Posts by wild1145

@speed#1557 Approved, Would be great to have you on the team as we start progressing, and can see you were involved in a lot of the old SMP stuff and are actively maintaining TFGuilds

@elmon#1542 Approved, The work you've already done with regards to the bot's have been greatly appreciated and greatly valued.

@Telesphoreo#1666 If you wanna pay that monthly you're more than welcome to 😂 I won't say no.

I'm going to pull this thread now.

It's absolutely unacceptable to be hosting these files and then preventing members of the community from accessing them, especially given I had asked you to send them to me to be added to the official download tool.

I'm going to lock this now because it's not open for further discussion, these will be on the official world download tool shortly.

@Telesphoreo#1658 Yes, it's billed as an annual plan, the prices are the monthly prices as it states on the site. £0.83 * 12 = £10.00 which is the annual price for the 1GB VPS.

The reason for the longer ban is as this was one in a number of bans from the discord which had been appealed within hours of being banned. The 14 day minimum appeal window was to give him a chance to actually think on what he had done and that his continued breaking of the rules is not acceptable.

@StevenNL2000#1618 That was my working assumption. In reality it shouldn't be too hard to do the transformation. Just needs some thought to go into it. Expecting users may need to do a "password reset" and we don't try to transfer that, but all the content and everything else I'm expecting to transfer over without too many headaches.

I've uploaded a second draft in an effort to clarify the original 1A rule that was causing some confusion.

@Telesphoreo#1612 Currently yes, there's a reason they're so cheap

So that formatted about as poorly as I expected it would... Yay Flarum.

The current main topic of conversation is around rule 1A, and if that should be an indefinite ban or not. My personal 2 cent is if you're breaking the discord TOS, the only grounds for an appeal should be if you weren't... Otherwise I'm not sure a "Sorry boss I made a mistake" appeal is really going to cut it, but open to thoughts.

Also would appreciate other peoples input on this before we look to formalise this as the new rules.

Hi Everyone,

After a number of conversations and threads, it was decided to refresh and re-work the Discord rules. There has been some initial feedback from the Discord staff which I will post in a reply to discuss here but this is what has been proposed by me based on our current rules in an effort to make things somewhat easier to understand for everyone.

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These are the rules of the TotalFreedom discord server, which are in extension of the conduct policy.

General Notes
While we try to keep these rules simple and easy to understand, we ultimately expect our members to apply a level of common sense when using our discord community. We ask that people are respectful to one another regardless of rank / title or otherwise, and if you're politely told to stop doing something, perhaps you should think about listening.

The Discord staff have the final say on sanctions issued out, and have my blessing to enforce the rules as appropriate and based on the circumstances, these aren't black and white, these are a guideline to help the staff team make the right choices when enforcing our standards.

Server Chat Channels
The server chat channels will be exclusively governed by the rules of the server to which the chat is sync'd with. The only exceptions to this are as follows

a: There is to be no NSFW Material or links posted in the channel, either from discord or in game and the moderators will remove such content and sanction as appropriate.
b: Any actions to which the usage of the server chat results in you communicating with someone outside of said channel, for example if you use the channel to get a list of people to DM advertise you will be sanctioned according to the rules governing our policy on advertisements.

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Section 1: Indefinite Ban Offences
These sanctions may be temporarily put in place by any member of the Discord staff team, however will require formal approval from the server owner, or a member of the ATLAS Management Team. This approval can be sought in the owners absence through the Executive Team who have access to members of the ATLAS Leadership Team.
These bans are permanent and may only be appealed on the grounds that the ban was incorrectly issued. Due to the high-bar of enacting this ban a high bar will be required for any appeals to be considered and approved.

a: Any content (of any sort) that breaks the Discord Terms & Conditions
b: Any content (of any sort) which brings the reputation of ATLAS Media Group Ltd or it's projects (Which include TotalFreedom) into disrepute.

Section 2: Bannable offences
a: Any users who are not currently eligible to be an active member of the Discord community as a result of the Discord Terms & Conditions. The ban may be revoked when the member is eligible to once again be part of the community.
b: The Sending, Linking or otherwise sharing links to Malware or other such harmful content.
c: The Sending, Linking or otherwise sharing links to NSFW content, this is including but not limited to pictures, video's and websites.
d: Discriminating against, harassing or insulting a person based on their race/sexual preference/gender/age.
e: Continued efforts to disrupt the community. This may include but is not limited to continually causing drama, arguing or insulting other members of the community after previous warnings and being asked to stop
f: Advertising for what may be perceived as attempting to draw players away from the server or it's communities. Links to common sites such as YouTube / The Forums etc for example are acceptable. IP Addresses, Server hostnames, Discord invite links and similar content will be treated as a violation of this rule regardless of if the content posted is or is not real and live, we will tread it as such.
f-1: This rule is extended to those whom attempt to use tactics such as DM advertising, and if reported will be enforced regardless of friend status on Discord.
g: Raiding (having a group of people spam, sending multiple messages) or spam mentioning.
h: Abuse of bots to break any rule listed, including section 2 and 3 offenses.
i: Repeatedly breaking section 2 offences.

Section 3: Mutable offences
a: Spamming (sending multiple messages or creating large gaps in chat) outside of #spam.
b: Being disrespectful or annoying to members of the discord (arguing/insulting/mic spam), trolling.
c: Repeatedly breaking section 3 offences.

Section 4: Minor offences
a: Posting irrelevant messages/media to a channel with a specific purpose.

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I've added this now and it seems to be working (for now...)

Video has removed his recommendation and I've updated the post accordingly.

I would suggest if people wish to know the reason they speak to Video directly.

The poll to move back to proboards was for the purposes of enacting the ownership application process which has now concluded. Due to proboards at the time not being 100% Restored, and as far as I'm aware still not 100% restored the decision was taken as I understand it, to start using this forum given the community was on Flarum before Seth threw his tantrum and I personally believed and still believe it was the right call, as we discussed before the moving of the forums is a decision to be taken by the owner, and at the time we had no owner to make that decision.

I'm also heavily against moving back to Proboards, in my mind it's a step in the wrong direction for the server, and I don't think it gives the best possible image for the servers online presence, while yes it has a lot of history, it has limited functionality which we are able to get through hosting our own forum solution. I also don't really like that just to use our own DNS and remove the ads (Which we'd really want to be doing) that it traps us in a payment scheme with Proboards, and that if we do go back the longer we end up using it, the harder it would be again to justify moving off.

I have already tasked some of my team at ATLAS to do some investigations into alternate forum software, because Flarum really shouldn't be being used in production and work is underway at the moment there to come back to me with some suggestions on what would be technically recommended.

My hope is that once there is a proposal for what forum suite would work best, to spin up a demo and present it back in beta format for the community to look at and provide feedback, I am keen to get off Flarum, and keen to never go back to Proboards, but equally the community need to agree that what we move to is going to be a good choice, and to ensure that it's actually usable and people are comfortable with it.

For info, some of the forum suites that are so far being looked into is XenForo, Discourse, WoltLab and IPBoards - Personally I lean towards WoltLab because I have a license that just needs to be updated, it's got excellent themes and add-on's that can be installed and worked really really well when I was using it for personal projects before and I think hosted CJFreedom forums for quite some time when we were trying to find the best forum solution for the server then.

I've noticed similar issues myself with OVH servers, and part of it is the way they manage networking seems to effectively ramp up your capacity as demands requires, but also historically I've found issues whereby it seems to be issues with the disk IO performance as most VPN Software is still running components off the disk and writing to disk.

OVH Generally also provide a heatmap type thing that shows traffic in their network, it might be worth seeing if you're in a datacentre or rack even that has high network usage, as it's possible that it's saturating the backbone and you're just struggling to get traffic through. But then again, that wouldn't explain why the server itself has decent speeds but not your local setup.

I think Speedtest also has a "Single" and "Multi" setting, make sure you run it from the server on single as I understand that better replicates how VPN's would reach out if it routes via the server.

Something seems to be wrong with some of the kits. If we're going to keep them on the server we want to review them to make sure they properly work. Should be a config issue I'm guessing but more so I don't forget that we need to look into this.

Appreciate the suggestion, I suspect his is "My bad" from when we originally lost the server and I went through and commented out the references to everything that we didn't have within our control (Which is why I think it's just the website that now shows on it).

Let me take a look now at what else was enabled while Seth was looking after things, and I'll see if we can get that added back.

I also like the idea of re-purposing this into something a bit more generic rather than only social media links, I think that would be useful.

The TotalFreedom server is currently once again on the look out to recruit some new developers in to our team. Over the past 10 years we've had a range of developers all contributing to where the server has been able to get to today, and if you're interested in getting involved with our development, we would absolutely love to hear from you!

Unlike previous rounds, we'll appoint as many developers as we have suitable candidates, there is a lot of work that has gone into our plugin development, and as the server grows I expect the amount of custom development we want to undertake will likely increase as well.

I'm keen to hear from people with a mixed background, and if there are people who perhaps don't have as much experience as they think they might need, please still by all means put your name forward, if it's practical I'm keen to encourage the development and learning process so any experience and interest will always be considered!

To apply just reply to this thread with the following information.

1 - Your Minecraft Username:
2 - Your Discord Username & ID:
3 - Your previous experience, please do provide links if it's open-source, or if not talk us through it:
4 - A short bit about why you want to become a developer for TF.

And that's it. I'm not going to set a hard and fast deadline because I certainly appreciate everyone is busy but we'll look to start appointing those who are seriously interested and have demonstrated they have the experience and expertise as we go along!

The best of luck everyone.

I appreciate we've not agreed on a great deal in the week ish that I've been the owner of the server, but I do also greatly appreciate the work you have done up to now in maintaining the servers development and keeping things working as they should be.

I wish you every success with what you should chose to tackle as your next project, and genuinely wish you the very best.