's more coming down the road?

Yes this is what I was referring to.

 

Thanks for this awesome update.

 

It is time to claim the seas:

 

It is time to claim the seas:

Everytime I see you post anything anywhere Moonkey it makes me smile.

 

Ooh, looks nice! So is the Groups section replacing Squad threads?

 

Yes this sounds cool. Game didn't even come out yet and the competitive scene is live. I love it!

 

Me and my Smash crew are already thinking about branching out to this game as well! I can't wait for August when group lobbying becomes available.

 

Just a small typo I noticed: "Groups You're Joined" should be "Groups You've Joined"

 

I like this! But we are still in dire need of a twitch stream section similar to mkboads's

 

Everytime I see you post anything anywhere Moonkey it makes me smile.

I aim to please haha

 

I aim to please haha

He IS our lord and saviour tbh <shot>

 

He IS our lord and saviour tbh <shot>

****! I failed Miracle class in heaven! How am i supposed to revive my fallen believer!

 

****! I failed Miracle class in heaven! How am i supposed to revive my fallen believer!

Don't worry MoonMonkey! I'll watch your videos from a good place and they will revive me : )

 

There seems to be an image resizing issue on the groups currently. The minimum logo size is 280x280 but it forces a resize to 286x286. Even if you upload a 286x286 image it still ends up resizing it for no reason (large loss of quality on images). I tried a lot of different image sizes and could never find a size that didn't distort the image. This was also an issue for cover images but I managed to find a sweet spot to stop it from forcing a resize (315x836). I'm guessing this was not intended based on the weird numbers. This issue probably has something to do with the screen resolution of the users screen or a simple coding issue forcing a resize.

Example: 280x280

becomes: Forced resize to 286x286 and quality loss

 

First Church of Squidward,anyone? :P

 

There seems to be an image resizing issue on the groups currently.

Fixed that

 

Me likey :):):):)

 

An issue I see with the current setup is that there isn't as much geographical organization to start. On Smashboards, we have what might be considered "Groups" here (Atl North, Atl South, Midwest, etc.). Each is a defined boundary by which I can know where to go to find more about where I live. Once I find my region, I go to find my subregion (usually state), and at this point the State thread redirects me to a city's or subregion's FB page.

In Squidboard's setup, I think it will be a bit harder to find what the appropriate Region is to join as more and more people add them. Alternatively, should one go to the Squad section? I made a Squad for my city/area, but would someone know to look for that? I don't personally want to take the responsibility (for various reasons) to create an Atl. South Region or a TN region where I can direct people to my or other city's Squad pages. In the meantime, I've been advertising the squad page in my local Smash FB page.

Also, when the update first came out, I thought it would be a forum section. It turns out that I had to go to groups to find everything, and then I found out that each group has a miniforum. Can there be a way to direct people to that with less confusion, or did I just miss something?

Those are a few thoughts I had on the current layout.

EDIT: I can't find a way to edit the tagline. Is there a way?

 

Can MK8 clans be transferred over as Splatoon groups? We've been planning to do this for both this game and Smash U. Would this be permitted?