Yep, you read that title right. McMMO is back! Quite a few of you have been asking about it for a while, and after one hell of a morning arm wrestling the server it's up and running. Now you can jump off of buildings to level your Acrobatics skill until your legs are powder! McMMO has far too many features to describe here, so log in and type /mc to start your journey.
McMMO will not be active in Creative for obvious reasons.
Something has happened that hasn't happened in a long time. Our Server just got a Hardware update. No, nothing fancy like an i7 processor or an SSD (one day). In this case, it's a, well, case. Yes, the old case was missing it's front plate, most of the back plate, had broken USB ports, broken LED ports... Basically, what I'm saying is the server was as much cat fur as it was server.
Now the Server has a fancy new case, so at least if it doesn't run nice, it looks nice! In all seriousness, the new case has fans and filters a plenty, and enough slots for us to significantly expand storage in the future, so we're on the right path for future upgrades now.
Also, I have pictures!
The old case. Now you see what I mean
A look at the inside. By this point I'd already dusted most of the crap away, but if you look closely there is still quite a bit, especially on the CPU Cooler.
All the parts spread out next to the new case. The CPU is still on the motherboard, because screw that!
The fully assembled Server in its new home next to my own computer, already online and running smooth and cool.
Yes, that's right, the forums are changing once more. For the handful of you that continued to use the cruddy Vanilla forums, you knew this was coming. It's back to MyBB, and honestly, I like what I see. If you care for more details about why this change was made, read on.
Note: All accounts registered prior to February of 2015 have been transferred over, and your old login credentials should work. If you registered your account during or after February you may be required to register a new account. I apologize for the inconvenience.
What was wrong with the old forums?
The old forums, to put it lightly, were garbage. When we first installed the Vanilla forums it looked like a great way to bring wolf-den.net into the modern age. They were clean and added some social aspects such as User walls. For a brief time they worked well, and so we kept them.
And then people tried to use them.
Once we got some threads under our belt it was quickly discovered that the forums where woefully unfit to handle large amounts of data. It became difficult to find what you were looking for, and the act of posting a new discussion was woefully unintuitive.
Then things started to break. Not just a thing here or there, but all the things. Moderation options had to be done on a thread by thread basis (no batch actions), post counts were inaccurate or not counting at all, alerts never really cleared, new threads didn't mark themselves as new... It's a pretty big list.
And so here we are, back with MyBB, something I think everyone is comfortable with.