We have made changes to our mail system, to work around some reputation issues. We are still sending via AWS. We are now sending via EU West (France) instead of EU Central (Germany).
Category: SilentGround.org
Open Board & Prices
We will soon begin a temporary campaign, with open sign-up at our forum, and some price reductions for VIP and Elite memberships, to draw in some new members, and also make upgrades more attractive.
S.G. Security Update
Additional security enhancements have now been applied to our community site as well. This should provide the safest user experience at the present time. DNSSEC & HSTS applied. Minimum browser requirements of TLS 1.2. Strict encryption through Cloudflare. Rocket Loader enabled to speed up JavaScript queries. Optimized static files cache. Cloudflare Always Online updated to…
Updated S.G. Staff List
Reworking the staff page of this site, we have added all current staff members and of course kept our hall of fame as well out of respect. The previous page was some hacked together piece of c***. Now it’s a proper table listing, easily edited for future updates.
Database Upgrade Completion
As expected, it wasn’t just as easy as clicking a button and be done. There were a few issues to figure out at first, and then came a stuck terminal window with no updates as to the progress. Digging a little deeper and tweaking a few things, the upgrade seemed to work. At the time…