Administration's Year in Review 2025

Wherein the administration recounts the events of 2025.

Major Events and Changes

• Drake has developed a new FTP Daemon for us, which takes in-mud access into account, and supports FTPS
• 8 new areas/projects have passed QC, and released to play.

Other changes

• Improving documentation for mortals and wizards
• 216 changes and improvements have been made to the core mudlib
• 459 bugs have been fixed in existing areas
• 78 new player characters were registered

The Administration

• Okjuna has returned to QC

Future

For 2026 (hopefully), we're planning further upgrades, most of them under the hood, but some that will be visible to players.

• The server will move to a new physical location
• Upgrade the driver to current version (1.7.8 as of writing this document)
• Complete move to vanilla DGD, streamlining upgrades and VikingMud adaptations done as a module.
• Upgrade password hashing to use Argon2id, for improved security. This will force password changes for all charcaters.
• Implement FTPS support, as well as TLS support for regular mud connections
• Make wizards manual files as well as regular help files available on the website
• Hopefully, release more areas, more features and keep expanding
• Maybe even get more active players?
• Continue bugfixing