Thursday, April 10, 2008

Emergency Notice: Chat Interface Changes!

If you haven't noticed yet, the interface of the chat room has changed. Some noticeable things you might see are:

- Black background converted into white background. It makes many of the font colours hard to see.
- Loss of font colours. Now it doesn't matter what you see. It's just black text against a white background. All administrative commands are also in the same colour, so you won't notice any difference between regular chat and system commands.
- Loss of diversity of emoticons. There's only generic emoticons, accessible by typing simple commands like :)
- Loss of audio sounds diversity. Those annoying audio you hear are now gone!
- Typing "lol" in the chat results in an emoticon. Those annoying audio are replaced by a new champion! (Many people use "lol". You can see how this present a problem.)
- Passwords? Who needs passwords? Now you can be anyone you want without registering for an account!
- You want a new nickname? No problem. Just log out and log back in. Apparently, the /nick command no longer works.
- And most importantly: NO ADMINISTRATORS. That's right. Anarchy prevails for once!
- But, you still can't cuss. "Shit" is still allowed, however.

Most likely, this was due to the hosting company, whom we had a contract with, who administered the change. This has happened before in the chat, but now I do not understand why would they upgrade the chat to something of a backwards technology. There's a greater loss of function and control, so we might as we move to somewhere else with better accomodations.

*UPDATE*: Apparently, the Big Boss forgot to pay, so we have to use the basic service for now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please wait it out for 1~2 weeks. Thank you for your support!

Good luck, have fun, and good game.

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