Hogwarts Live Blog

Ok I have now resolved some long standing problems with the clan system, first of all, when you create a new clan you will now be automatically marked as the Founder (eliminating the problem we've had for so long where the clans are Founderless), also, clan founders can now set the minimum clanrank to stipend to their clan, rather then just toggling officer on and off, you can now set what the minimum rank is. This will allow clan founders to have more control over who can do what in a clan. Stay tuned for the ability to set other rank based options for your clan.

I urge all clan founders to go to their "Set Stipend Settings" in your clan vaults immediately to set this new option.

Update:
I have also written and run a quick script designed to fix all existing clans that did not have a founder. All clans should now have a founder.

For any clan that did not already have a founder the founder has been set to the person who has been in the clan the longest.

Attention all players... This is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry not Drinks, Sex and Drugs High School... So please do not talk about or preform the acts of either in the open chat areas... If you feel that you must talk about these subjects you are more than welcome to do so in owls... If we see any of these things in the open chat areas the Moderators have the right to mute you with no warning as this is your One and only warning and then when an Administrator is online you will be banned for 3 days....

The German version of Hogwarts Live is back up and running over at:
http://de.hogwartslive.com

Please accept my apologies for the delay in fixing this issue. Thanks.

With the harrasment going on with death curses. They have been removed. That is all I have to say.

These are the nominees who have past phase 1 of the screening process. If your name is listed below and you are willing to accept the responsibilities of a staffer, please owl me (the text of the owl can be a simple "YES"). These responsibilities are roughly outlined in the Code of Conduct, read it!

ACharmedOne
Alyssa
AngelinaJohnson
AngrielleAlthor
Beatleslover
biggmike
Caden
Catalina
ChloeSpinnet
Coby
DarkDarius
DarkLordVoldemort
DeianadaeMalfoy
Draconis
Ecko
Eilidh
enpower
Faye
Fieri
FluerWeasley
GinnyPotterGryffindor
gracelessone
Gwendolyn
JenniPotter
Jester
Kayex
Kikiyo
LilyAnnKnight
Megthecatlapist
Merope
Michiganindians
Pandemonium
Perks
RighteousFury
RikuSaotome
Shadowstar
Sin
Snapette
Snickers
SnowyOwl
SpinalRemains
StArDuSt
stevenb
TariseDJorasco
thyone
totallyspazzed
Vash
YuffieKisaragi

Nominations will close on July 18th at 12:00 midnight (PST).

Please stop sending in petitions concerning your Job Applications, the clan Christmas Trees, and the Logout link. The staff approves the job applications manually; we will be making this automatic in the near future. I just have not had anytime to look into it lately. The Christmas trees were removed due to complaints that it is not Christmas time. Lastly, the logout link was repositioned because certain players had complained that they would click on it by accident, you can now find it under the -Other- section.

One of the common questions about HogwartsLive is why it is so slow and why it costs so much to run. As a server administrator by trade I can tell you that most servers can handle a great number of sites without any problem. The "problem" is that HogwartsLive is just an incredibly popular site, with tons of you signing on every single day.

This is not a bad thing, we are very grateful that there are so many of you enjoying HogwartsLive, and look forward to growing even larger, and are constantly working to make HogwartsLive faster and more reliable so that we can handle the incredible growth rate.

This said I have an announcement to make, HogwartsLive has never ceased to amaze me in just how many pageviews it gets in an average month (last month in June we received an amazing 22,558,769 pageviews (that means that if you count the number of times a web page on Hogwartslive.com, not including wizards.pro or anything else in last month it was over 22 million times!). That said, the incredible growth of HogwartsLive has reached a new plateau, on July 11th, 2006, we received 1,332,402 pageviews in a single day, marking the first time in HogwartsLive history that we received over 1 million pageviews in a single day!

Thank you members of HogwartsLive for making this site as powerful, fun, and amazing as it is today, and I look forward to announcing the first 2 million pageview day.

My apologies for the excessive downtime on our Hogwarts Live wiki over at:
http://encyclopedia.wizards.pro

I was able to fix everything today, so have fun! Also, please notify me of any further errors regarding any Wizards.pro channel.

It has come to my attention that members of other Harry Potter roleplaying sites have been giving Hogwarts Live poor reviews on Alexa and other topsites due to typically extraneous features of the site such as layout, which in our particular case is optimized for performance (speed). Please do not engage in such juvenile activities with other Harry Potter sites as it is unbecoming of our users and reflects poorly on our community. We all love Harry Potter and should use that commonality to foster friendship rather than spiteful rivalry and discord. You may assist us in mitigating the sting of these biased ratings with your own subjective reviews of your experiences concerning this game. Thanks as always and sorry for the downtime today. I was on a road trip to Los Angeles, California; otherwise I would have caught it sooner.

You can review us on Amazon/Alexa via the link below:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=hogwartslive.com