In an effort to increase accessibility to game newbies and ease of reading in some areas like the GTA Online and Red Dead Online forums, we'd like to ask for your help!

Sometimes we have newbies asking what does "EWO" mean, or "CPH" mean, or stuff of the sort, and Invision Community has a feature so you can hover over an acronym and have it be told to you what it means. So hovering over EWO would show "Easy Way Out" in a tooltip, "CPH" would show "Cayo Perico Heist", etc.

We've done this for the term PBM as well (Previously Banned Member, try hovering over the word!) and plan to do it for more specific GTAF terms as well such as OGA (Official Gang Alliance), so we'd like to ask - what terms do you think should be included so we can make things a bit easier to interpret for people who might not be into all the strategies and terminology of the online games or GTAF?

Edit: Because these aren't section specific, if the acronym has way too many meanings outside game specific terminology, or isn't that common and may conflict with some other types of conversation, we likely still won't add it. e.g. BST is both British Summer Time and Bull Shark Testosterone so...

Edit 2: We're mostly looking for terms used by seasoned players, some town names, console names, game names etc. aren't going to be added because 1. they might interfere with other conversations, 2. well, this is GTAForums, you probably know what GTA V and GTAO are.  

Thanks!

When you enter the GTAO section, in the top banner always appears the most relevant or most active of the moment related to that topic, such as the weekly topic of Weekly Update.

It is true that some topics are already pinned, but sometimes it is confortable for navigation to go to the most relevant topic within each section/topic.

PS: I hope I have been understood, sorry for my non-native English.

This is because with influx of GTA VI info and discussions this has spawned many different threads and not everyone is interested in all of them so it would be nice it each user could bookmark a few and have them in a dedicated section so they can view those directly without having to find them again and again

Not sure if this would cause storage issues since users will bookmark lots of topics so perhaps you could limit it to 10?

OpenIV Team's - profile appears to be inactive since at least January 2022, the other dev - GooD-TNS, appears to was last active around January 2023, but seems he's completely vanished since.

People's reports about problems with OpenIV are getting no replies, and just goes down completely unresolved.

OpenIV's Bug Tracker on their website appear to be basically abandoned! Majority of the bug reports there, probably over 90% since a least April 2022, are still sitting for 1.5-2 years already with no single assignment, no answers and completely untouched by OpenIV's team, and with exception of 1-2 bug reports posted around March 2023, all other newer stills unanswered and basically abandoned.

Separately, all reports about an errors related to OpenIV posted here on GTAForums from like the last 2-3 years, are not even getting any replies by OpenIV's team anymore, whatsoever!

On OpenIV website, their forums are also toast - they only shows an error 503 and aren't even working anymore.

Because of this, I think the OpenIV subforum here should be locked and probably archived, because it's clear that OpenIV is basically dead, now at least 1-2 full years passed (2023-2024) since and now in 2025 there doesn't even appear to be any activity from OpenIV's devs anymore. Unfortunately this modding tool for GTA HD Universe seems totally abandoned.

Please, if this isn't correct forum for this thread for a some reason, feel free do move it to the correct one. Thanks!

i just want to share my thoughts, if its too much its ok, just wanna make things more organized and easy for people that use this section.

i ususally active on the GTA Online part of the forum and always wondered about the find Lobbies & players section.

in short - its totally mess!

i know the rules saying that need to mention the platform on the title but alot of people that make the new threads are new and its totally mess there.

you don't know what platform they are and its mixed with other platforms threads.

the other problem is that even the sticky threads that has alot of replays are mixed platforms.

for example this.

I think all this section needed to be reorganised and first and most important is to separate the threads to sub-sections by platform:

PS, XBOX, PC (and maybe even RP separatly?!)

each platform can has few sticky threads that very popular like:

OG heist recruitments (cmm, elite, awards),

Doomsday heist recruitments (CMM2/3/4, elite, awards),

career progress, awards and trophies hunters,

car meets,

crews,

RP, (?!)

this way people can check what new by the relevant platform they are playing.

maybe its not that popular section, but maybe the mess is one of the reasons.

i'm not sure if need to sort all the old commnets and threads bc most of them are not relevant anymore.

most of the threads can be put in archive and the new can be sort to one of the relevant platforms in the sub-section.

admin can create new main threads like i mentioned above with normal title and stick them in the top sub-section, put link to these threads in the old one and lock them.

Even if its not worth the efforts for this version of the GTA Online, i think it can be very usefull in GTA Online 2 when GTA VI will come.

For example if a gtaforums member/moderator or admin has been deceased the parents/loved ones must notify the forums by using a notify button or send an e-mail so administration team can start the standart procedures.. Or alternatively the members/moderators/admins must request an e-mail to send someone so they can reply it and inform the team.

In all cases the team must confirm if the member is still living.. If they don't get a response.. than.. they can start the process..

I don't have a specific thing to ask from you because i don't know how can it be applied properly but it seems it's a missing feature for this forum..

Not even a high minimum word limit, maybe just like each post requires 10 words?

Most of the posts I report are posted in the wrong forum areas. I always enter it manually. Or is it too unimportant to be included in this list?

If guests don't wanna see sigs and don't wanna register to gtaf but still wanna visit website for any reason this would be very useful and welcome, especially if my first suggestion comes to fruition (which i pretty much doubt at this point)

I am a blind user of GTA story mode and online for the Xbox series X. I can play the game in free roam but I have got a new copy of it so I’m right at the beginning. Please could somebody help me get past the prologue which requires you to get into the free roaming mode? Also could somebody help me get a bit further along on the online mode?

Thank you so much. 

Doesn't have to be a super serious concept, the members don't have to be active anymore either. Just think it would be interesting and something funny to follow.

Say every year you could induct 4-5 members who historically contributed to the forums over the decades and/or who the community remember for whatever reason.

What say? I'm ready for y'all to tell me to touch grass btw

The feature to delete topics.

I assume this is a problem due to the basecode of this forum, but maybe someone could make a suggestion to them?

Edit: Something that I have just encountered, but usually when an element on the website is highlighted and one presses Ctrl + Enter, the link/element will be opened in a new tab, but in this forum it opens a new tab and opens that content in the remaining tab, as well. The expected behaviour should be that page shouldn't be changed in the remaining tab.

I think it would be nice if anyone with a good enough reputation could earn the ability to have a signature. By reputation I don't just mean likes but also things like how active one is on gtaf,  how many awards and community answers got, how many other positive post reactions like best bru and realistic steak are received, how old is account and maybe other factors I can't think of rn.

I may have a sig bc i became a member of llc, a certified gang, but im pretty sure there lots of members who dont wanna be in a gang but want and/or need a signature to promote their content to unregistered gtaf visitors.

Sure im glad i have a sig but i also want fair privilege, so to speak. Imagine you're a content creator who happens to love GTA but (also) does unrelated content, you join GTAF then you realize you have to join a gang to be able to get sig, but for some reason that creator doesn't wanna join or simply fails to join. That content creator now can't promote their content unless a member clicks on their profile which is significantly less likely. They want anyone to be able to reach their content but they simply can't.

If you never thought of that perspective, I suggest you at least consider adding the ability to gain signatures via leveling up.

Certified gang members can still have sig regardless of change btw.

Thank you for understanding.

Have a nice day,

gfsa

If I wanted to see something from earlier than Friday, I literally have no way to do that, unless I have GTA Forums send me emails every single time, which will then clog up the mail box. 
We (I) could really do with a setting to allow more notifications to be recorded / a bigger log of the data so that previous stuff can be replied to (etc). 

Think about it, members would be able to directly design OP headers for their mods\concept threads and stuff using OG GTA fonts within the post editor. This would save a lot of hassle regarding the graphics of a post, which are usually designed with MS Paint, uploaded and linked as images, and then one day the image hosting site bugs out which cripples the topic's visuals.

Not to mention this could also be counted as a performance optimization because most mod and concept threads use images for headers etc. and the text (formatted or otherwise) always loads faster than them.

PS3/360

PS4/XB1

PC

and people ask questions all the time regarding each of those consoles and they rarely if ever include what console they're using unless asked by someone attempting to help them as some problems are console related.

If there is an option to force a tag placement of console before they can post their questions it would help those folks like myself who often answer Q&A in the Help & Support topics but are delayed in giving the correct response as we don't know what console they're using.

It's an excellent image, but think about how many hundreds of equally excellent banners could easily be made with this same concept, with the tons of images from the GTA series  that we have (in my personal opinion, this "degrade" concept is perfect, and it would never need to change.)

In fact, the banner could be changed from time to time, which would continue to make the site beautiful, and maintaining its identity,with the added surprise of we always appreciating different images from the series.

Plus, think about the meaning that GTA VI has at this moment, and how gtaforums deserve a banner with the images we already have of the game, from the trailer.

Do you think my idea is viable, and that its application would be good for the website, or not?

It's hard to find new posts as they are mostly hidden in old threads with hundreds or even thousands of replies. 

Wouldn't it be good if we could create polls in a simple post not only by creating a whole new topic?

I did creat this one, as some before me, by hacking the system but it would be better if the create poll system was allowed in posts. 

Just like these, but in the create post area.

Anyway

Thank you, Namaste.

i always thought we are supposed to use the search function before starting a new thread to avoid multiple threads for the same topic.

so maybe the forum team should make clear for the community if we should rather use the search function and use existing threads or rather start always new threads for the same topic to avoid "necro bumping".

if there is already an old thread about something which becomes up-to-date again for some member why not use that old existing thread for it??

if the team decides against "necro bumping" then the search function is not needed anymore and all those older thread should be closed to avoid any newer replies in them.