Update! Forum, rules and other cool updates!

Forum, rules and other cool updates!

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Comrades of the seventh fleet,

We're very sorry about the momentary downtime whilst we upgraded our forums, plugins and theme. I do recognise that we had this decision and downtime before on Sunday before a rogue admin went ape shit. We must learn from our mistakes, improve, recover and move on. As Martin Luther King said, 'I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.' and so that is what we have decided as the community's management. Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let the powers above deal with the things they do, cause hate in our hearts will consume us.

Anyway, without further ado... following Wesson's topic.

We have upgraded the forum's software, plugins and theme to the latest version:

The new features in XenForo 1.3 include:

• Smiley categories and other smiley enhancements
• Custom BB codes
• A built in spoiler BB code
• Google+/Twitter registration
• Image and link proxying
• User change logging
• Multi-quote
• Various moderation improvements

...and more.

On top of that, we have completely changed the style and layout of our forums. The forum style is now FULLY responsive which means that you can view the site on any device and it will look like it was specifically made for that device. We have divided the forum layout into easily recognisable categories:

• Server Information
• Support
• In character
• Out of character

We've also added non-English speaking forums, more languages will soon be supported as we hire more international administrators who can moderate those sections.

Rules

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We have been working extremely hard on the rules page to make it very clear to everyone. One of the biggest complaints from players where that the rules were not clear enough. The new rules page shows all our OFFICIAL rules that are enforced by server admins. Any other rules note stated in the rules page simply do not exist. If you are unsure about a rule then send any member of management a personal message and we will clarify it in our brand new rule update section.

The rule update section will clarify any issues players are having with rules, notify you when there are new rules or alterations to existing rules.

Kind regards,
Community Management

 

[Vaas Axe]

Naw Barney....yer maw looks like Mark Henry

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[Johnson Jacob]

Sweet job. Are you planning to get CloudFlare protection to defend yourself from nasty DDoS attacks? I think the service is free, visit www.cloudflare.com and give it a try, might be helpful for you.

 

[Barney]

Sweet job. Are you planning to get CloudFlare protection to defend yourself from nasty DDoS attacks? I think the service is free, visit www.cloudflare.com and give it a try, might be helpful for you.

Our DDoS protection is much more sophisticated than the free version of CloudFlare. I cannot fully describe the security we have in place but it works quite simple. We use the same system that many huge companies use to protect their infrastructure. We are behind several layers of servers and whilst one of these servers could go down, there is automatically another server behind it to take control.

This hides the true IP of your working server and hence it will require a lot of firepower to take it down.

I know it's pretty geeky but imagine it like this: you have one big shop in the middle of the desert. Nobody will go to that shop because it's in the middle of nowhere. However you have tons of other small shops spread around big shopping malls and busy streets which people will visit. Once they enter your shops in populated areas, they automatically teleport to your shop that's in the middle of nowhere. So they visit your big shop without knowing where it is. Hence they can't aim an attack. Whilst this is happening, your big shop in the middle of nowhere is changing locations every few minutes so it's untraceable.

I hope that helped explain things. Or did I just confuse the hell out of people?

 

[Johnson Jacob]

Our DDoS protection is much more sophisticated than the free version of CloudFlare. I cannot fully describe the security we have in place but it works quite simple. We use the same system that many huge companies use to protect their infrastructure. We are behind several layers of servers and whilst one of these servers could go down, there is automatically another server behind it to take control.

This hides the true IP of your working server and hence it will require a lot of firepower to take it down.

I know it's pretty geeky but imagine it like this: you have one big shop in the middle of the desert. Nobody will go to that shop because it's in the middle of nowhere. However you have tons of other small shops spread around big shopping malls and busy streets which people will visit. Once they enter your shops in populated areas, they automatically teleport to your shop that's in the middle of nowhere. So they visit your big shop without knowing where it is. Hence they can't aim an attack. Whilst this is happening, your big shop in the middle of nowhere is changing locations every few minutes so it's untraceable.

I hope that helped explain things. Or did I just confuse the hell out of people?

Yes, I'm aware with this system. It's just like a hangout place for entrepreneurs which is utterly sealed with modernized layers for protection — so for example, if one layer dynamites, there are plenty other layers which require a heavy manpower for complete destruction and hence it makes the hangout more protective and secure.

 

[Klevis]

Good job guys

 

[Duke Blitz]

Cloudflare free service is only for websites. And to be frank Cloudflare is shit. For more professional protection, Blacklotus and Incapsula are best. Maybe even Javapipe. What Barney was saying about is the usage of Reverse Proxy. Quite an efficient way to stop Ddos Attacks.

 

[Aqil]

Good job!

 

[Alfred]

Nice!

 

[Xiben]

My phone got spammed by conversations made by Barney, I checked my conversations and nothing's there. Wat dafuq

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[Rio]

My phone got spammed by conversations made by Barney, I checked my conversations and nothing's there. Wat dafuq

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Same. Barney da spammer.


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