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afkalmighty, on 04 May 2012 - 01:04 PM, said:

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Some users might've noticed that old urls are not working, and are referring to the frontpage. This is because IPB was moved from the root directory to /archive. So this means

http://vindictushq.com/index.php?/topic/9098-when-a-spear-lann-truely-dies/

becomes

http://vindictushq.com/archive/index.php?/topic/9098-when-a-spear-lann-truely-dies/

Sorry for the inconvenience. I was aware this would happen when I moved it under /archive, but this was done to prevent conflicts with wordpress.

Yay, the site is back up and running. i think emoticons are broken though. see anything else? please report!

--EDIT--
Alright, now that i've calmed down, a few things of importance... Firstly. VALK POWA. Secondly, the staff is in shambles. There's only me, afkalmighty, and astroboy. I do not expect astroboy or afkalmighty to moderate, if they want to they definitely can, but for practical purposes I do not count them as moderators. That means all we have is an admin. I don't know what i'm going to do properly list and recruit moderators from our userbase. We have a handful of awesome members who have come forward and asked me personally to make them moderator. I deeply respect that initiative, but please understand that I would like to slow down and be careful with this. More details on filling up the moderating team will follow within a few days. Please be patient.

Aside from that, things are working ok for now. I'm gonna do some cleanup though, so the site is actually somewhat under construction now. Because it is an active site, I will not do things that will break the site. There's no guaranteeing that I might accidently put the site down for 10-20min, but the cleanup is mostly emptying our 2yr old piles of spam, inactive accounts, and other trash. While fixing the site just now i rebuilt the caches and have improved the performance.

Beyond this minor cleanup however is a massive overhaul. Take a look at the url. You're at vindictushq.com/archive. This IPB Forum will become locked and left to become a dusty old library of gems. The website will move onto a powerful new platform that consists of wordpress+buddypress+bbpress. we will preserve the classic forum system at it's core, but extend and offer much more functionality and social systems that will allow this community to grow.
Some key features i'm excited I'll be bringing you:

• Powerful Text Editing - you'll be able to make posts with wordpress's visual editor. Wordpress's visual editor was designed for bloggers! Trust me when i say it's pretty darn powerful. Power users can also access the dashboard to schedule posts and save drafts
  
• Groups - evolve topics of interest into groups. A group is given its own mini forum and page. This will be useful for many things like guilds, Voice Mods, fangroups (other mmo, anime, music)
  
• Activity Feed - view a feed of activity on the website to quickly and easily keep up with the latest activity

There's more than that coming (my explanations didn't fully convey those feature's awesomeness), and I'm working hard to customize and tweak it so it all fits perfect for VindictusHQ. There's alot left to do, but little by little it'll get done! Get involved, add me on msn, or keep in touch via PM. I'll keep you all up to date on the vindictusHQ 2 thread. Now that's all I have to say. hf, and I hope everything works

Me and Assyrian have decided to move webhosts Sunday night. Things might go wrong and have us still working on Monday morning as well. We're simply moving hosts though, so there probably won't be any issues. The real overhaul won't begin until later, so aside from just being down for a bit, you'll probably notice nothing.

Now, I just want to say thanks to everyone that frequents this website and an extra thanks to our members who post and help other members (especially Afkalmighty and Astroboy. This site would be dead without them). VHQ is nearing its second year running. That's nearly 2yrs of supporting and watching Vindictus as it grows. It's been a huge learning experience for me, and I'm very fortunate to have met Assyrian and this community. After the move, the website will evolve and grow. We outlasted some tough competition from websites like Colhen.com, iVindictus, xVindictus, Vindictus Wiki. I'd by very disappointed if it came to end after all that. (Nexon seriously needs to fkin update their fansite list...)

Now last but not least, if you haven't figured it out yet, Assyrian is leaving this community. The site is going 100% into my hands and supervision. It's not really a big deal or a radical shift because I've been working hard for this site since June/July 2010, but nonetheless, this is goodbye to Assyrian. Thanks Assy for putting this site up and all the hard work you put into kicking it off. I've learned alot from you. I'll take it from here

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