So, another relatively short topic for me, as I’m reminded about this as I log in and see that one community I’m a part of is almost at its limit again. I did touch on this in another thread here, but I feel it’s worth it’s own thread just because I’d like to see other people’s thoughts on it.
I understand the reason behind a limit. However, surely, in 2022, we’re capable of having more than 1,000 members in a guild or community.
In my guild, I have 27 toons. This means I take up 2.7% of the guild’s roster. By myself. Which is silly. On my Horde, when I played it in BFA for a bit, I ended up kicked from a guild that billed themselves as casual, after 2 years in it because they needed to make room for raiders. Literally the reason they gave me. The guild I joined after that advertised being “like family”? I got kicked after a month of inactivity, which I warned them about, because Shadowlands came out and I wanted to focus on my Alliance, but they needed the precious space.
The hunter community I’m a part of and somehow ended up one of the moderators of? We’ve been capped at 1,000 for over a year. I attempted to create a battle.net community for us to continue growing, but it hasn’t really taken off. The gaymer community I’m apart of? The mods had to go through and kick everyone under a certain level at one point because they got sick of no new people being able to enter.
A big part of the issue with communities is we have no way to track how long it’s been since someone has been online. Unlike the guild, which has a “Last Online” feature - there’s no such feature for communities. So the only real way to even gauge activity is to either force members to put it in their note, which most people won’t, or to kick people who aren’t level capped - which isn’t fair to people who don’t have Shadowlands, or play at their own pace.
Another part of the issue is that for some reason, the limit is character-specific, not account-specific.
1,000 Accounts would be somewhat reasonable. But 1,000 characters? Not so much. Since every person is capable of having 50 characters in one account, 20 people could take up the entire roster of a guild by themselves.
So, can we please get an increase on these limits, and some updates to the community UI that the guild UI has, such as the Last Online feature?
There’s also a post on General Discussion that has amassed almost 5,000 replies since the Guild UI revamp that touches on things that people feel are missing from the new UI or need to be fixed asap that a lot of people feel have been ignored. (The post is almost 4 years old, to give you an idea)