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Software Upgrades Forumwarz is now running on Phusion Passenger instead of Nginx and Mongrel. The kicker was when I asked Zed Shaw, the creator of Mongrel, about Ruby security vunerabilities at RubyFringe, and he said “Honestly, just use Passenger.” When the creator of a piece of software (although who admittedly doesn’t maintain it anymore) suggests that I use another piece of software, I listen :) New Features Haxlrose’s resets are now always free, but limited to once every 4 days. ...

I’ve published this week’s forum buildr v2.0 Beta build, The Anarchist’s Playbook. You know what sucks? Rules. You know what doesn’t have rules? ANARCHY! Here you can trade tips on making homemade bombs, stealing tools from construction sites, analyzing Rage Against the Machine lyrics, and leaving trash at McDonald’s. You’ll be taking down huge corporations and bring down the government in no time. Our next build will be Plagiaristic Intentions: ...

We’ve added Speed Run times for almost every forum. The two newest ones didn’t have enough statistics behind them to come up with accurate numbers. I also came up with what I think is a more statistically competant formula for calculating the speed run times for forums. It pays a lot more attention to the standard deviation of fast times, and also ignores the few people who have the Defaced Mona Lisa item from the calculations. In a few of the tougher forums, having a DML skewed the speed run times by a lot! ...

Another New Domination Theme! Tonight we’re starting a new Domination Theme: Clash of the Titans. It will begin at 9:30PM EDT when the new Domination week begins. The details are in this cool thread on Flamebate. New Stuff We now have support for Temporary Bans. For small violations, you can now be banned for a specific period of time. After the period elapses, your ban will be lifted automatically. I started a new thread about bans and illegal multis in Game Discussion, since there’s been a lot of confusion about it lately. ...

Some small updates today! New Stuff You now need to be level 4 in order to post on Flamebate or on IDC. This is a new mechanism to prevent abuse. Descriptions for Forums are now collapsed and are expandable by clicking on a link. Increased max file size of uploads to 100k (was 60k prev.) New E-Peen(tm) for 32 medals in Domination and pwning 40 forums in a row. Bug Fixes ...

We’ve added a new Contests Forum in flamebate. You can use it if you were interested in running a contest for BP and earning that coveted Big Give E-Peen!

I listened to your feedback about our embedded IDC client and made a bunch of fixes: I changed the color to look more like the rest of the site. You can see how many people are online, and click to get a pop up of all members in the channel. Resizing is less buggy. INCIT chat has been changed to the same interface, finally we can see who is online during an INCIT round! ...

Ever since we launched INCIT, our chat room (IDC) has been a little dead. Another reason for the lack of activity is that the only link to open IDC was quite buried in Flamebate. As an attempt to address these problems, and introduce more people to chat in the process, I have embedded IDC on every page on Flamebate. If you go to flamebate now you will see it at the bottom. ...

This week we’re running a new theme in Forumwarz Domination called Five Finger Discount: It has two differences: If you Dominate 4 forums on your own, you will receive a reward of 5 vanilla scoops (it is normally 1). There are no shield cards in circulation. The first change is designed to encourage more people to try and solo domination, since the reward is so high. The second change makes it impossible to hoard shield cards, and should mean everyone is on an open playing field to get screwed over. ...

So on Wednesday night, Forumwarz Domination: Season 1 ended. Click the link for the final rankings. Congratulations to all the winners!