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I've made some small changes on the game server code that should help out with resource usage. While most users probably won't directly benefit from this change, it helps me out quite a bit. And anything that helps me also helps you ;)

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Hi all,

I hope there wasn't too much of an interruption in your gaming, but this afternoon I made a switch from the apache webserver to the much lighter lighttpd. The reason for the move is that the RAM resources on this server are somewhat constrained and lighttpd uses fewer than apache does. While you may not see much change in your user experience, it helps me out quite a bit as I now don't have to be nervous that the server is going to get overloaded.

Happy Gaming!

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I've been postponing the inevitable, but the sad fact is that I can't keep the Stats page up. The way the stats work now is not efficient enough and stores too much data for me to handle, so I'm giving it the axe for now. In the future I may try to add a simpler form of stats (like each person keeps their longest word, their average word length, etc) but it won't be as extensive as it has been up to this point.

This doesn't mean the game is over or no fun anymore, though. It is still going to play exactly the same and still be fun ;)

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I've gotten Serpentine to a point where it can run almost indefinitely with little trouble, except for one bug that crashes it every few weeks. I know roughly what the bug is, but I haven't been able to find a fix for it, so the result is the game server crashes every few weeks without notice. I don't really like that, so I wrote a small utility that will automatically restart the server every sunday morning at 4AM EST. My logs show that this is right around the period of lowest web traffic, so hopefully it won't affect too many people. The restart shouldn't take more than a minute, and it'll happen at the same time every week so late-nighters can plan around it.

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hi folks. The server went down for a little while but it's up again. Happy playing!

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Hey everyone, sorry we've been so scarce lately. Adam and I have both been very busy lately! Nevertheless, I've been working a lot on the forums in my free time in order to address complaints and Adam has been doing the same for the game. Here is a rough outline of the changes that I put into the forums today (see 1.4.1 to 1.5 of the changelog for full details):

- Changed QUOTE tag layout.
- Made a lot of the text slightly smaller.
- You can now highlight text and then click on a tag to put the tag around the text.
- Differentiated between thread starters and posts within threads.
- Experimental: New posts are now automatically placed at the very bottom of each thread.

I'm still unsure of the last point, so if anyone has any complaints then I may change the functionality back if it's valid.

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Hey guys, long time no post ;)

I made a few bug fixes this morning, nothing major.

• - Fixed issue where word chart showed NaN and incorrect amounts
• - Fixed issue where word entry was case sensitive and capslock or capitalized letters invalidated a word

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We will be adding smilies and other emotes into the Serpentine chat rooms in the future (you'll be able to toggle them on and off), but in the mean time I want to add new emotes to the forums. There's a lot of blank space on the right side of the post screen and it needs to be FILLED with pictures, both animated and not.

So if there are any emotes that you'd like then feel free to post them by following the link below this post and I'll consider all of them for inclusion. They can be pretty much any size, but only small ones will be allowed in the Serpentine chat.

Thanks!

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Hi all, It looks like the game crashed last night for a totally new reason that I haven't seen before. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later! I think we had actually gone two or three weeks without a crash, so I'm happy about that. The good news is the game is back up and running. And I'll see what I can do about fixing that issue so it doesn't strike again.

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Alex did an awesome thing with the news/forum systems and tied them together, so now you can comment and discuss news entries in the forum.

This is yet another awesome feature from alex.

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