1. Things are up

    I’m really exhausted, so I’m not going through the numerous asks until tomorrow. I’ll try to answer the most common, most obvious question to the best of my ability.

    The site and/or forums are down?:

    Both of them are up now.

    I think maybe the site has been crashing because I failed to correctly configure Apache when I switched it to run on port 8080. I changed that setting. We’ll have to see if it takes.

    I think maybe the forum has been crashing because it needed to be upgraded to the newer version of MyBb. I upgraded it. We’ll have to see if it takes.

    I’ve been taking away from my sleep and schoolwork and family time to work on this site, and it’s unfeasible for me to keep up for any length of time.
    I hope you can all be patient with me as I maintain Trollplay in a manner that allows me to maintain my personal life, as well. Goodnight!

  2. I say, hey. What’s going on?

    Hey, guys! The server went down after I went to bed this afternoon. The issue was one that was very difficult to resolve without being able to access the root account, so I wasn’t able to put it back up until I got back from class this evening. Trollplay is back up, and has been for the last couple hours!

    The forums are down, and I’m working on putting them back up. It shouldn’t be too long- I’ll edit this post once I have it fixed. Edit: they’re up!

    Several people have had some issues with the new version: it’s the same one that was up at http://trollmegle.net:8080 and we felt it has been sufficiently tried and tested. Unfortunately, it has limited compatibility with Internet Explorer. If you can’t use another browser, be sure to check the box under “start chat” that says “use XHR”- this will solve some of the most common problems!

    I’ll have more on this tomorrow- I have to study for a midterm exam, so I can’t elaborate tonight. But I hope everyone’s enjoying Trollplay for the time being!

  3. what will happen to logs we may have had bookmarked? because I had a few and I really don't want to lose them.
    Anonymous

    They’re still available. For the old logs (logs.php?userid [ … etc]) change the part of the link that says trollmegle.net to trollplay.net:8080. For the newer logs (trollmegle.net:8080/logs/[numbers].html), change trollmegle.net:8080 to trollplay.net.

    I’ll be putting up proper redirects over the weekend so you won’t have to input this manually.

  4. Here’s what I still have to do

    Yeah, I’m not totally done!

    Here’s what’s left:

    • First (and most obviously), I have to finish the new layout
    • Reformat about 70-80% of the old logs.
    • Put the link back up to the old PHP + SQL based Trollplay ( it’s up at http://trollplay.net:8080 )
    • Redirect the old log URLs to the new ones.

    That’s all I can remember through my sleepy haze. Have fun, y’all. It’s still up.

  5. »  Trollplay Is Up!

  6. I'm guessing that you've had your fair share of RP's. Are there any that particularly stand out, really memorable ones, etc?
    Anonymous

    Yes! Unfortunately, Homestuck-RP-wise, they were a very long time ago: I haven’t RPed Homestuck in a while.

    But I had an interesting rap battle against Dave as Crabdad once, a great time playing as Gamzee talking to another Gamzee, and also a pretty great time playing as a ~*sugoi kawaii gamzee*~ teaching John how to commune with the manga messiahs.

    Also the time I played as Bro pretending to be a duckling.

    Those were good times.

  7. Is there anything any of us could do to help out? Like any skills you need more of or anything?
    oldsimpleruser

    If someone was especially good with Java, then that would probably be helpful!

    That’s all that comes to mind immediately, but I’ll ask Timeroot and Robert if there’s anything else that they can think of particularly.

  8. Trollmegle seems to have always had a habit of semi-frequent downtimes which last a day or so. Any chance the update to Trollplay will change that? And if not, is there a likelihood of it getting fixed in the future? It's a server issue, it's pretty understandable, servers cost a damn lot.
    dicklordsupreme-deactivated2012

    It’s not a server issue. There’s some bug in Timeroot’s program that causes it to crash periodically, at which point someone has to manually reboot it.

    He’s spent a lot of time and energy trying to figure out what’s wrong- he’s gone above and beyond the call of duty, really!- but neither of us have been able to figure out why.

    However, the downtimes will be shorter: before, I was the only one who had the ability to restart the server, but I’ve given that ability to three very trustworthy people (Robert, Timeroot, and Rory), so in the future there will be a higher chance of someone being around and able to notice that the site is down in the first place (because a lot of the time I just wasn’t there to do anything about it).

    I think that the speed of Timeroot’s program makes up for the occasional crashes, and it’s a lovely program altogether. He did a great job with it and I’m proud to associate with him!

  9. I know you have probably gotten heaps of these, but I was wondering, when do you think trollmegle will be back?
    Anonymous

    My last 3 asks have been this question, no joke.

    It will be up soon. I don’t trust myself to give a solid ETA anymore, but I’m probably not going to sleep until it’s back up, so make of that what you will!

  10. Dearest comrade, next time you have to do something like this, instead of putting down a concrete time just give something vague (like say, when Duke Nukem Forever comes out ohwait) and while I'm able to ask for unreasonable things go and beat the crap out of the code until it stops being prone to crashing and rendering OUR NEW FAVORITE THING, TROLLPLAY, THAT TOTALLY ISN'T A RENAMED OLD THING unusable. And stop playing fair, get as many people as you can into this and really beat it. Good luck!
    Anonymous

    Yeah, that’s an important lesson I’ve learned from this: I am so bad at estimating how long it will take me to carry out a task.

    I’m beating the hell out of this server, though. And I have gotten help: Timeroot helped by modifying the log generation and presentation, and he worked hella hard onthat- as well as to write the current software that Trollplay runs on, so always props to him. Then Tezukarin helped me set up part of the server that was giving me a lot of trouble, so he gets props too! People, man! People.

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