Happy Birthday to us

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Created on Saturday, 22 September 2012 12:20

Written by Dominoid

Reproba Vir is 5 Today! Happy Birthday RV. I made a cake to celebrate:

Right Click here and select "save as" to download an uber high res version (150mb in size)

New toys? For me?

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Created on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 22:24

Written by Dominoid

Welcome to the all new Reproba Vir website.

 I'm sure you've all seen that the old site has been getting more and more outdated as time has gone on. Reproba Vir is 5 years old as a guild now and when we first started, our quiet little website was perfect. Five years on though, the web has moved forward and there's a lot of things that have needed updating. The long and short of this is that the decision was taken to start again from scratch with an entirely new website.  

The general principles are the same, we're not wildly changing the format, but as you can see we've given everything a shiny new lick of paint and moved a lot of the important information into catagories to make it a bit easier to find everything. We've also added a few new features which I'll be detailing shortly.  There's also a competition running with the grand relaunch to win some awesome prizes including gold and a Chopper! (Thanks go to fluffy for this)

 First thing you will notice is that your login no longer works, so we will require you to register again. Don't worry though, the process is streamlined enough to take a few seconds to get you up and running. When you are up and running, you can take advantage of the new website features right away.

"So what is there for me when I'm registered on the new site then Dom?"

Well, I'm glad you asked. Here's a quick rundown for you:

• There's a new Arcade, with a few games that weren't in the old one. I have the HighScore in Pacman already, feel free to try and beat me. 
• The forums are all new, which means they'll be needing some content and that's where you guys come in!
• The articles are now divided into clearer categories, with articles from before 2012 placed in the newly created "from the archives" section if you want to catch up on your guild history.
• The "most popular" section allows you to keep up with the most viewed content so you can be part of the crowd.
• The Gallery is all new and more importantly works better now, so your screen shots and photos will look better than ever.
• The profile system's been given a complete overhaul with places to list your alts and armory links if you want.
• Check out who's on Mumble and click to join them with the integrated mumble viewer.

"Why do I have to register again?"

The old site had too much to replace to be worth it; it would have taken far too long and given us far less flexibility. The particular software package we were using has been discontinued and that means that there are far less options for upgrading to. Because of this I've rewritten the entire site from scratch rather than bodging things on top of what we had already. Moving forward though, this should make the site expandable for the future so you won't need to register again after this point.

"But I still have things on the old site I didn't save"

No need to worry, I did think of that and the previous site will be available for a few more weeks at http://legacy.reprobavir.co.uk so you still have time to save things that you need to. It's read only now so you won't be able to post but if there's something that you wnat kept and you can't work out how then feel free to message me in game or here on the site with the particular thing you want copied over and I'll sort it for you where possible.

"I use Tapatalk to read the forums, is that affected?"

Tapatalk is still supported but you will want to remove the site and upload the new one. The previous forum is to be removed from Tapatalk over the next few days. For now it has been renamed "RV legacy site" so as to avoid any confusion. The new site is called "Reproba Vir Guild website forums" on the Tapatalk Directory.

"I'm not actually a member, I want to join Reproba Vir"

You'll see a link to our Application form above, click on that and fill in the form. We'll be back to you shortly after with our response.

"There was mention of prizes. What's that all about then?"

There are indeed prizes to be won. Prizes with some considerable value simply for taking part in the forums chat. See Fluffy's thread here

There's probably a fair few things that I haven't covered in here so post anything you need help with in the forums. The website is still an ever expanding concern so suggestions and feedback will always be welcome.

Thanks,

Dom