This is just a heads up that the poller has been moved to a different server so the IP you will see connecting to your shard every 5 minutes is 51.79.6.91.

This requires no action on your part unless you have firewall rules that need updating.

Everything seems stable so marking this as done.

If you are reading this you are now on the new server.

Still have a few things to do in background, reboots are possible but in general things should work now.

UO Gateway poller is also running on new server now.

Mail server has been successfully moved.

Going to start prepping to move web server now. To avoid inconsistencies in SQL data once the SQL has been migrated over to new server the old one will be shutdown and there will be downtime until DNS finishes propagating.

In the next week or so, the site and all services including UO Gateway will be getting moved. There will be a little bit of a period where things will appear down while DNS propagates as to prevent data discrepancy I will shutdown services on the old server once they are started up on the new one. G...

This was in 2023 but figured I'd share pics here as I kind of have some all over and can never find them when I do share it with others. IMG_20230606_195223.jpg 2x 100w Renogy solar panels setup to fold out Screenshot from 2026-04-02 10-47-23.png Equipment cabinet which can also stow the panels. Scr...

Got your PM. For some reason I can't find the shard.

Also I just redacted the emails so bots don't pick it up to send spam to them but I took note.

I'll look into this in a bit and get back to you, also not sure why you can't send PMs but I see I can't send you one either so will look into this too. The phpbb permission system is a hot confusing mess.

Did a tweak to the poller so shards that are set as inactive should get polled a little more often now, it happens within 2 hours or so. I'm not sure why your shard suddenly appeared offline but sent a PM for you to check a few things. It seems the poller can connect but the connection gets dropped.

Ok just found it, it should show up, but it's possible it vanishes again, seems something is glitching. It's showing up offline and went innactive but as long as it has votes it should still show up but for some reason it wasn't. It's showing up now. I will need to look into why that happened.

Does it still work when you try to vote for it? You can post the link here, I just need the ID part as I can't seem to find it by login server.

PM sent.

Been bad past couple days, it's slow on and off.

I just made an update to the shard management system, it is now possible to upload a banner image to the server, instead of pointing to a URL. This is now the only way to do it. Existing banners will be converted over time. This is made in effort to speed up the site and reduce the amount of queries...

Account management is now back online. I fixed a few things but in general I don't think there actually was an real issue that could result in a data breach so all is good. I still suggest changing passwords JUST in case though.

Upon further investigation today I really don't think there is anything to worry about as far as compromise goes, but there is some questionable code that still makes me a bit uncomfortable as it does open the site up to some XSS issues so for now that section will be disabled. I do plan to complete...

I detected some really odd activity in the logs that is sus and while I have no reason to think accounts have been compromised, I am also not 100% sure they have or not. I strongly suggest you change your passwords once you are able to. If you use the same password for other services, change it ther...

Figured I'd post something so people don't think UOG is completely abandoned. I don't do much with it and just let it run itself, but I am still around, and keep an eye on it. So here are some things I have planned for the future, it's not guaranteed they happen but it's just things I have in mind: ...

Yeah try adding it again, if it does not let you, pm me the email you used and I can delete shard so you can retry.

I fixed this by changing the captcha order and enabled registrations again. I don't remember why I had the captcha AFTER the email validation, but it probably makes sense to have it BEFORE. So when registering an account it submits, but requires to do a captcha separately after, before it sends the ...

I'm for it, sorta. I think it will be bad for those of us not in Alberta but Ottawa has been shitting on Alberta forever and screwing them over so I can't blame them for wanting to separate and if it happens I hope it lights a fire under our government. Alberta is our main source of income due to oi...

Yeah NGL it will be kinda sad when it's officially gone. Be nice if they just gave someone opportunity to take it over so we at least know it's going to stay up.

Yep I noticed that. Database error. It looks like the SQL server crapped out. Does not bode well unless there is a server admin that will actually look at it.

I got lazy/busy with other stuff so did not look at this yet but I did not forget about it.

I still have not sent a mass email to all original members yet, but need to sort out email server reputation before I do that...

Yeah it's still disabled for now. I need to completely redesign the registration process to have better validation steps before the email even goes out, so I can reduce mail traffic. Just been busy with other stuff, trying to race against time to finish lot of projects before winter comes. I am look...