The NL Bloghttps://thenorthlands.net/blogs/blog/2-the-nl-blog/enNew Rankshttps://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/158-new-ranks/ Hey all.  So, there has been a pretty big update recently to The Northlands.

 

There are some really great things with the 4.6.3 update for Invision Power Systems.  One of the cool things is the new ranking system.  This is really exciting!  So, listed below are the new ranks:

 

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  • Runt
  • Whelp
  • Bairn
  • Puppy
  • Pup
  • Cub
  • Stray
  • Mutt
  • Mongrel
  • Hound
  • Wolfhound
  • Wolf
  • Dire Wolf
  • Alpha Wolf

 

Every thing is based off of points earned.  There are different way to earn points, there are so many ways to earn points.  You get points for starting threads and commenting on threads.  Blog posts, image gallery posts. Following people... just to name a few.

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to post here or message me.  :)  Have fun!

]]>158Wed, 07 Jul 2021 03:04:00 +0000Problems Fixedhttps://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/65-problems-fixed/ So, we recently had some problems with a few of our themes after we updated.  For The Lodge, Fancy Pants and Gamer Nerd to be specific.  The problem was, if I had one of them set as a default theme, and a member wasn't signed in, they got nothing but a blank page.  We didn't catch this right away, because we are always signed in.  We don't know how long it went on because nobody let us know that it had happed unfortunately.  Now we understand that people are busy with their real lives, so that's not a problem.  I would like to thank @Cyrainfor bringing it to our attention.  With working with the theme developer, we finally got The Lodge and Fancy Pants all sorted.  We're still waiting on Gamer Nerd though.

Please, if you notice anything isn't working the way it should, bring it to our attention right away so we can fix it as soon as possible.  

]]>65Fri, 13 Jul 2018 02:40:22 +0000Member Maphttps://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/30-member-map/ So I have added a Members Map.

You can find the link in the menu bar:

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You will then find this page:

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On the right side, you will see all the people in the map:

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You can also add your one location;

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You just enter your city, state, province, country what not, and a drop down list will appear.:

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You can also browse your all the markers that have been placed here.membermap05.thumb.png.a56777d6c3e18267b9bd281d9db2e06d.png

I look forward to seeing where you all are.  :D 

]]>30Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:24:21 +0000Social Mediahttps://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/20-social-media/ So as of today, I've re-added The Northlands to Facebook and Twitter.

Here is the link to the Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/thenorthlands/ 

Here is the twitter page:

https://twitter.com/TheNorthlands 

Also, if you look in your profile, you have the option to link your Facebook account and/or your Twitter account.

Have fun!

]]>20Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:47:07 +0000Updatehttps://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/17-update/ So, just to keep you all in the loop, when we started NL 4.0, we were on IP version 4.2.4.  There has been an update that consisted of security patches.  I have installed the update, so if you encounter any issues (outside of appearing to be logged out) please either post them or send me a message. 

Happy posting!

]]>17Wed, 04 Oct 2017 01:09:54 +0000The Northlands 4.0https://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/5-the-northlands-40/ OK, so I have been asked a few times why we decided to bring NL back.  Before I do that, I'd like to take a moment and talk about the different stages of The Northlands.

1.0 Northlands Fantasy and Northlands

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Northlands Fantasy was first started after one of the many nukes at Fantasy Essentials (FE).  A few members from FE and myself were a little tired of that and how the members were treated if they questioned what happened, of course that caused people to phuk with him more.  xD This is why Northlands Fantasy was created.  During it's life,  @hirondelle and I were kind of chased away from the boards when I moved out here to Thailand.  While we were away, the lovely @Moonhawk was one of the people that did what he could to keep Northlands Fantasy alive.  Thank you brother.  When hirondelle and I came back to Northlands Fantasy, we decided to do a few nice things for our members, and we reskinned Northlands Fantasy and renamed it Northlnads.  Shortly after that we created the next version The Northlands 2.0.
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To continue to show our members how much we loved them and appreciated them keeping Northlands Fantasy alive, we decided to purchase a domain name.  We looked at Northlands, but it was taken, and The Northlands was suggested, and we liked it, so we went for it.  We (when I say we, I mean hiro was looking, and I was waiting for her to make a decision) looked at the different types of board software that was available at the time.  The two main candidates were vBulletin and Invision Power Boards (IPB).  Hiro did a lot of research about these boards, and I remember her  explaining to me the difference in the two different types of software.  One of the things that she loved was the way the profile page looked in the 2.8 version of IPB, it was a look the vBulletin didn't have.  So we decided to go with IPB.  The next step was to try find a decent look for the new board.  We ended up finding this person that made skins (they are now called themes) by the name of Fleshy, and we loved the way a number of her skins looked.  We ended up getting four (4) skins, if I remember correctly, our names for them were The Woods, Serenity, Winter and Twilight (which I used to create the 18+ skin when we had one of those).  Then we lost everything when we moved to a new host, and started back over at 1.0.  We ended up bringing everything back to 2.0 and we found another great skinner by the name of Dragonfly, and she built some beautiful skins, which we got quite a few beautiful skins.  Over the years, I got tired of how some things kept happening that I just didn't agree with and it all finally came to ahead, and I decided to make a change.
3.0 The Northlands (blog)  
When everything came to ahead, I made some big changes.  The Northlands (forum with a blog) stopped being and I changed it to The Northlands (blog with a small forum).  With this, I had a number of other bloggers as well as hiro and myself.  The little forum that I had was a little clunky and plain, but it worked.  Once I did this, I was never really happy.  I missed the community that we had on The Northlands (forum).  Yes, I wrote some blogs while there (all of this is at NL Archive), and other wrote quite a few blog posts, it just didn't feel like home any more and I ended up going back there less and less.  I was pretty upset with what had become of The Northlands.
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One day, on Facebook, I got a notification that Invision Power Systems (Invision Power Boards) had changed their facebook page name to Invision Communities.  This prompted me to go to their website and have a look.  While doing that, I had this longing for The Northlands that was our home, not what I had made it become.  I saw a theme (what used to be a skin) that I thought would be perfect for The Northlands, which I sent to hiro, and she loved it as well.  This made us start talking about maybe bringing The Northlands back, and we actually started getting excited about it.  The more we talked about it, the more we got excited about bringing it back.  After about two (2) days (if that), we decided we were going to do it.  This is what you see today.

 

]]>5Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:43:00 +0000Updates And Upgrades For The Northlands (Reposted from 22/01/2011)https://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/149-updates-and-upgrades-for-the-northlands-reposted-from-22012011/ Hey all, I'd just like to keep you posted on what's going on with The Northlands. I will continue to post an update in the Forum News area, but I will also post in here.


To start with, I've updated the blogs. The software for the blogs is supposed to be more streamlined and runs smoother and fit better with IP.Boards 3.1.4. If I see anything that is totally amazing going on with the blogs, I will let you know.


Also, I tested out a thing that put the Active User list (who's online) over on the side tab. It didn't really look right there. Everything looked all crammed in, and it really looked strange looking at the bottom of the page and not seeing the Active User list down there. So, I just removed it.


Now, About a month ago or so, I added a facebook like button to the bottom of threads. I told you about that before in the Forum News area, and we had some issues with the image that was being sent to facebook. Well, I've gotten that sorted out, and I've added another button to the bottom of the page (see image below):


On the left hand side, you see the facebook like button, and now on the right, you will see the tweet button so know you can tweet a thread if you like it.


There is still the one thing I talked about before, that I'm still working on, that will make things smother for signing in from the main page. We're adding what's called IP.Content, which is like what we have now, but it's fully integrated with the board, so we won't have the issue of people trying to sign in like they did before. And everything will be linked, and it will pull information right from the board and things like that. That's going to take a lot of work, but I'm really looking for to working with it.


There is also a lot of things I'm looking at from the Invision Power Community, but you will just have to wait and see what's coming with that.

]]>149Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:00:00 +0000Hosted Blogs (Reposted from 23/06/2009)https://thenorthlands.net/blogs/entry/148-hosted-blogs-reposted-from-23062009/ Over the last few days I've been kind of busy here at The Northlands. I've been fixing the blogging skins here. For some they are missing some images and for some, the coding for IE was all messed up. Over all, I've gotten it all cleaned up. I've got the missing images taken care of, and I've worked out how to add personal logos for all our hosted blogs. The Northlands is starting to shape up and look the way I want it to, so I'm feeling really good about all this. I've created personal logos for my blog here with a logo for each skin, so when you look at my blog with one skin, you will see one logo, and when you look at my blog with another skin, you will see another logo.


Next step is to clean up all the emotes for the dark skins. They look great on the light skins, but on the dark skins, some of them look really bad because they have white lines around them and makes them looks dirty and messed up. So that's my current task for The Northlands. I really enjoy doing all this for The Northlands and it's members, I just need to remember that I also need to post and talk to people. I hear that they miss me, but I can't always figure out why, lol, J/K.


But I will try to be around more, and keep make blog posts. Just remember that if I go over a week, somebody give me a kick up the backside and tell me to make a blog post.

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