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#1 Re: RP Chat » When did the abbey get a new Frair? » 2024-03-09 03:57:23 PM

I know it can be a touchy subject when people hold ‘featured’ IC jobs but don’t have time to connect much. Eventually somebody will come along and want that job. Some of those jobs were even converted to shared characters to avoid future arguments.

Really I think the most important thing is to be sure we’re not making anybody feel unwelcome.

#2 Re: RP Chat » When did the abbey get a new Frair? » 2024-03-02 09:54:44 AM

Was probably just a one-off RP… doesn’t look like they have been active since that scene. I wouldn’t sweat too much about who plays what until there’s a regular RP base on the game again. Keep playing Lacota like always and if the other player pops back around, I’m sure y’all can figure it out peaceably.

#3 Re: RP Chat » When did the abbey get a new Frair? » 2024-01-27 10:01:59 AM

Nice! That’s the first RP activity I’ve seen on the radio in like six months. Good to see folks still enjoying the world.

#4 Re: Wiki Help » Maintenance » 2023-07-16 10:56:33 PM

oz wrote:

Has there been some changes on wiki
I some reason can't log in...not sure if it's an old email I used or not

Hrm. No changes have been made, so your login should be the same username + password combo you’ve used in the past. Let me know if you can’t remember the pword and I can reset it, but I am at work for a couple days so it may be later this week before I can look into it.

#5 Re: Ferravale » The Path to Ferravale is gone? » 2023-07-07 08:52:19 PM

Finally got a minute to poke around... FV looks great! Thanks for all your help rebuilding, Sarnith!

If you want to turn the radio broadcast back on, I believe the command is...

+set here broadcast=@radio

I don't think it can be set from the parent, so has to be done room by room.

#6 Re: Ferravale » The Path to Ferravale is gone? » 2023-07-07 07:18:55 PM

wallace wrote:

Don't forget that the radio has old room descriptions from the last time RiverBot was allowed out of his tank. You might be able to find any missing rooms there.

I checked the radio a couple days ago but couldn't find any FV descriptions. Maybe they were built after RiverBot did its thing? Or I could be looking at it wrong.

#7 Re: Wiki Help » Question about the Wiki Archive » 2023-07-05 04:48:27 PM

Proud LP wrote:

Be neat to see stuff from a LONG LONG LONG way back

If you remember URLs for old versions of the site, you can use the Wayback Machine.

The URL for the Drupal site was http://rwmuck.limitless.org/rwmuck, and it was thoroughly crawled.

#8 Re: Wiki Help » Question about the Wiki Archive » 2023-07-05 04:40:09 PM

Yes, it's been gone for about a year and a half, when I rebuilt the rwmuck.org server in early 2022. Because the archive was created by scraping the old Drupal site and comprises thousands of static html files, it took up a lot of space--at least as far as our our very tiny server goes. I made the decision to stop hosting a public version of the archive to conserve storage and keep my costs low. I believe there are ways to serve compressed html, but everything in the archive is on the wiki so it felt kinda superfluous anyway.

I *do* still have backups of it if there's something you can't find. Let me know and I can take a look.

#9 Re: Ferravale » The Path to Ferravale is gone? » 2023-07-05 01:41:01 AM

It appears FV was unlinked from the main grid sometime prior to March, so when Oz's character purged, the rooms purged instead of being transferred to chown_char. Any that are owned by active characters survived.

I am not very familiar with the map of FV but I pulled some of its descriptions from the wiki. Left the exit names in case they can help piece things back together.

https://rwmuck.org/txt/fv_rooms.txt

#10 Re: Ferravale » The Path to Ferravale is gone? » 2023-07-04 03:25:08 PM

Weird. Usually when a character purges, their rooms (as long as they are connected to the MUCK grid) are transferred to chown_char. I did some poking around and several FV rooms are now marked as garbage. There could have been a policy change as far as how purged chars’ inventories are handled… It looks like at least some of the rooms were in fact deleted.

#11 Re: RP Chat » I am new here » 2023-03-21 03:20:05 PM

Welcome!

You can play whatever style of character you’d like, as long as it’s within the theme and rating of the MUCK.

Best way to learn about the world and the game is to explore it smile

It’s been quiet lately, but there is a recent thread in this forum for coordinating roleplay times.

Feel free to post questions here if you don’t see any staff online. They check the boards too. The wiki has a ton of info and old RP logs, but content goes back to the early aughts so be aware that some of it is outdated.

#12 Re: RP Chat » Been on this Muck a LONG while... » 2023-03-04 04:23:41 PM

oz wrote:

Quick note
I gave ferravale and sala stuff to Ajax. So no worries now on those going chown ok

On that note... one of my alts has held Halyard for a while. None of the original owners have shown interest in reclaiming it, so I will be transferring the village to a MUCK "public property" character as well. I am not going anywhere but, like Ferravale, it is an established non-canon region that should be protected from purge.

I am in the middle of moving (again tongue) but will complete the transfer once I am set up and online at the new spot.

#13 Re: RP Chat » Been on this Muck a LONG while... » 2023-03-04 04:11:06 PM

Sad to see you go, Oz. Only a few of us 90s players left.

Thank you for so many years of plots and dedication to the MUCK!

Real life is always more important than the game, but the nice part is that it sometimes settles down and lets us revisit old pastimes. Glad to hear you'll be stopping by the forum now and then; maybe you'll even be able to pop onto the MUCK for one-off RPs. Being a part of the MUCK community doesn't have to be a full time commitment. 

Wishing you well with everything. Feel free to continue to contribute to the forum and wiki: They're meant to be a platform for inactive players as well as those participating in current plots.

#14 Re: MUCK Help » Keeping Chars From Purging » 2022-07-02 04:32:47 PM

Yup, exactly what Wallace said.

Otter will protect your characters from purge if you ask him, especially if you explain that you’re taking a break from the MUCK to focus on school. He understands that the real world takes priority.

#15 Re: RP Chat » All good things... » 2022-06-16 10:46:26 AM

Mother Krisha wrote:

We NEED to have the  Summer Feast before you leave!!! And name it something to do with your characters I think smile

This is a really wonderful idea! Summer of the Rose, Summer of a Strongheart?

Thank you for your many years of RP and friendship, Blisa!

#16 News » Server Problem » 2022-05-04 09:50:43 PM

aeysin
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It appears the wiki and forum were unreachable for most of the day.

I am still tracking down what caused the mysql installation to go kaput out of nowhere.

Hoping it was just a configuration problem when I set up the new server that took a couple months to manifest.

Sorry if anybody tried to browse the sites and got an error.

#17 Re: Open Chat » How do you connect? » 2022-03-31 11:32:51 AM

Elmef wrote:

I use Simple MU still, I have to launch it as an administrator to make Windows 10 load it
But it's the programme I have used since the start

Simple MU! I used Simple MU for much of the early 2000s--only left it because I switched to Mac for a while and had to find something compatible.

Now you got me curious if I can still get it to install on a Windows machine... for science. The woman who wrote the program even released the registration key a couple years ago. I only had the unpaid version as a teen tongue It's wild to think about sending a check to a developer as a means to unlock shareware. Not that developers shouldn't get paid, but that online payment was not even an option at the time!

mini_simpleMU.png

If a future Windows update does finally cause Simple MU to stop working for you, I second Wallace's rec for MUSHclient as a good Windows client. Or Mudlet, as Sassafrass mentioned--I have only tried this one as a GUI option for linux so far, but it's a nice app! Always good to have options.

#18 Re: Wiki Help » The wiki is down! Halp! » 2022-03-16 06:18:20 PM

Aaaah. I have not worked with lighttpd… now you got me interested, but will save that for the next major overhaul in five years hahah. Stuck with ol’ trusty this go-around to avoid time sunk constantly fixing / fighting with things.

Farm life is good! Had a brief winter break but headed back out shortly. You get used to the weather. Running water hasn’t been a problem so far but potable water can get tricky.

#19 Re: News » More maintenance! » 2022-03-10 06:05:54 PM

Cool! Glad to hear things are a bit faster big_smile

As another update... old links to forum.rwmuck.org/whatever in posts and stuff should now redirect to the new URL. So nobody needs to do any manual updating. Took me way too long to figure that one out, but I thiiiink it's working tongue

#20 Re: Open Chat » How do you connect? » 2022-03-08 02:43:13 PM

BlisaMarshmellow wrote:

Apps would be really helpful; I would actually consider downloading one onto my Motorola if I knew which ones were any good.

BlowTorch is an Android app I have used, but it's been a few years. It should work on your Motorola, though I can't say for sure. Like I said above using the MUCK on a phone was kind of frustrating for me--it might just be the small screen size.

#21 Re: Wiki Help » The wiki is down! Halp! » 2022-03-08 02:05:04 PM

wallace wrote:

I'd offer to help but I don't know if I'd be much more effective, I'm still spending a day every 3 months trying to remember how I got my Let's Encrypt certs working last time lmao

Got a couple weeks off in MO and stealing wifi from the business next door (don't tell!)
Hoping to fix everything before I am "off grid" again.
Beefed up the server. Wrote new backup scripts to delete old files after they've been moved to object storage. Maybe we won't run out of local storage 3 times a year now tongue

certbot is a lifesaver for Let's Encrypt. I run it as a cronjob every day so I don't have to panic and furiously google things every 90.

00 4    * * *   root    certbot renew --post-hook "systemctl reload apache2"

#22 Re: Open Chat » How do you connect? » 2022-03-07 08:29:26 PM

I've added Mudlet, Potato MU, and the MudPortal link to the clients list. Thanks for the recommendations!

Debating whether to create sections for iOS and Android apps. I've used MUDRammer and BlowTorch respectively, but using the MUCK on a phone always feels awkward to me.

Ol'Random: Atlantis on a 2011 MBP was my go-to for many years!

My primary machine runs linux now, so TinyFugue is what I usually use... though I just installed TinTin++ and am gonna give that a whirl.

#23 Re: News » More maintenance! » 2022-03-07 06:17:32 PM

Sweet, had hoped the size limitation wouldn’t pose a problem. The server software handling uploads will block anything super huge for resource and security reasons. As long as it’s below that limit the forum software will attempt to resize images to fit. Its ability to resize is very basic so some may still fail…. a good practice would be to resize them before uploading to like 300kb (or less!) if you’re able without sacrificing too much image quality.

BlisaMarshmellow wrote:

Next question: Do we still have our account creation security questions?

Sure do! If the newest forum user that looks like a spam account has you worried… that was me. I was doing some testing tongue

#24 Re: News » More maintenance! » 2022-03-07 02:19:07 PM

BlisaMarshmellow wrote:

Ah, yes, there it is! 

...I tried to test it, and it said that the image is larger than uploading allows.  How big are the pics allowed to be?

2 megabytes, which is quite large for most images being shared to the web. There are many free phone apps and web sites that will resize images for you.

Do you usually upload pictures you've taken with your phone? Those sometimes get saved as huge files not optimized for the web. One easy way to reduce the file size is to pull up the photo in your phone's photo library, and take a screenshot of it. The screenshot gets saved at a much lower resolution (size).

#25 Re: News » More maintenance! » 2022-03-06 11:02:01 PM

BlisaMarshmellow wrote:

I can't find the image button anywhere

Oh, um… right! It would have been helpful for me to take it out of test mode tongue Check again!

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