Supporter Issues

People who have paid for Supporter access since last Wednesday might be experiencing issues with their site access. Unfortunately I made some prospective changes to the Supporter system last week in preperation for some new features to be added to Supporter accounts, but something obviously went a little screwy. I will get onto rectifying the issue tomorrow and creditting your accounts with the necessary time to compensate for the hassle. Hopefully the new features I will be rolling out soon ...

Third file server added..Europeans rejoice!

I have now added a third file server to the site. Located in London, England, this server should help to accommodate the many European visitors who download from TESSource. This server is paid for, in part, by the generous Supporters who have donated to the site. If you don't know what a Supporter is, or appreciate the service provided here and want to help with the heavy server bills this site incurs, please head on over to the becoming a supporter page to find out more info. On a related...

File Server #2 Temporarily Down

There is a known issue with file server #2 (Texas) at the moment, and I am working to fix it. Never fear :) Edit: All fixed...

Top 150 files rating increase

Keeping in-tune with the number of ratings for files, the Top 150 Files section of the file database has been updated to only calculate the bayesian estimate for files with 50 or more ratings. Generally speaking, the higher the minimum limit for ratings, the more accurate the listing will be....

Hacker

Hi folks, Over the past few weeks TESSource has been "under attack" from a Chinese hacker who targetted certain areas of the site in an attempt to infect visitors with multiple trojan viruses. This basically involved injecting code into the database of the site via an external site. While it is unfortunate to have your work sullied by such a pathetic individual, the actions of this hacker have forced me to upgrade the site more, adding in more security checks and hack-proof additions that...

File server stress test

Hi folks, I am taking down two of the three download servers for the remainder of the day so I can properly stress test the new download server I recently purchased. I apologise if this inconveniences anyone, but it is something that needs to be done....

New Site Poll

It's time for a new generic site poll on TESSource. I'm asking which town is your favourite Oblivion town; where do you go to stash your gear, enjoy a quiet one in the local pub or visit your favourite house? The last site poll asked "How are you finding Shivering Isles?". The results are below. It's good - 2221 votes - 68% It's ok - 550 votes - 17% It's bad - 119 votes - 4% No opinion - 354 votes - 11% Seems that Shivering Isles has been a good success for Bethesda with a majority o...

Image share boo-boo!

Hi folks, Semi bad but not catastrophic news for those people who use the image share feature on the site. While writing new code for the site that enabled uploaders to edit their image information I made a rookie PHP mistake and updated every single entry on the site with a default title, caption and description. My last backup of the site was on the 8th of June so I will be doing a manual reload of the backup for all entries before that date. Any entries to the feature since the 8th of J...

Top 20 Images

As promised over recent days, I have coded the Top Images section of the Image Share feature on the site. The listings are limited to the top 20 images based on the same bayesian formula used in the Top 150 Files in the file database. As and when more ratings come in on images the listing will increase from 20, so head on over to the Image Share section now and start rating your favourite pictures!...

Site Layout Changes

As you may have noticed I have been busy changing the layout of the site (both the main site and file database) today. Changes include a switch to a variable width design (using up 100% of the screen), a change to the right nav, a darker background colour, switching the right nav to the left in the file database and a few other tweaks here and there. Hopefully there will be some more changes and tweaks coming soon as well as an uplift to the content of the site. In other news; I'm trying t...

RSS feeds now available

RSS feeds are now available on TESSource for the current day's uploaded files and the current day's updated mods. People with RSS programs should been able to add these feeds no problem. For people who do not know what RSS is I believe the Google techie said it best when he said "when you want to check your email you don't contact Bill, Jenny or Ben to ask them; it's all centralised in your email inbox". RSS is basically a way to consolidate the resources you access regularly in one place so ...

We're Back!

TESSource has returned after being offline for the past 12 hours. I want to thank everyone who waited patiently and posted comments of support on the forums. The site is now on a new, much faster server and I'm going to have to do some exploring to see what I can now do to improve the site's quality (remove the caching system, perhaps?). Ooo, exciting....

New Poll

Now that Shivering Isles is out I think a slight change in Poll question is warranted! As always here are the results of the last poll: Are you going to buy the Shivering Isles expansion? Yes. 77% (2283 votes) No. 9%. (270 votes) I don't know yet. 14% (412 votes) So that would be a resounding yes then. Sometimes I wonder what all the pesimists on the forums are going on about when they say Oblivion was rubbish; I loved the game and it seems a lot of other players did too (oh I'm gonna g...

1000 Kudos Points and Counting!

Relatively inconsequential but good to know none-the-less, the new kudos system has taken off quite well with over 1,000 kudos points being awarded to people since it's launch around a month ago. I reckon once that number reaches 4,000 - 5,000 I'll work on a little ranking system to see the people with the most kudos points. Fun fun....

BBCode Functionality Added

Here's yet another feature addition to TESSource that I've been working on recently. While the BBCode functionality has always been there (but never visually available to writers) certain aspects of the site are now BBCode enabled. These areas include: File descriptions (written by file uploaders) File comments News comments The easy way to tell whether an area is BBCode enabled is to look for the BBCode menu. If it's there it's enabled! For more information on using BBCode on ...

New Feature: Image Sharing!

Hi folks,

I've been working over the past couple of days on a new addition to the site focusing on user uploaded images for ES games. Titled "Image Share", this new section allows any and all members of the site to upload their Elder Scrolls related pictures to the site to share with others. Users can comment and rate images in the database in the same way users can comment and rate files in the file database.

This feature can...

New Staff Member

Yesterday Dark0ne asked me if I wanted to help with the site news. And... Yeah. I did. So here I am. So for those who don't know me... I'm a 'forum regular', quest modder and now staff member. I play Oblivion and played Morrowind. I'm waiting for Spore and will probably buy Supreme Commander too. These two games also have their own Source site here.

What you can expect from me:

• Posts of new interviews/reviews/news on the Elder Scrolls games.
• News on big...

New Upload Functionality

Hi folks,

I've been busy over the last 6 hours completely recoding the file database system to enable users to upload more than one file to a file entry. Downloaders will notice that the original "Download Now" text has been replaced with a new download link, along with the size of the file and it's total downloads. As authors add more files they get listed one below the other.

Authors now have a seperate page for uploading files seperate from the "add" or "edit" system...

New Site Poll

There's a new poll in town ready for the upcoming Shivering Isles release. Let me know if you're going to be buying the game or not because, well, I'm interested!

The last poll asked "Have you bought Knights of the Nine?"

Yes - 51% / 2369 Votes
No - 40% / 1869 Votes
I don't play Oblivion any more - 9% / 410 Votes

Interesting how 9% of visitors to the site don't even play Oblivion any more. Got to wonder what they're doing here! Never mind....

Downloads Slow

Hi folks,

The downloads on the file server have been a bit slow lately. I wasn't aware of the problem and only got wise to the situation when someone informed me but, after close inspection, it seems a russian user was deliberately leeching the bandwidth off the same file on the site in order to saturate the connection on the server, slowing it down for everyone.

Certain measures have been taken to stop this from happening in the future and, now that I'm wise to it, I'l...