The Orange

Hey Guys,

It's been a while since I've been active on here, and there's a few reasons behind that. I've been checking back every now and again, but I really haven't had much reason to post much. This is partially due to me spending less time on RS, and partially due to the fact that I just feel less and less like part of the Tumblr community.

I've been here a long time, about 3.5 years. In that time I have seen the Tumblr RS community grow from literally nothing to what it is today. I've seen relationships form, end, and start anew. I've seen drama start and end, often times taking some very kind and caring people with it. I've seen the community take a stand against those that would do us wrong.

The Tumblr RS community is something I'm proud of, and proud to be not only a member of, but I would like to think one of the original members of. 

Something that I am slightly shamed to say, is that I do not know most of you as well as I should. I know a lot of you know me by name, but I'm sad to say that I don't know many of you guys. If I could go back and do it over, I would dedicate more time to get to know each and every one of you.

I'm happy that Jagex has finally come to Tumblr and recognized us as a community, but I'm sad that their posts are almost entirely memes. I hope that in the future they refine their social media and use it to create more interaction with the community. Serious Q&A's would be a good start.

What this is all leading up to, and some of you may have guessed by the title and tone of this post, is that I'm officially leaving Tumblr. There are many reasons why, but do know it's not because of anyone.

My parting wish for you all is to stop creating and spreading drama throughout the community. If you feel wronged by someone, discuss it in private with that person. Chances are that you can work it out with them without making a scene. Making it public creates confusion and misinformation spreading through the community. It often leads to an undeserved massive attack on the person involved.

If you see someone make a post attacking someone, ignore it. There is very rarely a need for more parties to get involved.

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I will be leaving my blog up and available. There is a possibility I may make a return in the future, but for now I don't see it happening any time soon.

You can still follow me on twitter, @The__Orange. I post there fairly often, not limited to RS.

NEW Maxcape forums!

Via @JagexHarrison

Has anyone else been getting these huge graphical glitches since the last update? I've been getting them anywhere from this to just rainbow textures to things completely vanishing from my screen.

First major Ironman goal completed.

As an added bonus, I got an exoplasmator from the Haloween event while getting the cremation (gonna be amazing) ability and the armor.

Hey guys,

I've nearly completed work on the Maxcape forums, and need some help on testing. They are currently being hosted on a test server, completely seperate from the live site.

What I'm asking of you is to go and use it as you normally would, and if anything breaks, either post on the Bug Reports forum, inbox me, or reply/reblog to this.

Unless you've made your account semi-recently, you will be able to login to the test server with your maxcape account. You cannot create new accounts on the test server.

I'm looking for feedback on the functionality and the look and feel of the page. If something doesn't feel like it flows right, let me know! If a link 404's or a page appears horribly broken, let me know!

Link to test server with patch notes and what's left to do/fix here:

http://evanriley.info/forums/t/19