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[Bartas]

forum is being transferred...

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19-24 November 2009
Forum transition:
- new domain.
- created new database and installed new forum.
- forum settings, memberships and permissions to match the previous forum.
- visual changes to match the previous forum (graphics, colors, header and footer).
- creation of board structure to match previous forum.
- creation and quoting of relevant topics.
- created new read/unread board icons to better match the current game we are playing (Aion).
- creation of active users from previous forum.
- added RoyalStorm mini-icon to the forum url.

Add-ons:
- Installed video and audio support.
- Installed "justify text" on post options.
- Installed several forum administration tools.
- Installed and modified support to Aion Database on post options.


(thank you Bartas, for all the support given to me and project RoyalStorm in it's transition. Was a great help.)

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Boards:
- Created sub-board "Members" inside "Legion Activity". Moved corresponding topics into it.

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forum style:
- Adjusted the navigation text (showing your current forum location) to be readable on light background areas.

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Registration:
- added 2 full ranges of IP bans, due to spam coming from such. Should not affect any of the legion members tough.

If a user that tries to register is affected, he/she will receive a message notifying the ban and it's reason, as well as what to do in case they are genuine users.

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Registration:
- Added another full range of IP ban.
- Visual verification was now increased from medium to high difficulty.

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Legion Staff
- Yuniki is now a Legion Diplomat. (congratulations)

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Legion Staff
- Viittu and Psyboom have been promoted to Legion Diplomats. (congratulations)

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Anti spam
- Some extra measures were taken to avoid guest spam. (new post validation code, extra auto ban rules, permissions readjusted)

Website
- New website is up, it is "bare bone" for now. Without special effects and special graphics. At this moment it is practical on the sense of having the structure i wish to give the website. Links to the other sections and visual effects will be added over time.

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Website:
- Now Calendar is directly accessible from our website main page. Only people that have registered on the forum, will be able to see the calendar events.

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Forum Calendar:
- Repeatable events are now possible to make.

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Forum posting:
- From now on maximum image size is 950 pixels for both width and height.

Any image bigger than that will be automatically reduced (not on bytes size, only on it's forum display size)

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New member registration settings:
- Configured settings so that now, when creating a forum account, the person needs to insert a valid email in order to receive and follow an account activation link sent by email.

This is a temporary change,  hopefully will help fight some recent spam, until I am able to create extra posting rules for "forum lurkers" and increase the difficulty of anti-bot security code.

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Forum membership symbols:
- Created aion rank images to replace the normal "stars".

This was me processing and applying a idea/suggestion given by Utherverse. Took me some time and work, but i think it stayed very nice. Enjoy.

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Addons:
- Forum now has a "spoiler" button when posting.

Example:
[spoiler]The main porpuse of it on our forum tough, is to organize information on very long posts, so that not so much scrolling is needed.[/spoiler]