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Hello everyone! As always with these posts, I’d like to drop a quick reminder that there are more ways to support Homecoming than just through donations. For a general overview of the different ways you can help Homecoming, check out this thread. Holiday Support Closure Homecoming will be pausing support for non-urgent issues from Dec. 22 to Dec. 29th so our volunteers can focus on spending time with their loved ones for the holidays. During this time, response times for support requests will be longer than usual, and those available will be heavily prioritizing time-sensitive issues. When submitting a support request during this time, you will receive the option to mark it as urgent; please use this for truly urgent or time-sensitive issues. Thank you for your understanding and Happy Holidays! Homecoming operates in a non-profit capacity* and accepts donations from the community each month to cover its operating expenses. These donation windows typically open on the last Saturday of each month, around 13:00 EST, and are automatically closed once the goal for the month has been reached. Any funds remaining at the end of each month are put towards our expenses for the following month. In the event that our expenses exceed our estimated costs for the month, the difference will be included in the donation goal for the following month. If you wish to donate, you may do so here. The donation window for next month is open as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal is met. Thank you for your continued support! * Homecoming is a Delaware registered Limited Liability Company, not a non-profit organization, and donations made to Homecoming are not tax deductible. Last Month: December 2024 Income Total: $6,144.49 Amount Source $6,144.08 Donations $0.41 Rebates & Rewards (PayPal) Recurring Expenses Total: $5,122.21 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,853.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $228.71 Google Workspace Voice (x1), Business (15 seats) $28.26 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $174.00 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $105.00 Invision Forum software 6m renewal $69.00 GlobalSign Difference of cost in cert change This Month: January 2025 The donation target for January 2025 is $5,367.04. Recurring Expenses Total: $5,113.31 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,853.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $229.57 Google Workspace Voice, Business (15 seats) $19.25 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $240.00 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $240.00 UPS UPS mailbox (1-year renewal) Donations will be open at https://cohhc.gg/donate as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal has been met. As always, thank you for your continued support. - The Homecoming Team

This is intentional - you need to be signed in as your account ID is recorded alongside your donation in case we require it to assist with cases of fraud and similar situations.

Hello everyone! As always with these posts, I’d like to drop a quick reminder that there are more ways to support Homecoming than just through donations. For a general overview of the different ways you can help Homecoming, check out this thread. Homecoming operates in a non-profit capacity* and accepts donations from the community each month to cover its operating expenses. These donation windows typically open on the last Saturday of each month, around 13:00 EST, and are automatically closed once the goal for the month has been reached. Any funds remaining at the end of each month are put towards our expenses for the following month. In the event that our expenses exceed our estimated costs for the month, the difference will be included in the donation goal for the following month. If you wish to donate, you may do so here. The donation window for next month is open as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal is met. Thank you for your continued support! * Homecoming is a Delaware registered Limited Liability Company, not a non-profit organization, and donations made to Homecoming are not tax deductible. Last Month: November 2024 Income Total: $5,946.21 Amount Source $5,942.15 Donations $4.06 Rebates & Rewards (PayPal) Recurring Expenses Total: $5,122.21 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,853.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $228.71 Google Workspace Voice (x1), Business (15 seats) $29.01 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $740.00 Our GL insurance through Hiscox was supposed to renew next month but billed us on Nov. 6th, so we’re including it here for documentation purposes and will include it in December’s donation goal to cover the costs. Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $390.00 GlobalSign Code signing cert renewal $350.00 Hiscox GL insurance This Month: December 2024 The donation target for December 2024 is $6,140.47. Recurring Expenses Total: $5,113.31 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,853.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $229.57 Google Workspace Voice, Business (15 seats) $19.25 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $1,055.00 As mentioned in the breakdown for December, we’re including the cost of our GL insurance here to cover the cost of the renewal even though we were invoiced early in November. We’re also including our DocuSign renewal in this donation target as it billed us back in October but was not included in the donation goal at the time due to interruptions from Helene: Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $600.00 DocuSign Annual, 2 seats, 200 envelopes $350.00 Hiscox GL insurance $105.00 Invision Community Forum software renewal Donations will be open at https://cohhc.gg/donate as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal has been met. As always, thank you for your continued support. - The Homecoming Team

Unfortunately Bing is still blocking our main website from appearing in search results per the screenshot below. Their tooling is unable to identify any issues when testing against the live site and states that it is able to be indexed again, so we've requested it to be indexed. Given that their support team was unable to disclose the reasons we were pulled out of search results in the first place though, and that we could not identify any violations of their webmaster guidelines at the time, I'm not holding my breath. Index result: Live result:

Hello everyone! As always with these posts, I’d like to drop a quick reminder that there are more ways to support Homecoming than just through donations. For a general overview of the different ways you can help Homecoming, check out this thread. Homecoming operates in a non-profit capacity* and accepts donations from the community each month to cover its operating expenses. These donation windows typically open on the last Saturday of each month, around 13:00 EST, and are automatically closed once the goal for the month has been reached. Any funds remaining at the end of each month are put towards our expenses for the following month. In the event that our expenses exceed our estimated costs for the month, the difference will be included in the donation goal for the following month. If you wish to donate, you may do so here. The donation window for next month is open as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal is met. Thank you for your continued support! * Homecoming is a Delaware registered Limited Liability Company, not a non-profit organization, and donations made to Homecoming are not tax deductible. Last Month: October 2024 Income Total: $5120.45 Amount Source $5,119.73 Donations $0.72 Rebates & Rewards (PayPal) Recurring Expenses Total: $5,122.18 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,853.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $228.66 Google Workspace Voice (x1), Business (15 seats) $28.29 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $3.00 We had $137.76 in domain renewals bill in October which were not included in the donation goal for the month. As such, they will be included in November’s donation target instead. Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $3.00 Paperspace (Digitalocean) Static IP assignment (1 mo) This Month: November 2024 The donation target for November 2024 is $5,906.76. Recurring Expenses Total: $5,113.31 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,853.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $229.57 Google Workspace Voice, Business (15 seats) $19.25 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $527.76 As mentioned in the breakdown for October, we had a set of domain renewals which were not originally included in the October goal but were billed in October. As such, they are included in this month’s donation target instead. Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $390.00 GlobalSign Code Signing Certificate Renewal $137.76 NameCheap Domain renewals Donations will be open at https://cohhc.gg/donate as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal has been met. As always, thank you for your continued support. - The Homecoming Team

Badge collecting speedrun category when?

I'm going to have to go with this one:

We've just updated the wording in the CoC to make this a little clearer, but the intent of this addition is to allow GMs to use their judgement and take action if necessary on a case-by-case basis. To put it simply, you're probably fine as long as you're not causing some sort of disruption or using the functionality for some kind of exploitative gain.

It should be assumed that is the case for any offences or repeated disregard for a GM's instruction.

Your forum account and game account are linked, but separate. Make sure you've created a game account here or via Game Account in the navbar.

If you have access to the forum account but not the game account, then LKN-351's instructions will help you to resolve this. If you've lost access to one of your root/forum accounts then please create a support request here so that we can look into this for you. Thanks!

This is usually due to typos in the registered email address. Could you create a support ticket here with your original account name and email address included so that we can investigate this? Thanks!

These are search engine crawlers indexing the site, only a fraction of those are real users.

Please excuse the weird formatting on this one. A word update broke the formatting and added a bunch of weird margins and colors all over the place. 🙂

Hello everyone! As always with these posts, I’d like to drop a quick reminder that there are more ways to support Homecoming than just through donations. For a general overview of the different ways you can help Homecoming, check out this thread. Homecoming operates in a non-profit capacity* and accepts donations from the community each month to cover its operating expenses. These donation windows typically open on the last Saturday of each month, around 13:00 EST, and are automatically closed once the goal for the month has been reached. Any funds remaining at the end of each month are put towards our expenses for the following month. In the event that our expenses exceed our estimated costs for the month, the difference will be included in the donation goal for the following month. If you wish to donate, you may do so here. The donation window for next month is open as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal is met. Thank you for your continued support! * Homecoming is a Delaware registered Limited Liability Company, not a non-profit organization, and donations made to Homecoming are not tax deductible. Last Month: August 2024 Income Total: $5,134.34 Amount Source $5,133.78 Donations $0.56 Rebates & Rewards (PayPal) Recurring Expenses Total: $5,122.18 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,853.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $228.66 Google Workspace Voice (x1), Business (15 seats) $29.03 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $13.00 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $10.00 IPSFocus Website assets renewal $3.00 DigitalOcean (Paperspace) Rendering node final payment This Month: September 2024 The donation target for August 2024 is $5,128.02. Recurring Expenses Total: $5,096.31 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $4,836.37 Server Infrastructure (OVH) $229.57 Google Workspace Voice, Business (15 seats) $19.25 Email (AWS EC2 + SES) 2x EC2 micro instances $11.12 Admin Software Additional Expenses Total: $17.00 Amount Service / “to” Addt’l Notes $17.00 IONOS 1-year domain renewal Donations will be open at https://cohhc.gg/donate as of the time of this post and will automatically close once the goal has been met. As always, thank you for your continued support. - The Homecoming Team