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Hello Dear Otlanders!

Not long from the last announcement, I have some piece of information that you might find interesting!

It is my pleasure to introduce Support Team group to Otland.

1. What is it?
Support Team is a new group of members on Otland, just like Administrators, Community Managers, Global Moderators and so on.

It consists of skilled members who have been around here on our forum for a while and feel...

 

I've recently seen alot of users getting hacked, so I've used some of my free time to look into this and I found a "security vulnerability" in phpMyAdmin which comes with XAMPP. The control user pma comes with an empty password as default, and XAMPP does not alert the user about this.

I'm not going to explain in details how you can take advantage of this vulnerability, but to explain it in a single sentence: the user pma has more permissions than it should have.

NOTE: The...

 

I know, and I feel sorry for the 8th art competition. I know it failed but this time, this competition is more creative and hopefully more active.

This competition consist on making a new logo for OtLand. Yes, the image below Affiliates list on the top.

The winner will get the image used as OtLand's official logo, and a three month donator subscription.

The image has to...

• be the same size as the image given below.
• be based on the one we have provided.
• be in...

 

After months of planning and working, we have finally launched the update! There are still a lot of things to be fixed but I'll leave that for later.

So what is so special about this update?
The most important changes are the server move and the update to the new major version of vBulletin, 4. OtLand has been moved to a server colocated in Chicago, with a lot more powerful hardware than what our previous server had. We thank everyone that has donated to OtLand for making this...

 

Due to the tragic accident near Smolensk, Russia, where Polish president, Lech Kaczyński together with his wife, Maria and part of government staff (including most of Polish Army chief generals, priests) lost their lives due to aeroplane crash we, OtLand staff want to share the pain with you, as there are many of you between us. 96 people were flying on government's Tupolev 154M, all of them died.

Most of you just won't understand it, because you don't know what Katyn is and what Katyn...

 

It's finally time to start to look for new staff members again, after demoting some of our inactive staff members. If you are interested in helping us out, please post an application in this board: http://otland.net/f398/. There is no specific template on how your post should look, you are free to structure it as you like and provide what information you feel is necessary for us to know.

We'd like to thank the following users for being with us for a long time and helping us to keep...

 

Greetings all otlanders!
As you might have noticed, our "mascot" also known as "Fury" has been Otland's logo for a while now. We feel that it's time for Fury to get a makeover and a better look for 2010!
We are searching for creative artists which enjoy drawing.

Would you like to participate?
Please send me a PM with your submission, if you would like to show it off you are more then welcome to add it into this thread for other people to look at.
However, there is some criteria...

 

I thought I'd let everyone know the benefits of becoming a donator, and tell you what we're going to use the money for.

Since we don't have any annoying advertisements that we get paid for displaying, this is the only way we can get money to improve OtLand. We prefer to not add any annoying advertisements on our forum since we know how much everyone hates them, we are not trying to make money for ourselves but to keep OtLand alive and to improve OtLand. The money we get by donations will be...

 

Recently it was found, there's an important security hole in POT (for newbies: Gesior/Unnamed AAC uses it) which displays database connection information. Here's a fast solution for XAMPP users from Xampy, which everyone using POT for their AAC should apply:

(...) I will tell you how to prevent hacks in your server:

MySQL Users
Go to C:\xampp\htdocs\pot and open the file OTS_DB_MySQL. Go to line 96~ and:
Change:

        // PDO constructor...

 

Bogart, Peroxide and Scarlet Ayleid have been doing an awesome job as board moderators and it is finally their time to become global moderators! We might be opening the staff recruitment board later if we feel that we need new board moderators, but for now you will have to fear our mascot Fury who is the one and only board moderator.

 

We would first like to thank Archez for the time he has spent helping us. He recently resigned from his global moderator position due to lack of time.

The staff recruitment board has once again been closed, and the new board moderators are:

• Bogart, for the Community section, and the OpenTibia Advertisement and Support boards.
• Leftwing, for the OpenTibia Discussion and Mapping Showoff boards.
• Peroxide, for the OpenTibia Mapping Showoff board.
• Scarlet Ayleid, for the OpenTibia...

 

Hello OtLanders,

It has come to the attention of the OtLand staff that there are many Arabians in OtLand that would love to have an own board, it seemed unfair to have an unused board like the Dutch one which has been implemented and not used for a long time now, so after a long time and a big discussion in the Staff Board, the OtLand staff has decided to open an Arabian Board due to the high amount of Arabians in this forum, which means we're going to need new Board Moderators that are...

 

Happy first April .

 

Happy New Year everyone!

As you probably noticed, the forum looks a bit different now. We have upgraded to XenForo 2 and you can now enjoy some new features.

Noteworthy changes

1. There is a new skin (style) of Otland and it is very mobile-friendly. We will likely stay with this one because alternatives for XenForo 2 are not convincing, nor needed.
   I am aware that many of you would like to see a "dark" theme. Unfortunately, there are no good quality dark themes possible. If...

 

It is now over five years since OtLand was launched (fifth birthday was at 27th May, 2012), and we're still growing despite what may be happening to other OpenTibia websites. There is no reason for us to stop.

Today we have updated the forum software, some of our own plugins and the search engine. Some significant changes are:

• Activity stream
• Notification when receiving reputation
• Reputation comments tab in user profiles
• Double post prevention (posts will be merged if 24...

 

OpenTibia has now moved to github for future development.

You can find the new project at https://github.com/opentibia , with a new sleek interface and all that jazz.

There is also a wiki available at github at https://github.com/opentibia/server/wiki , while humble now, in the future, server documentation, guides and information on how to contribute will be available on github as well. If you'd like to contribute, just register an account at github and start editing...

 

Thanks for all the applications, it has been interesting to read most of them and it wasn't an easy task to pick the new moderators... but after having the recruitment board open for a month it was just about time.

The new moderators are:

• Archez - OpenTibia, Community and Art Showoff
• Cybershot - OpenTibia
• Don Daniello - Community Chatboards (with extra focus on the Polish board)
• PAXTON - OpenTibia, Community Chatboards...

 

Due to a vulnerability in vBulletin, a user managed to gain full admin rights on the forum. We don't believe that any sensitive data such as password hashes were exposed, but it was technically possible that they were with the access level the user had, so we recommend that you change your passwords.

Because of this event, we're rushing our migration from vBulletin to the forum software XenForo and because of that the forum is unfortunately not in the state we would have wished that it was...

 

It has been almost two weeks since our update, and as promised we would recruit more staff members after the update to be able to handle the amount of reports we receive. If you believe that you have the time to help us out to enforce the rules on OtLand, please post an application in this forum: http://otland.net/f398/. What we do look at when you post your application is not the quality of the application itself, but at what you have contributed to the forum in the past, your...

 

Last year at 28th May, OtLand's birthday, we had approximately 10,000 registered users and at that time, we didn't expect to have more than 20,000 members by now. But as you can see on our user count, we have managed to reach over 40,000 users! This pretty much proves that OtLand has grown faster this year than in the first year, and it's still growing :thumbup:!

We'd like to thank everyone for still being around and supporting us. Especially the Donators, we've received a lot of...