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What Fiddleback said (thank you!) is correct; emails were intentionally left in a non-working state last night to act as a measure to prevent new accounts from being created until a decision is made about if/when we're migrating back to the old forums.

Per the global announcement - we may be migrating back to SMF which would restore this post. If we end up deciding to stick with the current forums I can export the post from the old forums for the author (the old forums are technically still there, we just moved the domain to the new forum host; meaning I can go back and grab stuff that was important but posted after the migration began). I cannot give an ETA on either solution at the moment; we will be making a decision shortly.

Regarding posts taking too much vertical space - if we end up sticking with these forums for whatever reason then I will adjust it so that smaller posts use less vertical space by reducing the avatar size a bit and removing some of the margin and padding in the author pane (this is something I tested while creating the theme but I didn't think it was a problem).

The account system is actually working totally fine; the problem is actually that emails aren't getting sent out for new forums accounts which I haven't fixed yet because there is a high likelyhood that we'll be migrating back to SMF today and we'd rather not allow new accounts until a decision is made.

The forum can parse and translate BBCode, it is just not possible to continue using BBCode to maintain a post unless you keep a copy of the BBCode source somewhere else as when it is posted it up it is translated one-way.

This should now be fixed.

This is a false positive and has happened nearly every time we've pushed an update to the client; nothing has been compromised or is infected. We hope to resolve this in the near future by signing all of our binaries.

I'm still adjusting some stuff, that link will be fixed in just a moment. You should now be able to edit your posts at any time.

We can certainly fix that 🙂

What would you like to see changed?

Sorry about that, missed a permission!

The Archetype forums have been restored and video embed size has been reduced.

These will be visible in a few moments.

There will be extended maintenance tomorrow (2019-07-23) beginning at some point during our usual window (1200-1400 UTC; 0800 Eastern US time) and lasting for several hours. We will be performing OS updates and other necessary system maintenance. During this time we will also be transitioning to our new forums. When our maintenance window begins, the current forums will be frozen for a few minutes while they are transitioned into a read-only (read: non-persistent) mode and the database migration will be started. During the maintenance, the current forum will remain available and you will be able to post, but registrations (both forum & game) will be closed and new posts during this time will not persist on the new forum. Once maintenance is nearly concluded and the site has been tested, we will fully transition over to the new forums. Thank you for continuing to support us; we hope that everyone enjoys the new forums! - The Homecoming Team

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Hey everybody! Here is an update of our current finances, including a log of expenses over the last month and a list of expenses that we expect for July. Earlier this month our host consolidated all of our bills into one large invoice without warning which resulted in us being charged a lot earlier than we expected to this month and us being put quite far into the negative. Because of this a large part of this donation window will be used to recoup the negative balance and refill the contingency fund, and we will also be moving our donation windows to be the last Saturday of each month, rather than the first, starting at the end of this month. As explained last month, we are still working towards becoming a fully charitable non-profit. The next move we need to take to achieve this is to file to open the NPO and file for 501(c)(3) status. We’re still working out some of the details and legalities, but we’re actively working towards it! Last Month Breakdown Last month we accepted $7,629.99 in donations after PayPal fees. Here’s a breakdown of where the funds were used (in no particular order): As detailed in our post last month, we needed to expand a little - so here’s exactly what we got: 1 Advance-4 server (CA) for $377.99 (Invoice) Development & Beta servers Datacenter license for Hyper-V flexibility 1 Advance-3 server (CA) for $213.99 (Invoice) Central services, deployments, backup worker Central services, deployments, backup worker 1 STOR-2 server (DE) for $188.99 (Invoice) Central database for EU and primary in-OVH backup target for all servers. Here’s a list of other one-off and new expenses from the past month: We purchased some additional IP addresses for two of the servers, costing $36.00 in total (Invoice 1, Invoice 2). We purchased Invision Community w/ the IP.Commerce module for the embedded support system, costing $400.00 in total (Invoices). We’re still working on getting the new forums ready! We moved to Atlassian Jira Cloud for task management, costing $10.00. This will be a recurring fee. We started using Google’s G Suite for email, collaboration, and as an additional off-site backup location. The bill for the past month was $51.20. After adding the cost of licenses, last month’s one-off and new expenses came out to $1,536.97. As mentioned above our host decided to consolidate our billing without warning, so the bills for our existing infrastructure are a little weird this time around. You’ll see in the invoices that all of the servers charged from June X to the 30th prorata - we did not request this, but our host decided to do it anyway. Here’s a list of servers and their associated invoices from the past month: 1x A1: $60.95 (Invoice) 5x A1 + 2x A2 + 4x A5: $1,237.60 (Invoice where I gave up on redacting hostnames) 2x A5: $378.66 (Invoice) 1x A5: $153.83 (Invoice) This Month The consolidated billing on the first and fourth left us $1,444.37 in the negative after draining the contingency; this will be added to the total for this donation window. Here’s a breakdown of all of our recurring expenses and their associated cost, totalling $4,732.60. Note that all of our servers have been upgraded to the 1gpbs vRack option. We heard gifs were all the rage these days, so here’s a 30 second long gif of our main server invoice totalling $3,678.83. In case the first one wasn’t enough, here’s another one for the second server invoice totalling $683.34. On the 7th, we will be billed for our additional IP addresses, totalling $36.00. On the 10th and 14th, we will be billed for 4 SQL Server 2017 licenses, totalling $257.60. On the 23rd, we will be billed $10.00 for Atlassian Jira Cloud. All of that said; in this donation window we will be looking at $1,747.97 for recurring expenses until the last Saturday of the month and to pay back the negative balance, $1,250.00 to refill the contingency, and $964.00 to file for the NPO and 501(c)(3) status ($600 to the IRS (source) and $364.00 to our registered agent to file to open the NPO). The final total for this donation window is $3,961.97. As of the time of this post our donations will be open again at https://forums.homecomingservers.com/donate/ and will automatically close as soon as this window’s goal is met. Thank you again for your continued support. As always we’ll do our best to ensure that this remains a fun and welcoming community for all 🙂 Update: Here's a screenshot of our PayPal transactions from the first of June to the 5th of July. And some further information:

Hopefully you have better luck with this than I have had. I had the same issue with the torrent where the last 0.2% was completely unavailable, leading to only a small percentage of recoverable files (from the tar). The direct download has now failed at 137/219GB 4 times in a row after hours of trying, so it appears there's an issue with the direct download as well. If anyone manages to get the full archive and wants to upload or seed it I can contribute more than just the 1,700 or so files that were recoverable.

Firstly, I'd like to preface this by stating again how appreciative we are for everyone's support - without you, the community, we simply could not continue what we're doing. Donation Window Poll We've been paying attention to the previous donation threads and other communication channels, and one thing we've seen is that people have been wanting to contribute but have felt like they were left out due to us opening donations at seemingly random times at the start of the month. So starting now and going forward, we will be opening a poll for the community to determine what time the donation window will open. This way everyone is aware of exactly when we'll be opening up for donations each month. Our current plan is to open donations at the voted time on the first Saturday of each month. For July, this will be Saturday the 6th. As usual, our donation window will automatically close as soon as the monthly upkeep has been met. Pop Culture Costume Contest Reminder that we're hosting a Pop Culture Costume Content this Saturday (June 29th) at 21:00 UTC in Kallisti Wharf on all shards, so make sure you're getting those costumes ready! There will be rewards consisting of piles of Reward Merits, Fashion Victim badges, and shiny new titles going to the top costumes on each shard. If you would like to see what time 21:00 UTC is for you, you may use this site.

Well this is interesting, thanks! I'll reach out on Discord today/tomorrow (I haven't slept yet :P - Monday the 24th) with some instructions to help gather information to figure this out.

Hey all - if you're still experiencing this problem after the maintenance / server patch that we did on the 20th then please let me know (through Discord - Cipher#0002, through this thread, or by sending me a private message). We're working on ways to diagnose this on the client side and can provide steps to help us gather information. Thanks!

We have been using the [Admin] global broadcast to all shards leading up to maintenance in addition to announcing it the night before + 2 hours before the maintenance window in Discord. Sorry if you've missed these - we'll look at how we can make this more clear for everyone. :)

Welcome to Paragon City (or the Rogue Isles if you're the Villain type)! City of Heroes has always been a welcoming and helpful community so don't be afraid to reach out for help any time. If you run into any problems, please feel free to reach out to any of our Game Masters, preferably using our support system available here. You may also find lots of good information and helpful people over on our Discord available here. Good luck and have fun! :)

I was talking to them for the time just yesterday! It's odd if it's not working now, something we can look into.

We're currently investigating some issues people are having when trying to connect to our servers.

Would you mind linking where they have said that it is okay to mirror/scrape the wiki for derivatives? Thanks!