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[@LegendBegins] I just want to express my appreciation for actually listening to this feedback and finding an actionable way to respond to it.

I've brought up this issue more than once before, and each time prior a mod usually responded saying how the site architecture couldn't handle block lists and that it ruined the spirit of the site. Give me a break.
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Unlike other forums which utilise a base program such as vBulletin or PHP Boards, the Guild is a custom built website with every aspect of it coded and designed from scratch. Features like the Block function have to be coded, tested, and bug fixed before they can be added to the site, unlike downloading an app for an iPhone and just expecting it to work straight away. As another analogy it's the difference between baking a cake from scratch with flour, eggs, and water rather than the packet cake mix you find in the supermarket.

So why did Mahz design the site in this way?
Well a lot of the features that you may take for granted are simply not available on other generic forum softwares. The IC/OOC/Char tabs is one feature, while the Zeroth Post where GMs and Co-GMs can edit the same post is another one that got added in a couple years back. Also, as someone who has worked on the back end of vBulletin before, I can say that the Guild does have a cleaner architecture without the needless bloatware that vBulletin has.

To give an idea, this is mod access on an older vB framework. Admin access is absolute crap and contains 3 times the amount of garbage that didn't need to be accessed.
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As of now, Legend does have an update in the works for bug fixes and some quality of life issues (One I'm aware of being the incorrect direction for Visitor messages in the notification page), but we do need to wait for Mahz to return so that he can do roll out of the current update and test the stability of it. I do have to note as well that adding a block feature will not be in this update as there is only so much that any programmer should do in any update before they have to stop and say, "enough for now, let's see how this goes", otherwise you risk creating a major issue and possibly damaging the whole site. For a perfect reason why, it may be best to watch this video:

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NJkWbM1xk&t=580s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NJkWbM1xk&t=580s[/youtube]