As some of you are aware, the forums have become a target for advertisement spam.
as a counter-act measure, I've changed a few things to the registration process, both client and server side.
This should help detour spam bots/scripts from registering new accounts so easily.

Because of these modifications, I've disabled email confirmation and made the visual confirmation picture easier to read.

if you have any problems registering a new account, please send me an email xyphos@xyphos.com

Funcom fixed their probes.
The 'Server Status' tool should display information correctly now.

• Converted this portal page to work from the forums.
  This way, I can post news and updates as they happen by replying to a thread, instead of writing HTML to a text file and uploading it
  Old news and updates from the old text file have been reposted below, with their estimated timestamps placed at the beginning of each one.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Recently, I've been playing on TestLive servers, trying to figure out the new database format.
it seems that AO's old database has grown so big that it was very close to the game's 2GB database limit.
As a result, the new database has been spliced in two separate database files and my current database tools can't read from them yet.

As a result of this, The next Database Patch might not get here to this site for quite a while.

The "Server Status" tool IS working properly.
but it's showing offline states for a while now.
I learned from Macrosun, an AO Dev (one of AO's best devs imho) that the new game servers that AO moved to don't support or use the XML file the tool uses. He also mentioned the small possibility that the new servers might support this feature in the future.
until then, if at all, the tool will always show the servers being offline and/or locked.

<Reposted Message, Original Post Date: 23 Apr 2009>

• Database patched to 18.00.04

<Reposted Message, Original Post Date: 20 Apr 2009>

• Added 'Redefine Search' link at the top-right of search results.
  Clicking this link will take you back to the main search page, with your previous search criteria pre-loaded so you may change things around.
• Changed the search code a little to include Notum Wars items into 'Froob Only' item searches, since everyone has NW by default now.

<Reposted Message, Original Post Date: 15 Apr 2009>

• a HUGE thanks goes to "Taz" for making the awesome site header banner. lots of <3 to you mate!

<Reposted Message, Original Post Date: 08 Apr 2009>

• Database Patched to 18.00.03

<Reposted Message, Original Post Date: 07 Apr 2009>

• Added minor support for items showing nanoline effects. Example
  However, the nanoline definition list is currently incomplete so there will be quite a few items that don't have a proper classification.
  For these cases, it'll default to a generic term 'NanoLine XXX'
  I'll work on adding more definitions someday...

<Reposted Message, Original Post Date: 06 Apr 2009>

• Search Page Beta 2: Re-Wrote almost everything related to item search.
  This update allows your failed searches to retain your previous search criteria so you may edit it.
  I also added the 'IR Teh Luk' button, works just like google's "I'm feeling lucky" feature.
• Fixed a stylesheet issue that caused font sizes to grow/shrink between some pages.
  If you still experience this problem, try clearing your browser cache.
• Added bulleted formatting to this portal page, it started to become hard to read with all these updates. :p
• Last but not least, I slimmed down the Arbitrary Search Attributes list.
  I limited to only what a player would actually search for, instead of a bloated full attribute listings.

<Reposted Message, Original Post Date: 02 Apr 2009>

• Database Patched to 18.00.02