Changelog - Fólkvangr Realm Portal

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Released: 30 May 2026

pfQuest Guide — complete installation guide, all slash commands, settings panel, waypoint arrow, pfQuest-db, compatibility table, and FAQ
Vanilla Tweaks Guide — full explainer of every client patch (LAA, widescreen FoV, farclip, frill distance, sound, nameplates), CLI flags reference, multi-monitor setup, and FAQ including the “where is vanillafixes.exe” question
PvP Honor System Guide — complete Alliance and Horde rank tables (Ranks 1–14), rank point thresholds and decay table, gear rewards by tier, battleground level brackets, contribution point mechanics, and ranking tips
WoW 1.12 Addons Hub — 22 addons across 7 categories (quest helpers, interface, raid, auction, bags, PvP, combat), universal installation guide, verified download links for every addon, and quick-reference table
Welcome Page — landing page featuring the Marianne introduction video, show/hide transcript, three action cards (register, download, Discord), and credits for Marianne and the Splashgame Bluesky accounts
Fólkvangr vs Einherjers — side-by-side comparison of the Vanilla 1.12 and Burning Crusade 2.4.3 realms, 17-row feature table, deep-dive sections for each realm, and “which is right for you?” decision guide

Several pages that incorrectly described Fólkvangr as a Burning Crusade server have been corrected — the site now consistently identifies this as a Vanilla WoW 1.12 realm
Realmlist address on the Getting Started guide updated to vanilla.splashgame.org
SEO metadata corrected site-wide to reflect the correct expansion and domain

Verified download links added for all 22 addons — GitHub releases where available (pfQuest, pfUI, Questie, Prat, KLHThreatMeter, Atlas/AtlasLoot, Spy, Decursive, BigWigs, SW_Stats, Bagnon, ItemRack), legacy-wow.com for the remainder
pfUI card updated — removed stale TBC compatibility note

All six new pages added to sitemap.xml at priority 0.85–0.95
Homepage “Meet Marianne” link and “Two Realms” bullet added
Cross-links wired between pfquest, vanilla-tweaks, addons hub, pvp-honor-system, and comparison page throughout the site

Released: 17 March 2026

PvP Rankings — kills and honour rankings with tabs for top killers, most honourable, and faction breakdown
Profession Rankings — per-profession leaderboards with tabs for highest skill, richest players, class and race breakdowns, and most time played
Realm Guilds — browse all active guilds, see guild leader and member count; click any guild name to view the full member roster
All three pages accessible via the Realm navigation dropdown

Character Statistics now splits human players from AI bots — player counts shown in colour, bot counts in grey beneath each card
Faction progress bars now reflect the player-only ratio, giving a truer picture of the realm balance
Total Playtime now shows players only in days & hours, with an average per character below
Economy & Gold section now includes an inline 30-day gold history chart showing total, Horde, and Alliance gold over time — updated nightly
Full-page gold history chart available at Gold History

Released: 16 March 2026

Full navigation overhaul — flat link list replaced with grouped dropdown menus: Start, Realm, and Community
Desktop nav now shows a gold Play Now button and Login on the right side of the nav bar
Mobile hamburger menu rebuilt as an accordion — auth links at the top, grouped sections that expand inline, logged-in shortcuts at the bottom
Sticky Play Now bar on mobile — always visible at the bottom of the screen for quick access
Back-to-Top button added — appears after scrolling 300px, fixed bottom-right corner
Hero section cleaned up — removed redundant portal-explanation paragraph and the verbose “What is this portal?” card
Hero utility links added below main CTAs: View Live Map · Server Status · Getting Started
CSS consolidated — /assets/style.css merged into /assets/css/style.css and the duplicate file removed
robots.txt and sitemap.xml added to the site root for improved search engine indexing

Released: 16 March 2026

Fólkvangr Discord bot is now live — join our Discord to use it
/players — see who is online, grouped by level range
/realmstats — live realm statistics (accounts, characters, online count)
/seen <name> — look up when a character was last seen online
New character announcements — a welcome message is posted in Discord whenever a new adventurer joins the realm

Portal backend consolidated — reduced database overhead and improved reliability
Portal payout mails now arrive with a cleaner subject and message
Fixed a bug where portal gold payouts were silently failing to deliver in-game
Fixed a bug where the tagwall mail parser would repeatedly re-process old mails instead of moving on
Background workers moved to a dedicated directory, away from the web root

Released: 10 March 2026

Header statistics now show Online Players and Registered Player Accounts separately
Adventure Tasks and Profession Tasks pages are now live on the portal
Tagwall added — leave a message for the community to see
Vote system overhauled — further improvements still in progress

Leveling Rewards — players will receive an in-game mail every 10 levels gained, starting at level 10
Ingame → Portal → Ingame mail system has been fully redone to close a gold exploit — sorry about that one!

Released: 21 February 2026

Added collapsible hamburger navigation menu for mobile and tablet devices
Improved responsive layout — header now compact on small screens
Front page server statistics (Total Accounts, Characters, Players Online, Horde/Alliance) are now live
Fixed all broken footer navigation links (Changelog, Guides, Rules, Rates, Support, Status, Privacy)
Gold values now display with proper thousands separators (e.g. 1.234.567g)
Server uptime now displays hours and minutes instead of only days (0d) when server was recently restarted
Added portal version numbering (v1.01)

Launch

Released: January 2026

Portal launched with account management, character viewer, and leaderboards
Live Player Map — see where every online player is in Azeroth in real-time
Lottery system — spend in-game gold on lottery tickets for a chance at the jackpot
Slot machine mini-game for logged-in players
Faction-based color theme (Horde red / Alliance blue / Neutral grey)
Two-factor authentication (2FA) via email code
Account recovery via magic link email
Detailed statistics page (economy, professions, class popularity, server uptime)
Items database browser

Vanilla WoW 1.12.1 Mangos core — Blizzlike rates (1x XP, 1x drop, 1x gold)
Faction-lock enforcement — no mixing Horde and Alliance characters on one account
Up to 10 characters per account
Anti-cheat active
DDoS-protected hosting on Keyhelp/Debian server

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