I just took Chez and Glad offline (so to speak). I put a notice up when you try to get the play panel or if you try to play a word informing of the transition in progress.
I will edit this post here and there with progress updates. I have a 17-step plan to get us over there and check a few things.
Current time is 10:00 Pacific Daylight Time (Seattle/Vancouver B.C./Los Angeles), 17:00 GMT.
10:25: creating snapshots of user files, games, etc.
11:00: snapshots completed, uploaded to new site. I think a few people slipped through the cracks and were able to make some plays. They’ll all have to be done over again on the new site. I just kicked all the games aside to block that. New site will be much easier to set into maintenance mode.
11:15: testing the ‘new’ Chez
11:25: played a few words on ‘Chez’ also testing on ‘Glad,’ only the ‘elves’ can log on for the moment…
12:30: redirects are set up, and a few people have already started to play on the new site. A couple issues were detected with managing tourneys. Otherwise, so far, sounds don’t seem to be working (if you use that optional ‘chime’), and the superscript ‘note’ option on Glad isn’t working. But those are trivial bits I will fix later.
2:45: just the few minor issues so far, ordinary play seems to be going very well.
7:30: Fixed a couple tourney script glitches, overall things went really smoothly.
Be sure to make yourself a new bookmark at your Chez or Glad PlayPanel, to make it easy to return. If you have one already, like in your browser toolbar, just right-click it, select ‘Edit’ (most browsers give this choice) and change the domain name part from ch3zmoi.com to chez.shufflerack.com and you will have your updated bookmark.
Also note that if you comment on this blog, your comment will not appear until I approve it (I approve them all, but weed out spam!). Sometimes I won’t get to it for hours, but I will!
Well done – very smooth transition!
Great – very nice. Thank you!
Seamless transition! Thank you for your expertise and patience with all of us. Thank God you are a brainiac 🙂
And heartfelt thanks and gratitude to our founder, Angela. Enjoy those grandbabies!
I also have the new site up in a bookmark– wasn’t all that hard at all.
Thank you , Ben , for making it so smooth for us all! I did notice that the Forum tab is missing! Is that permanent?
Yes, I wrote about that the other day, maybe on the ‘in site’ notice I put up. It was ancient, and I spent a lot of time getting it to conform and work, but finally gave up. My notice ON the forum that it was going away was only read by three or four members, besides the elves. So, it will be missed by a few, but not many. I looked at other forums, but in the end, it was cumbersome to have a non-integrated message mechanism — I had to approve all membership requests which made it awkward, and that was because about 20 bots were trying to get into the forum to spam us.
The most common need for contact was to ask about people who weren’t playing. But since those messages were largely unseen, that didn’t help much. Anyway, in a few months when I’ve recovered from this, I’ll think more about the need to get messages out and what else might be done.
Hi Benwood
I’ve noticed at the end of a three player game that the remaining tile values were doubled and added to the winner’s score rather than first being taken off the loser’s score and then added to the winner. I think this must be an error especially as someone with a significant value of tiles left at the end would not get them taken off their score.
I forgot about that. I revised the scoring on North American lexicons to end games as per North American rules. So that’s what you saw. Maybe I’ll revise that again for 3- and 4-player games to keep it the same — NA tournament and clubs only cover 2-player games.
I’ll look into that soon. For two-player games, the differential remains the same, but instead of the one not going out having a score lowered, the person going out goes up by that additional amount. For 3- and 4- player games, I realize I didn’t think that through all the way, the fact that there are extra players means that isn’t true, so I’ll fix that.
For SOWPODS, the scoring did not change. And I also left “Target” tourneys alone, as they are a variant and they are all used to the old scoring.
Thank you! 🙂