The final, third stage of transforming the website into a clear, static archive has now been completed. As an archivist of Original War’s community history, the Original-War.net vortal has come a long way to preserve and organise the contributions of many years of community activity. For more than 20 years, you have collected a lot of knowledge, artwork, materials, and useful files on the website and forum. We, in turn, have kept our promise to preserve them continuously, so they would not share the fate of many sites that disappeared forever. The community has created many great things over the years, and our goal is to make sure they stay available as time goes by. For two decades, we also provided free hosting accounts for our users. Since most of them were no longer actively used, and the new way of presenting archived content required optimisation, we decided to discontinue this service. We also removed some active features and support for external services, so we can focus fully on our own project. We also made several improvements while organising the resources. A list of the latest changes is provided below:

• The layout width has been increased to suit modern monitors.
• The content and source code of most news posts and articles have been updated.
• Selected sections have been refreshed, including the ClanBase archive, Statistics, and OW Media.
• The galleries and the download section have been reorganised to improve clarity.
• The remaining active systems have been removed: IRC logs, the IRC bot, the Discord bot, and the dedicated OW servers.
• The free hosting system for users has been permanently shut down.
• Minor issues have been fixed and unnecessary files have been removed to reduce the server load.
• The session responsible for remembering the site’s language has been extended, so you no longer need to worry about it expiring while browsing.
• The anti‑bot protection systems have been updated.

The archiving process has been completed, but this is not the end of the changes we are preparing for you. A big day is coming very soon!