Announcing the Forum Monitor (Lizard)

[Quebecshire]

Hello everyone, we have an exciting new administrative project to share!

A common theme in the region over the last year has been infrastructure improvements, be it importing tools like Dot and Hunter Prime or building up other things like this forum. On that note, the admin team has been working with Tech Lizard (haha it's a play on Tech Wizard get it) @Spode to make us a nice convenient feature to keep our community between the Discord and forums connected. At our request, Spode has been working on the Forum Monitor in our #testing channel, and today we are launching it publicly. 



What does it do?

Generally speaking, it's a webhook that will post updates on all public posts made to the forum in #forum-posts (just below announcements on our Discord server). It includes the poster, the thread they posted in, and the timestamp (displayed in the view's local time via unix timestamp). 

That's all good, but we have some specific quirks built into it to provide some real utility as well.

• Anytime someone other than me posts in the Citizenship Application thread, it will ping me when noting the post on the Discord.
  
• Anytime someone other than an LDF Officer posts in the Military Application thread, it will ping the LDF Officer role when noting the post on Discord.
  
• Anytime someone other than a roleplay moderator/advisor posts in the RP Sign-Ups thread, it will ping the Roleplay Staff & Mentor role when noting the post on Discord.
  

Yay fancy technology!

Why did we make it?

Well, for one it's good to improve our infrastructure and tools apparatus and this seemed like a reasonable place to start. Two, it will hopefully help myself and LDF/RP leaders keep up with applications and sign-ups, so people don't have to wait, or things don't slip through the cracks. Three, it also has the benefit of connecting our two main off-site communication platforms, which is cool.

Hopefully all goes well, but if there's any issues with it feel free to note them in #staff-requests on Discord (or in this subforum). Be sure to thank @Spode for his work on this, it was his creation and we're greatly appreciative of it! Additional thanks to @JackEmpire and @Svedonia for assistance in the process (and the latter for hosting support), we look forward to seeing what they accomplish going forward.