2005/Jan-Jun/List/Featured Announcements

January

 * January 03 - For those who received 2004 donation letters on January 1st. Due to a bug in the Donation System, all donations made on January 1st granted the January 2004 sealed envelopes. After much deliberation from the admin team they decided that it was only fair to have all envelopes given on January 1st to be converted to the January 2005 sealed envelopes.
 * January 11 to 12 - System Maintenance from 2AM - 4AM, PST
 * January 21 - Report System, Mod Structure, PM System Overhaul!
 * January 23 - Items Update! (1/23)
 * January 25 - Donation Items: Angelic Bracelet [[File:0105-AngelicBracelet.png]] and Demonic Pendant [[File:0105-DemonicPendant.png]]
 * January 29 - ADMINS WILL NEVER CONTACT YOU VIA AIM/CHAT - VO announces; Admins will never contact you Via AIM/CHAT. During this month, they have been receiving reports of users being contacted by "fake admins" (such as VOatGAIA or LANZERatGAIA, etc).

February

 * February 01 - January Fishing Contest Winners Deadline Extended. Due to a glitch in the reset code.
 * February 02 - GAIA HOMES Preview. Staff hoped to release it within the month.
 * February 03 - Disruptive large scheme based posts not allowed. L0cke announces; There was a recent trend of "post this bump for 14 gold" style threads has gotten to the point of disturbing many users experience on Gaia.
 * February 10 - Introducing "Going Postal!"
 * February 13 - Trading bug fix. Due to the database outage on Feb 11th the trading feature had been buggy and two sided item trades didn't work. It took some time but the bug had been fixed.
 * February 14 - Gaia Valentine Event Update. To celebrate Valentine's Day, everyone received a box of Valentine chocolate to give to a special someone, if anyone did not receive chocolates, they could purchase a box for 100g from Barton Jewelers. During this time the Staff was working on the "Gaia Hangout System".
 * February 15 - Gaia Hangouts was released.
 * February 18 - Gaia became 2 Years Old.
 * February 18 - GAIA Second Anniversary Ball this Friday, February 18th - This marks the introduction of the Von Helson Sisters and Liam.
 * February 18 - Gaia Event: The Second Gaian Anniversary Ball.
 * February 19 - Von Helson Mansion Sabotaged!
 * February 21 - Items Update (2/21) - Handheld items for Avatars,
 * February 24 - Donation Items: Solar Cloak [[File:0205-SolarCloak.png]] and Lunar Cloak [[File:0205-LunarCloak.png]]
 * February 28 - GAIA Homes Progress Update. Staff was currently working to debug GAIA Homes, and hoped to release it by the end of the week.

March

 * New Town: Aekea is added to the World Map.
 * March 03 - Gaia Homes are here! This marks the introduction of Josie (Housing Commissions), the Robots in the Faktori, and Liam opening a shop in Aekea called Crate & Apparel.
 * March 04 - Fixed an issue that was preventing house saves.
 * March 04 - Gaia Community Discussion, Gaia Gaming Discussion, Gaia Homes, and Site Feedback were created while other forums went through name changes and relocation.
 * March 22 - Post search/post history fixed.
 * March 23 - Private Messaging disabled until 7AM, PST.
 * March 24 - Introducing Shadow Forums. Shadow Forums are forums on Gaia that have a second "fake" forum listed elsewhere on the site. These "shadows" redirect to the main subforum for a given area.
 * March 24 - Items Update (3/24) - new clothing.
 * March 25 - Donation Items: KiKi Kitty Plushie [[File:0305-KiKiKittyPlushie.png]] and RoRo Robo-Puppy [[File:0305-RoRoRobo-Puppy.png]]
 * March 25 - GAIA EASTER Event on Sunday, March 27th
 * March 27 - Gaia Event: Easter 2k5 Event was held in the Von Helson Mansion.

April

 * April 01 - Manga update: #1: April Fools '05 - An 8-page manga that marks the presumed death of the Von Helson Sisters and the Gambinos'.
 * April 05 - Site Maintenance at 12:00pm - 12:30pm, PST
 * April 10 - Gaia Online at Anime Boston! Gaia Online attended Anime Boston 2005, from April 29 to May 1 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
 * April 21 / 22 - Regarding donation problems. Last week Gaia encountered an error and could not receive feedback messages for two days. Those who had an issue were asked to report it.
 * April 23 - Items Update(4/23) - new clothing.
 * April 24 - Donation Items: Prism Butterfly Mantilla [[File:0405-PrismButterflyMantilla.png]] and Chestplate of Arachne [[File:0405-ChestplateofArachne.png]]
 * April 27 - Paypal Donation problems resolved
 * April 28 - Gaia Fishing 1.5 was released - fishing becomes multiplayer.

May

 * May 03 - Hacking, decompiling Gaia flash games will result in banning.
 * May 03 - Rules of conduct in Gaia Fishing and Gaia Chat
 * May 04 - Missing posts
 * May 11 - Gaia Online at Fanime and Project A-Kon 16. Gaia Online attended FanimeCon 2005 from May 27 to May 30 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. Gaia Online also be attended Project A-Kon 16 from June 3 to June 5, 2005 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas, TX.
 * May 13 - Recent gold exploit and possible rollback
 * May 13 - Rollback in which gold, inventories, marketplace and trades were set back to what they were on May 9th, 2005 at 3:00am, PST due to a glitch with gold.
 * May 13 - Rollback Information. Jakobo explains what Rollback means.
 * May 13 - Gino Gambino turned 17, but naturally wasn't present.
 * May 14 - Rollback almost complete
 * May 18 - Donation problems due to rollback. Gaians were informed to report if they have not received their sealed envelopes.
 * May 19 - Items Update(5/19) - new hairstyles and housing items.
 * May 24 - Donation Items: Guitar of Angellus [[File:0505-GuitarofAngellus.png]] and Guitar of Demona [[File:0505-GuitarofDemona.png]]
 * May 27 - Gaia Fanime Panel on May 28, at 2:00PM

June

 * June 02 - Gaia A-Kon Panel @ Fri Jun 3, 5:00 PM -- Houston B (CC-3)
 * June 07 - New Feature! Gaia Downloads. There were various desktop wallpapers, as well as a Yahoo! Messenger Avatar Customizer, Gaians could also use their Avatar as their YIM icon.
 * June 08 - Slight downtime during 1 to 3pm, PST. Testing out new hardware and features.
 * June 09 - Forum Posts -Under Migration-
 * June 10 - Gaia Casino is released! - Marks the introduction of Lex and Becky.
 * June 16 - Gaia Maintenance Notice. Gaia was upgrading their forum system; From 5:00AM to 6:00AM, all of Gaia was down for upgrade. From 5:00AM to 12:00PM, PST, Gaia's forum was down for maintenance.
 * June 17 - Introducing the New Forum Code - New bbCode and Smilies.
 * June 24 - Donation Items: Phoenix Circlet [[File:0605-PhoenixCirclet.png]] and Bone Dragon Helm [[File:0605-BoneDragonHelm.png]]
 * June 29  - Gaia Panel at Anime Expo 2005