Alright, for those who know what went wrong the other day... Just letting you know, it all _should be alright again. Please proceed with your usual blogging, biography-ing, storytelling, and picture posting. If you notice anything wonkier than normal, something not working the way it used to and you want it back, please email me and Michael and let us know - the.endless.forest at tale-of-tales.com - I'll check the comments on this post for a few days too.

I know the site is not perfect but its yours. And we do our best to keep it up and running for you.

cheers,
Auriea.

I am fiddling with the site. It may cause things to be.... odd for a little while today.

thanks for your patience
<3
Auriea.

Nothing like a little party to end our anniversary celebration of The Path. And there is nothing like an ABIOGENESIS party in The Endless Forest! So please accept this last minute invitation to join us in the forest which has been shrouded in mist. Let's bring some color back! If you don't feel like running with the deer just open up the game and follow us in ABIOGENESIS Camera mode by hitting CTRL-W. It'll be wild! We'll probably crash the server! But it's not a TEF party till SOMEONE crashes the server!

Hi everyone,

Someone pointed out to me, and I agree, that it can be really unpleasant to browse blogs when there is music in posts that automatically starts playing. If there are more than one of these, in the "Biography" blog section for example, It quickly becomes a cacophony! So, I ask you to please set all your music tracks to NOT play unless someone presses the PLAY button on the player.

Here are some instructions on how to do this:

* On Mixpod.com, just go to the customize tab and click the blue word "Settings". Then select no for autoplay.

* If you have a player that is auto-playing check in the embed code and you will see something like: 'autoplay=true'. Please change that to 'autoplay=false'.

If I find any autoplaying music in my journeys through the site today, I will change the settings on them as well.

AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT! If you are posting lots of big images, please try putting some of them behind a "Read more" link. Use the button in the posting area that says "Split summary at cursor." Everything in the top textarea is immediately visible, everything in the lower one will be seen when a reader clicks for "more." This will help save people's bandwidth and make browsing a better experience for everyone. But the point of the image galleries is to see your images, so definitely don't hide everything away! We want to see what you are making

AND about that 'Display Name' problem! nope. it's still not fixed. We are dependent on our server admin to help us fix this because Michael and I haven't the slightest idea why it doesn't work. The guy has been a great help with the overhaul of the site on the server side. But we can't monopolize all his time (unfortunately ) He will get to it soon as I poke him about it some more.

Well i added this option back BUT WITH THE WARNING UNDER IT THAT it does not work correctly yet

okay, that sucked. but at least for once it wasn't my fault.
we experienced a situation where the server hosting our databases crashed out. so it effected everyone they are hosting, not just us. everything should be returning to normal now and hopefully that won't happen again! if you notice something wrong ( moreso than it has been lately) let me know by leaving a comment

and does the video embedding work now??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x30hn-BncU

hmhm
don't know why it is putting in extra line breaks. this is kind of frustrating and will frustrate everybody if i don't figure it out :/
so whats the deal here?
hmmmmhmmm

testing the color bug


this entry will not be here long.
soon i will delete it because

it is just a test.
of the color BUG in bBBBBBcode!

seems to only be a problem when set to filtered html....
bah!

The Endless Forest 3.30 released with new feature “De Drinkplaats” -

Download The Endless Forest here. It’s free. Like, for real, not as in “free to play”.

We have upgraded The Endless Forest engine and added a new feature to the game for the occasion of the exhibition Fantastic Illusions which opened in Kortrijk last week. It’s an exhibition of work by contemporary Belgian and Chinese media artists that explores the idea of immersion (there’s two games in it: The Endless Forest and Flower). The show ran in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai in September and can now be seen in the Broelmuseum in Kortrijk until February.

The Broelmuseum collection includes several paintings by 17th century Flemish painter Roelant Savery, many of them featuring animals very prominently. One painting, entitled “De Drinkplaats”, or “the watering hole”, served as the inspiration for the addition we made to The Endless Forest.

About This Site

The Endless Forest community is a social site linking the silence of The Endless Forest multiplayer game with the chatter and creativity of its real life players.

Learn more about The Endless Forest game here.

The game is free to play but if you give your deer a name you get more features in the game and you get access to this website. Using that username and password you can log in and contribute your drawings and stories, make new friends, and have discussions with other players.


The TEF community is very diverse and for all ages. Please keep this in mind when posting.

IMAGE GUIDELINES

We do not host your image files but the posting interface makes it easy to link to your images on your own server or hosted at one of the many free online image hosts. Many players use Photobucket. And I can recommend Flickr, where we also have the official TEF Image Pool. There is also Deviant Art where players have started The Endless Forest Fan Club!

Image widths are limited to 1024 pixels across. Anything larger will be scaled down. Please be courteous to people's bandwidth and compress your images as .jpgs if you can.

WRITING GUIDELINES

What you choose to write about is up to you. Reading and commenting is also fun!
When posting to your blog, consider entering relevant entries in one of the available categories so that other players can browse entries of a particular type.

SITE SUGGESTIONS

This site is maintained by Tale of Tales and we are always listening to your feedback.

Hi,

Feels good to have the community back online!
Well, that took a lot longer than I wanted it to. :/ It was much more difficult than I had hoped to upgrade things and iron out bugs and I know its probably still not exactly perfect. So, I want your feedback (leave a comment here.) Let me know if something doesn't work the way it used to (if you want it back.) Let me know If you'd still like something to change, I will let you know if it's possible. I will still be testing some things and tweaking once you all start coming back and using the site... It's easier to see how it's working when there is some activity.

NEW THINGS

You can now assign your blog entries to a category the same way you've been doing for Pictures. It is not required but it will make it easier for people looking for your deer bio or for your creative writing if you add it to a category.

post URLS are now by node/# and not the same as the title of your entry. This way you can edit the title and the url will not change. None of your previous posts urls should have been effected by this.

you can use more HTML tags now for formatting. I added IMG, blockquote, h1-h4, i, b, br, p, tt, pre and strike... more info here. If you don't know what i am talking about, you don't need it

I put in a hard coded limit of 1024 pixels across for images. Anything wider than that will be scaled down. And I hope that you will try to limit the size of your images as sometimes they get really huge and that is not so nice for browsing around. (And you can always put in a link to a larger version.)

I would like to implement some sort of personal tagging system, so you can organize your entries for yourself also, but that is a bit more complicated and will have to be for the next time I do some crazy upgrade adventure >}