Server My Ranker
Due to the mighty processing power of our Quad Opteron server combined with our recent optimizations to our server side code, we have decided to allow realtime FFR Rank updates.
This means that every time you finish a song or load FFR, it will calculate your rank compared to nearly 1 million other FFR usernames on the server database. No more waiting for the server to update once a day (if that). Read more… »
Go ahead… Start Something
Today’s song of the week comes to us from the very talented Jeremy Lim. The song is called “Start Something”, and you can find it on the first page in the dance section. Stepped by Gamepro, and coming in at a minute and thirty seconds, it’s an awesome file that makes great use of steps. It truly is a fun file.
Be sure to check out Jeremy’s website, http://jeremylim.ca for more information about him, he’s a very talented musical and graphical artist, and I’m sure he appreciates any feedback.
-LD
FFR Sims Server Being Restructured .. Bear With Us
Guys, we are updating the sims server and restructuring the file structure a bit.
What does this mean? That means that these heavy files are being moved around to the new raid array to allow us to get faster upload, download and management routines in place for now. Bit rough .. as we have over 3000 sims so far.
Structurally speaking .. things are a bit cluttered, and until we get the clustered file servers on board .. this rebuild is going to have to suffice until we get the “heavy metal” up and working. Read more… »
FFR Site Update Still Going Strong
As most of you have already noticed, FlashFlashRevolution.com is still moving and shaking this server, the monster that it is. We are watching closely to see how things are going to go with the load we have been pushing. To further see how the server handles we have put up some new stats (and some not so new) for you folks as sort of candy and bragging rights.
Initially we have the FFR Multi-Player Scores and Stats up and getting some more adjustment. Should be solid shortly.
Additionally, we have the FFR Top 10 Songs Played Today listed…
The Fox is a Strong Critter
Well well well… did we really just fix the credit problem? We think we did. After two long days of pulling our hair out, we think the problem resolved to a werid caching issue in Internet Explorer. The game devs weren’t seeing the error because we were using Firefox! Thanks to Katsmyname, we were able to determine it was an issue with IE’s caching, and we’ve implimented the changes we believe needed to be made.
Please go play the game, right now, try to gain some credits, and let us know. We’ll take care of restoring users mutliplayer levels in the coming days.
Let us know!
-LD, JasonKey, Synthlight
Help us help you!
Just a short little news story for you, in our quest to fix these bugs.
IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE GAINING CREDITS, IF AND ONLY IF YOU’RE HAVING TROUBLE GAINING CREDITS, what browser are you using? Please post in the comments.
-LD
Credits
We’re well aware of the credit problem facing about half of the FFR users right now. We have been working nonstop trying to correct the error, and haven’t been able to do so just yet. We’re trying to fix a few errors that pop up for some users, and we’ll work from there.
Please be patient as we work through these bugs, have no fear that they will eventually be corrected. Thanks
-LD
All systems go?
Well, after a long day of work, the FFR staff has altered the database scheme for the game’s backend to be identical to how it was previously, however, it now uses the vbulletin session data. Since we’ve made that change, we’ve reverted all of core files that power FFR to their original states, BEFORE the big site switch.
What does this all mean? Well, we think it means that everything is fixed, but we can’t know for sure without your feedback! Please… if you are still having troubles, use the contact form at the bottom of the page, or post a comment in this news story. We will try and help you asap. If you lost MP expirence today, we’ll correct it for you, just shoot off an email to [email protected] (Don’t try to bs me, I’ll be checking against the most recent database backup).
We’re going to nail these bugs, and we feel we’re really close. Please let us know!
-lightdarkness
Bugs bugs nasty little bugs
We are well aware of all the bugs users are currently facing. We believe that it boils down to the fact that the database structure has changed when we made the switch from postnuke to vbulletin sessions.
We are in the process of rebuilding the tables that hold all the high scores, in hopes that once this is complete, it will allow users that are having problems, to accumulate credits, and achieve high scores.
We will be working throughout the day, and late into the night to correct the problems for ALL FFR users. We will keep you updated with our progress as we make it, but rest assured, FFR will return to a 100% functional state in the coming days, thanks so much for bearing with us.
-LD
