nubluva

The response wasn't completely unjustified; it's annoyingly spamming chat
 
I did just realize that the server was recently wiped, and I hadn't seen it beforehand, so the fix may have just been something that wasn't put back up after the wipe? If that's the case, I just hope it's cleared before topvoter is issued again next month.

I had no idea this was something out of your control. 
 
I want to publicly apologize for giving you a hard time about it:

I'm sorry for being mean. This seems to be something that's more aggravating to you than it is to anyone else. It's not your fault.

Mojang have recently dropped support for the old skin API used in Minecraft 1.6.4, this means that skins no longer show up in Tekkit and instead everyone just has a Steve skin.  This client mod will fix it so everyone will have their custom skin again.
WARNING: If you used the old skin-fixer-1.0 mod, your Tekkit client will crash if you get too close to a player using a cracked account instead of an official account as the skin-fixer mod does not know how to handle them.  The crash report usually starts with...
Description: Ticking screen java.lang.NullPointerException at net.minecraft.client.entity.AbstractClientPlayer.func_110300_d(AbstractClientPlayer.java:94) at net.minecraft.client.entity.AbstractClientPlayer.func_110304_a(AbstractClientPlayer.java:69) at net.minecraft.client.entity.AbstractClientPlayer.func_110302_j(AbstractClientPlayer.java:42) Please use the new LumySkinPatch mod instead.
1. Download the mod at https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/lumy-skin-patch.  Download and save the LumySkinPatch.jar file.
2. Open your Technic Launcher and go to the Tekkit Modpack Options:

3. Open the folder your Tekkit is installed at by clicking Open.

4. Go into the mods folder.

5. Copy the LumySkinPatch.jar file you downloaded into your mods folder. 

IMPORTANT: If you used the old mod, delete the skin-fixer-1.0.jar file!

6. Now start up Tekkit and you and your friends will have their custom skins back!

There is a new plugin on the server, this plugin is the lift plugin and allowed a player to create a lift using iron blocks, buttons and signs. This guide will go through the process of creating a lift.
Many thanks to Supaspork who showed me plugin and how it worked
First you will need to decide what your lowest level is going to be, this will be where the iron block goes.
Once you have placed your iron block in the ground make a pillar going upwards, this will be the "shaft" which the lift uses.

Note: This only needs to be 1 block wide.
Once you have your shaft, place a button (stone or wooden) onto one of the blocks (preferably at eye level), then place a sign above the button.
For the lift to activate you will need to make a second floor. To do this increase the size of the shaft to the point where you want your floor. Add 3 blocks to the shaft (which will be 3 blocks above the floor level), here you should add another button and a sign on the top 2 blocks (button at eye level and sign above).

Now you will be able to left/right click on the signs to create the lift. If you press the button the glass block will appear.

Note: The glass block is the platform block for all floors excluding the ground floor which is the iron block.
By repeating this process you can make as many floors as you wish, you can right click on the sign to change your destination (change floors) and going from floor to floor by pressing the button.
 
Edit by Supaspork:
To Add Names to Floors, Put another Sign Underneath the button, and put the name of the level on the SECOND line of the sign

 
Have fun and create epic bases with the new plugin

oh. I was wondering why I couldn't get back on five minutes after the server kicked me out saying it was restarting