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December 13, 2025

Thanks to a suggestion by @roydan that was voted on by the community, we've made an adjustment to our Trading Post.

There's a new section called "Archived Service Listings". It's where we'll move any sales listings that were either closed by the staff due to quality issues or by the request of the trader.

This archive section appears as a subforum under the Service Listings forum as it's meant to be more out of the way, yet still publicly accessible.

A few other points to make about this new section can be found below:

• Threads in this section will not appear on the "What's New" page.
• Threads in this section are not indexed.
• Threads in this section will not appear on the homepage feed.
• The NLA (no longer available) and Closed prefixes are used in this subforum.

 

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December 15, 2025

As part of our Trading Post re-work, we made some final major adjustment to the way we'll be handling Tribunal threads.

We are looking for feedback on how it works, so if you're interested in knowing more about it, you can read and respond to the announcement thread here.

Edit:
I've also allowed Platinum members the ability to access the Sapphire section. This is just to be more consistent with how other "higher" usergroup levels work on OO.

 

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December 16, 2025

Just a small update today, but we now lock birthday threads after 48 hours after a suggestion created by @t2van and voted on by the community was implemented.

 

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December 21, 2025

Aside from finishing up with the newsletter, @Impulse and I spent today tidying up the sections and turning the less active ones into prefixes.

• This turned into a larger task, so you can read more about it here: https://officeoutlaw.com/threads/information-on-the-recent-forum-reorganisation.2981/
• One more thing: I added in a few new trophies. I was looking at the leaderboard and the trophies and noticed that there was a dry spell of trophies after a certain point. Now, we have trophies for reactions scores and message counts of 1,500, 2,500, 3,500, and 4,500

 

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December 28, 2025

After handling a few reports today, @Steve suggested to us that we add discrimination against someone's social class to rule 2.6. We agreed that this was necessary, so classism will no longer be tolerated on OO and will result in notices going forward.

2.6 Discriminatory Commentary​

This is a multicultural forum. Comments that are discriminatory on the basis of someone's race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class or nationality will not be tolerated.

 

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January 5, 2026

Just a simple update today. It's January, so the festive decorations had to come down .

That's right, the logo has been changed back to the regular one we use.

 

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January 6, 2026

Just a couple of updates today.

• Suggestions threads are now locked after two weeks. You can read more about this decision here: https://officeoutlaw.com/threads/forum-suggestions-voting-system-explained.558/post-36144
• Per an older suggestion by @Rem, which I completely forgot to implement back in April last year, sales listings now have an extra field. This new field is internal and can only be added by admins and moderators. You can see an example of it on the sales listings in the service listings section here: https://officeoutlaw.com/forums/service-listings.60/

Because suggestions are now locked after two weeks, I'll be going through the older ones and implementing or rejecting them.

 

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January 8, 2026

There's just one update today, but I think we can all agree it was a much-needed update.

• The ignore feature has been improved! You can read more about it here.

 

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January 10, 2026

There are a few updates today that pertain to the forum's organization.

As we're all aware, The Saloon is kind of the section we all use when we don't know where to post a thread or if we're too lazy to post in the right section (maybe I've done this once or twice myself ). The staff here will just move the thread to the correct section, no big deal.

Having these threads in the correct section does two things in particular: it shows others where to post similar content and shows lurkers our forum has real variety and is not just The Saloon.

Okay, I've droned on enough today. Here are the updates:

• Threads in The Saloon have been sorted with their proper prefixes since many of the earlier threads didn't have any prefixes. We're still going through this one today, so just be aware that threads are still being moved.
• All threads with the Computing prefix have been moved to the Work Life section.
• The Computing prefix has been removed from The Saloon and moved to the Work Life section.
• The Movies prefix in The Saloon has been renamed to Movies & Shows. Many members talk about shows here, but I didn't to make a separate prefix for just Shows.
• The "General Marketing" section has been renamed to just "Marketing". I mean seriously, calling a section "General Whatever" is broad enough on its own.

 

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January 12, 2026

Today's updates are focused on the karma system. We'll be looking over other ways to improve it, so be sure to look out for more updates on this.

• The amount of karma you receive after completing various actions on the forum has been increased. The karma site guide has been updated to reflect these changes.
• Thanks to a suggestion by @roydan, the redundant alert you receive for donating karma has been removed. This was also probably the fastest I've seen the community upvote a suggestion recently.

 

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January 19, 2025

Just a few updates today.

• As suggested by @roydan and voted on by the community, threads in the Newcomer's Camp section are now auto-locked after 14 days.
• There's a new sticky thread in the Newcomer's Camp section explaining the auto-lock feature. More content will be added to this thread at a later point.
• This auto-lock feature has also been added to the Forum Suggestions and Sapphire Suggestions sections.

 

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January 20 2025

There’s a single update today. The list of subforums has been reorganised to be in alphabetical order. It’s just so it’s not a messy list of subforums.

 

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January 21, 2025

I've got a couple of updates for our Outlaws today.

• The old newsletter thread in The Saloon has been repurposed. You can read more about that here.
• A new prefix called "New Member" has been added to the Newcomer's Camp section. I thought about calling it "New Outlaw", but decided to go with member just so it's clearer to everyone. This prefix has been retroactively applied to all existing Newcomer's Camp threads. It's the only prefix in there, and you may be wondering why does that section need a prefix? Well, it's actually to make new member threads more obvious on the homepage.