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Discussion in 'General Discussion / Real life stuff' started by _MadisonBarks, Feb 28, 2014.

  1. _MadisonBarks

    _MadisonBarks THAT furry Donator

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    Hello there all!
    Some of you may have heard, because, well, I told you xD

    But I ended up creating a chatbox for the forums, that is hosted on my own server.
    Now, at the current time, it's in an extreme alpha. However, eventually, it'll look much better, and have some awesome features that I think you all will like (and for administration purposes, such as kicking, temp-banning, banning, and IP-based banning).

    Now, due to this being in alpha, there are almost guaranteed to be bugs.
    If you have a problem, just post it here, or send me a message. I'll see what I can do to fix it.

    I'll post the technical details below.
    If anyone has any experience in Node.js, PLEASE contact me. I would LOVE some help with this.
    I can't manage as many projects as I have.

    EDIT:
    Forgot the IP. Whoops.
    http://chatbox.fullhousedev.com
     
    _MadisonBarks, Feb 28, 2014
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  2. _MadisonBarks

    _MadisonBarks THAT furry Donator

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    So, the server is a 512MB RAM, dual-core cloud server hosted over at Vexxhost (Not my preferred host). Our application stack consists of Node.js and Redis for the database, and HAProxy for proxy purposes (and for future scaling, if needed).
    The server is currently running Ubuntu 12.04.3.
    All real-time communication is provided by Socket.io, and the website is provided by Express.

    --More details to come later--
     
    _MadisonBarks, Feb 28, 2014
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  3. speedy0114

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    What's the ip?
     
    speedy0114, Mar 1, 2014
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  4. _MadisonBarks

    _MadisonBarks THAT furry Donator

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    It's at the end of the post.
     
    _MadisonBarks, Mar 1, 2014
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  5. _MadisonBarks

    _MadisonBarks THAT furry Donator

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    Sorry for the downtime yesterday. I screwed up in configuring Node, and didn't place the server in a screen. Oops.
     
    _MadisonBarks, Mar 1, 2014
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  6. Mcc457

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    Minecraft:
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    It works perfectly!
     
    Mcc457, Mar 1, 2014
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  7. _MadisonBarks

    _MadisonBarks THAT furry Donator

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    As you guys are most likely going to experience bugs, the issue tracker is located at the following address:
    https://github.com/captgreen1/chatbox/issues
    Please, please, PLEASE use this liberally, for feature requests and otherwise.
    I will ALWAYS be checking it.
    I've already filed 3 bugs for myself, that I've noticed.
     
    _MadisonBarks, Mar 1, 2014
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  8. PhantomStar

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    I think it this is awesome, Wolf!
    ...I just need to stop crashing it every time I join. XD
     
    PhantomStar, Mar 2, 2014
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  9. _MadisonBarks

    _MadisonBarks THAT furry Donator

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    In response to that, the server is currently down to a weird bug that I can't trace down.
    Sorry for it....
     
    _MadisonBarks, Mar 2, 2014
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  10. cookiefonster

    cookiefonster Formerly known as WikiRigbyDude

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    Awesome so far. Can't wait to see it improve.
     
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  11. ANumber2Pencil

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    GG Austin GG
     
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  12. _MadisonBarks

    _MadisonBarks THAT furry Donator

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    The random bug seems to have been squashed.
    If you get an error page, please please PLEASE file a bug report.
     
    _MadisonBarks, Mar 2, 2014
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