I woke up this morning to find that Blizzard has banned me from posting in any WoW forum. No idea why since I try very hard to be courteous and helpful there, so maybe it’s just some sort of maintenance-day glitch. I received no notification of this ban, so I’ve sent an email to Blizzard asking for someone to look into it and hopefully they can clear it up. It’s a little disturbing given my involvement in the protest over their addon policy. My spouse’s account works just fine, so I hope they haven’t resorted to just silencing players they don’t agree with.

UPDATE: Got an email from Blizzard (kudos for the reasonably fast response time of 4 hours) and they confirmed that there is no suspension on my account. That’s a relief of course, though I still can’t post to the forums. Their suggestions are to change my password (which they say has fixed the problem for some players) and to make sure my account is paid up (it is of course).

A couple of the bugs reported against yesterday’s 5.0b1 build are significant enough that I think another build is needed to ensure that GC5 runs a smoothly as it can. I also fixed a couple of easy minor bugs and usability issues.
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I’m finally ready to call it “beta”! All the major features for the first release are now implemented. This build adds new event notifications and fixes a few problems with the guild partnership feature. The most significant thing missing is automatic confirmations and personal events. Personal events (birthdays, doctor, etc.) just need some work to fix them up and I’m considering dropping the automatic confirmations feature from the first release and adding it for a “5.1″ release instead. The big sticking point with it is that I have to scan the calendar in the background, which means monitoring other addons accesses to the calendar API so I can suspend scanning while it’s in use. I’m also concerned about performance with that background scanning and want more time to think about that aspect as well.
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This is probably the last pre-beta build, unless it turns out I messed something up in a big way with these changes. The multi-guild partnership stuff is finally done as well as a couple other features and bugfixes.
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I found some instructions online on configuring phpBB3 to use gmail and have changed the forum configuration to route mail through that. If you have trouble, use the Contact link at the top of this page to let me know and I’ll resolve it as quickly as I can.

So it turns out that you can not effectively host a mail server on a dynamic IP address. Technically it works fine, but it turns out that a large number of the mail servers in the world block all emails coming from dynamic IP ranges, which is resulting in nobody getting any email from me — personal emails, registration emails, etc.

I’ve ordered an upgrade to “business internet” from Comcast, but that’s going to take a few days to get installed. In the meantime I am manually confirming all forum registrations, so if you register just allow an hour or two for me to notice and activate your account. Sorry about that! I hope to have everything back to normal once I get my fancy faster line with a static IP (22Mbps down/5Mbps up!).

Not much new in this release other than updating the Argent Tournament script to recognize the slightly-renamed mounts in patch 3.1.2. Of course, if you use that script then this is a must have for the new patch :)
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Yay, I’ve finally added the ability to resize and move the threat bars! Access the options via WoW’s Addon options (ESC - Interface - Addons). Still planned is to make the current target bar positionable independently of the other bars and to allow the bars to stack downward so they can be used at the top of the screen.

Wow, build d12 was kind of a stinker. A couple of the bugs I fixed in d12 generated whole new bugs, including breaking the ability to event create announcements and guild events! Here’s d13 with the fixes for that. No new features (I’m working on the guild partnership code, previously known as guild alliances), just those bug fixes.

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It’s been quite a while since the last build of GC5, but I finally have it ready. This one adds more missing features and fixes several bugs and is practically release-quality except for the missing support for multi-guild alliances.

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