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OtLand Attachments & More

Dear Otlanders!

Today I wanted to formally announce changes that were gradually implemented over the past two weeks.

Attachments & Downloads
First and most important, we have enabled attachments and raised the limit of a single attachment to 50 MB.

Why and how was it possible?
Over the past few years I have noticed that many links are dying. We have created The Graveyard and we were force to move content with dead links that couldn't be recovered there. A lot of downloads were reuploaded by good people and a lot of content was recovered from our private mirror (some files were archived when moderators approved them). However, we now see that the most popular (by the number of links) hosting site - speedyshare - is dead. So is rapidshare, megaupload and many more, previously popular sites. It is clear that there is no permanent place we can count on to keep the files alive over so many years.

Therefore, we have decided that the only safe place for that valuable content is attachments on forum. I personally developed an addon for our XenForo forum software to be able to store attachments in safe, replicated storage. Otland is able to pay for the storage costs thanks to our Premium members, so please consider upgrading to a Premium account!

We have began the work of reuploading any files that still exist as attachments. You will see those threads tagged as "attached". By the way, I have also made the tags available on thread list so it is easier to see what content is definitely available and some other information that may be in tags. You can search by tags as well (e.g. by clicking on them) or by multiple tags using the advanced search by tags. This way it is easy to find attached resources for e.g. "7.6" version.

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Now that we can fully utilize attachments, we start requiring that new content be uploaded as attachments. It is OK to link to additional mirrors but all the files MUST be attached (so that they don't die with links).

It is also NOT necessary to post links to scans e.g. on VirusTotal in Downloads. If you are downloading a file and want to make sure it is safe, you should scan it yourself. Do NOT trust links to scans because you never know what was actually being scanned!

If you have uploaded something to Downloads in the past, please check if it's still alive and if you find it in The Graveyard, please reupload if you can. If screenshots are missing, please fix that too. We recommend using only Imgur for image hosting (or attachments, but please compress them <100 KB). We also appreciate any help in recreating screenshots for content that has them missing.

If you find content that is dead and you can reupload it, or you can upload new screenshots, please let moderators know by reporting it and explaining your reason.

We have once again turned on moderation for all new threads in Downloads section and disabled editing of your posts in there. This is to avoid someone replacing a valid file with a trojan. Attachments also show their MD5 sum.

Code highlighter
Since the move from vBulletin to XenForo we were lacking a proper syntax highlighter for code blocks. Now this problem is solved and you can once again highlight code for Lua, C++ and many other languages thanks to the popular Geshi syntax highlighter.

See this thread for information how to use the new tags: How to display CODE properly in your post They are different than previously!

Changes in Staff
We would like to thank @Deavz, @wyzr and @Evan for their contributions as Global Moderators on Otland. They have been demoted due to inactivity.

Changes in display
Links now show up as the title of the page they link to.
New tags must not include space. Please tag content by Tibia version (e.g. "8.6", "7.92"). Maximum length is 12 characters in a tag.
On the left side of every post under the avatar of the author we added the number of likes and number of "Best answers". Those serve as "reputation" points that was seen in vBulletin.


Full log of changes:
  • Forum changes (deduplicated and moved around less popular forums), new forum Spriting Showoff
  • Geshi Syntax Highlighter
  • Tags visible on thread list
  • MD5 sum now visible for attachments
  • Attachment size limit raised to 50 MB
  • New file types allowed as attachments
  • Can't edit first posts in Downloads anymore
  • Moderation (approval) enabled for Downloads
  • When posting URLs, they change into page titles
  • New "Requests" board under Premium Board
  • "Best Answer" is now available on "Request" boards to mark requests being fulfilled!
  • Staff changes: @Deavz, @wyzr and @Evan
  • Tags must not include space, max 12 characters
  • Best Answers count now shown below avatar next to every post

New rules:
  • Please do not use pastebin for posting resources! Either attach complete files as attachments or if they are only snippets, embed in code tags. Does not apply to the Support forum - especially logs or errors in output.
  • New posts in Downloads: must use attachments, add tags

The Otland Staff
 
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Thanks for the update, having attachments it is a better option than dead links.
 
I personally prefer google drive
Good changes though :)
 
It doesn't seem to exist anymore. It appears the author has decided to delete everything.
I did not. I passed ownership of the project and the domain to Half who in fact decided to ultimately shutdown the cloud and work on a different solution. He is not the bad guy here, he just is looking to improve things overall and I am sure he will come up with a great solution.
That being said if there has been a certain file of OtlandCloud you would like to re-download find my skype at ympker.net and I will upload it for you :) I do have a full backup of all the files so nothing has been lost.

//Damon

P.S.: I won't be replying anymore as I am not active here anyway, however if there is something to be corrected, I might just show up again.

#LivingTheGhostLife ~ In memory of @GhostX
 
I did not. I passed ownership of the project and the domain to Half who in fact decided to ultimately shutdown the cloud and work on a different solution. He is not the bad guy here, he just is looking to improve things overall and I am sure he will come up with a great solution.
That being said if there has been a certain file of OtlandCloud you would like to re-download find my skype at ympker.net and I will upload it for you :) I do have a full backup of all the files so nothing has been lost.

//Damon

P.S.: I won't be replying anymore as I am not active here anyway, however if there is something to be corrected, I might just show up again.

#LivingTheGhostLife ~ In memory of @GhostX
added ur discord!
 
I agree this is a great idea, also that we shouldn't ban the pastebin. Being able to see the code is one of our best benefits.
 
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