Posts by wild1145

We're in the final stages of testing and validating the new Freedom-01 server, which will replace the current server as we then start the sunset process on our current server.

As part of this we've not transferred the majority of content from the servers, this was to try to give us the best success with launching the new server with a fresh start.

To enable you all to get a head start on both moving content from the current server to the new one, as well as keeping access to your schematics that you use day to day we will be moving requested schematics from the current server to the new one.

If you could reply to this thread with a list of schematics you wish to have transferred.

We will move these schematics over in batches and will continue to move schematics up until the point where we shut down the current server.

Another announcement will follow shortly when the new server is available and the list of other changes that are present on the replacement server.

Link to the Schematic page, both for listing which ones you would like me to transfer and for a list of ones we can transfer - https://freedom-webserver.totalfreedom.me/schematic/list/

Quote from Feueristic

I do have to ask, will we be able to build for the full build limit in a Minecraft world? (from Y-level 320 until -64)

That will certainly be the intention as long as there aren't any plugins / similar that would cause issues.

Cool.

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.

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

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.

Updated the first rule to clarify on targeted harassment, bullying and causing major drama in the community leading to serious sanctions.

With this now launching as a 1.20 server rather than anything else, I'm re-bumping this to allow new discussion given new block availability.

I'm going to be re-picking up this work soon (hopefully) so bumping this to revive the discussion.

Given my last comment and the fact nobody has really been bothered since, I'm gong to decline this and we can re-visit potentially in the future.

We won't be adding new themes at the current time. Declined.

We won't be adding new themes at the current time. Declined.

We won't be adding new themes at the current time. Declined.

Added, let's see how it goes.

As far as I've been able to see, there's no way to actually move these so will decline this because it seems to be impossible.

For the time being this is not something we will be doing, forum bans are generally rare and mostly for spam accounts. This doesn't really add much in reality.

Added both as optional fields.

History of TotalFreedom created until we have a Wiki operational.

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.

Done.