Replays disabled

It appears that replays were causing the load issues that made the site crash around midnight central. I have disabled them and it looks like everything is running well again. Over the next few days I am going to be pruning the replay table in an attempt to make it more managable and less process intensive. Any replay files that were not flagged to be saved might be deleted as a result.

Update:
Our replay table is 2,453,387 replays big, clocking in at a bit over 5.5GB. The towering size of this database can be seen in how much more quickly the site loads now that they are disabled. However, replays are a great feature of the site and I am working to bring them back together in an improved form.

I am currently in the process of exporting the database off of FFR’s server and onto one of my personal servers so that I can optimize and prune it without slowing down the main site. After this is done, I will reimport the replay table into the site. I expect this to take about 3 days, after which you will be able to view replays but not create new ones.

I will also be working with Velocity to make replays an opt-in system instead of being automatically saved after each gameplay. Essentially, you will have a place you can click on the results screen to save the last gameplay, otherwise the replay will not be stored. Unfortunately, I believe we will also have to limit replay saves for the time being, but our plan is to start at a size that is too restrictive and then expand from there. Therefore, after this new system is implemented, expect modified limits on the number of replays you are able to save.

Cheers,
aperson

FFRMas – Final Day

Merry Christmas everyone, and today is the final day of this event.
We’ve got pretty hard songs for today, good for challenge, and enjoyable too.

Songs of the final day.

11ELEVEN by DJ Sharpnel, Stepped by 0 (For Guru’s Only)
Of Course you Need and nEed and neEd and neeD and NEED ME by t+pazolite, Stepped by kommisar (For Masters Only)
Sparkle Downer by Terminal 11, Stepped by omgitznpv (For Guru’s Only)

I think you enjoyed this event.
All songs will be moved to proper genres in about a week, and maybe with some difficulty adjustment.

Again, Merry Christmas!

Cheers,
Santa

FFRMas – Day 6

Hey, finally it’s Christmas Eve. We hope all of you will enjoy yourselves tonight.
We released 3 songs today, and all of these are For Masters Only songs.
Good luck with them, and prepare for the final day’s songs.

Today’s songs are..

Bury the Hatchet by Protest the Hero, Stepped by samurai7694 & Coolboyrulez0 (Very Challenging)
Op.10 No.9 by Chopin, Stepped by SKG_Scintill (For Masters Only)
RAN by Cranky, Stepped by megamon88 (For Guru’s Only)

Have Fun!

Cheers,
Santa

FFRMas – Day 5

Now we are on the second half of FFRMas event.. pre-Christmas Eve.
As usual, we released 3 songs today. All of today’s songs have some pretty tricky parts, along with moderately difficult steps.

Today’s 3 songs.

Clockwork by Breakbeat Heartbeat, Stepped by Xandertrax (For Masters Only)
Floating Hour by paraoka feat. haru*nya, Stepped by bmah (Very Challenging)
It’s Only Natural by The Higher, Stepped by bluguerrilla (Very Challenging)

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Santa

FFRMas – Day 4

It’s 4th day, exactly the midpoint of this FFRMas event now.
As always we’ve got 3 nice new songs, and you’ll feel songs are getting harder.
So it may be nice additions for advanced players.

Today’s songs are..

Bouff by Machinae Supremacy, Stepped by Patashu (Challenging)
Down by Drumcorps, Stepped by TC_Halogen (Very Challenging)
reveal yourself by KURi-ZiLL, Stepped by bmah (Very Challenging)

Have Fun, and Good Luck!

Cheers,
Santa

FFRMas – Day 3

Now it’s the 3rd day of FFRMas event, so we have 3 new songs.
These files are a lot harder than previous ones, but I hope you can enjoy them.

Here are today’s songs.

Ieva’s Polka (Basshunter Remix) by Basshunter, Stepped by championanwar (Difficult)
Moonlight by leonid, Stepped by megamon88 (Very Difficult)
Smash Podcast by Jihnsius, Stepped by Coolboyrulez0 (Very Difficult)

Have Fun!

Cheers,
Santa

FFRMas day 2

On the second day of FFRMas, SulferDragon, woker-X, and blueguerrila each bring us a new chart to play. Check them out in the Funk genre!

Sakura Blue Sky by DJ.Utaemon, Stepped by SulferDragon (Standard)
Greensleeves by David Nevue, Stepped by woker-X (Standard)
Blame It on Bad Luck by Bayside, Stepped by bluguerrilla (Tricky)

Cheers,
Santa

In memorum, Stephen Van Ness (aka Jellygod) and Card

Hello fellow FFR’ers.
As many of you may already know, our friend and old-time avid community member Jellygod (or Stephen Van Ness) had passed away only a few weeks ago. This has saddened us and brought to our attention just how close our community is. I just wanted to take a moment to remember Jelly and say that we shall all miss him dearly.

Furthermore, I have already begun passing around a card and sheet of paper, being mailed around to people that wanted to be involved, who are signing the card and writing how they remember Steve and how great a guy he was, then mailing it on to the next person. We only have about 8-10 people involved right now, but I would really like to see more people involved, as I find this would be a great thing to do to help support his friends and family in a time of need. The final delivery, once I make sure that everyone who wants to be involved is, will go to danceguy (or Peter), one of Steve’s closest friends, so that he, eurostud and ickalanda can give it to Steve’s parents. If you want to know more, please feel free to view this: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=116013 and please, let’s all be respectful.

So, if you would like to be involved, please PM me with your mailing info. And phone number (for texting/update purposes) and I will make sure the card gets to each person and continued on.
Thanks for listening in,

Sincerely
- revolutionomega

FFRMas 2010 – from Dec 19th to Dec 25th

Hi, everyone,

As many of you remember, FFR went down right before Christmas last year. So, to make up for your FFRMas getting stolen by the Grinch, we’re gonna have some awesome fun this time around. First off, we’re gonna celebrate 7 days of Christmas by releasing 3 songs a day for a week; they will start off easy and get harder as we go on. All FFRmas songs will be put in the Funk genre, and moved to proper genres after the event.

To kick off the first day of FFRMas, here are three new files:
Arrrrrr by Jon Brownell, Stepped by Vote4Nixon (Easy)
Little Star by Ikodo Moonstrife, Stepped by Silvuh (Standard)
Pathos by Darkest Hour, Stepped by cedolad (Easy)

On another note, aperson has fixed the issues with the server that were causing e-mails to not be properly delivered. You should be able to request password resets and verify newly registered accounts without any issues now.
Have fun!

JX & AP