We created a simple to read list to get an overview of new names: http://popodeus.com/statistics/names/new/
If you think the list could be better, you should comment and tell us what you think of it. We’ll be updating that page with some more neat things real soon.
Today there was a funny name that stuck out from the others:
This is most likely still within the game rules, but is borderline stupid looking. Have you found any funny names you think should be mentioned? Let’s catch them all!
We’re reaching end of July and Popmundo forum threads are at around 1,670,xxx. That is, 1.67 millions and counting up.
Popodeus forum search only contains a small fraction of all the threads created daily inside Popmundo. The main reason for this is our conservative indexing speed and one access node (server). Current status of indexed threads from 1,000,000 up to 1,670,xxx looks like this:
As you can see, there’s much more red than white or green. And we have to fix that! So we’re going to take a different approach to this.
I will soon start a coordinated project hopefully with at least 10 volunteers so we can get most of the missing threads into the forum index. If you’re interested, drop me a mail at alanas.anikonis@popodeus.com and I’ll send more details when things are ready. Please state in your mail who your Popmundo character is and what forums you are subscribed to, and if you would not mind subscribing to forums that you don’t usually read. After indexing is done, you can of course unsubscribe. The indexing will most likely be done via your web browser and a Greasemonkey script, so make sure you have Firefox 3.5 or later installed. We can probably get started on this sometime in August, so it’s no rush, I have a few security issues to take care of first.
Don’t hesitate. There’s not much work involved on your part. The indexing is mostly automated and you only have to leave on your computer and either watch it happen or go watch some TV :D
More forum statistics coming soon!
Alanas Anikonis is no more!
Cause of death: Crushed by piano and too much snuggling.
Mr Alanas “Snugglernaut” Anikonis had a sudden failure of heart and body when a piano appeared from the sky and fell on top of him. Rumors indicate he had been praying too much to the evil demi-God Melvin. There’s a great chance this was all intentional and a government cover-up!
Alanas left behind a mourning wife Ida Albarella, and too many kids to count, but we’ll try anyway:
Shara Anikonis
Sheryl Gosset
Vladimir-Cheslav Anikonis
Sharolyn Rääts
Yara Lehtinen
Ace Anikonis
Mangoosh Albarella
Io Anikonis
Oona Anikonis
Snorri Albarella
Hope Rose
Sheena Rose
Matthew Rose
May your new mommies and daddies give you a good and safe life.
Rest in peace, Alanas Anikonis.
To those who worry about the future of Popodeus. Worry not, it will keep running and new stuff will be added soon.
Stay tuned.
(No frogs or unicorns were hurt while writing this statement.)
Today I decided that we should keep track of the forum messages that have been tagged as “Official post”
As it turns out, it was a good thing the code is getting updated, because due to the way messages are parsed, official posts never got indexed at all. Our indexer just skipped them entirely. Oops! So the code has now been fixed to include official posts and also adds this additional info bit into our database. We’ll push out the new feature later today.
In case you haven’t noticed already, we changed the Forum Search page to have separate search fields for topic, message, sender and receiver. You might remember that the old Popodeus website had same kind of search interface and due to some pressure, we changed back to that old style interface. The one field search (which is much more powerful, if you know how to use it…) can still be accessed by http://popodeus.com/forum-search/legacy.jsp. It’s our fault that this one field style search wasn’t as popular, since we failed to provide good examples on how to use it. Some day, someone will probably take their time to write a power user’s guide… maybe.
Anyways, happy searching. And if you have suggestions for improvements, tell us.
Finally, after a very very VERY long long LONG wait, we got ourselves a new server to run on!
This new server platform is kindly provided by Onur Kızmaz and his company. This is an amazing offer and will enable you, the users of Popodeus, to gain access to new exciting applications. We have for some time now been restricted by slow internet access and generally busy system. This new server should show improved performance.
We would also like to take the opportunity to once again say THANK YOU to Beth Christou and Marlon Stone from Popmundo, without your donation the Popodeus domain would have been lost.
And thank you to all users of Popodeus.
Known issues:
As always, if you find any problems with the new server, please send feedback, so we can fix any errors we may have caused in the move.
For instance we were hoping to upgrade everything to the latest and greatest, but we were unable to upgrade to Wordpress 3.0 so it will have to be done at a later stage.
Don’t miss out the new simple helper tool we’ve added to Popodeus.
http://popodeus.com/statistics/artist/
We added the Tour Banner helper, so you can easily pull a list of any artist’s tour schedule.
Then you can copy-paste this text into a Google Spreadsheet or maybe Photoshop, if you plan on making a tour banner for your artist.
Try it out and send us feedback!
We’re in the process of installing a new server and moving all of our data to it and later on we’ll test it for reliability etc. So far things are looking pretty decent. The transition will not happen around Thursday or Friday this week.
This new server will enable us to have a faster and reliable connection to the internet, so you should notice the site becoming quicker. This server upgrade will also mean that we can finally release some of our software that has been so long waiting for this new server (snuggly, avatar counters, more statistics and graphs etc.).
There’s lots to test and migrate so that everything works as before (or even better). So far there’s only been a few incompatibilities with the underlying file system and finding out a few hard coded paths that don’t react to all the various configuration files, but those things are easy to fix, if and when we find all of them.
So next week, we’ll have a brand new, and hopefully an always online and accessible Popodeus!
Whenever you change your name, we track the changes daily:
http://popodeus.com/statistics/names/new/
However, if you change your name several times in a day we won’t notice anything. But nobody gets a new name many times during a day, right?
Later today we will launch a daily list of name changes that happen daily.
Your name is tracked by Popodeus, be sure of it. And if other players pay enough attention, we will find the offensive names quicker.
To be updated….
After a recompile of the Popodeus application sources and restart of the web server, the pages are drawn up twice when you load it. This is really really odd… we’re working on solving this technical issue.
And we have no clue what may be causing this glitch….
