It’s been a long road getting here, worth it every step of the way. To all the old friends and people who have helped us along the way, thank you to you all, we couldn’t have done it without you. To our users, this site really wouldn’t be anything like it is now without all of you guys (and gals). To courpse and DJLeet, fantastic guys, coding things for us, love you both long time. To all the ex-staff, for whatever reasons you left, thank you for the time that you spent on our site, helping us grow.



Many new things we have added for our birthday, features we think you will love. New theme, new login page, a nice little download competition for you all to enjoy and a new HnR system to catch the non-seeding assholes. All of these things for you, the users. A nice lil list for you guys to peek at, to know the main things we’ve changed:



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New theme



Our NEW Theme codenamed Phoenix created in a joint effort by tekky, jasonmaster and our newer designers/coders DJLeeT and courpse.





New login/registration system



Our Maximum User limit now works completely differently. When the enabled user count drops below the maximum user limit: registration to the site will open until the maximum limit of users is reached again. However users invited to the site by a friend will now start on the Philosopher rank and with 5,000 SeedBonus. Please note our Max user limit is subject to change regularly as inactive users are purged and on special events like our Birthday or Xmas etc. Current User Classes wiki inactivity figures are being re-thought at the moment and a global 3 months ban on inactive accounts is set. Please remember this.





HnR System



The Anti Hit ‘n’ Run system has been online the last few weeks and you can access the H'n'R pages from top of the page in the menu. Ratio rules will be updated soon to explain how to get out of a HnR.





Download Event



This event is simple, the member that downlaods the most will win. Warning: Hit and Runs will get you removed from this event. Event staus page Here.





Wiki updated



The AO Wikis have been undergoing major changes the last many weeks. Some have been completed and some have finalising left to occur. All the important ones have been taken care of but we need your help if you are to make a name for yourselves and to be remembered. Please pick a wiki you have an interest in and set about adding the changes to make it up to date. Post your changes in the Suggestions board of the forums.





Need Seeds torrent page



A nice new page to show what torrents on AO have leechers but dont have seeders. You can access it from the “Torrents” drop down menu or Here.





Changes to SeedBonus/IRC Bonus rates



The wiki page for Bonuses has been changed and we plan on adding an active Bonus rate Marker on the site in the future to show users the points they are missing out on. IRC Bonus tonight will be heavly increased for an unknown limited amount of time. We will also be giving away our auto-uploader bot’s SeedBonus randomly after he hits 100MILLION BonusPoints.



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And hundreds of other small edits and fixes.



Please note that because of the recent changes, you will have to re setup your RSS feeds.



As you may or my not know our sponsor rapidspeeds.com, has supported us basicly from the start of AO, and it would seem our sponosrship deal is going to improve, so please bear with us while we work on changing/fixing our file servers.



So once again, thank you all for sticking with us, hope you enjoy the new features



Thank you.