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• Announcements

  This is for board maintenance and such. Don't post here if you don't have to.
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  There was an issue with the redis service (our database) last night which caused downtime. I think I got the root cause, but I'll continue to monitor things.
• Mildly Constructive

  Something besides the equivalent of "NO YOU". That shouldn't be hard, right?
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  @Arkandel said in Is this hobby on it's last legs?: @GangOfDolls Hey, you might be living in a simulation right now. They need to fix the customization options though and the grind is brutal. Maybe the next patch will fix it. Truth.
• Adver-tis-ments

  Tell everyone about your New Games, Old Games and New Old Games. Hurrah!
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  @EvilFerret Thanks. I appreciate it, but I have decided that a guy who is completely new to staffing trying to run a game all on his own and not even trying to find additional help and also pre-banning everyone in an entire town as well as multiple VPN tunnels because of one "troll" is enough red flags for me. As much as I am itching for a republic era game, I figure someone else is going to come along with another one done the right way in the next year or two, given the direction of the media currently. In my mind, trying to staff alone or joining a game with only 1 staff member is never a good idea. Because we are all human and not only can we not do everything ourselves, we need accountability. Myself included. I would never, ever staff alone, because I don't trust myself.
• Tastes Less Game'y

  For discussions unrelated to MU. Anything else goes.
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  @Derp said in The Work Thread: Like... what do they even teach you in law schools? Based on how often people fail to abide by Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(2), not a whole fuck of a lot. Kids these days are weak, and I'm defaulting the fuck out of people left and right.
• MU Code

  Making it happen. 01000011 01101111 01100100 01100101
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  Its been roughly a year since this post and the code is actively still being developed. I've made some decent progress on TeenyMUSH. I've stripped out the mysql support and gone with a strictly memory based formal. Dumps are now a full backup daily with periodic incremental files. This should provide a much smaller foot print while requiring less knowledge on setup. The incremental dumps have brought the size of a days worth of files down dramatically and shortened the window of loss from 1 hour to 5 minutes. Its probably less as Perl will catch crashes and dump any cached data. I've simplifed installation down to downloading the script and a help file and running it. Compatibility with TinyMUSH is growing every day. Myrddin's BBS 5.0 now installs and works. TeenyMUSH even now supports a tmshell functionality for running MUSH code from the shell. Ever wanted to take something you MushCoded and run it like an actual command? now you can. Rename teenymush.pl to tmshell and then issue commands like tmshell <command>. Since there are to many changes changes to discuss, so see http://ascii.dynu.net/changes for more details.
• MU Questions & Requests

  For general MU-related questions and How-To Requests.
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  Anyone know of a good one?
• How-Tos

  Tutorials and advice on how to get things done on your game.
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  Well, I've been pretty remiss here. Since my last post, we've been through .297, .298, and .299, and here we are at 4.00.300! If you haven't been keeping up otherwise, here's what you've missed out on: 4.00.297 (2020-7-4) Added Donate link on About screen, plus Help->Donate... menu item (So for those of you asking about making donations, here you go!) Merged About and Welcome windows to just the About window Added 'all' parameter to disconnect and reconnect to make things consistent and flexible Fixed a bug in Pueblo tag parsing where relative font sizes were treated as absolute (so <font size=+2> was size=2). They're ignored now. Fixed a maps bug where 'Set Text Color...' didn't work on labels Fixed a glitch where zero sizing a docked pane makes it lose its title bar Fixed a crash if docking a zero height window 4.00.298 (2020-7-28) Added GMCP protocol support Added subset of MCSP protocol support (Mud Client * Sound Protocol) -- just the basic load/play/stop commands. Added WebP image link detection for the image viewer Fixed potential race condition in async downloads (Might explain some image viewer glitches/crashes) Fixed bug with puppets on startup, where puppets might not link with their character and will not function Fixed crash in maps when trying to undo/redo an operation that is not on the map that is currently visible 4.00.299 (2020-8-11) Fixed a small annoyance with spawn captures, by killing any active ones on disconnect and after a restore log replay Fixed store issue where the configuration can't be saved if the app is installed on a different drive (thank you Dranyth!) Fixed a bug where MCSP sounds can hang when disconnecting Fixed a bug where // to bypass command processing both sends and processes the command (which doesn't recognize it, so you get an error) AND NOW 4.00.300 (2020-9-24) Added Important Activity notification in trigger actions (number in red box on the tab) (So you can set things up to be told which activity you really care about) Added screen reader support for the output window (one big step towards visually impaired usability) Added 'beip.stats' GMCP package (see documentation) Added '/repeat' command to easily repeat something multiple times Added '/naws' command to send a telnet NAWS (Negotiate About Window Size) Added repeating timer support to '/delay' plus ability to kill individual timers Added imgur link handling to the image preview window (it's a hack but it works) Tweaked hash trigger coloring to be on the text being replaced, not just the first subexpression matched (Now if you're looking for the same word in different contexts in one regex, it will come out in the same colour in each! Bug introduced with using it with the 'whole line' recolouring, which will be working properly again in 301.) Changed tab control to have a modern flat look (mostly visible with tabbed spawn windows) (Better matching the rest of the previous design adjustments!) Changed tabbed spawn windows to have no outer padding (Saves space!) Changed Pueblo links to show what will be sent, and to add it to the input history when sent Fixed bug with restore log repair: when deleting unused restore log entries it would change the order of existing entries Fixed a bug copying a server in the connection dialog: it would copy the restore log entries and cause a repair leading to the previous bug Fixed a bug in ansi code parsing with ansi reverse: any color changes within the reversed block had foreground/background swapped Fixed a crash when closing a window with splitters in the text windows Due to several requests over time, as well as the ability to donate via subscription in the program itself, there now is a Patreon! If you can't or aren't inclined toward that, one can always feel free to express appreciation by dropping by the Discord to tell the dev 'thanks'. Or to ask for new/adjusted features. Tomayto, tomahto... As always, if you don't have it or it hasn't updated itself yet, you can grab the current version from the Microsoft Store (preferred), or alternatively from the github. Enjoy!
• A Shout in the Dark

  Looking for Someone? Look no further.
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  @RedJellyBean They are still around...haven't seen them recently. But last sighting was on Paris of the West. They swooped in to vampire, took over the sphere and then promptly vanished again. Not sure where they ended up after that. Most of the time they post their past alts on their user wiki. So they aren't impossible to find.
• Suggestions & Questions

  Ideas for improving the forum or questions about how things work.
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  @WildBaboons said in Pro Wrestling MU?: @chibichibi Playing a character that is playing a character seems too many levels deep. Having a blast doing it on The Network.
• Play-by-Post

  A place to find Play-by-Post games
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  Just to add to this, I love the idea but the time requirements are just not quite possible for me. On certain days I'd not be able to post at all in fact. But I love the idea in theory!
• Other Games

  Games other than MU* ! Video games, table-top, TCG, etc.

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  @Ghost said in General Video Game Thread: FF: Road Trip got me to tear up at the end. The end story was wonderful. Well, it was a really pretty game.