Staff List

Since FFR has come back online, there have been lots of changes made, and we’ve finally had enough time to figure out who is active and who isn’t. After careful consideration we have trimmed inactive members out of the staff list and brought a few new people in that we believe will fit the site well. We have made most of our changes, though there might be minor changes to this list in the future.

Without further ado, here’s the staff team:

Site/Server Admin: Synthlight
Sysadmins: aperson/Sprite-/lightdarkness

Development team:
- PHP: aperson, Sprite-, lightdarkness
- CSS/HTML/graphics: darkshark
- Databases: aperson, Sprite-
- Flash: Velocity
- Stepchart Leader: Jimerax
- Music Acquisition: kid_merkury

Stepchart Judges:
jimerax (Judge lead)
bmah (Batch manager)
Patashu
kommisar
who_cares973
Gundam-Dude
TC_Halogen
Silvuh
Korygon
Vote4Nixon

Moderation team:
- Moderation admins: Sprite-, devonin
- Global forum moderators: stretchypanda, jimerax
- Local forum moderators: Netjet!, Specforces, kid_merkury, All_That_Chaz, ravenhexa, Kagome, edubardus, cenright, MalReynolds
- Prochat/Profiles moderators: All_That_Chaz, ananana, ravenhexa, Kagome, kid_merkury, edubardus, Windscarredfaith, Purplepoise, Eternal_0, stretchypanda, Andiana, JenovaSephiroth, TwilightPrincess
- MP moderators: Kagome, kid_merkury, Windscarredfaith, DJ_Swabber, RB_quackies
- VC moderators: ananana, ravenhexa, Kagome, kid_merkury, edubardus, cenright, Purplepoise, Eternal_0, MalReynolds, Specforces

Note that this list is not finalized, though it is close. The stepchart judges in particular is a fluid group right now. Inactive members will be removed and new members will be brought in as needed. There is no need to ask us, we’ll ask you if we’re interested in having you judge or be a moderator.

What’s been happening?

Since we came back Online on October 10th, our development team has been in full swing, with several dedicated developers putting in hours of work each night to bring anything that’s broken back online and spruce up what’s already working. Here is a partial list of the changes that have been made since our last update:

Fixes
- User profiles have been restored as well as our profile chat feature.
- The forums are working properly, including avatars which were originally broken
- FFR’s main flash (excluding multiplayer) is now almost functioning correctly. Everything appears to be good except for the FFR Shop; we are still having issues purchasing songs in sporadic situations. However, this issue only affects new purchases. Any songs that are already purchased will still show up under the Purchased category.
- Multiplayer is back online in working beta form. There are still many bugs with it, but thanks to Dragon Shot’s hard work, you can now play online with all of your friends! Click here to start playing!
- The database has been optimized to bring better loading times. There were many database lookups that ran slowly due to poor design. aperson has gone through and optimized them to improve site performance.

Removals
- The Simfile Database has been disabled and will not be brought back at any time in the future. We don’t have the time nor patience to deal with a huge DMCA liability. We are considering bringing it online in the future so that users can access their own files for archival.
- R2, MeTrivia, Yahtzee, and other various non-essential parts of the site have been removed since development on them has ceased.

New Things!
- The replay engine has been rewritten by Dragon Shot and is now in use for any replays that you view.
- A new token song has been added. Pass Big Blue V1 to unlock it
- Video chat is in the works too! Unfortunately, it will have to be a complete code rewrite. But rest assured, we have not forgotten about VC and we will be working hard to bring it back online. However, there is not currently an estimated time at which it will be released.
- The new era staff list is being finalized and will be posted on the front page next week once we have decided exactly who will be filling what roles.

Subscriber Changes
We are doing away with Subscribers. Instead of being a subscriber, we will offer the special subscriber features to those who have attained veteran status. This is tentatively set to activate once you have been a member for 3 years or once you have reached 3 billion grand total points. Be on the lookout for an update with this veteran status implemented soon!

It looks like most of the bugfixing is about done, so expect lots of new features and changes on the way soon!

Best regards,
The new FFR Team

Important Subscriber Information

Hello,

It is critical that you read this announcement, as this concerns current and prospective FFR subscribers. As of today, and until further notice, the ability to subscribe to FFR via our forum payments system has been put on hold.

If you no longer wish to support FFR, you will need to login to paypal and cancel your recurring subscription.

If you are not a subscriber but would like to contribute to the site, please hold on to your money. Our main focus is to get everything running to our (and your!) satisfaction.

If you are a current subscriber or gift subbed user that had an active subscription while we were down, please contact Devonin, Sprite-, or myself so that we can properly adjust your account in the meantime.

LD EDIT: If you were a subscriber, and your subscription expired during the downtime, your subscription should now be restored with the appropriate amount of time added to your sub.  If there are any problems, please contact me directly ONLY if your sub expired during the downtime.  Thanks – LD

Also, IT IS IMPORTANT that you take the time to read this forum announcement, as it concerns subscriptions: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/announcement.php?a=47

Best regards,
TwilightPrincess

More updates

Hey,

We just upgraded the CMS that powers our main page… had a few minutes where the site didn’t work (and a few minutes with our old theme) but we’re back up and running.

I already notice a few things that are missing from the theme, but we will get those restored asap.  If there is anything glaring that was caused by this update (and not something that was already broken), let me know.

LD

Upgrading…

Howdy,

I’m going to be doing some upgrades over the next hour.  You may see things looking funky.  If that’s the case, don’t worry, it will be resolved soon.

Thanks,

LD

Maintenance Update

We rebooted into a new kernel tonight so that we could take care of some additional functionality on the server side. As the hours go by, more and more functionality is coming back thanks to 3 specific people digging into the code (say hello guys!). We are rapidly adding in new staff and we have had countless offers to help with all the work ahead. Thank you again everyone for your support.

Have you checked out the changelog yet? If not, you should. We are detailing the bug fixes as they happen.

Much more to come in the next few days. Multiplayer and chats are right around the corner.

Cheers,
Synthlight

One Word. Yikes.

Following a year of intense rise and then nearly complete destruction of FFR, I have worked tirelessly for many months to re-wire and re-structure FFR so that it could once again promote rhythm gaming. This is without a doubt a work in progress but I am re-launching FFR with the full intent of cutting out the corporate bullsh*t, righting wrongs and helping to preserve the community that was our family for many years. It’s been a crazy 1 1/2 years for sure.

There is still an incredible amount of work to be done and we are aware so many pages still need rewiring but we will get to those as they are found. Currently multiplayer is still being rewritten to work in the new system along with the simfiles section. Most profiles should work but going to your own profile may present a problem. If you find any broken pages, feel free to respond here to this news story and post them.

I will no doubt post more on the history, what I have been up to and what we have planned over the coming week. I owe this to all of you. This isn’t a test.

Cheers,
Synthlight

What’s changed?

A lot of the time on FFR, we’ll update something or add something, and it doesn’t necessarily warrant it’s own front page post.  We want you to be able to see what we add though, so today I’m introducing the Change Log.  This page will show when we fix something, release something new, or add a song to the game.  Over the next few days this page will be updated with some of the goodies we’ve been working on.  If you think there should be another category added to that page, let me know

Few house keeping notes while I have you all here:

Newvember: Songs have been added through the end of November, and we’ll be extending it through the first week in December so you all have 30 new songs!

Forums: They are back up and running!

We’ll keep you up to date as things come up!

-LD

Oh no! Herbert the Hamster is tired!

So it appears the Hamster that powers the forums, Herbert, has taken ill… He hasn’t been in his wheel cranking the servers so the forums have been down for a few days.

We’re trying to work on recovering the forums, so please bare with us.  It might take a few days, but we’ll be back up and running in no time.

Meanwhile, NSane and I will keep on adding songs to the Newvember song release event, as well as a special beta treat for our subscribers.

We’ll keep you updated as we make progress.

-LD