| Downtime Monday (Done) |
ckknight |
ckknight |
18 Jan 2009 |
| Hey all, we're planning on having a downtime on Monday, January 19, 2009. Planning on starting around 10 AM CST and it shouldn't last more than a few hours. This will affect the repositories and the website, but not forums. We're planning on migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL, since we've had just far too many issues with InnoDB locking up the database making the entire site inaccessible for minutes at a time, and we can't afford to lose transactions and ACID compliance by switching to... |
| Forum logins restored |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
13 Jan 2009 |
| Sorry for the brief outage. The issue has been fixed, just click login in the top right as usual and the forums should log you in without issue. |
| Forum maintenance (done) |
ckknight |
ckknight |
13 Jan 2009 |
| Hello, friends. We're doing some maintenance on the forums system, moving boxes around in the server room and all. We expect the downtime to last no more than a couple hours. To pass the time, here's a kitty: Addendum: We're all done. |
| Downtime again. (Done) |
ckknight |
ckknight |
07 Jan 2009 |
| Hey beautiful people, we're gonna have another downtime today. Hopefully this won't take too long, but it's always hard to gauge. We're transferring the DB back to the real DB server, which has been upgraded to a newer OS as well as 64-bit, so we can finally use 8 GiB of RAM instead of just 2 GiB. Addendum: And we're done and everything went smoothly. |
| Downtime's over! |
ckknight |
ckknight |
06 Jan 2009 |
| Hello friends. We've been having some DB issues with wowace and curseforge, so we're going to be doing some tinkering on the DB server. I'm sure some of you have noticed the long pauses when trying to visit pages on wowace and/or curseforge, and our hope is to fix this issue. We predict that the downtime shouldn't be more than a few hours, but it's always hard to gauge these things. We also plan to have another downtime soon to finish the task, though probably not today. Addendum: We're back... |
| Abandoned Projects |
Ackis |
Ackis |
30 Dec 2008 |
| Projects with no activity over a period of six months are automatically marked as abandoned. To mark a project unabandonded, simply go to the Actions drop-down, and select Unabandon project, check the Confirm box and click Mark Project as Unabandoned. |
| Packager Enhancements |
Kaelten |
ckknight |
28 Dec 2008 |
| Yesterday we launched a series of enhancements to the packager. Here is a quick rundown of the new features: You can now include a subfolder from mercurial and git repositories as externals. You can now include tags from mercurial and git repositories as externals. You can now specify to use the latest tag of a project as an external. These features are somewhat embodied in the following example: externals: libs/LibStub: svn://svn.wowace.com/wow/libstub/mainline/tags/1.0... |
| Merry Christmas!!! |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
26 Dec 2008 |
| I hope everyone has had a great Christmas, or observation of choice. Sorry I didn't post it earlier, my internet is spotty atm. Anyway, blessed holidays to all! |
| Re: QuestHelper or CurseClient Keylogger Rumors |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
11 Dec 2008 |
| There are a great number of people who are claiming that after downloading QuestHelper and/or the CurseClient that they are getting hacked, keylogged, or that their babies are being stolen by ninja mutant Elvises (or would it be Elvisi?). I'd like to point out that the first two are as likely as the last, providing that: You're only using versions of the CurseClient that have been hosting on Curse/CurseForge or ones linked to you directly by myself or other staff members (aka alphas). You're... |
| Per-project role-based access control system |
ckknight |
ckknight |
05 Dec 2008 |
| Hey, beautiful people. I've been working on a per-project role-based access control system, and it's finally in place now. You may have guessed yesterday when the site was having some downtime that something was happening, and we were working out the final kinks of the system then. Side note: Technically, this is per-repository and not per-project, but the mainline repository defines users' permissions in a project. What this means: Instead of just Project leader and authors, we can have... |
| Malicious Spammer Alert |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
02 Dec 2008 |
| Hey guys, Another jerk or group of jerks took advantage of the holiday weekend to spam a few thousand comments on the website. These comments, due to a small security hole in one of the parsers, was able to embed an iframe on the page. It would then in turn try to target out of date versions of Flash. We've cleaned up any of the comments that we can find, prevented any further ones from rendering, and plugged the leak in the parsers. I'm not sure exactly what he was trying to install on... |
| Virus Alert |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
01 Dec 2008 |
| Hey guys. We had a trojan briefly hosted on the site here. It was accidentally approved by one of our moderators and has since been removed. We're stepping up our protections to make sure that this doesn't happen any further. The project in question was "Time Calculator" and was downloaded 88 times. I apologize for this oversight, and you have my word that we're going to be more diligent and step up our preemptive measures. I was hoping to make it a little longer than 8 months without a... |
| Author Rewards Program Launching Soon |
ckknight |
ckknight |
17 Nov 2008 |
| Hello, friends. We're going to be launching a program to award authors with redeemable points. You'll be able to spend the points on game cards or similar things. You have to opt in to receive points. You can do this at http://www.curseforge.com/home/rewards-program/.... This is still very much a work in progress, so you won't see points accumulating until we officially launch this. There also will be a wait between when points accumulate and when you can spend them at the store. Points will... |
| Explicit Terms of Use Agreement now Required |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
15 Nov 2008 |
| Hey guys, as of a day or two ago we started requiring an explicit agreement to the Terms of Use for full usage of the site, this includes svn commits and (for curseforge) uploading of files. Please check out this link to accept the ToU. I apologize for not making this announcement sooner. |
| NewsFlash: Incoming Improvements to the Curse Client |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
28 Oct 2008 |
| The State of the Client I want to start out by stating that we're well aware of the issues. We're not deluded into thinking that the current state of the Curse Client is as good as it gets. Up until this point I've been on the sidelines of the Client, however I'm pleased to say that I'm taking over the project and will be leading product development on the client. I've spent a large portion of my time over the last several weeks reading forums and talking to people to get a better idea of... |
| Warning Trojan on WowUI.worldofwar.net |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
22 Oct 2008 |
| Someone has uploaded a trojan on WoWUI.IncGamers.com masking it as a resurrected WowAceUpdater. Do Not DOWNLOAD! This file was in no way authorized by me or this site, and is a keylogger trojan. I repeat, DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR EXECUTE! This is a blatant attempt to steal passwords, please people don't fall ploy to it. People tried to upload this to our servers earlier and we blocked them. I've petitioned for WOWUI to take it down, however so far they have not. |
| Warning: Another Trojan on wowui.worldofwar.net |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
22 Oct 2008 |
| That's right three viruses in two days. Looks like the same people this time pretending to be the Curse Updater. Please don't be fooled into downloading this one either. F-Secure Client Security says: 22 October 2008 16:28:25 - 16:28:28 Computer name: ---- Scanning type: Scan target Target: Addons\30000\CurseUpdaterzip-1224675514.zip Result: 1 malware found Trojan-Spy.Win32.Ardamax.n (virus) The relevant forum thread here is http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=14710... Just to clarify:... |
| Today's Site Issues Recap |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
15 Oct 2008 |
| Ok guys, I'm sure many of you have noticed a few outages. The first one was due to maxing out our rack's outbound trunk connection. We scrambled to have them run more capacity and now we're doing much better. The second was due to some cables being knocked loose during the fix for the first.... We're sorry about them but I'm happy to say that things are looking good overall. I hope that tomorrow goes well. Wish us luck! |
| Forums |
funkydude |
funkydude |
01 Oct 2008 |
| Hey folks, just taking the forums offline for an hour or for some maintenance, if all goes well it shouldn't even take that long. EDIT: Forums will stay online, but read-only. |
| Downtime is over! |
Kaelten |
Kaelten |
29 Sep 2008 |
| We're back up! |
