Silver Insanity

Also, I just deleted anyone who's registered in the last couple months. If you were a real person, reach out somehow.

There have been no new posts for six months and I have to delete about two spam accounts a day. Rather than continuing to moderate for nobody, I'm disabling new user registration entirely. If you're already registered, you can keep using the forum. If you want new users to be able to join for any re...

There was a huge wave of spam posts (Over 9000!), so I just mass deleted any account created recently. If I caught a real person, I apologize. New users will now need manual approval for their posts. This may take a while.

You may have noticed that the site now uses HTTPS rather than HTTP. I got rather tired of the "Not Secure" warning and actually had the certificates lying around anyway. If you have SSH access, the SSH keys did change. Ubuntu decided to remove openssh-server during the upgrade and I lost t...

I just updated basically everything on the server. If something seems broken, let me know.

Olo Farfoot:
Archeologist Background gave me a map and a rival.

I need to upgrade the forum, and it looks like it'll be a bit more involved than usual. If there's a bad time for it to be down, please speak up. (Likely times are 9PM EDT or random time on weekend.)

I upgraded a bunch of things on the server (and then downgraded some after stuff broke). Since you're reading this, it seems the forum is working properly but if you notice anything broken, let me know.

Josh pointed me at a blog post An Ultimate Supers RPG that described the following sequence to build a shared basis for a superhero setting. The inspiration was the Ultimate Marvel universe, which took the long history of Marvel and used it as inspiration to create a unified setting to tell new stor...

There's been a wave of spammers getting past the Q&A and some of them even posting things. (Only one was adventurous enough to post more than once though.) I've installed a plugin that uses Google's new reCAPTCHA (the "click this box to prove you're human"). Hopefully this will stem th...