2005-09-25 Dragoniade
Ok. There's the so awaited update. I've added 3 news new shows to download, and added a new feature to which I applied to 5 shows: previews.

Previews are small resolution (160x120) video with low quality audio. They are mean to be previews of some clips. Even though they are smaller in size, we can't upload for every clip as long as we're on this server. Maybe in the future we will.
Uploaded previews are from 4 Transformations shows (Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Koji: Sex Murder Investigation Officer and Cursed) and 2 Scenes shows (Pokémon and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003).

I've also added a new feature: Ban. Banned account won't have access to the registered content anymore and I'll be watching those accounts too. Those who got banned were because they either harassed up in email, board or instant messenger, or did personal attack on us or on some of the contributor. With how some of the people reacted with the lack of update, I'm not going to be lenient on those people. We don't work for you, and we we're told we should screw up and simply give the clips away, don't expect us to welcome us here.

I've also deleted the accounts that haven't been acceded in the last 12 months to do some clean up. If you didn't log or downloaded anything within the past 12 months, and can't log in anymore, open another account.

We also hit the 2 millions hits. As expected. No congratulation, no thanks. But hey, we can't expect much from the same person who kept sending us hate mail or post telling to shut down the site if we're not going to update, nor it is going to be a memorable day to remember considering other personal issue that occurred the same day.

Anyway, I may plan something for it anyway. What I was thinking was another contest for the site, probably an art contest where the theme would be us: Dragoniade and Stonegate. As a prize, I was thinking DVD of clips found on the site, playable on an home DVD player, something like 5-8 DVD for the first prize and going down with the second, third place and so on. Details are still on the work, as I got to determine if it's doable. Opinions are welcomed and I may forward the chat to the Metamorphorum until the new board is operational on the site.

A lot of people have been complaining every file weren't available online. For those still not catching on, we have over 50 Gigs of video files. Considering we're getting this space for free, you're all luck we can put clips online. Right now, we're like using 5Gigs of spaces for clips AND pictures. If you people want to see EVERY clips online, then you'll have to start helping and that doesn't mean sending small low quality clips taken from a file sharing software. That means money. We've spotted a server that would cover our need for about 100-120 $ per month. But to be able to pay that, we got 2 options:

Start taking donations and keep the site on donation. People would need to donate enough to maintain the site. If every registered member were to send like 2-5 $ per month, there would be enough to maintain the site and show your appreciation with the extra. Even host a few extra sites. But donations are extremely UNRELIABLE and since it is out of the question that we pay out of our pocket. Capturing, maintaining, updating and storing such collection do cost constant money, in either hardware (Hard drive, backup, VCR and PVR), media (backup DVD, bought DVD and Tapes for new contents), Internet (unlimited high speed internet isn't cheap). We don't want to put hosting cost over that. So with donation, it's either we reach the goal by the end of the month or the site close for good.

The second option was turning the site into a Transformation and Creatures Critic site. Making a paying site under the critic is feasible considering we're only dealing with clips and segment dealing with a common theme. Other site, like IGN and Adcritic are doing the same: basic content for free, extended content at a cost. Even though we wouldn't ask for the same as those site do, something in the order of 5-10$ a year for EVERYONE would be required to download any clips bigger than the new previews.

Those are the 2 options we've thought of. But until we get some cash to actually start something (setup fee and first month require at least 300$ to start up) and until we knows that the 10'000 registered members aren't sock puppets used to download more clips, we won't take any step forward.

2005-05-20 Dragoniade
I have finished going through the files I had and had salvaged. The site has been updated to reflect the missing files.

You can view the missing content by going at this address
http://stonegate.furvect.com/missing.php

Now, if you happen to have anything missing, or any replacement content, contact me (my contact info are on the contact section) so that we can organize the transfer. I’ll tell you then where to send the materials.

In the meanwhile, I will start to update the site with new content. With that hard drive crash, I had content on hold since last December. This is going to be a big update, so I’m going to be pushing gradually.

Once this is done, I’ll have to spare some cash to get the material on a brand new HD, get an enclosure and then send it all to Stonegate by mail. Those are some extra fees that I’ll have to wait since I can’t afford them right now.

2005-04-09 Dragoniade
As you know, Stonegate had lost all the content of his hard drive last month. I have been working tirelessly to sort what I have and what I don't, to weight the lost. So far, I've reached mid D (I'm doing my search alphabetically). This means looking for the file, comparing version and size, deleting cloned and damaged files, adding those that were forgotten. There are nearly 9000 files to go through, and it takes a lot of time.

So from now on, all 'lost' files have 'LOST' button instead of the normal 'VOTE' button. Also, a list of the missing files so far can be found at this address:
http://stonegate.furvect.com/missing.php

I recommend to everyone to have a look and contact me if they got any of the missing files.

Thanks,
Dragoniade

2005-03-18 Stonegate
A few days ago i was hit by either a power problem or a virus or something close to either, and all my hardrives have lost there partitions were damaged, so i lost everything, files, pics, vids, everything...

This is where you guys can help, Dragoniade has quite abit of the site and files saved to him, majhority of the new dated material, but not the older dated stuff, he is going to go through his material an see what stuff of my material he has of the vid files and so the site will be on halt to we finish the database update to see what he has saved, so some listings might change from vote to WANT, meaning those files were lost from my drives,

Now if anyone can check on what they got from me in the past, like old files from maybe before the site change, let us know and try to send it us so we can rebuild the archives of the site back. right know we are unsertain on what is lost, so bear with us, the avi download voting will stop until we figure what is salvaged.

To state again, most of the reent updated or new files during the last 2 years are probally all with dragoniade, we are looking for the older files that might have not been updated recently.

Stonegate Shadowlord

2004-10-02 Dragoniade
During a Database maintenance, an error occured, and every account containing the word 'wolf' in it got deleted. To the 130 users affected by that error, simply re-register. Sorry for the inconvenient.

2004-09-10 Dragoniade
Since last update, I have been tweaking the database to increase the performance, and lower the strain on the server.
Some of you may have noticed the decrease in loading time when fetching a page and downloading / loggin in. Most of the change has been into the loggin system. As a result, it's now faster. But those change caused some problem with the news subscribers. Some people ended up sharing the same account. I've corrected the problem, and it shouldn't be happening again. But in the process, I had to remove the damaged accounts. If you suddently cannot log anymore and experienced automatic loggin out when trying to download a clip, please re-register with a new account. Sorry for the trouble.

2004-07-21 Dragoniade
Following the abuse some people were doing on the poll, I have modified how vote were counted. Now, only registered peoples can vote, since they're the one that will be downloading the winning clips. If you're not logged by the time you vote, the vote button will be greyed until you log in.
The number of time you can vote hasn’t changed though. You can still vote for as many show that you want, only once each.

2004-02-05 Dragoniade
We now have a new update policy. From now on, AVI updates will be independant from new contents updates. This mean that we well return into updating the AVIs online every two weeks, and adding new contents as we get the time.

Also, with this update, we've reached our total of 20 shows online. Therefore, Jungle De Ikou was pulled out.

On another matter, I'm officially pulling out support for Internet Explorer. Microsoft latest decision to remove URL authentication with their latest security patch was simply pure stupidity. Why would they remove a widly used feature, know in the specification, is beyond me. The impact is, if you're using Internet Explorer, and have installed the Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer KB832894, then you will get a "Syntax Error" when trying to download one of the AVIs. Here are the 3 workarounds:

- Use another browser, like Mozilla
- Do not install the Security update (Not recommanded)
- Apply this Registry Fix that will disable that annoyance Microsoft decided to impose.

Failling to do one of those will prevent you from downloading any of the clip. Don't blame me, blame Microsoft.

Regarding registration, we used to have some trouble with the email server. I contacted our host, and she fixed it up. I'm dayly monitoring the email server for any failure. If you're attempting to register, and you're not getting any email, check the following:

- Make sure you've not entered an invalid email address.
- Your email provider didn't filter your email. If you have a "Spam Mailbox", check in it.
- Make sure you're validating the account within two (2) days. All pending account are removed if they weren't validated after 2 days.

I'm also opening a IRC chat room. If you have any trouble, try to meet me there. Take notice than I'm not always online. If my nick appear between bracket [Class] [Zzzz], then I'm not availiable. Thanks for Lizardman for providing the IRC server, one of the most reliable IRC server in the community, and not a joke like someone's IRC I won't name.

2003-07-28 Dragoniade
The site has been restored to what it has been before the crash. However, some services are missing from the server following that crash. This include the graphic library used by the counter, but more importantly, the email service. No email seem to be able to leave the server. So, until we figure out how to re-enable the mail, the login procedure has sightly changed.
After entering your information, the validation email will be sent to you on the screen. You will then have to validate using that information. We will work that way util the email are restored. So, starting by now (13h30 EAST), the login database is reseted to zero. Sorry for the inconveniences.

Dragoniade

2003-07-26 Dragoniade
You probably already know this, but Shadowlord and Dragoniade Inc. has been down during the whole week. The reason for this was than our host server's hard drive died last monday. Now it's up and running again (thanks a lot Kyreeth), but the last backup was last since May.

During this week-end, I'll work to restore it to as much as we can to what it was in July. This will requiere us to delete the entire database and restore it. This mean the lose of the saved login info, but since most are already lost (there was only 300 record in May, compared to what it was in July).

I also figured out why so many would get the "IP already registered" error message. Some cheap ISP, rather than paying and assigning to each of their user an IP, choose to use a proxy. This cause for 'Every' users of that ISP to have the same IP. For those who have that problem, go complain to your ISP for their greediness In the meantime, I'll remove that detection and this should solve most of the problem.

But since the login in the database will be erased, please DO NOT REGISTER until the site is restored again.
Re-registering shouldn't happend again in the futur, as proper backup of the database will be done. It's was my absence during this summer that caused backup not to be done.

Welcome back and nice browsing.

Dragoniade