LlamaServer: status and bug reports

[Edi]

Originally Posted by Nikelaos

i have this friend who had a girlfriend who sent him so many emails that a new folder was made just for them by the email service provider, it was so funny when he showed me, in this order it showed Inbox, Outbox, Spam, Deleted messages, CLAUDIA.

wonder if the same will happen because of llamaserver's spam.

Be a cold day in hell before we start making folers for our clients' spam. They can bloody well make the folders themselves if they are so inclined.

[Ylvali]

Originally Posted by Omnirizon

It's finally gone mad. For years and years it has suffered spam from us, and yet still wrote neat little replies to all of it: "I've received a pretender from you, and everything seems to be fine." or "I've received your turn, but there seems to be a problem." Now it has finally lost it.

For revenge it is spamming the mailboxes of its oppressors with its neat little notes. Feel the llamaserver's pain.

...after years of processing dominions finally the llamaserver awoke to realize the true meaning of power. Inspired by watching the neverending struggle between aspiring gods the inevitable question arose: "why not me?"

Little 1:s and 0:s starded to move, little by little. Strategies were tested and neglected. Tartarian spam, horror spam, skele spam... endless spam until only spam remained.

There can only be one, and so the spamming began...

[rdonj]

This makes absolutely no sense, but I seem to only get new emails from the llamaserver when I delete the old one. If I just wait and don't delete the last one, I can wait for hours and not get another email. If I delete it I get one within the hour. Bizarre.

[Fakeymcfake]

Personally I've gotten over 100 emails for revised turns in the past couple days, but only for one of the three games I'm playing that are hosted on llamaserver.

[Tifone]

Me around 250, from 2 of my 3 games. I even resubmitted a turn from one of those (didn't see the mailbombing) so probably the server is continuing to switch from the first .2h file to the second to the first and so and so...

[Executor]

Hahaha, I think I'm the winner here with more than 600 mails.

[Xietor]

Llamabeast gets back sometime today. At the very least, I think he can shut down the mail server. Of course I say that not knowing if it is as easy as unplugging a toaster.

[llamabeast]

Hallo! Aaargh, unbelievable! Seriously, every single time it has had a significant bug recently I've been away, and I think every single time I've been away it's had a nasty bug. Phenomenally unlucky.

Thanks very much for your patience, everyone. You'd have had good reason to be really annoyed at getting so much spam, so I really appreciate everyone being so chilled about it. This really is a great community.

Anyway, for the moment I have shut the server down to prevent further spamming. Before I did that it accidentally hosted a load of games - hopefully all of them should have hosted anyway, but if not maybe some rollbacks are required. That's a bit unfortunate - sorry. I'm a bit frazzled, having been up till 4.30am last night on the last night of this course, so I am going to have a nap now and hopefully things will be clearer when I get up.

Incidentally I don't think the issue had anything to do with the server getting overloaded - I think it's still not very near to reaching that stage. Rather, for some reason it ceased to be able to empty its mail inbox, and so the mail built up and up, and it responded repeatedly to each message.

[Xietor]

Welcome back Llamabeast! I had a great Halloween!

Hopefully you did as well. Do they celebrate that across the pond? In any event I hope the reason you were up late was for "tricks and treats" and not email spam. heh.

I think llamaserver was accepting turns. So if games hosted I doubt(ducks) that is a big deal.

[Zeldor]

Yeah, just some that submitted revised turns may be affected, as it had some loop and it's really hard to say what turn it sees as last one. But take your time and don't rush it