Hey All,

Appology
I've been really bossy lately, I'm hoping its just the stress getting to me rather than some sort of personality shift. I'm normally pretty happy to go along with what other people suggest. So I guess this is a public apology of sorts- That being said, I really would like to see some people working harder than they have been; I'll just try and back off being such a dictator.

Optimization
As you may or may not have noticed things lagged a lot on the homepage- this was primarily because of the new way I was converting the bbcode into html. I optimized a lot of this yesterday so that on the homepage about 200 less calls were made to scan strings (which is already a very expensive operation). Hopefully it loads faster now.

Bug Fixes
The timestamps on comments on the homepage now display the correct time.
The images on all blogs around the site have been fixed so that they cannot exceed the width of their parent container.
Calls to [table][/table] bbcode are now self contained meaning that standalone [row], [cell] and [tableheader] tags will not work. In addition [cell] and [tableheader] must be inside a [row] or they will not work either.
Calls to [youtube], [processing], [img] and [vimeo] are all fixed so that they fail gracefully.

Other
I've mostly just been working lately, I got Anivia on LoL sometime last week but haven't even got in a non-practice match with her yet. I imagine everyone else has continued to play though, Aidan invited me to a match yesterday but I was in an online meeting and couldn't join that match. Other than that, nothing much has happened.

Sincerely- Paul.

Hello and welcome to the completed shell of the LORv8 website.

Some notes about this version:
- The style is very different
- Nathan finally got his drop down menu's
- Now that almost everyone is legally an adult, we will use our first names.
- Things should be updated more often, everyone is eager to jump back in.
- You should start seeing art, youtube videos and nicer formatting in blogs.
- The pages are much more optimized (faster loading).
- The database was rewritten for speed and power.
- The security has been reinforced at every checkpoint.
- A sacrifice of this, you can no longer be 'remembered' for logins.
- If you fail to login too many times, you will be locked out.
- Those annoying security captcha's are back. Yeah, they are hard to read, thats the point.

I'll update this blog as the updates progress.

Update
Image gallery is online, changed the layout twice already. :)

OsiJr Out.

Hey All,

I said there would be some power shifts coming up.

Well, here they are:

The three old executives (for want of a better term) are remaining on and we have been joined by Hoshii (who was a volunteer before) and PreditorX who is a new name to those that visit here. I'll let PreditorX introduce himself.

[EDIT] Therefore the full list of executives is:
OsiJr (myself), Kael, Nazka, Hoshii and PreditorX

The following list of people are those that we have categorized as volunteers. Technically we are all volunteers, just these people don't have quite as much decision making power (I was suggesting we cut everyone... But Rehnagaede said that we didn't really give everyone a chance to contribute (whereas the 5 executives above actively help out (don't need to be asked to do things normally))

[EDIT] Therefore the full list of volunteers is:
Moocow, Asmium, Mars, Rehnagaede, Maggie and Jimmy.

...and the full list of affiliates is:
OmGwTfLoLrOfLmFaO and benwu.

Thats about it for power changes.

Moving on to site updates, we are experimenting with site layouts (due to us never completing any single layout there has been a lot of discussion of what we can do to sort this out, or if we should try a new direction). As of the time I'm posting this I have nothing to demo publicly but if you are able to contact me outside of this site, feel free to ask for the address to the prototypes.

Thats about all I have to post at the moment, I'm hoping to be able to do a release on our other current projects in the near future.

Regards, OsiJr.

PS. I also hope to be able to stop using our netnames soon.

Hey Y'all

Just letting you know that my laptop has been ressurected. Its now really shiny :)

Unfortunately they wiped my hdd so a lot of data was lost, this means that any updates I may have mentioned have probably been dropped back a long way (turns out my backups also failed).

I still havent installed PHP and Apache yet, so looking forward to that (not!)

Everyone with a 360 should really check out Castle Crashers also, 1200 points... Is worth it I think =D

Have Fun Y'all.

Hey All,

Just informing you that the site will be ungoing irregular maintenance (hell, we don't have the regular kind) for the next while, there should be substantial changes. Appologies if content isn't working during this time.

I'll repost when things should be running smoothly again.

Appologies also for the spam we will be forced to send in about 6 hours. New security protocols dictate that we must have valid emails and ip's on record. This is not entirely our fault, we just deemed it less important then we were evidently supposed to.

I will attach a revised version of this blog to those emails.

OsiJr Out.

PS. Expect a good post after the updates.