Due to the spammer problem a few changes are being made to the forum system.

In the past a user could use this site to email another user.. we have lots of spammers who don't seem to be doing anything and may be abusing this privilege. As of now this usage of the system is disallowed.

User websites: If your profile listed website isn't related to Blizzard Entertainment games you will be banned. {Sorry for those of you who were promoting personal sites... but the spammers are abusing this.}

We have gone to Admin approval for account setup.. this will cause a delay in allowing you to start posting and submitting data in your name. We didn't want to do this but for now that is what we have.

Account approval process happens multiple times a day (mid-morning to late night PST [GMT-8].)

How not to get your account approved:
using a throw away email
using locations that don't reasonably match your IP locations
and other standard red flag raising things which I can't comment on at this time.

 

We had a Dickens of a time this past week, but with help from Moderators and Admins Past, Present and possibly future.
We squeezed the Scrooge out of the spammer attack.
Hopefully they will not come back to haunt us with their bitter and miserly ways.

Previously:

Due to large amount of spam entering into our forums I am locking existing messages until the site Admin can finish locking out the spammers.

We are making progress and will probably start unlocking the forums before 3-Dec-2012

 

CensusPlus version 6.1.0 H escaped today into the wilds of Curseforge.

This version fixes a couple of issues..

1) /census Prune and /census serverprune now work again.
On single realms both options work as they have for some time.
On "Connected Realms" all members of the set are treated the same, so a /census prune 10 will removed all characters last seen more then 10 days ago on all realms in the Connected realms set (same faction).
/census serverprune 10 will remove all characters last seen more then 10 days ago on all realms EXCEPT the member realms of the current "Connected Realms".

2) after some testing I discovered that certain changes in the upload processing on the website hadn't correctly been implemented (something I had expected and notified Metalbeast about.) I've found a way to modify the addon to work around this issue which blocked processing of the ["TimesPlus"] portion of the uploaded data.

You may (or may not) have noticed that some of the realms now show submission data...and those same realms also now show some activity graph output.

This is only a work around, while it fixes this problem another problem concerning GuildRealms must be fixed in the upload processing... and maybe even a set of mass database updates.
This is due to the fact that Character realm no longer MUST equal Guild realm.

I have also updated the Localization function at CurseForge [url]http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/census-plus/localization/[/url]
It is my hope that people with much better language skills then I will assist by providing updates for the translations of the various languages supported by Blizzard. At this time only the Korean language has been mostly updated (because the translator discovered the page at CurseForge some time ago) {I hadn't announced the page since I knew I had a lot more work to do on the addon}

I will collect the translations for use in the next major release of CensusPlus at some to be determined date.

 

This update adds work around that disables bogus error popup for a number of addons.

This is only a work around and while some addons can rework their code to not call baseline frames of Blizzards that contain the problem code, I know of no way for CensusPlus to do that kind of fix. The /who call which depends on server response is just to basic to the game.

This update also fixes the selection problem where guild data goes blank when switching from one member realm to another.

Guild data is correctly displayed as intended for now, until a future update when the background graphics for the addon is expanded and improved.

 

I'm going to hold the CensusPlus update overnight.

If you find that Blizzard fixed the error popup problem without the update, please check the forums here.. and let me know if no one else has already sent up the Kludge BAT signal.

 

From Blizzard/WoW/US/UI and Macro forum:

[quote:e815ada180]As of 5.4.1 BLizzard has added a call to the secure function C_StorePublic.IsDisabledByParentalControls() into their UpdateMicroButtons() function. Because UpdateMicroButtons is called during the OnShow and OnHide events of over 30 frames, anything that touches those frames will cause taint errors. This includes adding addon options to the interface panel.[/quote:e815ada180]

Doing a query to the server for /Who Triggers one of the 30 frames mentioned above.

At this time [b:e815ada180]there is only one work around[/b:e815ada180] for this problem...
Oddly enough Trial accounts are explicitly excluded from the Store features :roll:

This unannounced change is impacting a lot of addons.