Some board updates and Production Team disbanding

Hello all!

The Production Team member group is now disabled for the meantime, for security reasons. The administrators have decided that it would be a seasonal privilege for willing volunteers, unlike before that we choose which members would get the privilege. The Production Team is a regular member group that has access to the staff-only Forbidden Scroll, where we would ask for their ideas during community-wide events and major changes. Keep yourself updated on when the Production Team is open again, so you can volunteer if you’re interested.

We have added a new child board to the Switchboard section, “Chismax Central”, for showbiz news, or news related to famous personalities and icons to categorize news items. We have also added read-only Archives for the Boys’ and Girl’s Clubs.

The Boot Camp has been streamlined as the central discussion board of the clans, while the parent board of the Ichiraku Clans & Clubs will be for clan recruitment.

See you on the next update!

New moderators and updates; the Ichiraku Blog beta

Ichiraku congratulates Poldo and kittikai for being our new moderators for the Boys’ and Girls’ Club respectively! They have secured an overwhelming landslide victory against their competitors with the votes of their constituents in their clubs.

Poldo got 8 votes out of 13 with 2 other candidates, while kittikai got 9 out of 11 votes with 1 other candidate.

They have already begun their improvement plans within their own community, so if you aren’t member of either yet, you can now request membership as long as you have the required minimum of 100 posts.

In other news, we have revised the Animation and Manga & Comics boards. General discussion are now in the parent board, while series discussions are separated to Ongoing and Concluded child boards. This is to further organize these very popular boards and make searching and posting topics a chore, unlike before. Their descriptions have also been updated, and the Boot Camp board for Clan Founders are now open.

We have also launched the beta of the Ichiraku Blog by zCommunity a couple of days ago. It’s a modification that adds a blogging community functionality for the members right in the forum itself. However, since it’s still in beta stage, we are keeping in touch with its developers regarding possible bugs, one of which are the bugs for the Moderator group that prevents them from using the Blog. They can make one, even an article, but they cannot access it afterward. It seems the error is in the Subs.php file of zCommunity, which also occasionally conflicts with the Whos.php (which serves the Who’s Online list in the board index) file of SMF. According to zCommunity, this might be an incompatibility issue with SMF 2.0 RC1-1 (the first RC ran fine), so they are going to look into it.

The Ichiraku Blog can be accessed by anyone, but only Premium Members and the staff are able to make and write blogs for themselves. If you are interested, you might want to look into our Premium Membership offer.

Till the next update!

Group membership requests are now active!

Hello again,

I am pleased to announce that the group requests for memberships are now online and good to go! We are currently placing the Artists’ League and Writers’ Coven under groups available for request but with certain limitations, and the VIP group (Adult Zone) as a fully-requestable member group. The Boys’ Club and the Girls’ Club will also be made available for public request once we have chosen the group leaders assigned to each. In line with this, the request thread for membership into the VIP, and in the future the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, will no longer be available as we will be moving all group membership requests into this new feature.

So how exactly do you request membership to a group? A tutorial using Ichiraku’s test account:

Step 1: Go to your profile page.

STEP 1: Start by clicking your profile page at the forum menu bar. Once you’ve clicked the “Profile” link, you will be taken to your SMF 2 profile page, as you can see in the image. Hover your mouse over the Modify Profile Tab and click the Group Membership option.

Step 2: Select the group/s you wish to join.

STEP 2: You will then be taken to the groups you are currently enrolled in, and below that the groups that are available for request in your current account. Select which group/s you wish to join and click “Request Membership”.

Step 3: Tell the group leader your reason that he/she should accept your request.

STEP 3: With that done, you will be taken to a short message box where you can type the reason to the group leader of your request and application. Make sure you type clearly. When you’re done click submit request.

After this the group leader in charge of the group you’ve requested will see a request from you, and will then make appropriate judgment on whether or not you deserve to be accepted into their group.

We will also be extending the functionality of this to other Ichiraku clans, official or not, in the future. Furthermore, group leaders will not necessarily be moderators, except for the Boys’ and Girls’ Club group leaders who will also act in the capacity of moderators. All group leaders however get access to an exclusive board along with other group leaders.

See you in your new groups, everyone!