Wednesday, August 27, 2008

State of the game

Hey, guys. To those who don’t know me, I’m the guy whose webspace Blognomic is on (NOT its creator; that’s Kevan). I used to play, and hope to again one day soon.

I just wanted to take a quick poll of everyone and see how happy/unhappy you guys are with the technical side of things here. I know Dreamhost is kinda notorious for downtime lately, although it’s distributed among their scrillions of servers. Has there been excessive or particularly inconvenient downtime on Blognomic?

Also, I intend to devote some time to general upkeep around here, to do some things I always wanted to do but was too ADD for. I’ve started a list of possible-things-to-do on the wiki, so if anyone has any pet peeves or big ideas, type away. :)

Thanks, y’all.

posted by 75th Trombone at 27 Aug 2008 16:42:00 UTC Comments (9)

Comments

Amnistar: he/him

27-08-2008 18:46:13 UTC

I dunno about the rest, but I’ve noticed little, if any, downtime here on the site.

And you rejoining us would be awesome 75 :P

Darknight: he/him

27-08-2008 19:12:30 UTC

the sites been going good 75

Clucky: he/him

27-08-2008 19:30:04 UTC

Site has been going good. EE has been working flawlessly. Wiki had problems with spam - but we fixed that somehow. =)

75th Trombone:

28-08-2008 06:35:25 UTC

Just made this sticky. Will leave it for a day or two if that’s okay with everyone. Anyone can unstick it if it’s a problem.

Kevan: he/him

29-08-2008 13:25:19 UTC

We fixed the wiki spam by locking it against new signups, requiring new players to ask an admin to get an account, which isn’t ideal. We could have used ReCaptcha, but I think we’re using too old a version of MediaWiki.

There’s still a terrifying amount of spam in the wiki (over three thousand articles) - it might be easiest just to install a fresh instance of MediaWiki and transfer the pages over by hand. I think MediaWiki’s pretty happy about being moved around between directories, so you could just rename the current one to “/oldwiki/” and keep it around until we’ve finished transferring things.

Everything else on the server has seemed okay from here. Thanks for continuing to provide some space for BlogNomic to live.

tusho:

03-09-2008 18:27:55 UTC

I set it to tell me when a new Dynasty begins. I check back and it has and I wasn’t notified.

(Copied from my post because someone told me to)

75th Trombone:

04-09-2008 03:31:21 UTC

Ahaha, you discovered my dirty little secret.

Yes, that profile field was added when I was still making assumptions about EE features. Is has, in fact, never worked, except to deceive people about their receiving notifications.

What I intended was that the “Communicate” tab of the admin page would offer an easy way to send an e-mail to all members with a certain profile field set a certain way. That seems to still not be the case.

However, there may be an EE extension that offers this now; I’ll check on that in the near future and try to add it to our EE install.

Darknight: he/him

04-09-2008 03:35:02 UTC

lol well, pardon my french but shit happens i guess lol. no worries.

tusho:

04-09-2008 12:11:26 UTC

Hooray, thanks mr 75. See you next dynasty. :P