The Laurelin Archives - RP Webportal

[Dittany]

Hm might will have to look into this to then..

[Nimlith]

Hm might will have to look into this to then..

Oh you definitely should

[oaxaca_dan]

Just joined up last week or so myself - Credit is entirely do to Khallis_Laurelin (did I get the name right?), who's persistent mentioning of the archives kept reminding me "Hey, go check it out!"

The archives are great, and I've had a blast slowely updating my character and my kin. Plus, its not caught by the filters at work, so thats doubleplusgood. Now if we could entice more of the NA Laurelin players to get busy over there.. if only we could... *proceeds to force his kin-mates to register*

[Minyelaire]

All hail the Archives! >

I know you might have heard this now often enough Calenon, but again; A giantousnormously thanks to you and the entire team!
It is an incredible site which I cannot live anymore without! Without Laurelin Archives I am sure I'd never come with my fan-lore and my characters this far.
Thank you a thousand times and more!

[Calenon]

Thank you all for the praise, but most importantly thank you for your work! Without all of you the site would be an empty husk, so make sure to also thank each other and pat yourselves on the back for helping to make the LA into what it is today!

Keep enjoying the Archives!

- Calenon

[Calenon]

Greetings!

In order to comply with our host's regulations regarding resource usage, a major overhaul of the file system will take place within the next few days. We will also use this unfortunate opportunity to clean that system up. This will move and rename all images uploaded to the site thus far. It won't have any effect on the image node's location on the site or the URL path to the image node, but it will break any manual filepath links you may have added to your stories, profiles, kinships, etc. This will affect all images, including profile and kinship banners and similar.

There will be a reminder posted on the frontpage of the site before the overhaul is performed. All images will be saved in a backup by the webteam prior to the overhaul, in case of inevitable complications, but as always we recommend all users to maintain local copies of everything uploaded to the Archives.

So, make sure you have local copies of your images and make note of any stories or similar that may contain links that will be broken so you can update them after the overhaul. We apologies for the inconvenience posed by this situation, but we also see it as a sign of success. The creativity and dedication of the Laurelin roleplaying community has outgrown the Archives' framework, bulging at the seams! We are proud to maintain a repository of this community's greatness!

Keep enjoying the Archives!

- Calenon
Laurelin Archives Webteam

[Khalis_Laurelin]

Thanks for the update!

I am sure i speak for everyone who uses the Archives in that its a brilliant site and is one of the elements which binds the role playing community together.

So a huge thank-you from myself and the Warband of Imladris.

[Mistwood]

This thread really should be stickied to the Laurelin forum.

[Calenon]

The overhaul went very smoothly! Everything should be as it was, but with new filepaths to all your images. If any of your images seem to be missing or you find any other errors, please tell us about it by sending us an error report through the contact form at the top right of the site.

Thank you all for your praise and continued support, you're the best!

[Cymaru]

It's a wonderful site, a platform for creativity and imagination. And hey, Cymaru has got a nice profile number: #100

[Amorey]

*cheers happily and jumps up and down*

Laulrein very first sticky lovely thread for our beloved Archives ♥


Thank You

[Khalis_Laurelin]

YAY

Its gone sticky!

[BosDragon]

A well deserved stickiness Hopefully it makes people stick to Laurelin archives a lot!

[Torrigan_The_First]

I cannot honestly give enough praise to the website that so smoothly allows members of the Laurelin roleplaying community to learn, read and write about the adventures, songs and epic sagas of themselves and others in Tolkien's world.
A truly wonderful place, where creativity and imagination, friendship and rivalry and all the numerous joys of roleplaying on Laurelin come together. An utterly fantastic site and I cannot recommend it enough!
J.R.R. Tolkien would be proud.

[Mozzarellala]

I recently got my account approved on the site, and was wondering how I can upload my banner that must be 500x150 or such and such pixel length. I do not know how to make one with any dimensions, so if you could help please

[Mozzarellala]

I use paint on windows xp, I looked everywhere i could but didn't find anything on how to shape the banner to a specific pixel length and width :/

[Aestivan]

Is this still being actively administered? If so, how long ought I expect to wait for account approval?

And to the previous poster, in Paint, look up in the top menu bar, next to "Select". You will see a tool to re-size. Open this box, click the button that allows you to choose pixels rather than percent, and click the check box to maintain aspect ratio to turn that feature off. Type your values (590 x 110) in the boxes, and click the button. Done.

[''Cris''']

It is. But it takes a few days for the account approval (four or five days for me, if I remember right). Do not lose hope!

And welcome to Laurelin and the most immersive/true 'Middle-earth' LotRO has to offer! (imho)

[Khalis_Laurelin]

Check your spam email box as well if you have not heard anything. Otherwise speak to one of the Admins in game, i know one of them is Calenon.

[Calenon]

Greetings!

It's been a while since this last happened, but every good run must come to an end. We're once more being blocked by a number of email services including variations of Hotmail and Yahoo. This is a general heads up to users that it may be difficult to create new accounts on the site, especially with the addresses mentioned above but the extent of the issue may stretch beyond them. If you've registered and not received any emails from us, it's likely you're affected by this. We're keeping track of the accounts we fail to send mail to and will sort them out as soon as the block is lifted.

We're working with our host to clear this up, do not lose faith, the light of Laurelin will prevail over the darkness of anti-spam!

- Calenon
Laurelin Archives Webteam

[Calenon]

The issue has been resolved and all delayed accounts have been sorted out. If you've been waiting several days for your account to be activated and still haven't received an email after this, please contact us through the contact form at the top right of the site so we can be of assistance.

Keep enjoying the Archives!

- Calenon
Laurelin Archives Webteam

[Calenon]

Greetings!

Over a long period of time now, we've been faced with massive spam, forcing us to deal with up to 100 spam accounts per day and thus severely slowing down the validation process, hurting the genuine users. To combat this we've implemented several defenses and countermeasures aimed at protecting the user registration form, how successful this will be remains to be seen. We're giving this heads up to let you know that this is going on and, though you shouldn't ever see these defenses, to implore you to report any problems you perceive as a result of it, through the contact form at the top right of the site or in a private message to me on the Archives.

- Calenon
Laurelin Archives Webteam

[Calenon]

Greetings!

As many of you may have noticed, the Archives are currently plagued by random "page not found" issues. The issues have so far gone away on their own within minutes, making it hard for us to diagnose and fix them, but we've still got tricks up our sleeves. So, in order to apply some generic fixes and tampering, the site will go down for maintenance tomorrow, Friday 10th of May, at 01:00 CEST - UTC/GMT +2. This may take several hours, we appreciate your patience.

Also, we are now on Twitter, where we will keep you all informed of things such as the one above, as well as answering any questions you may have. We can be found here: https://twitter.com/LaurelinArchive.

- Calenon
Laurelin Archives Webteam

[Elben]

This looks really awesome. I'll definitely use it once I transition into activity on Laurelin now that I have my character created to save the name until I can really get into the server.

[Achy]

I shall not try to sound like a bitter old lady right now hehe
But as many of you know I am a huge fan of Laurelin Archives, and I love all the creative work I see there, whether is Stories, poems, videos, screenies and artwork. Recently (last months) I have seen an imflamation of work from Devian Art and other art sites, which I also follow. I recall lot of the originals and they do not have any attachment to Lotro and Laurelin Archives at all. Please be kind and credit the original artist when you post/rip pictures/artwork or media from other artists. This is quite important regards to Copyrights terms/issues and laws.

Why do I say this? Well as a musican and a drawer/painter myself, I know how much work that lies behind this, and I wouldnt be all to happy to see someone posted my work under their names without credit... If they credit me, I would be happy, it wouldnt be a problem at all.. This is all about common sense and respect..

This is perhaps most important: Remember that Laurelin Archives have members/artists that really PUT a lot of effort into their own artwork, and when they get drown into all the "spam" of unknowned pictures of unknowned professional artists, they will definetly loose motivation to post. This is not what Laurelin Archives should be about imo. It should be a site with a memberbase that use their own creativity and let the site blossom that way, in that way the site would be more interesting and look more professional.

Ok sorry my rant <3 I just ask that one should think twice before posting. atleast credit the original artist/site which I think is polite behaviour