Posts by wild1145

↩  batchest You abused a bug in the permissions system to kick and ban players which makes it a category 1 offence

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Category 1 - Indefinitely Bannable Offenses: Bans that restrict the user from joining the server indefinitely depending on the severity of the offense. Users who were indefinitely banned are able to appeal via the forums or email. (here)

a. Attempts at harming the server.
g. Using an exploit that restricts a players experience.

And also

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Category 3 - Minor Offenses: These offenses will not result in a 24-hour ban or an indefinite ban unless they are done repeatedly. (Punishment may include: mutes, smites, temporary bans, warnings etc).

c. Being a nuisance to other players.
d. Interfering with an admin doing their job.

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↩  lyicx but i dont know if thats something ryan wants me handing out

If we don't plan on re-using them for future events, happy to provide them for folks to download.

↩  batchest Your UUID is the one that issued the ban, and it's not possible to spoof them, unless you can provide a VERY good reason to show how it was not you, because I have a lot of logs and evidence showing it 100% was you that exploited.

You were not falsely banned, you're being indef banned across the TF Network under Category 1.

You exploited a bug and have issued punishments at the network layer which cannot be spoofed.

To address your points specifically

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↩  characterslimits Taiga is open source
Taiga is open source while Jira is proprietary software. Taiga allows you to do more things with it's code and it allows anyone to view the source code

From my perspective this is not a feature that adds value, we wouldn't look to modify the source code anyway. We don't have time to do that or the need / will to do this so offers no advantage over the current cloud hosted and ATLAS Supported tool.

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↩  characterslimits Taiga allows guest access for free
About a month and a half ago, I pointed out that there is a lack of transparency between the developers on TotalFreedom. Taiga allows you to create public projects for free which allows us to see what developers are doing and it fixes the transparency problem we have. Jira forces you to pay a fee to allow guest access to see your projects.

Yes, I agree this is a benefit over Atlassian Cloud, though not over Jira as a product. We could have considered looking for an Atlassian open source license, but most of our projects don't fit into that.

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↩  characterslimits Taiga is more secure
Taiga is more secure than Jira because it's open-source. Anyone can audit the code of Taiga and check to see if there's a security issue and report it if there is one. For Jira, you cannot see it's source code. The only way to know if there is one is that we're the first to be attacked, or if we're notified by Jira themselves.

This as I said is absolute nonsense, open source does not mean more secure. Atlassian has been around for a lot longer, and with it being an enterprise product with an enterprise price tag, means they are paying for security specialists to regularly audit and pen test. It's also US FEDRAMP Moderate accredited which allows it to be used for sensitive us DoD projects, so I'll trust Jira over Taiga.

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↩  characterslimits Taiga is highly customizable
The On Premise version of Taiga gives users 100% control over the software, which means you can basically do anything you want with Taiga. Jira is a cloud based solution, which means they have control and they can suspend your project at any time.

Again, gives us no benefit because we wouldn't want to customise it, and Jira let's us customise it as much as we need it to... We use Jira Cloud but could use the on-prem version if we wanted to pay for it, and likewise Taiga cloud could suspend our projects at any time... This entire point is moot.

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↩  characterslimits Taiga has a built-in importer
Taiga has a built-in importer, so you can transfer everything from Jira to Taiga.

Not really a feature when you don't want to use it in the first place, offers no advantages over Jira.

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↩  characterslimits Screenshots

Compared to Jira the UI is dated and lacks clarity and functionality from what I can see, not really something that gives me confidence to want to move to it.

Now, some reasons we do use Jira

• It's already ATLAS's tool of choice for Project Management like this.
• It's got an excellent reputation as being a provider of enterprise security and functionality, and being a leader in the agile software development space.
• It does everything we need it to do.
• It links very nicely into Confluence (Which we use for Wiki tooling) and also Github
• It's free and cloud managed in an enterprise environment
• It doesn't require me to host additional servers / infrastructure.

Now, if TF actually grows to the point where we have enough developers that we breach the Jira Cloud Free Tier of usage, we would look to re-visit the tooling choice and decide if paying for Jira cloud is a good idea, or if alternatives are going to provide us with better value, but right now given the free tier works well and we have plenty of space on it, and the fact that every time we've tried to get the community involved in the development we've had 0 contributions, the con's to me outweigh the benefits.

If someone can give me a reason we should put the effort into moving away from an enterprise ready solution we already have and that I'm personally very experienced in managing, I'd love to hear valid arguments for why we should leave Jira.

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↩  characterslimits We should stop banning people because we hate them.

We don't ban people because we hate them, we ban them because they add nothing to our community and chose to ignore the posting guidelines. Significant difference.

If I banned the dude because I hated him, he wouldn't be able to appeal it.

Unfortunately this is a public message which everyone can see.

If you need to reach the ban manager as per the last thread please use e-mail or Discord.

E-mail banappeals@totalfreedom.me

Discord: StevenNL2000#7113

↩  RedEastWood no idea. I haven't been the one deleting most of the stuff that's been posted.

He was banned because he has continued to power post and be generally disrespectful towards folks on here. It was honestly very nearly an indefinite forum ban because this is the 3rd or 4th time in recent months this has happened.

Just to update, I've made a bit more progress tonight, we're not all that far away hopefully now.

We've still got a lot of the "Server & Forum" Category to do which is where we've still got quite a lot of content, but we're certainly now way past the half way point, and at the very least everything "Sensitive" should be protected we think.

Still outstanding:

• 18,980 Threads
• 121,741 Posts
• 23 Boards

↩  Telesphoreo That might be the nicest thing you've said about me to date.

A very quick security reminder to folks, TotalFreedom only has A SINGLE Discord server, which you can join on this Invite link - https://discord.gg/PW4savJR9a

I would ask that people are aware that there are a number of fake Discord server claiming to be in some way associated with our community, though they are not in any way associated and are likely attempting to gain personal information about you, compromise your accounts and generally put your online security at risk.

I will also remind folks within the community that creating such servers has always been a Discord Category 1 offence (Unappealable) and is now classed as a Category 0 Offence across the TF Network which will result in a ban from all platforms with no grounds to appeal. I'd also like to take the time to remind folks that advertising such content may also be seen as a Category 0, 1 or 2 offence depending on the context and frequency of such advertisements.

Please stay safe, if you want to communicate with the wider community here on Discord, please do so using our official Discord community and not through fakes / wannabees / knock-off ones.

Thanks all.

↩  characterslimits You couldn't do that anyway as the player data is required as soon as the player actually is in game for things like login messages so async wouldn't help I don't think.

In the event this isn't a joke. I strongly object. This individual has proved time and time again they lack the maturity or common sense which I would expect from an admin.

To add as well.

I used to export the outstanding development work for the current release and encouraged folks to use it and talk to us on discord around making sure someone isn't already working on the ticket but nobody ever took us up on it.

I'm happy to pick that back up if it's useful, but moving the tools isn't really something that's practical. As I say we use Jira as our exclusive project management tool and a number of other integrated Atlassian tools so it would not be a good experience for those in the actual development team to move.

Given the users recent post history and the vast quantity of posts deleted I am inclined to agree that a forum sanction is in order regardless of if the application is a troll or not...

30 day forum ban issued.

↩ @'Panther' I undid the cumulative bans because it seemed excessive.

↩  characterslimits That's all the information I have. I can't remember if it was me that issued the ban or someone else, so no I can't elaborate.

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↩  characterslimits Taiga is more secure than Jira because it's open-source

Can I also highlight that this is a crock of shit...

Open source does not mean more secure.

Atlassian are targeting enterprise customers not hobbyists. I would trust their security approach over an open source project any day.

Jira is ATLAS's tool of choice for project management when it comes it things like this due to the integration with tools like confluence and Github. We also intentionally don't want to be hosting our own services when it comes to this which is why we haven't made use of open source alternatives.