Maintenance, changes and upgrades

Hey there, in the coming days (possibly weeks) we'll look into overdue maintenance tasks and some upgrades for EntropiaPlanets.

On the backend the changes will be huge (new server, new software, new db, etc). Since our time and knowledge is limited this might take a while, best case days, worst case weeks. The site might be dysfunctional, in read-only mode, doing strange things, we might lose changes made during the maintenance period (for example posts) and we might lose some features for a period of time (for example the forum-wiki bridge). But do not worry, as always the future is brighter than ever ;)

P.S. If there's someone experienced with server administration and stuff we could always use some help :)

 

You are right, it's a crazy amount of money and effort poured into a black hole. However, the EU community would be big enough for a site like EntropiaPlanets to prosper (content and info-wise, not economically) but the grand majority of the community doesn't seem to be interested in an independent, non-commercial, totally community orientated site. That's the major issue. Nevertheless, also since we are pretty much the last site of its kind we'll keep going, and planning to do so for much longer than EU will :) The worst-case scenario for EntropiaPlanets after EU's death is being integrated with a more general gaming project we are working on for some time already. At any rate, the future for EntropiaPlanets is brighter than ever. :)

 

Alrighty, we are on the new server but many things are still severely broken. But we also have a few new features already :) Probably will still take a while (days-weeks) until we are back to 'normal' and a little longer until we'll see some some real improvements.

 

We have reached about the same state that we had on the old server but on the new server everything is a little faster :) And a couple of small improvements are in already, and a lot of tiny ones such as background image rotation, Discord widget, wiki menu update, etc.

So we officially leaving maintenance mode. In case you find something not working please report. Same if you have suggestions for improvements.

And thank you very much @theProphet and @San for the offer. We managed to get the server change done without consuming your valuable time. Yet there's still a lot left to do that is definitely beyond our skills, so... :)

 

Anti-spam measures stepped up a bit.

 

Apologies for the issues of past 2 weeks, like downtime, login not working properly, icons missing, etc. It's just a sign of us fiddling around with various elements to improve the experience. As a result most pages are loading 20-30% faster already. Also there was a relatively big change regarding content...

We are far from done yet, so expect more issues :)