News from the Top

It's a tradition for HG Seraphs to give their forums a skin on Halloween (... and April Fool's Day), so here are this year's "costumes". Enjoy!

We’ve pushed a maintenance update to the forums, with one new feature

New Features

• BBCode Assistant now works across all modern browsers with javascript enabled, thanks to the work done by HussarKnight

Bug Fixes

• Backslashes not escaped properly in the Forum Styles control panel (Thanks Aro)
• HTML Entities not escaped properly in the Forum Styles control panel
• Incorrect formatting for the Last-Logins table in the “My Accounts” area
• Moved google analytics javascript to the bottom of source code
• Minimum value check not performed for “max topics per page” when value exceeded maximum permitted

For the most part of Friday the forums sent out the wrong caching headers for threads, so that unless you performed a force-refresh in your browser (or cleared your cache), it would show you the cached version of that thread from the last time you saw it before 5am Friday. The bug ended up being a pair of single quotes that was supposed be double quotes, and once we fixed that around 3pm today everything returned to normal. Sorry about that.

Whenever you visit a forum index, topic index, or thread on the forums, the browser checks with the server to see if the page had changed since the last visit. If it hadn’t, the browser will load the cached version, and the script will stop right there without proceeding to query the forum database files, combine them with the forum templates, to serve up the HTML for your browser. This saves bandwidth, CPU processing time, and should result in a slightly faster feel to the forums. As far as I know we are one of a few handful forum applications out there (if not the only) that does proper browser caching (well, as of 3pm this afternoon anyway 8^) )

Almost eight years ago, someone wrote the following on Age of Kings Heaven

we got this BIG forum, and we got lots of talented people. what we need to do is band together adn work on possibly putting out our own version of a war game. imagine the type of custom map editor, the ideas… all we need is people skilled in: webdesign- c++ – programming – art (both 3D and sketch) – we work up an idea taht mixs the best of everything. maybe get some sketchs drawn up, work out the bugs, get a basic design… and get it to a company. there are companys out there who will do that.

I KNOW it would be hard. uf not next to impossible, but i have followthrough, and i know everything is possible. what is the general public’s view on this?

Fast forward to the present. The talented people have banded up to form Reverie World Studios, and their own version of a war game is called Dawn of Fantasy. HeavenGames is proud to announce the latest addition to our family, Dawn of Fantasy Heaven, our way to honor and support the work which had their beginnings in our communities. We have a lot of enthusiastic staff on board for this site—they’ve worked very hard these past few weeks to launch the site—and we hope you will enjoy their work in the months to come.

If you use Hotmail, Windows Live, or MSN, you may want to change your password for your e-mail/passport account just in case. Apparently some hacker posted the usernames and passwords to “thousands” of accounts on pastebin.com—they’re removed the post already—and Microsoft have confirmed the attack:

Over the weekend Microsoft learned that several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers’ credentials were exposed on a third-party site due to a likely phishing scheme. Upon learning of the issue, we immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation to determine the impact to customers.

If you are locked out of your account, Microsoft have requested that you fill out this form to reclaim access to your account.

Thanks to yakcamkir for flagging this.