Hogwarts Live BlogLAST DAY TO SUBMIT ENTRIES!
We have a new contest for this week, with the submission deadline being Saturday the 10th. It is short notice, but it is something that we just came up with.
The contest is called "The 12 Days of HLmas", basically you are rewriting the 12 Days of...
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Holiday Gift Shop
...is now OPEN!!!!
Located in every village, the Holiday amp;Gift Shop is where all fashionable Witches and Wizards buy gifts for their friends and family during the holiday season! You can find everything from Reindeer Poop to Diamond Jewelry to Famous Wizard Cards for those special (or...
Reminder!
DO NOT REFER YOUR OWN ALTS. That is cheating. If you are caught your account that was the referrer WILL be locked, no exceptions. If you are caught having more than 4 accounts on your IP, the highest account(s) will be locked.
You are responsible for any activity that comes from your IP...
Marriage Module
Earlier this morning, a player used a loophole in the marriage system to marry himself to a bunch of random players.
We have temporarily deactivated marriage and flirting until the loophole is fixed. Any marriages that were NOT affected by the lonely player looking for love are still intact,...
Where do Hogwarts Live donations go?
Some of you have been wondering where the donations go. While this is explained fairly well in the Prefect's Lounge I want to do a week-to-week breakdown of the costs of running Hogwarts Live during the month of July 2011:
Week 1 - $103.20
Week 2 - $167.80
Week 3 - $133.51
Week 4 -...
Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene made its way up the East Coast leaving devastation in its path, Irene has claimed over 20 lives so far. In New York State there are towns that are completely gone and will have to start over, many people have lost everything. People may be wondering why this matters, but it...
Bad Navs
A lot of players have been complaining about bad navs recently- the Click Here page or just a plain white page. We have previously posted some tips here on how to avoid them, but I'd also recommend clearing your browser cache and your DNS cache. Clearing both of these may help prevent the...
Explanation of recent slowness and temporary downtime
Hi All,
You may have noticed that the site has been a bit slow lately and we even experienced some small outages. Some of our ex-players decided to go script kiddie on us and retaliated their bans via a series of automated attacks that overburdened our server. This made the site inaccessible to...
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Owl Post
The Owl Post is currently down. Although you can write messages and appear to send them, they are not being delivered and all old owls have been deleted.
The Owls should be working again at some point today. I do not know if all old owls will be able to be restored, however.
Please don't...
Warning of Possible Downtime
Please note I don't expect any downtime but want to make you all aware of the possibility of downtime in advance.
Our hosting provider Peer1 is experiencing a critical situation with their San Antonio datacenter. Half of their computer room air conditioning units (CRAC) are non-functional due...
