Posts by wild1145

  • Help Build a Better Community

    Just as an addition to my previous comments, I've got back in contact with Steven, and amongst other things he made a comment that I'm going to share as I think it applies to us all


    Quote from StevenNL2000

    If you've been here for a while, you know that for all its flaws, TotalFreedom is worth saving. But what makes TotalFreedom TotalFreedom isn't a piece of Java code on a hard drive, it's the community. So please let us work together to keep the community healthy, because there is no community when everyone is on their own.

  • Changes for TotalFreedom post shut-down.

    Hi Folks,


    Welcome back after the short break, I appreciate it's not entirely the done thing, but it's given me and the team time to reflect and start to impose some fairly significant changes, many of which start with immediate effect, and some will be happening in the future. My goal with this thread is to explain all of the changes, including the ones that may have been announced elsewhere on the forums already.


    The Bungee

    The first potentially significant change is we've moved the bungee server onto a brand new more modern Virtual Private Server, as a result of this change the IP to the network has changed. For the majority of players, this shouldn't make a difference, all of our records have been updated and when you connect to play.totalfreedom.me, you'll join us on the new proxy server. The only players this will impact is those not connecting on a totalfreedom official domain.

    Conduct Policy Updates for Harassment / Similar

    We have added some clarifications on the conduct policy specifically around measurement and toxic behaviour. Going forward harassment of admins like we've seen before will result in a long term ban. For players that are actively toxic within the community and especially in cases where said players are making new players feel unwelcome, we will start to operate a three strike system, two warnings and on the third occurrence a long term ban with a minimum of 6 months will be raised which will be global.

    Clarification on my role

    As I'm running short on time to write this thread, i'll be writing up a thread to clarify my role both in the shorter term while we make changes to how the community operates as well as the longer term vision once these (and more) changes are fully up and running. You should expect that threat in the next week or two.

    Updates to Bans / Category Zero

    I intend to update everyone on the way we are doing bans specifically around what was Category 0 bans to better re-align them to the updated Long Term Ban process and ensure there is no confusion in what these bans are, this will involve re-categorising all of the bans inline with the new long term bans policies. A thread will be posted in the next week or two on what this means and what changes specifically are being made, again expect this in the next week or two.

    Changes to our transparency

    We will be reducing the levels of transparency in a number of places, we have found the increased transparency compared to a normal minecraft server. This will include reducing the details shared on things in development as well as details of what staff are doing.

    Changes to Executive Accountability

    In order to try to improve the accountability of the executives while still remaining somewhat transparent we will be working as a team to come up with a list of targets and objectives for the executives which will be tracked here on the forums. Exactly what this will look like is TBC but we will be looking to balance some level of transparency without turning everything into a witch hunt

  • I'm Banned - How do I appeal it?

    This thread takes you through the various ways to get an appeal raised for your ban. As we have different game-modes, there are slightly different processes to appeal your ban, and within the game-modes there is often a shorter / temporary ban, and a semi-permanent longer term ban.


    Freedom Game-Mode

    The Freedom Game mode generally has 2 types of ban, the first and most common is a 24 hour day ban, and in almost all cases you are better off waiting for your ban to expire rather than appealing, the second type of ban is a longer term ban which can be anywhere from weeks to months to years.


  • Add Shoutbox

    Unfortunately the plugin that is free is no longer supported or operational on the latest versions of Woltlab. Happy to consider alternatives if people really want this as an addition to the forums.

  • TF IP Address Change

    As part of the 3 day break for the server and it's staff, I've taken this opportunity to move the Bungee / Proxy server for the network off of the legacy infrastructure it was hosted on, and onto newer and a ultimately more secure infrastructure.


    As a result of this change the underlying IP address for TF has changed. This should not affect the majority of users using a TF owned and managed hostname to connect to the server, however for those that are connecting on their own DNS records, you will need to ensure if you do not simply CNAME to play.totalfreedom.me, that you re-resolve the IP address and update your records.

  • Global Short-Term Shutdown

    Given the circumstances that took place last night, and the continued issues with the way the community generally behaves over the last few months, I have spent a lot of the last 24 hours seriously considering if the time, cost and effort involved in maintaining this community is worth doing or if it's time to pull the plug on TF once and for all.


    Now I'll also be clear, right now there have been no real reasons to keep this community running, which if I'm brutally honest with you all, has been the case for some time as we've seen declining player counts and the increase in poor behaviour targeting others in the community, it's hard to justify the relatively large cost, significant amount of time to do things right and effort ultimately to make changes in this community.


    With all of this in mind, and in an effort to enable everyone in the community to take a step back, reflect, touch grass and ultimately decide if they think TF is worth saving. We will need to fundamentally change the way the community works, and that's going to involve some unpopular decisions, and removing some people from this community that have been here for a while. The combined community right now is toxic, and pushes new players away, while also harassing myself and others for trying to do what we believe is best for preserving TF for the future.


    If folks don't feel TF is worth saving, we'll start a 1 month shut down process in the near future and we will all say goodbye for the last time towards the end of September.

  • [FALSE ALARM] Figura Mod Compromised & Used as Botnet

    UPDATE: It was a hoax, please see this post for more information - RE: CRITICAL SECURITY ALERT: Figura Mod Compromised & Used as Botnet

    Within the last hour we have been made aware of a critical security issue with the figura mod that is being used both on TF and by a much wider Minecraft Modding community.


    We are now aware that due to the ability for a remote server to send LUA scripts to execute, a number of people have had their IP's sent to an unauthorised party without their consent, and the figura team have set things up so users of figura can be used as a botnet, potentially resulting in criminal charges for anyone that is implicated in the bot net through having previously installed figura.


    AS A MATTER OF CRITICAL URGENCY you need to uninstall and delete all traces of this mod, and run AV Scans from multiple reputable AV Scanner providers. You should also make every effort to reset your home routers IP address, in most cases powering down your router for 10-15 mins will do this. If it does not contact your ISP for support.


    IN AN IDEAL WORLD AND FOR MAX SECURITY you need to do a full wipe of your current computers that have ever had figura installed on it and re-install from scratch restoring from a backup before figura