Top Games for October 2023

Update for 08/01/23

Manually cleared the votes from some games that didn't have their votes cleared.

More importantly, added an index on a field in the DB that was causing SQL slowness, so the site loads much faster now as you may have noticed.

Update for 02/21/23

I've updated the add/edit listing page to add a new field for 'MSSP Port' which can be used by games that want the MSSP crawler we run to connect on a different port so as to not muddy up their primary connection port monitoring.

While on the add/edit listing page I also cleaned up some of the text.

Update for 01/27/23

Updated the MSSP page with a big more info on the plaintext MSSP response.

Update for 01/04/23

Voting: There is a bug in the vote code I'm tracking down that is counting votes multiple times. The good news is it happening to everyone so the order of votes are accurate, though the actual counts are skewing high. There is also an issue with the vote reset at the top of the month. I'm going to be working on that too, for now I just manually reset it. Apologies for the issues. Been busy with holidays and such.

Listings: removed HellMOO since they shutdown.

Update for 11/28/22

Voting: Fixed a bug where votes were not being tallied. I've run the tally in lookback mode to capture votes from the last ~week in the tally, so none were actually lost.

Listing Page: Fixed a bug where webclient URL was not being generated with the proper port

Update for 11/21/22

Voting: I made some further improvements and bug fixes to the code that handles voting and tabulationg votes.

Password Reset: We finally got approved for Amazon SES production (24 hour SLA be damned apparently) and password reset emails will now work again and ACTUALLY be delivered.

Update for 11/20/22

Menu Updates

• Moved the menu to a link based foundation powered menu
• Moved MudVerse logo into menu, made much smaller
• Moved menu to top of site

I hadn't looked at the voting code in a while and I noticed a few bugs. My original intention was to make it so you could only vote once per day, but the way I was tabulating votes actually made it so you could vote once per hour (I was clearing out votes while tabulating, which meant I lost who had voted already).

I've done a few things to update the way it works:

• No longer clearing out tabulated votes, instead scope the vote tabulation query to the previous hour.
• Updated the vote page to state you can vote only once per 24 hour period.
• If you try to vote when you are on cooldown it will tell you your vote isn't logged
• When your vote is successful it will let you know.

Keeping the log of the previous votes instead of tabulating and emptying the table makes sense-- I think in 2007 I was more worried about that table trending toward infinity, but it's really not an issue. Having the audit log of votes will also let me more easily investigate if someone is botting.

Edit / View Listing Page:

• Added a 'webclient url' field in the connection info of the add/edit listing that will overwrite the default Sindome Public Webclient used to connect to games using 'Play Now' on the game details page.
• For games that provide a custom webclient URL, the play now button will now use that URL
• Test Connection on edit game details will use the custom webclient URL for testing connections
• Game banners are back on the page, and positioned better. Try to upload a banner and not a weird sized image :)
• Got rid of ugly green coloring and changed to more greyscale for various game info elements on page
• Fixed broken banner image links for sponsored games
• Streamlined the page a bunch to make it easier to edit / add & cleaned up styling

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Update for 11/12/22

Game Listings Pruned

We have gone through all games in our database and removed the dead games. This amounted to 62 games that were no longer connectable, and who also didn't have a valid website where we could try to get updated connection information. If your game was removed but was still online, feel free to create a new listing with updated connection and website information. We also pruned some spam listings.

Updates

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