Changelog

New Slash Commands

• /guild <name> - Embed summary of a guild (members, motto, server, recruiting, Discord + website links) with autocomplete for known guilds
• /house <slug> - Hero card for a gallery house with title, owner, type, and hero image
• /spotlight - Today's featured furniture item from the weekly Spotlight rotation
• /whois @user - Look up a Discord user's linked ESO Housing profile (guild, role, builds, likes given, join date)
• /eventtoday - Upcoming guild events across all public guilds in the next 24 hours
• /randomhouse - Discovery tool: random published house from the gallery
• /help - Grouped command list with permalink to the transparency page

Russian Localizations

• Every command now has name_localizations + description_localizations for Russian
• Users with Discord set to Russian see /мебель, /гильдия, /дом, /избранное, /кто, /сегодня, /случайныйдом, /помощь, /анонсы-включить, /анонсы-выключить
• Option names (parameters) also localized: name → название, user → пользователь, etc.
• Canonical English name stays the dispatch key, so handlers are locale-agnostic

Rich-Game Presence

• Bot status now renders as a real-looking game session with large image, small corner icon, ticking timestamp, and two-line details/state
• Scenes rotate through Bastion Sanguinaris, Lake Rumare at golden hour, Abagarlas buried halls, and Meridia's strike
• Fixed a silent bug where asset references never rendered because they were stored as custom props instead of Discord's canonical assets.large_image structure
• Only visible difference from a true game client is the missing "Join" button - limited to Game SDK clients

Bot Transparency Page

• Replaced the two-jobs pitch with a full command catalogue split into "Information" and "Admin opt-in" blocks
• Tightened Section 2 wording - same four permissions (Send Messages, Embed Links, Attach Files, Use Application Commands) still cover every new command; no new intents requested
• Section blocks switched from flat shadow to gold-tinted gradient so the Lake Rumare backdrop reads through the editorial layout

Member Directory

• Role filter pills - Filter by All / Admins / Officers / Members with a single click
• Instant search - Type any part of a display name; members show/hide without a round trip
• Up to 200 members - Loaded upfront for client-side filtering (up from 20 with an expand button)
• Empty-state message - Clear feedback when no members match the current filter

Per-Member Contribution Cards

• Hover any member avatar to see their builds count, likes given, events attended, and "member since" date
• Stats pre-computed in three batched queries on page load - no per-hover network call
• Card respects the guild's theme color for the role label + accent bar

Quick-Stats Sticky Sidebar

• Floating right-rail panel (desktop ≥ 1280px) with members, builds, collections, events, news posts, and last-30d activity
• Fades in via IntersectionObserver once the hero scrolls past - stays with the reader through the long page
• "Active for X year(s)" footnote when the guild has crossed an anniversary

Milestone Badges - 17 Tiers

• Extended from 9 achievements to 17 with new membership, build, event, and anniversary tiers
• New achievements: Legion Guild (500 members), Master of Ceremonies (5 events), Architect of Festivals (10 events), Hands of the Hearth (50 builds), Masons of Renown (100 builds), A Year Sworn / Two Years Bound / Legend of the Banner (1/2/5 year anniversaries)
• Each achievement has an epic and a natural translation style in both English and Russian

Comments on Guild News

• Every news post gets a collapsible comment thread with a lazy-loaded list + inline post form
• Sign-in hint shown to logged-out visitors instead of the form
• New guild_news_comments table with CASCADE deletes and a comment_count denorm on guild_news kept in sync by triggers
• Dedicated /api/guild-news-comments.php endpoint with CSRF + guild-publicity guards

Per-Menu Accent Palette

• Each mega-menu now has its own accent color that flows through borders, hover backgrounds, icons, and hero-card rails
• Houses - warm rose (#c8806e), hearth feel
• Browse - ice blue (#7ea8c4), exploration
• Community - sage green (#8fb29a), gathering
• News - amber (#d6a165), announcements
• Archives - crimson (#e0607a), lore & chronicles
• Per-item house/guild/item accents (derived from slug) still override the menu accent on individual hero cards, so Bastion stays crimson while Houses chrome reads rose

Rotating Featured Hero Cards

• Houses - Single featured house per slot, cycling through showcase + gallery homes on a daily-stable shuffle
• Browse - Featured Today furniture rotation with fallback to recent items when no active spotlight exists
• Community - Featured Guild (dropped the is_public-only filter so new installs aren't empty)
• Archives - Chapter of the Day from the lore chronicle, using each entry's era + hero image
• All four pools use daily-stable rotation with staggered day-key offsets so they don't sync

Archives Mega-Menu

• Upgraded from a three-link flyout to a full mega-menu matching the rest of the navigation
• Linklist: Archive / Chronicle / Connections with inline descriptions
• Side panel: rotating lore chapter hero card with era eyebrow, title, and a "Read the chapter" CTA
• Crimson accent across every surface - matches the blood-bound chronicle theme

Visibility & Polish

• Brightened text in Browse / Community / News linklists (name + description colors both bumped)
• Toned down Houses + Archives for less visual weight against image-rich hero cards
• Guild of the Day query relaxed: any guild in the pool is a candidate, not just public ones
• Fixed silent column-name bug where the Community card queried logo_url / banner_url instead of the actual logo_path / banner_path

Video Tours

• Tour video player - Full cinematic player with drag-to-seek, volume slider, picture-in-picture, fullscreen mode, and chapter markers
• Themed loading animations - Bat silhouettes (Bastion), orbiting runes (Abagarlas), drifting glyphs (Creature), or generic spinner for user houses
• Buffer progress bar - Real-time download progress with percentage display before playback
• Short + Long tours - Tab switcher with crossfade transition and duration labels
• YouTube integration - Paste a YouTube link as primary source with local video fallback
• Keyboard shortcuts - Space (play/pause), M (mute), F (fullscreen), arrow keys (seek/volume), 0-9 (jump to position)
• Touch controls - Drag-to-seek, double-tap +-10s, touch volume slider
• Share at timestamp - Copy link with ?t= parameter for deep-linking

Ambient Music

• Floating music player - Per-house themed ambient music with play/pause, track info, and animated equalizer bars
• Real waveform visualization - Equalizer bars respond to actual audio frequency data
• Video integration - Music auto-pauses when video tour is unmuted, auto-resumes when muted again

House Builder

• Tour upload UI - Two upload slots (short/long) in settings panel with progress bar and client-side compression
• YouTube tour links - Paste a YouTube URL directly, no file upload needed
• ESO User ID auto-fill - Pre-fills from your profile with automatic @ prefix
• Updated house sizes - New ESO categories: Staple (75/150), Classic (250/500), Notable (350/700)
• 55+ interior styles - Imperial, Vvardenfell, Deadlands, Coldharbour, and many more
• 6 server options - PC-EU, PC-NA, PS-EU, PS-NA, Xbox-EU, Xbox-NA
• Custom ornaments and icons - 15 presets plus free text input for any divider or icon

Tutorial System

• Chat-style UI - Floating glass panel with typewriter effect, themed avatars, and animated message bubbles
• Interactive steps - The tutorial highlights elements, opens panels, and waits for you to interact before advancing
• 25-step builder walkthrough - Covers every feature from settings to submission with forced panel navigation
• Directional transitions - Bubbles slide in from the correct direction when navigating forward vs backward
• Skip confirmation - "Exit tour?" prompt prevents accidental dismissal
• Restart button - Jump back to step 1 anytime
• Sound effects - Optional sounds with a toggle in the panel header (off by default)
• Haptic feedback - Vibration on step advance and completion (mobile)
• Premium confetti - Mixed-shape particles with rotation on completion
• 3 guide tracks - Cabinet (profile), Builder (house editor), Submission (review flow)

Quality of Life

• Image captions save instantly - No more lost captions when navigating away
• Submit validation - Checklist is checked before allowing submission
• Back button warns about unsaved changes
• Description character counter - Live count showing 1234 / 5000
• Section and image counts on dashboard cards
• Last Edited sorting - Find your most recent work instantly
• Human-readable status labels - "Live" instead of "approved"
• Changelog page - Public version history at esohousing.com/changelog
• Terms of Use link added to footer
• Cookie consent now links to the Privacy Policy
• Custom cursors upgraded - More detailed vampire, Ayleid, and tentacle pointers