Updated the requests for BotServ bots to make them less restrictive, somewhat. Nickname and Channel registrations need to be at least 15 days since registration before a request is considered. The minimum however has been reduced to only 1 channel with 5 users in them. And no, bots do not count and we will find out if that is the case. They need to be unique users and there will be checks involved, such as sending a /CTCP VERSION request, checking the IP associated, etc.

I need to get some info about the JavaScript for the page, but once I do, I plan to have the page as a sub-page under Information. It’ll contain info about the channels, their topics, including a user count for them. At the moment, the script doesn’t agree with the fact that the background of the site is dark. Sucks, but what can you do? Expect an update within a day or so.

I loved the Dreamline theme, but it was time for a change. Every site has to go through change one way or another.

The original theme had mostly gray links with a light blue hover for ‘em. I actually changed the CSS for those (mind you, they were not easy to find on some of them..) for a more purple style that ShadowHime is associated with. Black and Purple. This theme in particular is very well-done, much like Dreamline, except it had one tiny flaw. I couldn’t effectively make a logo for it without having to do drastic changes to the background image. So, scrapped the idea and found a new theme.

I’m currently working on a new image for the logo, and I hope to have some help from Noratetsu. If not, I’ll do it all myself if needed. But I hope it doesn’t come to that. XD I won’t say what the image is though, something y’all will have to figure out on your own. Anyway, stay tuned for further updates.

I updated the FAQ a bit to add some stuff related to just ShadowHime. Mainly to show what we specifically allow and don’t allow here on our server. Might clear up some stuff and such, in case people might ask.

As usual, be sure to check the FAQ and Tutorials pages before asking us anything on the IRC. Chances are, you’re questions are already answered.

Oh, note: I plan to re-do one or two of the tutorial pages to clean them up a bit. I was going through them and they look a little… messy, so I’m going to clean them and get them a bit more organized and hopefully easier to read.

I like the old theme, but we needed something a bit darker to fit the ShadowHime theme.

Basically, the way I see the shadow energy is an unstable mass of energy, so the black and purple seem to go well together. That’s just my opinion anyway, I’m sure people have their own.

At any rate, please let me know how the theme looks. I did some tweaking with the original theme to change the colors a tad from the original Hopefully y’all will like this theme. Now, if only I can get Nora to make some new images for us……. *glares at him*

For anyone who is going to the forum, or just this site in general, who end up getting a banned message (or a possible forbidden error or something), please give me an email at staff@shadowhime.net if you feel that it’s a false ban. I’ll work something out for you so you can have access again.

I have made an announcement on the forum, but to be brief here, we’ve had a user or two doing a ban evasion on me, so I’m having to do a slightly broad range for the ban to block the user(s) from our domain. So, with that, it’s very possible that I may have accidentally banned innocent users with that and could prevent access not only on the forum, but as well as our IRC server. If this is the case, then please fire me an email and I’ll work something out.

I might remove the ban, kinda depends… It’s also possible I might have to block the ISP as well and having to add exceptions for the users who shouldn’t be banned and all that. (yes, we can add exceptions in case something does happen)