HOODED RATS HAVE COME TO CATSPAWISLAND!
January 23rd, 2020

A band of rats have decided to make CatsPawIsland their new home! Please welcome the Hooded Rats drawn by our very own Beta, Howlagan in celebration for the Year of the Rat!

Additionally, if you've ever wished to start a Noodlecat band to play along with your fellow Noodlecat music lovers, now your dream can finally come true! The artist of the pose set, Howlinkiro, has added three new poses to the set so you can show off your musical talents! The new poses are: Drummer, Guitar, and Singer to set you on your path to Noodlecat musical fame and glory and eventually end up in the Rock & Roll Hall of Noodlecat Fame!

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WOLFHOME 20TH ANNIVERSARY!
October 31st, 2019

October 31st, 2019 was the 20th anniversary of the Wolfhome 2D Avatar Chat

We had a great time. I hope you were there for it! As we do every year, the site was set to free subscriptions until after Halloween. HOWLOWEEN VILLAGE was a big hit. Folks got lost in the corn maze, wandered around the haunted forest, checked out the spooky graveyard and lots of other new rooms.

UNDERDOG, FOURPAWS and lots of old friends were there! Underdog even talked a bit about the Chatlands 2020 Kickstarter. More details on that will be posted here shortly!

===Underdog===

P.S. Here's the list of contributors to Howloween Village

WOLFHOME HALLOWEEN // 20TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT CREDITS

UNDERDOG
Event Coordinator, Coder

LAIKA
Event Coordinator, Room Artist: Twilight Grotto
https://imgur.com/a/OEfk4EU

REYES
Object Artist: Ghosts, vampire coffin, pumpkins, alleyway items (trashcan, box)
https://imgur.com/a/IDjZl9p

BLOODIATH
Room Artist: Graveyard
https://imgur.com/a/CBdV06k

DIABLO
Room Artist: Village Square, Corn maze
https://imgur.com/a/yG904z8

GUILLOTINE
Room Artist: Creepy Alley
https://imgur.com/a/QOGNf9c

MAYTITAN
Room Artist: Haunted Forest
https://imgur.com/a/dfJdSMA

CHUNHEI
Room Artist: Pumpkin Patch
i.imgur.com/Xzcz7Z8.png

SEVENTHUNDERBOLTS
Room Artist: Haunted House
https://imgur.com/a/WC27HAl

ARESUN
Room Artist: Fortune Teller
https://imgur.com/a/jnCbtHm

Please let me know if I missed anyone!

===Underdog===

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CONVERTING TO HTTPS
June 24th, 2018

For far too long, Chatlands and the related sites such as Wolfhome and Cats Paw Island have been running on clear text connections. While our sites don't send or receive any financial information (all of that is handled via PayPal) we do process email addresses, passwords and other things that might be indirectly useful to criminals. For instance, many people use the same password on multiple sites. If a hacker learns your email address and password here, and you're using the same login information at your bank, that's just not a good idea in general, but we can at least try and keep that information from falling into the wrong hands on our site.

Well, it turns out Google Chrome has the same idea. They've announced that their new version of Chrome, coming out sometime in July, 2018, will warn people about insecure connections. FireFox already does this. It's the push we needed to switch over to HTTPS and we're doing that as soon as possible.

However! That means that there's a very good chance the site will be *offline* (or showing some problems) for the next several days while I try getting SSL working correctly. Thanks in advance for your patience on this. I've been at it for several hours already today, and I'm making progress, but there's several hours (possibly days) of programming left to be done before we're finished.

===Underdog===

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CHATLANDS™ REGISTRATION CHANGES
July 23rd, 2017

We are changing the Chatlands™ registration policy.

Some people have been using disposable email in order to "ban hop" on Chatlands™. There's also "Hotmail" and other Microsoft email servers that delete what they consider spam, rather than putting it into a "spam" or "junk" folder. This means that the user has no idea that they received that email. This makes it impossible to validate your Chatlands™ account. For these and other reasons, we have decided to require that when registering for a new account only the following email domains will be accepted.

aol.com, gmail.com, icloud.com, me.com and yahoo.com (including yahoo's international domains)

We will update and expand this list from time to time. If you don't already have an account with one of these email services, you will need to create one first (it's free) before you create your Chatlands™ account.

Note: This only applies to new accounts. If you registered with some other email address, you can keep using that one. We apologize for this inconvenience, but we feel that this will help us to provide a more pleasant experience for all users on Chatlands™. Thank you for your understanding.

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