If you are lucky, and have questions or concerns or issues with the new UI you might just catch an HCS staff member visiting us in irc and be able to get a word in about it. No promises though. Bionic Bovine seems to have gone into a sulk because of thwarted flirtations or perhaps ignored overtures.

So mind your manners, and bring your best stomping boots because we expect to see things hopping and I for one would really rather not have to do some thumping of heads to go with it. If in doubt, check the MOTD for what the rules are, where to file your complaints or send your bribes. If you are new to our site then you should be reading the MOTD anyway because ignorance of the rules is no excuse.

-Zukira
Empress of Tentacles
Wielder of the Necronomicon
Mistress of Cats

It’s time to hand over the reigns.  Today ZidaneT will step down as sole administrator and in his place will magically appear the mighty Zukira and PonyT.  Both are long time players and trusted members of the community and I’m sure they will be both welcomed and hated in equal measure

I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say this is a much welcomed change, and wish all the best for the suckers new admins.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Since a lot of people seem to have trouble understanding the lingo when they first come onto irc, i thought i’d post this handy helpful guide so even the fresh-faced beginners can understand some of the more non-obvious acronyms we use on FSIRC.

enjoy!

A helpful guide to acronyms for the new folk.

Slowly but surely things are coming together. We now have a very shiny help section which, whilst incomplete, should be finished off over this weekend… if i can scrape up enough motivation to write all the help files.

We also have the labs up and running, it’s pretty bare at the moment but over the next week I’ll be migrating the development over to the labs so we can work on things there and hopefully get a little feedback from you guys.

stay tuned folks, strange things are afoot!

ZidaneT

Groovy Code Monkey

Requests per second:    1913.75 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       2.613 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.523 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Oh yeah baby.  With a little tinkering, the website is now capable of serving 1913 pages every second. One thousand, nine hundred and thirteen pages per second baby!… Not bad, even if i do say so myself.

Feel free to tell me how awesome i am, and with any luck i’ll have the dev labs up soon (so people can see, and take part in, the funky stuff we are working on behind the scenes).

Since so many of you complained about the vomit coloured website, we have a shiny new one.  It’s powered by WordPress, which is proving itself to be very shiny indeed, and some rather awesome custom plugins I had to write to get all the IRC stuff wedged in here.  check out the ever-so-stylish chat/stats/qdb!

The new format and software means that I can keep you up-to-date on the various things i have planned and you have requested, like fsweb and the api.  With a little luck and a following wind, it will enable us to have some of our more experienced players and chatters to be able to post their own peices.

So, feel free to poke around, leave comments and generally make a nusciance of yourself.  Please keep it clean though, i really dont want to have to spend all day moderating comments….