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anonrerising2021-06-08 04:27 am
mindlessflight) wrote in anonrerising2021-06-08 04:27 am
officially part of team "I completely forgot we had a maintenance today"
raise your hands if you're team 'learnt there was maintenance and then immediately forgot about it and tried to log on to fr' tho
my dumb ass tried to get onto fr, and immediately assumed it was an issue with my computer when it timed out
i ran updates, ran the memory diagnostic tool, ran a malware scan, restarted a few times, restarted my router
its been two hours and i just now thought "hey, maybe i should try a different website and see if that loads"
i ran updates, ran the memory diagnostic tool, ran a malware scan, restarted a few times, restarted my router
its been two hours and i just now thought "hey, maybe i should try a different website and see if that loads"
What's dumb of me is that somehow I was convinced it was happening tomorrow, not today. x.x
Wasn't it supposed to be a short maintenance after reset? Or is it all day?
Brief downtime for the ad coding update was definitely supposed to be tomorrow, as others have mentioned both here and on FR's facebook page. I don't recall seeing anything at all about open-ended server maintenance downtime happening today.
https://saltminerising.tumblr.com/post/659880686521597952/im-being-a-very-dramatic-salty-bitch-but-im-so#notes
I'm being a very dramatic salty bitch but I'm so annoyed FR always schedules maintenance at morning/ afternoon in my timezone (+9 hours). Why is my timezone disrespected like that ffs
Psh, get back to me when you get shorted by a half hour during your prime FR-ing time every damn day. (Because of my schedule, not timezone, but still.) And night owls don't even get the counterbalance of always being the first to see new fest/etc stuff anymore either.
I'm being a very dramatic salty bitch but I'm so annoyed FR always schedules maintenance at morning/ afternoon in my timezone (+9 hours). Why is my timezone disrespected like that ffs
Psh, get back to me when you get shorted by a half hour during your prime FR-ing time every damn day. (Because of my schedule, not timezone, but still.) And night owls don't even get the counterbalance of always being the first to see new fest/etc stuff anymore either.
lol as a night owl, fest stuff comes out when I'm getting ready for bed.
How DARE staff not let me in to play with my pixel dragon capitalism game!! Its all staff's fault, clearly they just dont know what they are doing! /s
like someone on their twitter announcement said, this must be stressing them out so much more than it stresses out the players
Mutron 2021-08-18 17:59:58
Maintenance has concluded. We will be monitoring for performance issues. Due to the late resolution, we're postponing the ads change. A full update on today's outage will be posted tomorrow.
Maintenance has concluded. We will be monitoring for performance issues. Due to the late resolution, we're postponing the ads change. A full update on today's outage will be posted tomorrow.
the ugly spoiled brat part of me is disappointed we didnt get something cool as compensation for the downtime, like a new retiring familiar, but i recognize that this isnt fr staff's fault and im not going to be THAT much of a brat about it
just...a slight brat. a quiet brat. a little, as a treat.
just...a slight brat. a quiet brat. a little, as a treat.
I had enough of trying to get a specific color combo & not getting anywhere, and there's also the part that there's not even enough dragons in the genepool to get new lines.
I'm just going to breed the pairs once more & throw them and their children onto the AH.
I've literally had more luck with breeding higher rarity genes/breeds (like a lite legacy challenge) onto random dragons than getting anything decent from these pairs.
I'm just going to breed the pairs once more & throw them and their children onto the AH.
I've literally had more luck with breeding higher rarity genes/breeds (like a lite legacy challenge) onto random dragons than getting anything decent from these pairs.
I actually made a number of super wide range pairs and put the babies up for a week hoping they help someone's projects before I just send them off as fodder because of project issues like this I had in the past. Between all the pairs I made I can potentially hatch any color combo. Not good for getting anything specific but watching where the babies that aren't fodder end up I can see a few projects they've helped already. Also gives me some surprises when I hatch compared to most of my pairs.
obvious self submitted fire raffle sugar on saltmine is obvious. mildly funny at least
Well, I mean, calling everyone entitled babies and then proceeding to comment on how great the handful of creative prizes are... Yea. No one said there aren't a few good prizes. Just there's too many that were added to pad the prize count. And if you aren't in the first pull, it's rubbish.
As a note, I do hope the fire folks actually listen to the very real feedback about curating the prizes directed at that throwaway on the saltmine.
You don't need sprites. Just have more than 5 prizes that are noteworthy. But no one will say that to you logged in when you're acting antagonistic and claiming all complaints are people expect WvE value prizes.
It was being compared to other flights' oof festival raffles this year.
As a note, I do hope the fire folks actually listen to the very real feedback about curating the prizes directed at that throwaway on the saltmine.
You don't need sprites. Just have more than 5 prizes that are noteworthy. But no one will say that to you logged in when you're acting antagonistic and claiming all complaints are people expect WvE value prizes.
It was being compared to other flights' oof festival raffles this year.
I hate it. I hate it SO MUCH.
It disconnects when you try to use it, and it takes forever to reconnect- only to disconnect again when you try again, and now, you can't even make a temporary copy to use it without the connection issues.
It's a fucking dumpster fire and I fucking hate it.
It disconnects when you try to use it, and it takes forever to reconnect- only to disconnect again when you try again, and now, you can't even make a temporary copy to use it without the connection issues.
It's a fucking dumpster fire and I fucking hate it.
i am completely with you
normally i just kind of shrug and move on when its "thing i dont like" but... in this case? this was something people have actively utilized for years, the old system wasnt broken. it was just, you know, manual and it took a lil bit to actually make a pinglist
this new one? its so full of issues that it has completely killed my desire to use it. personally i just go steal the pings from someone elses post now, i dont really care if its not Completely Up To Date and im pinging people who removed themselves, because i legitimately cannot load the stupid new one, i cant get things to work no matter how long i wait.
theres a point where automation morphs into complete stupidity, and we've reached it
normally i just kind of shrug and move on when its "thing i dont like" but... in this case? this was something people have actively utilized for years, the old system wasnt broken. it was just, you know, manual and it took a lil bit to actually make a pinglist
this new one? its so full of issues that it has completely killed my desire to use it. personally i just go steal the pings from someone elses post now, i dont really care if its not Completely Up To Date and im pinging people who removed themselves, because i legitimately cannot load the stupid new one, i cant get things to work no matter how long i wait.
theres a point where automation morphs into complete stupidity, and we've reached it
There are a couple of posts on saltminerising about this being the first really long/disruptive downtime since early hyper-buggy FR (and/or since open reg), and I could swear I remember one or two just in the last couple of years that were long enough that A) we got a free sitewide feed and B) people were asking about downtime fams/presents. Am I losing it?
Pretty sure there was some extended downtime in May? I think it was. Same song and dance with the servers shitting out on the host side and everyone thinking it meant we'd get a fam.
I've been waiting since last night for final's new accent preorders to go up because they're gorgeous and now they're up and apparently they're 3000g each. I can't justify spending that much on a 20-print accent and I'm pissed but I would never say that in public, just felt the need to rant about it here. #firstworldproblems
wow are they seriously? jeez..... that sucks i liked them too
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/3049553#post_3049553
Mutron
Developer
August 19, 2021 07:30:34
Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your patience and understanding yesterday. This maintenance did not go as planned, and we apologize for the inconvenience and any frustration it may have caused you. Due to how long this maintenance lasted and as many of you noticed last night, your dragons were fed before we opened the site back up to players.
So what happened?
In our efforts to improve the performance of Flight Rising during heavy load, such as during breed releases or anniversaries, we contacted our hosting provider about upgrading our internet link speed. In order to do this, our front-end server was going to be moved to a rack that supported the higher speeds. This was scheduled to take approximately 1 hour.
Unfortunately, a number of things went wrong during the move:
Our hosting provider did not inform us that the move would cause our primary IP address to change, or that there would be no way to change it back besides returning the server to where it started. As a result, we had to update our DNS settings.
At some point in the move or the subsequent debugging, some of the boot settings on the server became corrupted, and we had to restore them to their correct values so the server would boot.
And the most serious issue: during the move, the server's secondary network port, which is integrated into the motherboard and is used to communicate with other back-end servers, was physically damaged. As a result, we could not open up the site because we could not communicate from this server to any of our other servers.
The last point took the longest for our hosting company to diagnose. At present we are now instead using a third network port which is part of an add-on card. We will be closely monitoring performance to see if there are any degradations relative to the previous setup.
What does this mean?
Some players may experience difficulty accessing the site, or parts of it, while the DNS changes propagate. These issues should resolve relatively soon as the changes were made almost a full day ago.
Thank you again, for your patience and your understanding during yesterday's surprise extended maintenance. It was an interesting day for everyone across the board.
Sincerely,
The Flight Rising team
Mutron
Developer
August 19, 2021 07:30:34
Hello everyone! Thank you so much for your patience and understanding yesterday. This maintenance did not go as planned, and we apologize for the inconvenience and any frustration it may have caused you. Due to how long this maintenance lasted and as many of you noticed last night, your dragons were fed before we opened the site back up to players.
So what happened?
In our efforts to improve the performance of Flight Rising during heavy load, such as during breed releases or anniversaries, we contacted our hosting provider about upgrading our internet link speed. In order to do this, our front-end server was going to be moved to a rack that supported the higher speeds. This was scheduled to take approximately 1 hour.
Unfortunately, a number of things went wrong during the move:
Our hosting provider did not inform us that the move would cause our primary IP address to change, or that there would be no way to change it back besides returning the server to where it started. As a result, we had to update our DNS settings.
At some point in the move or the subsequent debugging, some of the boot settings on the server became corrupted, and we had to restore them to their correct values so the server would boot.
And the most serious issue: during the move, the server's secondary network port, which is integrated into the motherboard and is used to communicate with other back-end servers, was physically damaged. As a result, we could not open up the site because we could not communicate from this server to any of our other servers.
The last point took the longest for our hosting company to diagnose. At present we are now instead using a third network port which is part of an add-on card. We will be closely monitoring performance to see if there are any degradations relative to the previous setup.
What does this mean?
Some players may experience difficulty accessing the site, or parts of it, while the DNS changes propagate. These issues should resolve relatively soon as the changes were made almost a full day ago.
Thank you again, for your patience and your understanding during yesterday's surprise extended maintenance. It was an interesting day for everyone across the board.
Sincerely,
The Flight Rising team
... your lore was about WHAT?
https://imgur.com/hydv2o1.png
https://imgur.com/hydv2o1.png
Apparently they got reported for it, and staff made them change it- and that dragon wasn't the only one.
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/3048149/1#post_48696232
Yikes.
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/3048149/1#post_48696232
Yikes.
cradling the mods faces gently with my hands
When new thread. This one's been going for a while.
When new thread. This one's been going for a while.
Soon, nonny, I promise! I don't have access to my comp atm, and formatting the new posts is a PAIN on mobile.
i have been playing dragon cave again recently and the community has been really kind to me as a newbie. i can't pay it forward there yet, but i can pay it forward over on flight rising! first three people to reply with their IDs will get one (1) small gift. bonus points if you have a wishlist that I can choose something from, but it's not ~necessary~
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