Hello y'all and welcome to our first weekly Wednesday highlight! We will be posting on Wednesdays to give mini updates about what the heck we are up to and the status of various HoFa things. Gather round and sit a spell,  we got stuff to talk about.

🤩 Welcome to Our Community Manager!

As mentioned in our previous news post, Roze has begun helping Bed and I with admin and community tasks. Roze has been brought on to the admin team as our official Community Manager. She will be helping us organize and plan while engaging in the community. Bed and I will still be dropping in and chatting but Roze is now the go to person to help push needs upward and help us address them. Welcome to the admin team, Roze!

✍️ Reminder: HoFa Helper Applications

Applications to help with a wide variety of tasks are still open until December 31st at midnight EST. Those who volunteer to help receive a platinum upgrade during the duration of helping. Positions are expected to use 2-5 hours of time a week. Being 18+, using Discord, and signing an NDA are requirements for all positions.

Applications are still being accepted and some have been reviewed. Soon, we will be pulling in a few applicants to help with testing. Those selected will be contacted in the coming days.

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🌟 Reminder: Preparing for 2025

As we start better planning and organizing, we will be preparing for our 2025 updates. While we work on bug fixes and new features, we will also be adding feature requests. We will be reviewing these starting January 6th and adding them into our planning. Be sure to use the feature request system to submit ideas, up or downvote, and comment on features by January 5th. Once we review on January 6th, we won't be reviewing the feature requests again until mid-2025.

💪 Training Manual Changes

We heard your feedback on the training manual and have made a few changes. Based on feedback, we have updated some of the visuals so the training manual interface is a bit more user-friendly.

Previously, the white slider being pulled fully to the left signified 5 trainings for the primary discipline. This was actually backwards to how sliders are typically supposed to work and has been quite confusing to some. With the change, we have fixed the slider to now display as 0 trainings for primary when fully to the left and in pulling it to the right you increase the number of trainings and vice versa. 

With such a minor/major change, there are other visual updates and notes for you all to consider BEFORE you use the training manual again.

- We’ve added different colors to more clearly showcase which discipline or career is getting the trainings.

     - Primary is now purple and secondary is now teal.

- The override button is now auto selected as requested.

- We heard your request to have the training log show the performance stat gains, and will work to implement this in the future. We wanted to get these changes out right away so the Training Manual was usable. 

🦟 Bug Fixes

- AMH Dunalino is now fixed - Bug 1554

- American Paints have splash 6 fixed - Bug 1501

- Arabian witch hats now show images properly - Bug 1556

- Arabian gems on tack are now al fixed - Bug 1551

- Clydesdales flower harness is now properly displaying - Bug 1539

- TB and Clydesdale purple english pads are fixed - Bug 1454

- Fixed Fjord cream overlay layer - Bug 1529

- Fixed rogue Irish Draught grade images - Bug 1545

- Fixed issue with apatite for harnesses - Bug 1535

- Frasier fir for TB blankets and english pads are fixed - Bug 1454

- Velvet red racing pad crafting fixed to make velvet red racing pads vs. velvet red western pads - - Bug 1500

- Fixed various harnesses for Chincos

- Arabian buckskin manes/tails should now show correctly - Bug 1562

- Skeleton paint should now show - Bug 1342

- Hats should now appear above manes

Note: For any bugs you have, please post them as their own bug reports, not as additional comments on bug reports. Comments may get glanced over and missed. 

See y’all next time!

Cheers,

Bedouin, Curly & Roze