Site Updates - Apr 21

More INCIT Stuff There’s now a leaderboard for INCIT Winners, updated daily. The length of the submission round is now proportional to how many submissions there are.

April 22, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Apr 20

INCIT Updates and Fixes The final results are now displayed much faster The submission count is now listed on screen instead of in the chat box. Submissions are now listed in a random order The random theme in INCIT is now more random. There was a bug that was biasing it towards the “Emo Kid” theme. Removed ugly box on top of the INCIT winners page You can no longer submit weird characters if you prefixed them with valid ones. ...

April 21, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Help test our new game, INCIT!

Introducing INCIT Tonight the big news is we’ve launched a test version of our new mini-game called INCIT. The idea behind the game is pretty simple: you compete with others to create motivational posters in a given theme. Rounds currently last 10 minutes, broken up into Submitting, Voting and Results. In the submitting stage you are given a theme, for example “as an Emo Kid” and a photograph that our mods and admins have painstakingly imported from Flickr. It is then up to you to come up with a creative title and sub-title for the image. ...

April 20, 2008 · 2 min · eviltrout

Flood Detection, Rails and Memcached.

Note: The article is about the code behind Forumwarz for those who are interested in such things. If people like it I might write more like it! Flooding is what happens when a user submits data repeatedly to your server. A good example would be a user who repeatedly posts comments on your message board. Sometimes it’s done innocently: a user hits the submit button 5 times impatiently during a bit of server lag, only to find their post went through 5 times. ...

April 16, 2008 · 4 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Apr 15

New Stuff The Flamebate Leaderboard has been changed. It is now based on unique users who reply to your threads, not total posts. Additionally, it is now restricted to public forums, so Klan stuff isn’t counted. The Popularity Leaderboard has also been changed. It is now based on friend requests made of you. Also, I removed all pending friend requests if you had over 100 outstanding. Can we stop spamming every character who plays the game with friend requests please? Thanks! ...

April 15, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Apr 13

New Stuff The wiki search has been improved. It will now search the full text of all articles for your term instead of looking for articles by title. New ForumBuild – How Stuff Breaks HowStuffBreaks explains to you how to break thousands of items. Learn how to break car engines, computers, monitors, TVs, legs, arms, necks, and even hearts with our comprehensive How-To Guides. Our new build is MemeBusters ...

April 14, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Apr 9

New Stuff You can transfer Brownie Points to other players. It costs a flat fee of 1 brownie point to transfer any amount to a single player. New grouping code for teams in Forumwarz Domination. Before it wasn’t taking your medal count into effect seriously. Also, now it uses a more random pattern to assign users to groups instead of round-robin. Finally, medal winners should never be knocked into non-medal groups. ...

April 9, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Wiccapedia

Sorry this announcement is a couple of days late, but we’ve launched our latest forum build, Wiccapedia. The free occult encyclopaedia. Research the latest rituals! Check the news on the health of everyone and their dog! Replace the High Priestess’s picture with Darth Vader! If you want to read innacurate information about Wicca, this is the site for you. Our next build will be HowStuffBreaks.

April 8, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Apr 5

New Stuff You can change your chat color in Flamebate IDC for a brownie point. Check out Buy Stuff! Added pagination to the Klans list. You can now scroll through many pages of Klan listings if you so choose. Moderators get a little axe beside their name as an icon. Also, it says “MODERATOR” in bold text so it’s obvious exactly who you should be flaming when you want to get banned. ...

April 5, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout

Site Updates - Apr 4

Our new moderator: SUX2BU We’ve decided to promote a new flamebate user to moderator status. SUX2BU is actually a troll alt of Escher, one of our forum’s most popular camwhores. There’s a thread here if you want to say hi! New Stuff Domination Teams no longer have “Team” in front of them, allowing for more hilarious team names. Bug Fixes Embedding images from imageshack works again in flamebate. We’ve fixed an exploit in Forumwarz Domination where you could get Domination cards without paying for them. See the drama-filled flamebate thread about it here. ...

April 4, 2008 · 1 min · eviltrout