Posts by Iaerah

Well, I have been asked to send through my list of speedtests..
I had some records of 1.14 Mpbs and an upload of 0.56 Mbps, but it is kind hard to do stuff that way and really limits my ability to work at home (which gives me more time to work on Legacy). Sucks, but hopefully it will be resolved soon.
Its not only the speed though but the general quality of it, it is just slow and has a ton of lag as well.

I have actually implemented a shoutbox on another website of mine once, and while it was a really fun way, the big issue with it was that the main activity on that site dropped to nearly nothing because of it.
The big issue with that is that it is all deleted, so usefull things aren't stored and so on.

Because of this, I would suggest using Discord - https://guildwarslegacy.com/misc.php?page=discord
That always has people on it

In general, I am not against a shoutbox but not overtly positive on it either. Perhaps if we get enough request for it

Kev

Hello everybody,

I have been quite inactive lately because of internet issues (I get about 2-5Mbps instead of my usual 100Mbps..)

My internet provider is currently looking into this and I am working on solutions, should be back on schedule as soon as possible.

Kev

I do get the same error, might be a bug in the forum software - passing this through.

- Kev

Since today (and thanks to K A O S Theory) it is also on the homepage of Guild Wars Legacy

- Kev

Hey everybody,

Thanks to K A O S Theory, we now have the daily in game activities on the site.

Thanks K A O S!

- Kev

Right now the Archive is running in a special Docker container, so fixing those special characters would be a ton of work and unlikely to be done.

The solution of Marty does however work - thanks Marty!

Quote from Hyper

I seem to have no rights to have a forum signature? Can this be changed or is this by policy?
Thank you.

There is a requirement of 5 posts before you can add a signature.
In order to change your avatar, a minimum of 3 posts is required.

- Kev

This is going to get quite expensive when we get to 5000 members. Or 10,000.
Congratulations Problematique!

As you can see from my now changed avatar, this should be fixed now (I had some time to tackle this issue properly with the server maintenance today)... Could you guys please all test this and let me know?

- Kev

And we are back online! I am still working on some backend stuff, so you might experience some bumps while I work these out.

Kev

[font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"]Hello everybody,[/font]

[font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"]We will be taking Guild Wars Legacy offline for maintenance in about 30 minutes. ETA before back online: max 3 hours.[/font]

[font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"]Greetings,[/font]

[font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"]Kevin[/font]

I am still looking into this, everything seems to be OK on the server, so its a bit more searching for me.. I will keep you up to date here.

I have been playing for 3958 hours and 25 minutes over the past 130 months.`
1952 our of those were on my main, a warrior.

Quote from phil

Hi,

i'm having problems with uploading an avatar. Every time i want to upload it just says: Please correct the following errors before continuing: The file upload failed: Please choose a valid file and try again.

So my file is .jpg and >25 KB, can you may help me?

Could you email the file to me? kevin@guildwarslegacy.com - I'll take a look

- Kev

Guild Wars Origins. It would be cool to see the origins and experience the Guild Wars.

I'd love a game just after Guild Wars 1 though, see them trying to hold ground against the Charr... how Elona fares, the internal struggles.
There are some truly great stories there.

So.... chocolate cake or vanilla cake?

Tweet!

ABC or XYZ?

Quote from Smoke Nightvogue

You're welcome, it's nice to know I've made an appreciated contribution to the opportunity of being able to browse through certain parts of the old forum for all those who retained interest about it.

Yep, it's all thanks to Smoke! I didn't add him on the page yet because I couldn't find this post :3 I'm going to add you on the page!

Since the Guru archive has been down for half a year now, we decided to do our best and try to provide a (temporary) archive of Guild Wars Guru.
We've been working hard (and by that we mean that we've been using our whips on Kevin) to make this possible.

You can now visit the archive on http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com (we do suggest you use the links below) - HOWEVER, keep this in mind: this isn't a real backup, but rather parts of the website tied together. Huge chunks of the site are still missing, you can't use search and navigation isn't buttery smooth - however, you can find a LOT of information in it and you're able to recover images, posts etc.

Categories

• Questions and Answers
• Technician's Corner
• The Riverside Inn
• Sardelac Sanitarium
• Community Works
• Trader's Outpost
• Druid's Overlook
• Community news, contests and events
• Price check
• Sell
• Buy
• Services Offered
• Seeking Services
• Giveaways
• The Campfire
• Gladiator's Arena
• Explorer's League
• Guild Recruitment
• PUG and Grouping
• Off Topic and The Absurd
• Nolani Academy of Arts
• Screenshot Exposition
• Site Feedback
  

This is the most expensive part of Legacy right now to host, being over 100 GB big (Legacy itself is right now way below 500 MB in size). If you use this often, please consider donating to Guild Wars Legacy.

Questions and inquiries about this archive can be sent to scribe@mail.guildwarslegacy.com

Quote from Marty Silverblade

In addition to ditching the Professions subforum, it would be ideal if the PvE and PvP subforums were broadened to include things like mission discussion and tactics rather than being specific to builds. There isn't really a place for this atm.

What kind of boards do you suggest?

Quote from Emma

Perhaps not who liked it, but would be fun to see how many people like a post. Imo it would be fun to see a like counter.

so please don't disable it

The amount will stay there What Marty means is that in other themes it's also shown how much likes you got in total on all your posts and how many likes you've given yourself - and that isn't quite useful

I'm going to search further for a better solution for this, but this is a bit of a thougher nut to crack for me since it requires me to actually modify the forum's code.
That's not to be said it's impossible, but it will have to wait until I have the dev environment ready.

Quote from Emma

yeah, the thumbs up emoji is now behind the text: Like Post. atleast for me. And is there a like counter?

I have fixed that, it should now look like the other options. I have also added the bar that shows who liked which post and restyled it a bit.

Quote from Marty Silverblade

Revolution displays the number of likes given and received along with the post count, join date ,etc, as well as showing a list of people who liked a post at the bottom of it. Neither of those appear on Wintersday. The liked list appears as white text with a shadow on a white background though. The thumbs up icon is misaligned for me too.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, if we're going to have a likes system installed, isn't reputation kinda redundant? It's never really been clear what it's meant to be for anyway.

EDIT 2: Also, I'd personally prefer for the total number of likes somebody has given and received to not be listed on every post. Listing the people who liked a post on that post (as it happens now) would be all I'd like to see.

Wintersday hasn't got the same treatment yet, as I'm going to merge it with MyIPB so that it uses the same templates - right now every change has to be done in every theme, and I'm simply going to use 1 base theme and change the stylesheets soon.
Revolution has gotten the small fixes as well.
The reputation system has been removed, it didn't really work here (it was here because it was a default feature of MyBB).
The amount of likes being listed isn't intentional, it's set up that way on some themes though (as it is the default). I don't think that's important information... I'll look into disabling it.

Quote from Emma

Making a thread here to show gratitude for all who made the archive possible. I forgot what epic stuff was posted right till the shut down. I just browsed the last 3 pages of Your Beloved Collections and I couldn't be happier. Nostalgia, memories and even a little tear when I saw that green bulb under my profile indicating I was online.

Thank you so much!

~Emma

It's been a TON of work to get it online, but I'm glad we finally did it! It's a really huge archive (100GB+ and 1021288 files), but it's worth it.

Quote from cosyfiep

yeah, it has been nice to see the old girl back up and moving (slowly, but that is just about right for her!)

only issue I have with it is it is only available thru my ipb...none of the other backgrounds have it (yet?--hint hint).

That is done on purpose, same reason as why I didn't publicy talk about it yet/announced it. I have to see how the server reacts to having 100GB+ of web data and more than 1 million files. That's quite a lot...

Quote from IvoryR

Section for screens to be included would be awesome too ;o Gallery section maybe

A gallery is something that I would like to include, but that takes a while to properly set up. It's not out of the question though, will just take a bit longer

I'll add a fan-art section: https://guildwarslegacy.com/forum-51.html

It took me quite a lot of effort, but on the posts itself the time should now be displayed like this: 29-01-2017, 23:55 UTC - I had to modify core files of the forum.

Note of reference for myself should I need to re-do this in the future: functions_post.php, $post['postdate'] = my_date('d-m-Y, H:i e', $post['dateline'],0,2); (line 166)

Quote from Lexx

I think I missed every Harry Potter movie myself. Should I watch them, or better spend that time online in GW?

Watch them all WHILE PLAYING GUILD WARS! Hahaha!

I like this idea.

Done - going to have to restyle it a bit though

Yesterday, I went to a show of Epica and Powerwolf, and the support act was Beyond The Black -they blew me away!

I love this song from them:

I think this should be fixed now - can you check again?

- Kev

And another change, since we kept on having problems, I have implemented a mailing service.

Normally, all mails should be sent now.

If you have any further issues, let me know.

Kev

Goren, because fetch me my Sedan chair!

Master Togo or Prince Rurik?

Hello everybody,

Just a small message here to inform you that someone has been impersonating other people lately, including Max Borken and Richey but also many other players.
Keep in mind that anybody claiming to be someone might not be who they are claiming to be - always ask proof to be certain.

In the case of Legacy staff, you can reach them on <username>@staff.guildwarslegacy.com - all of our staff will have an email soon.

Should this happen again, please send screenshots to us (info@guildwarslegacy.com) so that we can take action against this and send it the right people so hopefully action can be taken against this behaviour.

Keep in mind that everyone plays this game to enjoy it - behaviour like this is good for nobody.

Should you know the in game names of this user, feel free to post them here and add him to your ignore lists. So far the names reported are Dwigt Schrute

Should you all have questions, I'm reachable on kevin@staff.guildwarslegacy.com or simply kevin@guildwarslegacy.com

Kev

Hello everybody - we're finally ready to announce the winners of our first contest!
First of all, sorry for the delay - I'm fully to blame for it, but I have had a few busy weeks.

We had a lot of submissions for this contest and we really had a though time picking a winner!
There were a lot of great submissions, very creative and funny ones indeed! It was so hard that we ended up with a tie for the last Grawl, so without further ado... here are the winners!

Congratulations to:

• Ghost In The Shell (http://i.imgur.com/5HAIiGt.jpg)
• Ice (https://guildwarslegacy.com/attachment.php?aid=109)
• Arkon (https://guildwarslegacy.com/attachment.php?aid=107)
• IvoryR (https://guildwarslegacy.com/thread-562.html)
• Pleikki (http://i66.tinypic.com/2md55xc.jpg)

Honorable mentions go to Ewilan and Max Mephisto!

(The pictures chosen are random)

I'll be in touch in the next few days to get all of your details to get your hands on these cute little Grawls!

Once more, congratulations!

Quote from Marty Silverblade

"Too much work" and then two days later it's here. Possibly related, I just got a popup that says I can tag people like this: cosyfiep

Doesn't seem to have worked.

Yeah - I found a neat plugin for MyBB that did exactly that - I looked over it last time
I added something else which shows notifications in your browser, even when you are in another tab. Could that popup be from that?
I didn't add anything for @mentions.

I tried to download something and it did work, though with a delay.
I'm looking further into this.

Quote from Emma

sweeeeet! thanks :D. Question tho, why does it say this at below your username: Emma says: Mast3r of th3 S3rv3r?

You said that once I liked it and added it there.
I'm going to change it ;P

Well Emma, good news, this is now implemented!

I've added this to my to-do list
I'll try to find some time to add this all in

I have looked into this, but it's not something that I can implement easily (or soon).
That's not to say that I'm not considering doing this or adding this - just that it won't be something that I can quickly do.