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RMN will be down while our host moves the server to a new data center starting at 9PM EDT on Sunday, August 25th.

You can use this link, Timezone Converter, to figure out what time that is where you live.

They've allotted the time slot of 9PM - 1AM to move the server. I'm not sure when it will move exactly or how long it will be down, but I plan to take the site down before 9PM EDT on the 25th to make sure I have a back-up and everything shuts down as smoothly as it possibly can.

You could always join us on Discord during this time!

I just got an email from our hosting company that they are moving our server to a new datacenter on Saturday, June 9th starting at 2PM Eastern. The move is scheduled to take 4 hours.

The email says it is a "reminder", but this is the first notice we received as far as I can tell.

Since the server will be powered off, there won't even be a "down" page. Maybe I should do something so this doesn't happen in the future...

I'm going to take the site down at 1PM EST to run a back-up, just in case...

Sometime in the next few weeks, I plan to start making RMN an https only site. Requests to http://rpgmaker.net will automatically be redirected to https://rpgmaker.net.

When this change happens the site will not support SSLv2, SSLv3, or TLS versions below 1.2. SSLv2 is pretty old and hasn't been supported in browsers since the mid 90's. SSLv3 was disabled by default in many modern browsers after the POODLE attack.

You can learn whether or not your browser supports TLS v1.2 here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Web_browsers

We'll be getting our certificates from the Let's Encrypt project. These certs are pretty new, but should be trusted in all major modern browsers. You can visit this site: https://letsencrypt.daylightpirates.org/ to see whether or not your browser trusts / supports Let's Encrypt certs. If you get a green lock (or whatever else your browser does) next to the URL in the address bar, then you are probably good to go.

If anyone has any issues with this change, please let me know!

RMN is moving!

We recently purchased a new server which actually turned out to be a bit more powerful than our current server (with a faster network connection) for less money!

On Saturday, March 21st at about 9:00 AM CDT (you can use http://www.timeanddate.com/ to find out what time that is in your location!) I will freeze the current site and put up a splash page alerting visitors to the move. This will ensure that I have the latest copy of all game downloads, images, locker files, etc. as well as the latest copy of the site's database.

A few weeks ago I completed a move of all of the site's files and have been syncing the changes every few days so that I don't have to move 400GB of files Saturday morning.

After the move is complete I will do some testing to make sure everything is working as expected and then I will update the DNS. DNS changes can take up to 24 - 48 hours to move throughout the Internet, but if you are using a third party DNS server (like Google or OpenDNS) it will probably only be a few hours.

For most people, the site should only be down 4-5 hours, but it could take 24-48 hours before you are able to see the new site...

Feel free to visit us on IRC while the site is down, or use the downtime to work on your games!

The site will be down from 9AM - 11AM CDT this Saturday, September 13th.

There was some work that I wasn't able to complete the other weekend (mainly because it involved moving 22GB of locker files, screenshots and thumbnails). I'd like to complete that work this upcoming Saturday. There are also a bunch of new features that I have been working on the last few days which will get pushed to the site during this time. I'll try to list them all below.

From RMN 4.5 Feature Ideas Topic. These are all done (I think).

• Mark images as private while uploading them to the locker instead of after or fix whatever is wrong with the current system
• Uploading GIF files to game pages
• Last updated timestamp for images
• Make it so that when I delete a subscription or locker item it doesn't take me back to page one
• Give users more control over posts in their own Gamepages (hiding posts)
• Game makers should be able to hide or delete posts on their page
• Sort your game page list by Rating
• Add the formatting widget to the event page description box in event admin
• show how a game is tagged on the game page (right now only genre is there)
• Post comments on download pages
• make it easier to view notices without actually going to the notice page (right from the user header)
• It would be nice if in the game list summaries, the main developer(s) are shown for each game listed
  

Some things that weren't on the big list:

• Saving / favoriting individual posts
• Embed twitter timeline on gamepage
• Viewing mail from the header
• Added the markitup preview feature to edit bar (live preview)
• Added the preview button to utility/plugin submissions
• Draft option for game blogs
• Search & filtering user posts on profile page (by post parent type)
• Resources list on user profile page
• Topics list on user profile page
  

Things that could potentially be worked on this week:

• Hide ignored users from Post History and Notices
• More control over the latest post section (block ignored users, etc.)

...in the next few weeks:

Integrating jQuery file upload into the site.