Scheduled site downtime this coming Tuesday

After Oblivion's release in Asia the site has seen a significant growth in traffic from 950,000 unique visits and 8,500,000 page impressions to 1,500,000 unique visits and 14,000,000 page impressions each month. I have just purchased a new server for the site and forums to keep it upgraded to meet the current demand and hopefully keep things in check for the foreseeable future. Thankfully The Planet, my server provider for the website (not including file servers), have a double-up promotion o...

Tamriel Rebuilt; Telvannis beta v2.0 released!

At last, the long awaited update to Tamriel Rebuilt map 1 has been released today. The big difference between this beta and the last one? It has quests now! This version doesn't add all the quests yet, but more than enough to keep us entertained for a while.

Go get it now!

As always, the Tamriel Rebuilt team is recruiting new modders for the project (For ...

Terms of service update

The terms of service for the forums and site have been updated. You are encouraged to read-through the new terms of service and understand that you agree with them through your use of this site and the forums....

Censorship

TesNexus is based on the free exchange of ideas and materials in support of "The Elderscrolls Community", and as a rule does not censor any uploaded images or materials. The basic premise is this; If we were to remove a file because any individual or group of individuals find something offensive, the site would eventually have no files available for download, as someone will always take offense to whatever is offered. With the above being stated there will be exceptions, the most inportant i...

Top Images

For those budding image takers and viewers on the site who make use of the Image Share section I have coded a Top 25 Images page. The page makes use of the same True Bayesian formula used to calculate the Top 100 Files. There are three seperate top pages for the image share database; top 25 non-adult images (default), top 25 adult and non-adult images and top 10 adult images. Hopefully this should cater to everyone. The default link to the top image listing in the site navigation is safe for ...

Article database launched

This morning (00:39 ... weee!) I have launched the Articles database on TESNexus. The roots of this feature can be traced back to TESSource which made use of a limited tutorial system. Like all the features of TESSource, this feature has been remodeled, enhanced, and rereleased better than before. The article database is a bridge between the TESNexus site and the The Nexus Forums. Many people don't know about the forums or are reluctant to use the forums for one reason or another (I blame the...

A reminder on NSFW files and images

It has been two months now since the "adult only" tag was added to files and images on the site. The idea was to prevent children, people who do not want to see adult content or users at work from stumbling on to a page or image that contained what would be considered "NSFW" (Not Safe For Work) content. Uploaders are required to set the "Adult only" content at their own disgression and should take the stance of a person who works in an office with people looking over his or her shoulder; what...

New poll. Poll results for "How would you describe your gaming habits?"

Bye bye old poll, hello new poll! Here are the results from the last poll that asked "How would you describe your gaming habits?": Hardcore gamer; I play more than 4 hours a day, every day - 5886 votes - 52% Casual gamer; I play when I have free time, and when I can be bothered - 3694 votes - 32% Elder Scrolls gamer; I only really like Elder Scrolls games, or games similar to them - 951 votes - 8% Modding gamer; I prefer modding to gaming - 728 votes - 6% Total votes: 11259 The n...

Feb 2008 - Files of the month winners

The results from the Files of the month feature on the site, where each unique member is given a single vote for the file of their choice, are now in. 850 members voted in this first month since it was reintroduced to the site and without further procrastination here are the files that you voted to be recognised last month: Apachii Goddess Store -- 62 votes Nightshade Armor -- 30 votes Corean Mod -- 29 votes Glenvar Castle -- 27 votes Companion Share and Recruit -- 23 votes Congratulat...

Security changes, limits on downloads per file and other tidbits

The past few days have been a bit of a fixer session for me on the site. Here's a quick run-down of the fixes that didn't make the news until now because they were a little small: Ordering files by rating will now recognise files with a rating of 10, and order them by their total ratings too, so files with the same rating will be ordered by the number of ratings they have Morrowind mods are now properly recognised on the Updates Recently log A fix was applied to stop duplicate entries for...

Premium member only server now online

Following on from the email sent out to Premium members last week in regards to purchasing a premium member only server (i.e. a file server that only premium members can use) the new server has been setup and is available from the server selection window when you go to download files. In the end I decided to settle on purchasing a server from London, UK. I did this for a couple of reasons. Firstly the price:quality ratio of the server is the best of the three providers I use. To do a bit of p...

Morroblivion and mods that use content from other games

Sadly today I have been requested by Bethesda Softworks to pull the mod "Morroblivion" from the site as it breaches the EULA for Oblivion. Matt Grandstaff explained the situation: Essentially, we let folks mod our games like Morrowind or Oblivion, but we don’t allow for folks to take content from another game and put it into a new game – even if they own both copies, and even if it's one of our own games. The situation is unfortunate, as Morroblivion was a great tool I'm sure made with...

Files of the month launched

The original File of the Month feature at TESSource has now been relaunched as the Files of the Month. The system is simple; every member of the site has a single vote they can cast for the file of their choice each month. This vote can be changed at any time and the highest voted mods each month enter the "Hall of Fame" of sorts on the site. I will decide on exactly how many files enter the Hall of Fame each month depending on the turn-out of votes for the month of February. I'm guessing it...

New poll. Poll results for "What type of character do you play?"

It's that time again where the old poll gets kicked out and a new one comes in to fill the void. The last poll question asked "What type of character do you play?" and here are the results: Might, 4434 votes - 31.68% Magic, 3152 votes - 22.52% Stealth, 6410 votes - 45.80% Seems like the majority of visitors to this site like being backstabbers and pretending to be ninjas...good on them. The new poll question asks "How would you describe your gaming habits?". Note that this relates...

Profiles, kudos and you

I have finally gotten around to producing a proper member profile page for all the members of this site that is accessible via file and image pages. You should now find that clicking on a file author's name, a comment author's name or an image uploader's name will take you to their profile on the site. Profiles contain voluntary personal information about members as well as account statistics so you can see how active the member is. The page also has a tabbed menu so you can see all the member's...

Bethesda Hiring

Matt "GStaff" Grandstaff, community manager over at Bethesda, wanted to let you all know that Bethesda have opened up positions for QA testers. Here's the blurb: We’re hiring for testers in our Quality Assurance department! We tend to favor candidates with programming experience but most importantly, we want people who are fans of our games.Why would you want to work in our QA dept? I’ll give you two reasons. 1. We use our QA testers as interns throughout the year. These interns are ty...

Adult-only content changes

This is something I have been meaning to do for a while now and today I have finally gotten around to doing it. All files and images marked as "Adult-only" are now blocked from viewing for non-members, and those members who have specifically chosen to block the content. By default adult-only content is blocked on the site. In order to view adult-only content on the site you need to be a registered member, logged in, and toggled the adult-only view settings in your preferences. The reasons beh...

Possible downtime over the coming days

I just wanted to inform you all that there may well be some file downtime over the coming days while I make some changes to the file structure of the site. The site is outgrowing it's current harddrive and I'm having to do a bit of recoding to accommodate spreading the site across multiple harddrives. Hopefully there won't be many issues and service will be like normal for most of you! Edit: The system has now been recoded. I have noticed that the upload progress meter isn't currently disp...

Bandwidth leechers probable cause of recent issues

After doing some grundgy looking around in the server log files I found a number of bandwidth leechers all originating from China. Bandwidth leechers cause mini Denial of Service attacks as they take up multiple (often 50+) connections and use up the servers entire bandwidth, meaning people either cannot connect to the server or download at very low transfer rates. Aside from IP banning these people, which isn't very preventative in this day and age, I will also be looking to limit the total ...

TESNexus hits the half million members mark

Late last night the 500,000th official member registered on TESNexus. This marks a great milestone in the site's history. The 250,000 member milestone was reached on October 13, 2006 and the 100,000 member milestone was reached on the 30th of March 2006. As I've said before, whether you enjoyed Oblivion or miss the Morrowind hay-days, you cannot deny that the Elder Scrolls community is unparalleled. On average there are 500 people registering on this site every day with traffic on the increas...