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 in when migrating.
Changes/explanations:
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 in when migrating.
Changes/explanations:
- Articles are gone. The Articles section on OtLand was mainly used as a "how to"/tutorials page. We intend to replace this with Wiki pages on GitHub. For The Forgotten Server project, similar articles will be found here: https://github.com/otland/forgottenserver/wiki. Evan is currently working on documenting the new Lua interface.
- Blogs are gone. If you were actively using your OtLand blog, please contact us and we'll extract your blog content in plain text format and send it to you.
- Reputation is gone. Instead, we will use XenForo's like system. Any post that you had given reputation to will now have received a like instead, and the old likes system is gone.
- The webchat page is gone, but the #otland channel on QuakeNet is still there. You can either connect with an IRC client or use this URL to use the webchat: http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=otland (we don't usually provide support in this channel, so if you're joining for support you'll be disappointed).
- The OtLand Subversion is gone. We're moving OtLand projects to a more open platform, GitHub. You will find these projects here: https://github.com/otland (also see http://otland.net/threads/moving-forward.198835/).
- Code tags for Lua, XML etc. are not working. We will write plugins to support these tags again.
- The Main board has been moved to the bottom of the forum, because it is the least active forum.
- Opened the Native Chatboards category for new threads and posts. If your native language doesn't have a chatboard, you may create a thread in this board to speak in your native language. The thread title must include the English name of the language spoken in the thread. Keep in mind that OTLand rules apply for native chatboards too.
- Removed the premium subscription payment options for more than three months.
- Closed the Marketplace from new posts (see http://otland.net/threads/moving-forward.198835/ why).
