community notification of impending game/site changes

[khazalid]

Concise description:

There ought to be prior-warning made in announcements of any changes to game or site interface.

Specifics:

Recent examples abound

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

1) Any major flaws can be pointed out before full implementation.
2) Knowing is half the battle. People don't mind change so long as they know it's coming. Think digital TV or Barack Obama.

[Travin]

This is also true for the recent change in XML feeds. The change over has completely broken everything we were using them for. For example, moving a player's game data from belonging to the user and over to a direct game query will now take quite some time to adjust all our scripts.