FFR Sims Server Being Restructured .. Bear With Us
Guys, we are updating the sims server and restructuring the file structure a bit.
What does this mean? That means that these heavy files are being moved around to the new raid array to allow us to get faster upload, download and management routines in place for now. Bit rough .. as we have over 3000 sims so far.
Structurally speaking .. things are a bit cluttered, and until we get the clustered file servers on board .. this rebuild is going to have to suffice until we get the “heavy metal” up and working. Read more… »
FFR Site Update Still Going Strong
As most of you have already noticed, FlashFlashRevolution.com is still moving and shaking this server, the monster that it is. We are watching closely to see how things are going to go with the load we have been pushing. To further see how the server handles we have put up some new stats (and some not so new) for you folks as sort of candy and bragging rights.
Initially we have the FFR Multi-Player Scores and Stats up and getting some more adjustment. Should be solid shortly.
Additionally, we have the FFR Top 10 Songs Played Today listed…
The Fox is a Strong Critter
Well well well… did we really just fix the credit problem? We think we did. After two long days of pulling our hair out, we think the problem resolved to a werid caching issue in Internet Explorer. The game devs weren’t seeing the error because we were using Firefox! Thanks to Katsmyname, we were able to determine it was an issue with IE’s caching, and we’ve implimented the changes we believe needed to be made.
Please go play the game, right now, try to gain some credits, and let us know. We’ll take care of restoring users mutliplayer levels in the coming days.
Let us know!
-LD, JasonKey, Synthlight
Help us help you!
Just a short little news story for you, in our quest to fix these bugs.
IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE GAINING CREDITS, IF AND ONLY IF YOU’RE HAVING TROUBLE GAINING CREDITS, what browser are you using? Please post in the comments.
-LD
Credits
We’re well aware of the credit problem facing about half of the FFR users right now. We have been working nonstop trying to correct the error, and haven’t been able to do so just yet. We’re trying to fix a few errors that pop up for some users, and we’ll work from there.
Please be patient as we work through these bugs, have no fear that they will eventually be corrected. Thanks
-LD
All systems go?
Well, after a long day of work, the FFR staff has altered the database scheme for the game’s backend to be identical to how it was previously, however, it now uses the vbulletin session data. Since we’ve made that change, we’ve reverted all of core files that power FFR to their original states, BEFORE the big site switch.
What does this all mean? Well, we think it means that everything is fixed, but we can’t know for sure without your feedback! Please… if you are still having troubles, use the contact form at the bottom of the page, or post a comment in this news story. We will try and help you asap. If you lost MP expirence today, we’ll correct it for you, just shoot off an email to lightdarkness@gmail.com (Don’t try to bs me, I’ll be checking against the most recent database backup).
We’re going to nail these bugs, and we feel we’re really close. Please let us know!
-lightdarkness
Bugs bugs nasty little bugs
We are well aware of all the bugs users are currently facing. We believe that it boils down to the fact that the database structure has changed when we made the switch from postnuke to vbulletin sessions.
We are in the process of rebuilding the tables that hold all the high scores, in hopes that once this is complete, it will allow users that are having problems, to accumulate credits, and achieve high scores.
We will be working throughout the day, and late into the night to correct the problems for ALL FFR users. We will keep you updated with our progress as we make it, but rest assured, FFR will return to a 100% functional state in the coming days, thanks so much for bearing with us.
-LD
Word, Sent to the Press
For those of you who remember, way back in early 2002, we moved to Postnuke as our content management system. For many years it served us well but lately we have grown to the point of nearly 1 million members and have found that Postnuke can no longer support our community.
One of the many projects we discussed during our FFR Chicago meeting was how to successfully move everyone out of Postnuke and into another system that could handle the 110GB of traffic per day without bringing MySQL to it’s knees. We came to the conclusion that we would use a simple front end portal type system mixed with the heavy duty and highly optimized backend of VBulletin. This meant that we would need to seamlessly and efficiently move hundreds of millions of records for scores and stats into a format that would be readable by Vbulletin sessions. Not an easy task by any means. It also meant that we would have to redesign the look of the site from the ground up in a way that would make long time users comfortable and newcomers not only understand what FFR is but also make them want to stick around and enjoy FFR.
So now, after sleepless nights and bloodshot eyes, we are releasing this monster of a site update to the public. We will need everyone’s help beta testing and bug reporting everything you see that does not work correctly. We will be standing by for the next 48 hours or so to fix problems *if* they occur. Please report all errors and opinions via the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page. Or alternatively you can use: Contact Us
Cheers,
The FFR Staff
*EDIT* We understand that some people are complaining about credits not showing up or certain songs. This is being worked on as I write this. Everything will be back to normal asap.
Downtime?
You may notice a bit of downtime on the site later today. We are doing a major overhaul on the backend. Actually, this is the largest overhaul since we moved to Postnuke in 2002. This will be the first of many changes to occur on FFR this year.
Enjoy
Cheers,
Synthlight
