New angband.live server

[Nick]

We're recording player deaths now.. once we have enough data we should be able to do fun things with statistics on it.

...like whether Hugo has more deaths than all the other players combined

EDIT: Currently 56-0

[Gwarl]

We're recording player deaths now.. once we have enough data we should be able to do fun things with statistics on it.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Gwarl - I noticed PCB has a non-functional 7.0.2b selection. Do you intend to bring this version back?

[Gwarl]

I managed to remove a lot of junk and we have about 15gb of extra room now which should last a good while.

[Gwarl]

The chat crash bug should be fixed and most of the rest of the games have been restored.

[MITZE]

[02:10] jchaught: i see they still haven't uploaded the rest of the games that were on here from before.. i had a character in tome 2.3.5 that i wanted to finish as well as the character on mangband on here. so mad.

Not actually posting this to complain; I'm more marveling that Mangband actually worked right for anyone on the server.

[MITZE]

Server Crash Bug

You might care to know that people starting a chat message with / causes the server to crash.

Poorly-implemented mod power checks, I'm guessing?

EDIT: Actually, scratch that; we're not quite sure what's causing the crash except it seems like it's Rolanako somehow, every time.
EDIT2: Apparently Zabutor can also invoke whatever it is; it definitely seems to be related to starting a chat message with / but it doesn't seem to cause a crash for everybody doing it, only certain people.
EDIT3: So can Wally3.

[HugoVirtuoso]

I've been off the grid for several months. Now I see this...interesting. I guess I'll have to try to stop by for a bit...

Gwarl: if you're interested in ever changing the Linux distro of your server, I definitely recommend Devuan. It's systemd-free with a rock stable Debian-like base. I didn't mention Gentoo because of its obvious long time to set up

[Gwarl]

I've restored a half dozen of the most popular variants.. I'll work on the rest tomorrow.

[Gwarl]

Yeah it's almost midnight here. For reasons I can't determine the whole database containing information about the games, available versions etc and all user data is gone (the accounts not the savefiles). I suspect it might have something to do with the fact the disk is 95% full. I'll see if I can make some room. I'll try and get the most popular variants back online tonight and the rest tomorrow.

Given most people are honest here I'll just point out that if you want your savefiles back you should log in with your original username ASAP to secure your account. All winner statuses are obviously reset - you have to re-earn your purple names.

[MITZE]

For posterity and for anyone who's confused, the gaming aspect of the server is currently borked, but Gwarl is hard at work* trying to fix it.

*Theoretically. He might actually be trying to fall/asleep or something, it may or may not be beddie bye sleepy time where he's at—I can't be bothered to look at time zones. But he is aware there are problems! . . . probably. I'm like 90% sure.

[Gwarl]

Back up_____

[wobbly]

Site appears to have crashed again, getting the same error page as last time.

Shakes fist at Rolanako.

And no I don't care if it's actually your fault or not.

[MITZE]

Site Crash

Site appears to have crashed again, getting the same error page as last time.

[SethaWetha]

You may care to know that whatever happened, copypasting text from the game window into the chat no longer results in a bunch of blackspace ending up in the chat too.

Dunno how related it is but the server crashed the instant I pasted into the text box. https://streamable.com/s9kpfa