Guild applications has been broken since August, but Blizzard kept connecting realms

Many of us have been waiting since August to get our guild application function fixed post merger issues, but Blizzard has yet to officially post anything to acknowledge the issue. Some users are unable to post in the guild recruitment window, and can't view or accept any applicants.

[https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/guild-finder-not-working-and-new-realm-cant-accept-invites/604578/133](https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/guild-finder-not-working-and-new-realm-cant-accept-invites/604578/133)

In a recent Bug Report update, a CS staff mentioned:

> To give some background on this problem, the team that is charge of maintaining the games database will need to manually address each and every guild on the list. **Based on this situation, certain things need to be verified and patched into the game before the issue can be resolved. Otherwise it could cause more unintended problems.**

However despite knowing the issue in August, they still kept connecting realms - contradicting what is said above (however since these are different people I can understand that to a degree).

If you have been affected by this, please speak up in the thread - I'm not sure if it will help in the end to get things fixed faster - but hopefully with more traction we will get official word from Blizzard regarding this situation and timelines on when it will be fixed with Shadowlands creeping up.