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I'm not going to post too much of a public opinion on this - I think this dead horse has been beaten quite well enough, and deserves to be put to rest already. Nothing positive has come of any attempts to continue to pursue it. However, I will say that Pirate was given an invitation to discuss this civilly with me, with nobody attacking one another. All I asked is that we both admit we did wrong and apologize to each other. (Hey, that was my admission right there - Yes, this could have been handled better on both parts!) That was met with nonresponsiveness, and eventually a block from him on Skype. It was (perhaps even still is!) within his power to solve the problem and come back... He's declined it. One more important note: I was never asked if I was alright with these logs being shared publicly (or anywhere at all). For what it's worth, I am not, but there is little to no point in removing them at this point.

We tend to report outages on relevant social media and via notices on Discord - unfortunately most of our staff aren't big users of the forums. I try to post update logs here, however, because it's a good place for that content to stick around and be referenced forever. I can try and have staff make a best effort to post about downtime here, though!

The rank exists, it is this color: . However, it is manually granted. Ask me (Blackjack on Discord) or Aether/Skar (Same name on Discord, the guy who does most of the work running the server) and we'll check your rank on the forums and grant it from there.

Welcome, Mentis! Quite glad to finally have you on the team

Discord is more or less the de facto official channel for communication outside the server at this point! It was also mentioned on-server.

Hey everyone! This is just a quick post to keep you updated on what's recently changed feature-wise at PoniArcade. I'm going to try my best to write these more often, as well - usually I just kind of spring new features and things on everyone without telling them, and that's not really the best! The most recent changes we've made are as follows: Dynmap was removed. It used a lot of disk space on our servers, and a poll of the community found that the majority of those who voted thought we should remove it. Votifier was finally properly configured. What this means for you is that whenever you vote on Planet Minecraft (by clicking on "Vote for them as a top server", right under the titles) you'll be rewarded with 5000 bits in-game! You can do this once per day. We're hoping to add more sites you can vote on for us so that you can get even more rewards, and rewards are subject to change - we might even introduce loot crates at some point! That's all for now - expect even more great things in the near future

Hey there, just another little announcement to describe some more of the recent server changes we've undergone! First off, as you may have noticed, Perish and Skar (Aether) have rejoined staff, as a moderator and an admin, respectively. Welcome back! They have been hard at work on things to make the server more fun, including the Canada Day and 4th of July events you may have heard about or even attended! Expect more fun stuff to come! The server has updated to 1.12, but players using outdated clients (all the way back to 1.8!) can still join for the time being. I may start blocking clients older than 1.11 at some point - you guys really need to update We're also going to hopefully be bringing on some new features in the near future. These include economy rewards (Bits) for killing mobs, and a brand new server - creative-mode freebuild on normally-generated terrain! We'll hopefully have another announcement out when that happens Edit: Also, ranks are temporarily disabled and all will be reset when they return. Surprise! Let me know what you guys think!

Try connecting directly to the server address bungee.poniverse.net, and see if that fixes it. If not, let me know!

Hey there! I just wanted to let everyone know about some recent changes that have gone on at PoniArcade, as I don't want to confuse people and leave them in the dark! In rough order of occurence... - Skar/Cadance stepped down from staff. - Dora has re-joined staff as an admin. - Perish was removed from staff for various reasons, details of which I don't wish to go into. - Aly, Groudon, Ponka, Kid, and SilverFlameWolf stepped down from staff for personal reasons after Perish's removal. - Mercury has joined us to help me out with administrating the server in the interim, but isn't quite an official admin right now. - Someone new will be joining our moderation team soon - stay tuned for a separate announcement! Expect things to start moving again soon - the staff (both old and new) are working hard to come up with and implement brand new ideas to make the server more enjoyable! We're also planning on working on advertising soon, so as to hopefully get some new players and unstagnate things a little bit. If you have any questions, post here or send me a PM This post will also be put into an on-server announcement in the coming days.

Firefox everywhere. I don't want yet another window for the NSA to have into my life, and it seems like that is what most browsers other than Firefox are nowadays, unfortunately. Plus, most of the extensions I enjoy using either don't run on other browsers, or their equivalents are too terrible for me to want to use.

A partnership agreement is when a convention approaches Poniverse (or the other way around) and one asks the other for some services, and the other side provides the first side with some other services in return. A contractual agreement is formed. As part of our side of the agreement, Poniverse usually provides a forum section. There isn't any reason for us to provide conventions with a forum without such a formal agreement - what do we get in return for effectively giving them free advertising? In addition, conventions may not want sections on here, as they may have their own forums that they are perfectly happy with.

All of the convention sections/forums we have are for conventions we have partnership agreements with - that's the only case under which we host a forum for a convention

To be fair, OVH offers some fairly low-cost dedicated servers in their SoYouStart and Kimsufi lines.

None, because The Cloud is a stupid concept in my mind and I don't trust it I don't trust other peoples' hardware in general either, but it's at least better if I have full access to it (ie: a dedicated server.)

Do you have an actual opinion instead of just "no"? Nobody is really likely to listen to you until you can provide that

Who told you that? The distro I use (Arch) has approximately 60,000 packages (programs) between the official repositories and the user-run repository. That seems like a lot more than "nobody" writing programs

We pay about $120 CAD per month for unlimited 250/20 - we've been slowly upgrading to faster and faster plans as they've been coming out while cancelling other things we don't use like TV and home phone. My ISP now offers 1Gbps, but it is unlikely to come to where I am any time soon. as it is a condo building with 50 year old infrastructure.

Interestingly enough, I know a ton about networking in general but most of my experience is with Linux and with Mikrotik devices. I've never touched a Cisco device in my life, and I never plan to if I don't absolutely have to (Don't want a job in this field, prefer it as a hobby as it is far too stressful.)

Welcome to the forums, @Starbit! I tend to read the introduction posts when I can, but rarely reply - I just wanted to say hi because I've never seen an FtM transgender OC before, and I thought yours was pretty cute

Friends are not currently a part of the forum software. I am not sure if potentially a custom plugin to bring this back is something we want to look at soon. We are not trying to move MLPF to a Twitter-style messaging site - where did you get that idea? o.o If a member is harassing you, we have reporting features and the member in question would most likely be warned or potentially banned. We already have rules against multiple accounts - if they are found, they are usually banned.

Since a couple of weeks after its inception, the server has officially been a general Poniverse Discord server. It is mainly run by PoniArcade staff, although we have a few moderators from other places around Poniverse as well. I need to update the link on MLPF, but I can't figure out how on the new forum software. Start using https://discord.gg/Poniverse instead - it goes to the same place as the current link, but it looks a lot nicer!

Keep in mind that it's not the MLP Forums staff who have specifically done this. It is the developers of the 3rd party forum software we use. All we did was install what they made (which was necessary, as the old version will be no longer supported and as a result most likely insecure as of April.) You can hit CTRL-Z for undo, and CTRL-Y for redo. Even faster than buttons (This works in most applications on Windows and Linux. On Mac OS, use CMD instead of CTRL.)

@Jeric That was actually where the discussion started - at the potential of allowing NSFW commissions. Since knowledge of the fact that this has been discussed recently is already public, I see no reason not to share further details of what was discussed - of course, I won't share anyone's individual opinions The idea would be that NSFW commissions would be allowed, only in PM (this is assuming no "clop section" exists), and only for those who are, once again, 18+. I would have to look at some notes on another PC to see what finer details were discussed. Since this would now allow some form of NSFW content in PM, there would be no reason not to go all the way and also allow ERP in private. This, as you said, opens up more interesting issues, which were again discussed - the results of which are also in those notes I can't currently access. Your point about the underage staffers is a good one, and was also mentioned. The decision regarding that was that that would be discussed during a more serious, detailed discussion of these possibilities.