Numerous updates across the website

[Artificial]

Hey guys,

Thomas and I have made numerous changes across the website. In particular:

Cleaned up member groups/admins/mods
Quite a few members have been migrated from staff positions to the new underground rank. There's no doubt our reach has declined (though we're working on reversing that trend), so we don't need as many members holding staff positions. Most of those we migrated hadn't performed a staff action for quite some time.

Redirected www -> forum
We experimented, and it failed. We really needed someone dedicated to keep the main website fresh with new content, but alas, we couldn't find anyone. It's all still there, but we're redirecting the main www to forum.

Ads removed
Pretty self explanatory. We're going to focus more on providing high quality services than monetising through ad revenue.

Consolidated underground usergroups
While I think the different UG tiers were a great idea when we were larger, now we're smaller we believe the most intelligent course of action is to consolidate them in to the one group.

Updated forums
- Added Neopets forum.

Programming team members migrated to UG rank
All but one programming team member have been migrated over to the new underground position. The programming rank didn't really hold much purpose. It was loosely structured and didn't have any clearly definable objectives. Instead, we're now going to have one central piece of software (which in turn will have a range of official and community plugins) that a central programming team is going trk on. We'll release more information about this shortly, but if you'd like trk on it just get in contact with me. It'll be done in Python.

[Artificial]

Bumped - for some reason this was posted in the incorrect forum.

[Skrillex]

Sent you a Pm Alex.

[323]

Well will the programming forum be reserved? From what I've heard (Trust me... I've heard a... fair amount) that there's some useful info in there relating to Gaia that I really need to get my hands on if I'm going to continue with development of tools to buttrape them, or to just screw with them.

[Artificial]

We're not going to delete the contents of any forum.

[Skrillex]

Well will the programming forum be reserved? From what I've heard (Trust me... I've heard a... fair amount) that there's some useful info in there relating to Gaia that I really need to get my hands on if I'm going to continue with development of tools to buttrape them, or to just screw with them.

Flareboy why are you so keen on getting in there? There isn't anything special. Trust me I was in there.

[MattSmith]

Flareboy why are you so keen on getting in there? There isn't anything special. Trust me I was in there.

Useful knowledge, plus, ask any question and it shall be answered. Pertaining to programming that is. IE, if someone were to ask how to decode the zOMG packets in programming team forum , I'd tell them. Etc.

ALSO,
FLARE: The forum still exists with its contents, don't worry.

[323]

Useful knowledge, plus, ask any question and it shall be answered. Pertaining to programming that is. IE, if someone were to ask how to decode the zOMG packets in programming team forum , I'd tell them. Etc.

ALSO,
FLARE: The forum still exists with its contents, don't worry.

Well I've actually seen some of the content in it, to answer Skrillex's question. It pertains to my interests and would be EXTREMELY useful to me. So how would one gain access to those forums right now, if they're ironing out staff and ranks and all of that and not demoting or promoting? Could I have access to the forum without being on the Programming team?

[Skrillex]

Well I've actually seen some of the content in it, to answer Skrillex's question. It pertains to my interests and would be EXTREMELY useful to me. So how would one gain access to those forums right now, if they're ironing out staff and ranks and all of that and not demoting or promoting? Could I have access to the forum without being on the Programming team?

I have ran many forums, and the only way I know to do that is to make you a whole new fucking group or just put you on the team. Enless Vb works a different way where every user has certain permissions instead of group permissions.

[Omlett]

Are you kidding? Of course there is useful information in there.

[323]

Are you kidding? Of course there is useful information in there.

Well I know there are lists of every GSI function and what they do (I have this, but not as organized as theirs) and I know they have email+username lists for use with an exploit (which I also hold the knowledge to) and a few other things I don't remember.

[Jah]

Yeah i would like access to that info too please.

[Souleater]

Hmmm. Not sure whats going on anymore.