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Not that it makes much difference, but I realized I had the wrong button up. It still goes to my account, but was labelled for Tairis. I've fixed it and its now properly labelled for here.

Patreon isn't viable for the types of services I provide you guys and other communities. If I were working on a new video game, or actively adding to Tairis all the time, that may be another story. I also looked into Dwolla, but it also doesn't support international payments. I nearly signed up, but...

I am looking into Patreon as an option. And once I have the page I mentioned that would be specifically about me and what I do for various communities, there will be other links. I intend to keep an Amazon wishlist linked there, as well as other options. I'll be categorizing links into practical/nee...

I have a temporary but functional placeholder for the donation page back up now at http://www.ysgard.org/page.php?page=donate I installed my custom database driven website system in order to put it up. I will update the page with more info as soon as I get a proper writeup done. Until then, the link...

As part of this site update, with the old front page missing, so are the donate buttons. Now, I've been struggling with returning these buttons. For one, the button that goes straight into the webhosting account to go only towards that bill was phased out for creating a new button but still function...

I have identified as many bots as I could find under the following criteria: Has no posts, and has a signature with advertising in it. Has no posts, and has an Interests field with advertising in it. I also searched on: Has no posts, but has sent a PM. This gave no damning results. In fact, only one...

While looking through the member list, I can see that there are some spam bots that have registered but never posted going back for well over a year. I have also noted a huge number of accounts with ZERO posts. I have deactivated (but not deleted) all users with zero posts and have not used the site...

If you guys want more themes installed or want to make a custom theme, the version we're using is 3.0 based, not 3.1. There are significant differences. A place to start looking would be here: http://www.phpbb3styles.net/ If you'd like to submit suggestions for installation, go ahead and post here w...

Finally executing this update ended up taking 16+ hours thanks to a series of database errors in conversion. This last time worked just right.

Hello everyone, I finally managed to get all of the kinks worked out of the upgrade from our old phpBB2+CH install to phpBB3. Specifically, 3.0.14 as 3.0 and 3.1 are currently separate branches, each being kept updated by the authors so far. I will look at the conversion to 3.1 later if it becomes n...

Just bumping this to remind everyone that the website hosting bill was paid this week.

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This still doesn't feel right, but I'll leave the reminder since I know some like to help, but just don't know when bills are paid or forget. Removed any other text.

So we've gotten ourselves in a bit of a bind. My wife's parents bought us season passes for the renaissance faire because they knew we had a bunch of money tied up in getting the car fixed. However, the amount of money needed for the car spiked quite high when it was time to pick up the engine, leav...

Pulling the Announcement status of this thread as there aren't likely to be any more power grid or internet service issues.

Updated 5:20pm EDT

Updated 3:50pm EDT

Servers are ONLINE. Quick version of the status- Electricity: ON | DSL: UP | Cable: UP | UPS Status: Full UPDATE July 2nd 5:20pm EDT: Servers are up and running. I gave the batteries time to charge and confidence to build that the power might stay on. Also got some offline maintenance done on the s...

The website hosting bill has been paid, and even with room to spare. I do have to thank those of you who contributed after this post, as not only did we catch up back then, but we've stayed in the positive. :D Even though the website hosting bill is paid, if you guys want to contribute, you can eith...

RE: IP's.... I stand corrected. As for the Alpha thing.... I played on other places... not one instance of account theft... and honestly, Amia is like the Wild West. I don't understand, if it's that easy, why isn't it more rampant on places that have no protections? Because its been kept pretty qui...

Speaking of the WIKI, I just went looking around for the addresses. Mind you I host you guys, but I do not run your world. Therefor I didn't know where to look for it... Yet the second place I went was the WIKI and look whats right on the front page: http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

If you knew about someone not receiving the activation e-mail for the website, why was it not reported? I can not fix things I do not know about. And our activation procedure here on this forum is no more difficult or lengthy than 90% of the community websites in existence. To not require the user t...

I would just like to thank everyone who has helped out so far. The bills are on time, and we're finally able to get some other stuff done, like finally fixing some stuff we've been ignoring on the car. (Can't ignore it any longer anyway... 200,000+ miles and never replaced that axle that just starte...

First I want to thank you for your kind words. Second I want to make sure to make it very clear that I don't want to take away from the hard work your team has done here. You have dedicated DMs and developers who, while I give them a place to run things, do the work that you all enjoy. They can neve...

I really would like everyone to read this, but it is up to the team here whether this is made a Global Announcement, Announcement, or Sticky. Now I'm not going to lie; I posted this because money has been tight lately. The bills are getting paid, and on time, but we are being left with sometimes les...

EDIT: Donation button has temporarily moved to here: http://www.ysgard.org/page.php?page=donate Before I start: The servers will be up as long as it is physically possible regardless of whether or not there is any help with the bills. I made a promise when I started hosting these servers to provide ...

Split the connection issues posts to their own thread.

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