Requests to activate FETO accounts!

[Falaflame]

(06-07-2014, 12:14 AM)Smash Bro Wrote: http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=8024
Didn't play much, but having my progress back would be nice.

This thread is for accounts under the usergroup "Account awaiting activation", not old accounts already activated. o:

You should still be able to access it. If not contact us and we'll do something.

[mrfurryfox]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90281 Activate me please~ Wanna play me some FETO

[FireKnight]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90283

Also, isn't it a little cumbersome that to play FETO new players have to both be approved validation for this forum, and then approved validation for FETO? Couldn't you just combine them into one? For example, when a person posts to get validated for this site, they could also list their FETO account so the admin could validate them at the same time? Therefore, instead of making prospective players wait 2-4 days and have to do an extra registration step, they'd only have to wait 1-2 days. I think this would help increase the player base of FETO.

[goofboy]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90292

Please activate my account so i can play som FETO

[Falaflame]

(06-10-2014, 01:55 PM)FireKnight Wrote: http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90283

Also, isn't it a little cumbersome that to play FETO new players have to both be approved validation for this forum, and then approved validation for FETO? Couldn't you just combine them into one? For example, when a person posts to get validated for this site, they could also list their FETO account so the admin could validate them at the same time? Therefore, instead of making prospective players wait 2-4 days and have to do an extra registration step, they'd only have to wait 1-2 days. I think this would help increase the player base of FETO.

Because FETO is still hard-coded into the IPB platform of the old forum. Furthermore, it's SaS's code, not ours. If we just pried it off of that forum, it would be a complete jumbled code mess. Sirocyl is working on making a brand new standalone FETO platform from scratch so that it isn't so dependent on a single forum.

And the reason why we made a separate forum is simple. The old forums is in a state of irrepairable damage. Spam bots have been a common invasion on the old forums, and it's not uncommon to see a single spambot make 50,000 garbage posts within a single minute. The other forums are a security red flag, and our goal is to kill the old forums entirely. Further the fact that more than half of the Admin Panel doesn't work there anymore and the issue is compounded.

Also, sirocyl will be here shortly. He's just got back from a plane flight. Apologies for the wait.

[sirocyl]

Massive jet lag, compounded with camping a couple nights at the airport.

Sorry for the relatively unannounced absence.

(06-10-2014, 01:55 PM)FireKnight Wrote: Also, isn't it a little cumbersome that to play FETO new players have to both be approved validation for this forum, and then approved validation for FETO?

Very, both for you and me.

(06-10-2014, 01:55 PM)FireKnight Wrote: Couldn't you just combine them into one? For example, when a person posts to get validated for this site, they could also list their FETO account so the admin could validate them at the same time? Therefore, instead of making prospective players wait 2-4 days and have to do an extra registration step, they'd only have to wait 1-2 days. I think this would help increase the player base of FETO.

Much as I would like to, the registration and validation steps are completely manual on both sides. It really does suck for both me and the community at large.
I could say, to post if you want to activate your account on FETO as well, in the forum activation posts.
However, we rarely read or pay much attention to the validation posts; as long as it's not obvious spambotting, we instantly activate the user.

I would like to change this, but it requires taking FETO (as we know it) offline and doing intense rocket surgery.

So, I'm going to take FETO offline eventually and perform intense rocket surgery.

[FireKnight]

(06-15-2014, 09:43 AM)sirocyl Wrote: Much as I would like to, the registration and validation steps are completely manual on both sides. It really does suck for both me and the community at large.
I could say, to post if you want to activate your account on FETO as well, in the forum activation posts.
However, we rarely read or pay much attention to the validation posts; as long as it's not obvious spambotting, we instantly activate the user.

I would like to change this, but it requires taking FETO (as we know it) offline and doing intense rocket surgery.

So, I'm going to take FETO offline eventually and perform intense rocket surgery.

Thanks for the validation, Sirocyl. Also, good luck with the renovation of FETO as it looks like a massive undertaking. I hate dealing with legacy code, especially other people's legacy code. Coupled with the fact it sounds like 1 particular coder made it meaning documentation is going to be practically lax and it was probably rushed to be released, it's not what I would call fun.

So, you have my admiration for tackling this challenge and I hope the legacy code doesn't cause too many self-inflicted concussions.

[sirocyl]

(06-16-2014, 09:28 PM)FireKnight Wrote: Thanks for the validation, Sirocyl. Also, good luck with the renovation of FETO as it looks like a massive undertaking. I hate dealing with legacy code, especially other people's legacy code. Coupled with the fact it sounds like 1 particular coder made it meaning documentation is going to be practically lax and it was probably rushed to be released, it's not what I would call fun.

So, you have my admiration for tackling this challenge and I hope the legacy code doesn't cause too many self-inflicted concussions.

I love you.

But yeah, you seem to understand 100% the dealings of refactoring someone else's project.
It's written in the kind of PHP that would make the Flying Spaghetti Monster lose his mind.
It wasn't one particular coder which wrote everything, but it has always been one particular coder at a time working on the stack. There never was a standard coding/style guideline, it's always been "write functions. if it works, great, if not, write more code to make it work".

There is no documentation. No coding diary, no comments, no changelogs, no git blames, no tags, no help files, readmes, wiki, doxygen, metadata, no beautifully-typeset TeX documentation on anything. The only thing that is documented, is what's not made in-house - IPB. And even then, it's sparsely documented because it's commercial software.

Part of the reason I'm divorcing the site from that crusty old board, is that we aren't renewing our license on it, leaving us in the dust as far as updates go.
We chewed over the decision to buy into the license for it, but decided against it, as the old board was on its last legs, and it's beginning to collapse now. It would not have lasted until now if we kept using the old system the way it was.
I cannot access major, important functions of the Admin CP, because it fails to load halfway through, running the server out of memory. (I can bet our hosting provider is none too happy with that, either.)

In addition to all that, the site, CMS, knowledgebase and media, FETO and all the services, were entirely built on IPB, which is a very questionable move in my opinion. Building a site on IPB is like designing a game engine on Internet Explorer. It works, kinda, but it looks ugly, is slow, and its practicality begins to wane over time, and you're left wondering what executive decision prompted you to make it that way.

And real life is kicking my ass at every turn.

I was originally planning on being "nice", and iteratively developing FETO, slowly moving it to a new platform, and keeping the user data sacred, but now, I don't think that's possible without either a second server, or spending hours slaving at the SSH terminal to make basic things work, and starting from scratch.
And due to the way it's programmed, it's hard-coded to use the one database, throughout all of its entangled scripts and functions.
Meaning, no staging, no sandboxed testing, no beta server.
We're developing on live, production code, and living on the edge.
We've had one catastrophic failure already, which was thankfully resolvable because I kept a backup of the site and databases.
I recently lost the 2TB HDD containing all my site backups and in-progress development and workspace. Which means, the "iterative development" strategy is straight out the window.
Every rime I try to make some progress here, something takes a massive dump.

But thanks for at least understanding the hell I go through.

[Paragon]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90336
May I please be activated.

[awesomeisawesome]

activate awesomeisawesome please

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http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90334

[FelixFelicis]

Just got my account activated for this Forum, wanted to get registered for old one to play the actual game :p

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90376

[HoshiNoSora]

Can you please activate my account?
http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90387

[fensti]

Everyone since Siro's last post has been activated.

[sirharper]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90395

I believe this is what you are looking for.

[Rynul]

http://forums.feplanet.net/user-577.html
Requesting account activation for FETO.

[Falaflame]

(07-16-2014, 02:59 AM)Rynul Wrote: http://forums.feplanet.net/user-577.html
Requesting account activation for FETO.

Did you register on the old forums, too? You'll need to provide a link to your profile on those forums for us to activate it, so you can access FETO.

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php

[ccooooll18]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90412
Please activate me. Thank you, beforehand.

[frambo]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90422

Hi Dudes if you could activate my account i would appreciate it, used to play this long time ago want to get back in to it

thank you !!

[EvilG]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?showuser=90409

[Bocaj]

http://oldforums.feplanet.net/index.php?...user=90338