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Old News and Updates I decided to put the site back online in its full glory to show off my work. It shouldn't gobble up too many resources on the server, so if the community starts using it again, no problemo. Keep in mind that if for some reason I decide to take it down again, I won't simply delete it all or make it unavailable. At the very least I will provide a download archive with all of the movies, like I did before. The uploads were failing due to a recent change to the server configuration, which reset the folder permissions. It's fixed! Connectivity Issues The site has had trouble when attempting to access it via http://www.uomovies.com. The problem does not occur when accessing via http://uomovies.com. The problem is in the DNS server. I use MyDomain services to manage DNS, and for some reason this domain is magically resolving to some other address all of a sudden - 66.150.161.33. I'm trying to figure out how this happened, and more importantly if it has happened to any of my other dozens of domains. Access the site as http://uomovies.com to bypass the issue. I've updated the DNS record and maybe this will reset it to it's original configuration. I will contact MyDomain to see how this happened. Rating Anti-Cheat Code I discovered some flaws in the rating anti-cheat code, which was causing votes to register as zero under certain conditions. For a few weeks, a lot of zero ratings have been registered. So, I've removed all of these from the database. Since these are tracked by your IP, if you rated something and noticed it was zero, it will now let you rate again and it should register the correct rating. This may cause some of the older videos averages to raise slightly in the event that more ratings are registered on those entries, but it's a small side effect to fixing the ratings on the entries affected by this bug. August 20, 2004 I've put a limit of 10 results per page, and a page browsing feature at the bottom. My tests show it to be working correctly but I haven't beat on it very hard. It should handle being say, on Page 6 out of 10, and then changing the Search or Filters and not getting messed up. It should also remember searches and filters as you browse the pages. It also should boost performance since it's hitting fewer records (however, it does require an extra recordcount step, and it will also maybe cause more hits to the DB, so we'll have to see. I may increase the records per page based on performance.) The server has had some stability problem due to buggy scripts. I have a monitoring tool that auto-restarts things, but sometimes it doesn't work right. I've been tweaking it lately to better handle problems automatically to keep uptime higher, so hopefully we'll see the server down less often. After all, I am hosting about 25 other websites for paying clients so I have a good reason to keep this thing running 100%. August 17, 2004 After much blood, sweat, and tears, a comments function is now in place. Currently there's no registration and you can enter any name you want. Please don't abuse this, I don't want to add more code for a registration system, and I'm sure you don't want to register. By the way: The sum of all Perl code is 40k at this point, and a lot of that is HTML embedded in the scripts and really doesn't count as code. Amazing how much you can do with so little. August 9, 2004 If anyone is interested in development and / or hosting services, I'm always available to do some side work. I have a portfolio here. By the way, if anyone is still accessing the site via it's knepfler.com URL, you should be using the new URL, http://www.uomovies.com. August 6, 2004 I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone for using the site. I'm glad everyone is enjoying it and I'm glad that this place is becoming the sole(?) repository for Razor movies. Hopefully the quality of this feature will improve and we'll see even more movies from the players. I really want to get a comments section going since I'm sure people would love to talk about these movies. I'll work on it! My plan is to add a regular forum and then find some way to automatically create a new discussion thread with the topic pre-set to the video description, including a link to the video or something like that. If there are any graphic artists out there who just can't stand to look at this mess, feel free to cook up a logo for the top up there, and if you're really feeling saucy, an HTML/CSS layout to improve the looks. I'll get around to it eventually myself but I'm not much of an artist. Anything you send becomes the property of me, yadda yadda... not like I make any money here anyway. :) Email whatever you come up with to minsc at knepfler dot com! - Minsc August 5, 2004 Welcome. This site is for sharing UO movies recorded with Razor Beta 15 (RPV files). You can submit the movies to share and find submitted movies in the database easily. I'm Minsc on the In Por Ylem UO server, but I suppose players from other shards can submit movies too... :) Email any problems to minsc at knepfler dot com. |