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Feedback 2025/01/13

Replace with feedback text. --66.69.137.5 22:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC)The Event Timer page should be inverted, showing latest expansion at the top of the page...etc.

Add "current time" and "next 2 hours" to follow or bottom?

I tried doing this about 4 years ago, and failed. My skills just stink.

• Can we/you(any nicely knowledgeable matey) make the "current time" and "next 2 hours" buttons on the red timelines applied at the bottom as well as top of page?
• Or make it follow like someone did with the times bar that follows?
• Really cool if that follow was toggle off in case anyone does not want it. ---shmEk (talk) 16:03, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

$('.event-pointer').append('<span class="event-pointer-time" style="right: inherit; bottom:0px;"></span>');
$('.event-limit').append('<span class="event-limit-text prev" style="display: none; cursor: help; bottom:0px;">Previous 2 hours</span><span class="event-limit-text next" style="cursor: help; bottom:0px;" title="Click the flag at the top to pause the live update and move to the next two hours">Next 2 hours</span>');

It could be done retrospectively once the page has loaded with client side js easily enough. I do think there's enough buttons by now though, so perhaps this isn't the best option - so yeah sticky headers like the top times would be nice. -Chieftain Alex 23:04, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I've made the event time flag sticky. I've left the limit (next/prev) alone as this is slightly more annoying to do and its after midnight. -Chieftain Alex 23:17, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I've had to revert this, see the bug report below. -Chieftain Alex 16:00, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

So awesome Alex!!! - just used the page today and saw wonderful. TY for the glorious coding <3 ---shmEk (talk) 04:25, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

I can't take credit for this, my amazing wiki discord friends Medyro + Kvothe figured it out. -Chieftain Alex 17:22, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/07/02

Hello there is a strange bug that appeared recently, many ppl of my guilds experienced it.

The red bar (moving time bar + title) changes cursor and prevent clics on elements that are below and a bit on the right of it. For ex if it's 12:20, you can't clic "Gendaran Fields" wp link.

Sincerely

Fabien

Thanks for reporting this, clearly my midnight feature release above introduced a new unintended consequence. I've reverted the change above. -Chieftain Alex 16:00, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Request 2025/07/08

Can we possible have a slim option added. I would like the chat code to be in the same line as the event title. Source code is protected. I cant do it.

Whilst I would need a mock up of what you're looking for, at this point it seems unlikely that I can add any further options to slimline the widget, there's already five checkboxes below the timer to compress the display in a reasonable fashion.

.event-name, .event-chatlink {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 30px;
  overflow: clip;
  margin-right: 5px;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

If you add the above CSS to your personal stylesheet you could see the effects of what you're asking for, it doesn't look good! -Chieftain Alex 09:33, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/09/15

This is getting really tall vertically, and hard to quickly reference. It would be great if there were an option to combine related non-overlapping event lines.

• Ley Line Anomaly and Fractal Incursions
• Awakened Invasion and Scarlet's Invasion
• Pinata and Buried Treasure
• Palawadan and Death Branded Shatterer
• Dragonstorm and Eye of the North
• Aetherblade Assault and Kaineng Blackout
• Syntri and Bava Nisos
• Both Convergences

--Void2258 (talk) 18:15, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Agreed on combining some related events especially Dragonstorm + Eye of the North that are "Public Instance" mainly accessed from EotN. For convergences, I think it better to wait and see if VoE convergence will overlapping or not. But for the others, imo it fine as it. —Tᴇʀʏ.3065 09:03, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Merged Dragonstorm + EotN as suggested, those are pretty obvious now I look at the segments. -Chieftain Alex 09:49, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/10/31

Could we have the option to condense all the events in JW and VOE onto one line each, since none of them overlap? The event timer is getting too large vertically, and the 3-4 lines per expansion to break it up by map when 90% of each line is empty due to there only being a single event on it seems unnecessary. SotO could be on two lines (only Wizards Tower has overlapping events).

Suggestion: Hide some of the less interesting events by default

Fractal Incursion, Scarlet's Invasion and Awakened Invasion - personally I'd suggest these aren't major enough to warrant being shown here. Same for the PvP tournaments. -Chieftain Alex 17:01, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Awakened Invasion is actually pretty nice during festivals when you wanna kill 3 champs per day (for e.g. Trick-or-Treat across Tyria, etc). It'd be nice if that one could actually show the zone instead of having to go to the page.

Counterproposal to group the Living World categories together into one category, and make each of the categories collapsible, with everything except Core Tyria, latest expansion, and Special Events collapsed by default - Tanetris (talk) 00:34, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

I think the HoT section could be simplified. For VB, show only Night Bosses, for AB show only Octovine, for TD show only Chak Gerent. DS is just one continuous block which I think is pretty useless. --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 22:02, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

I was thinking similar earlier, agree with those suggestions. DS could be modified to a (semi-fictional) 15min map reset block, ending where the current "Start advancing on the Blighting Towers" begins. -Chieftain Alex 23:09, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

I liked the idea of simplified HoT suggested above, but can the blocks of filler meta events be not completely removed? e.g. for AB, keep the Octovine blocks (Challenged/Main/Reset) unchanged while the Pylons block is transparent (show the strips) with the link to event still on the bar. —Tᴇʀʏ.3065 12:51, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/11/03

Something happened with this page and now everything is shifted right? Probably because VoE was added but it looks weird now. Would love some sort of scaling rework or a way to condense it even more. Thanks. --SpiralCee (talk) 19:04, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Contents list was added just a few days ago, probably this is why it feels like there was a change. You can hide the list though, which will make the page look like before :D ฅ𓂃𓏧♡ vyѕɴɑιтε ᨐᵉᵒʷฅ (тɑʟκ) 19:49, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/11/03

What's the point of the table of contents? It is taking up a lot of space and doesn't do anything. I also doubt it would be useful anyway, since the timers can be reordered. --Arcosa (talk) 00:26, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Although it's now removed, I think it's worth noting that it only didn't work if you had the categories disabled in settings otherwise the TOC worked fine. --ItVictor (talk) 18:48, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/11/08 Loss of colour?

The space where events aren't happening used to be coloured in apropriately to whatever section it was in and is now a dead light grey, which I think looks significantly worse.

I've meddled today. I do feel that the original colour theme was a bit too strong in that you couldn't at-a-glance see where the events were "not happening". I've added a banding set of stripes just now which may improve it slightly. -Chieftain Alex 00:06, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

The grey is substantially worse, because it's harder to track which line is which, and what content it belongs to, in a sea of grey bars. It also looks jarring when most lines have tiny blips of events, then compared to maps like HoT where it's full color for a cycle. The slashed grey bars also look busy which is obnoxious. Please revert the color changes. 98.37.183.190 13:18, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Echoing this complaint, this seems like changes for the sake of changes resulting in a worse page. It was fine how it was before the color change, and the slashed gray bars are concretely worse. 73.131.169.134 18:25, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Yeah not a big fan of this change either. ~Sime 18:32, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

I actually like them, I agree with alex that the previous iterations were harder to see that the event wasn't up. --ItVictor (talk) 18:48, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

I seriously like the new colours. The whole page overview is way better like this. --Luuksch (Luuksch) 21:40, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

I really like the new grey with lines, it's a lot easier to see what events are up and when I'm in a dead time. Asurabutt (talk) 04:24, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

I really like that it's clearer than before but I hate the lines, it makes it really tricky to see which row is which. Maybe a solid grey could be clearer and easy to read? 31.104.149.150 12:13, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Not a fan of the strips but agreed that the change make it much clearer, a plain light gray instead of strips will reduce the visual clutter. --—Tᴇʀʏ.3065 13:58, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

The color strips help considerably when you use the feature to rearrange the bars, particularly when putting bars together that are empty MOST of the time such as the convergences. They could be a paler or less vibrant version of the zone color, but having the bars colored even when inactive is vital to seeing which line is which at a glance, instead of checking the page to find it is simply all a useless grey. 98.37.183.190 21:05, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Can you make the stripes just a little bit paler, less contrast? Kinda gives me a headache as it. Thanks. SpiralCee (talk) 00:55, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

This got tweaked further a day after your comment. -Chieftain Alex 11:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

(Reset indent) As most of the comments about the changes seem to have dwindled, I'm going to assume the evolutions to the segment styling were eventually acceptable. -Chieftain Alex 11:23, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

They're still really bad, but the lack of response feels like a refusal from you to revert or find a better solution. And this response reads like it was intentional to create this "it dwindled, must be fine" outcome. 172.59.130.174 05:02, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

I wrote some new features into the widget today, one of which is a checkbox to "Reduce color on filler events" - the intention is to put the colours back per the column 0 on User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox2. Any feedback I can get on these will be considered. -Chieftain Alex 23:25, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

category	0	1	2
core	rgb(249,155,155)	rgb(236,128,128)	rgb(215,100,100)
lws2	rgb(251,227,132)	rgb(215,185,66)	n/a
hot	rgb(231,251,132)	rgb(211,234,98)	rgb(190,215,66)
lws3	rgb(159,217,147)	rgb(121,181,108)	rgb(94,159,80)
pof	rgb(212,138,179)	rgb(200,105,158)	rgb(183,62,130)
pof (suggest)	rgb(224,164,197)	rgb(212,138,179)	rgb(205,121,170)
lws4	rgb(189,148,202)	rgb(183,129,200)	rgb(157,104,174)
lws4 (suggest)	rgb(198,176,212)	rgb(170,150,209)	rgb(160,135,212)
lws5	rgb(145,207,251)	rgb(98,177,234)	rgb(66,153,215)
eod	rgb(159,242,251)	rgb(138,234,244)	rgb(66,200,215)
soto	rgb(246,194,100)	rgb(226,171,73)	rgb(200,136,54)
jw	rgb(171,191,244)	rgb(146,170,235)	n/a
voe	rgb(251,146,108)	rgb(242,126,84)	n/a
voe (suggest)	rgb(250,160,125)	rgb(242,126,84)	n/a
public eotn	rgb(249,155,155)	rgb(236,128,128)	rgb(200,105,158)
public eotn (suggest)	rgb(249,155,155)	rgb(236,128,128)	rgb(205,121,170)
public con	rgb(246,194,100)	rgb(226,171,73)	rgb(146,170,235)
festival lc	rgb(94,225,240)	rgb(66,200,215)	n/a
festival db	rgb(94,225,240)	rgb(66,200,215)	n/a
festival ha	rgb(251,185,58)	rgb(232,163,31)	n/a

Colours are back as an option. Having a think at the moment as to what the default is set to. -Chieftain Alex 19:25, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

As the original complainer I just wanted to come back and thank you, I like this :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 2.223.117.194 (talk).

Added suggest rows. —Tᴇʀʏ.3065 13:39, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Suggestion: Recategorized and recolor the event bars

1. Move and combine the LWS1 Scarlet’s Invasion and LWS4 Awakened Invasion timers into Core Tyria under a single "Invasions" bar. This removes the need for an LWS1 section entirely, since its content is automatically unlocked for all accounts.
   1. But their segment color should be distinct enough, maybe alters with the lighter color similar to Grothmar Valley events.
2. Move Eye of the North to Core Tyria. The map itself is accessible to any level-80 character w/o xpac needed, so it fits better there. However, recolor the individual segments: Dragonstorm remains Icebrood Saga blue (since it is still locked behind IBS) The other three should be recolored to Core Tyria red.
   1. Alternative, create a new section named "Public Instances" and place Eye of the North content together with Convergences.
   2. Regarding Convergences, they could be combined into a single entry, but as mentioned in #Feedback 2025/09/15, it may be better to wait for the VoE timer. If they are merged, each segment should retain the color of its respective release.
3. Adjust the Path of Fire color bars. The current PoF color is too similar to SotO, and it doesn’t match the xpac’s palette. Maybe magenta or red-violet, idk if this change will make it too close to the core-red or not.

—Tᴇʀʏ.3065 10:00, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

just for context, i've provided a draft revision to the widget here: User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox. The intention is to provide an option to disable/enable full colours (which would be as they were a month ago, currently the checkbox just removes the angled lines). Gathering any additional feedback now. -Chieftain Alex 19:00, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Correcting my #2 above Dragonstorm is locked behind PoF (sorry) and PoF segments are now magenta. So, combined EotN bar could be changed to make it not too obvious by the Red+Blue bar. —Tᴇʀʏ.3065 21:07, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

For those of us that like to use the features to rearrange and hide the bars, to put events we're interested together and ignore the ones we're not, it would be nice if the content section headers could be completely dismissed more easily. You can trick the section title(/expansion name) bars into at least going to things shoved at the bottom of the list, but currently can't dismiss them. They're mostly just in the way, especially when you want to watch a lot of single events from various expansions. 98.37.183.190 12:54, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/11/23 Sections being broken up and rearranged for no good reason

The color background change was unnecessary, but easier to deal with. Now someone is chopping up categories? Why is Convergence deserving of its own category? There are two of them and if the VoE one ends up sharing start time as either of the others, it's not going to work at all. And leaving them divorced from what content they belong to means depending on people to know expansion colors, in order to recognize what they even belong to. And what justifies separating Eye of the North from IBS? "Public Instances" is more vague and disjointed than having events connected to where you are introduced to them in the story. Re: the earlier feedback that seems to have prompted these changes, "This is getting really tall vertically, and hard to quickly reference." Making the layout more confusing in the name of making it mildly less tall is not good UX design. It's a lot of information. You can't magically make a lot of information more accessible by rearranging it and/or smooshing it together. 68.134.43.202 21:38, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/11/24

I like the combinations you have done. You can also further compress things:

• Crystal Oasis and Desert Highlands
• Istan and Jahai
• Skywatch and Amnytas
• Seitung and New Kaineng
• Syntri and Bava Nisos
• Strand and Weal

I think the ordering should be based on how often people look things up. So Convergences and EotN on top followed by Ley line Anomaly, and then VoE, JW, SotO, IBS and then probably HoT is the next most relevant. Dry Top, Lake Doric and the invasions and incursions for example are things people almost never need to check, so they shouldn't be so high up.

One of the best features of the Wiki's Event Timer is that you can rearrange the bars, and dismiss lines you're not interested in. Combining events into one bar clutters up those lines when using this feature, and many metas are not farmed equally. For example, Skywatch is a decently rewarding meta that isn't too long, vs Amnytas is unpopular outside of direct needs for Obsidian Armor, since it is slow, rewards low, and has a lot of annoying parts - Or for someone that is working on Obsidian Armor and needs zone currencies, it's easy to get a lot of Skywatch's from running chests or events, but Amnytas is mostly just the meta. So combining these two events into one bar would be "cluttered" for many people who only care about one or the other. There are similar situations for all of these suggested pairings. Also, while I like the Convergences moved to one section, the rewards outside of rift essence and time to complete are fairly different, so having them on one bar is less helpful.

Rather than compress more bars, making the feature to dismiss and rearrange bars more noticeable, as well as the other options, may be more helpful. This would also help for rearranging things more relevant to the top, since the default view being in release order makes it easier to find content before/without customizing. 98.37.183.190 13:12, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2025/11/27: Contrast Issues

Some examples of contrast issues

Example	Link color	Bg color	Contrast	Class
Day and Night	#043277	#7A86AB	3.3	.event-bar-segment event-core-dn segment-3
World Bosses	#043277	#D76464	3.4	.event-bar-segment event-core-wb segment-1
Lake Doric	#043277	#5E9F50	3.7	.event-bar-segment event-lws3-ld segment-2
Path of Fire (pre)	#043277	#C8699E	3.4	.event-bar-segment event-pof-er segment-1
Path of Fire	#043277	#B73E82	2.3	.event-bar-segment event-pof-dv segment-2
Living World S4	#043277	#9D68AE	2.9	.event-bar-segment event-lws4-jb segment-2
Dragon Storm	#043277	#C8699E	3.4	.event-bar-segment event-public-eotn segment-4

I don't know if this was caused by a recent change, but some of the link-background contrasts are pretty much unreadable for people with even slightly impaired vision. While I guess that it's ok the page does not meet AA standards on everything, some contrasts are lower than 2.5, making them almost impossible to read without eye squinting. The PoF events at 2.3 are the worst offenders, although LS4 is also at 2.9 which isn't great either. I'd make sure that everything is at or close to 4.0 or 4.5 if we'd want to meet AA either by changing bg-colors or link-colors.

I don't see a reason for this change either. The previous pallets were fine and perfectly readable imo. Seems like the change was made pretty hastily without really thinking deeply about accessibility standards. But since some ppl believe it's important enough to change, I won't edit yet, especially because I'm pretty certain the css is defined in a .css or widget or module page. - Danslencre (talk) 21:44, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Heya. A lot of the colour tweaks have been based on the various feedback picked up in the past few weeks, but equally they're mostly based on complaints and never proper suggestions as to good colours.

You've correctly guessed you can't edit the colours yourself, but I would very much invite you to please feel free to go and edit my sandbox version over at User:Chieftain Alex/sandbox and suggest some colours which you think do work.

The objectives as I see them would be:

• Make the colours representative of the expansion
• Improve the contrast as you've suggested
• Avoid making different sections too similar colourwise.

I suspect a less-than-ideal fix for a lot of the issues with the colours would be to stick the event titles in bold text in black, but then you'd be disguising the hyperlinks which is another accessibility no=no. -Chieftain Alex 22:49, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Also lol when you made that comment there was a broken CSS rule supposed to prevent visited links going purple inside the event timer.

I've made some changes in sandbox2 which might be a good start. -Chieftain Alex 07:09, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Collapsible? (Suggestion/Request) 2025/12/08

Would it be possible to have the sections collapsible, so we can see just the areas we are interested in?  Frostty1  00:07, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

You can hide the event bars with [x] on the top right corner of each bar, moving bars by dragging on your own. And more customization tools on the setting box below. See: Widget:Event timer#Features for full features. —Tᴇʀʏ.3065 13:19, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank YOU so much Terry!

• I have NEVER noticed the "X", on the far right-side, b/c they are in the grey zone and blended in.
• I have NEVER scrolled to the bottom of the page, to see the options. ~(o_O)~
• I tried to drag-and-drop the individual events once, and it just rubber-banded back into its' og place.  Frostty1  03:59, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Feedback 2026/01/07

Please add 5 minute preparation timers to VoE Meta

Feedback 2026/05/06

Please add perparation phases for Events - Example: Of mists and monsters starts at XX:40 prep begins at the XX:30 , Similar for VoE Metas. --Riad3000 (talk) 22:35, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

Feedback 2026/05/09

The "Previous/Next" view is currently only changing the Core Tyria and Public Instances sections —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 38.85.160.69 (talk).

Because the others are perfectly align within 2hrs period, so you see no changes. --Tᴇʀʏ.3065 01:42, 10 May 2026 (UTC)