Weewar is back online, but I need to take it down for a few minutes to backup the database and clear out old games that are clogging up the server and Zapp’s cycles. We’ll be back shortly. Game timers will be reset upon return.
And we’re back. I deleted 24,000 games that were old and idle against an AI or had way too many rounds (e.g. from bots playing each other endlessly). Hope that makes things run faster and smoother.
Weewar is down again due to another database issue. We’re aware of the problem and are working to solve it. Please bear with us.
2:06pm EST: And we’re back!
We are experiencing some database issues today and are working to resolve them. Please bear with us.
Monday: We’re back online! Thanks to Aaron at EA for resolving the issue. I’ve reset all of the game timers.
Weewar will be taken offline at 2pm EST (UTC-4) tomorrow (Sunday) for a spam-fighting update. See it in your time.
Update 2:03pm: We’re back. Players who have not yet ended their turn in a game are no longer allowed to post in the forums. This should help reduce the wave of forum spam we have been experiencing recently. If you are a new player who needs help before ending your turn in a game for the first time, please contact us for help.
Weewar is experiencing some memory problems, causing the server to go down spontaneously over the last couple days. We’re looking into it.
Update Aug. 21, 12:28am: We are still having server issues. Zapp will be turned off while we try to figure out the cause of the memory problems.
Update Aug. 22, 2:51am UTC-4: Server memory problems continue, unfortunately. In addition, in the process of clearing out old Zapp games, game actions within about an hour of the start of the latest downtime (roughly midnight til now) may have accidentally been lost. Sorry. If you are having problems with a game not loading, please contact us.
Update Aug. 24, 1:30am UTC-4: Server is getting better now. I have just deleted 18,247 games on Duck Island involving Zapp where the last move was made over two months ago (or the game was finished). These are mostly games that are automatically created when a user joins Weewar. I also removed bad references to missing profile images. Zapp is back on too.
Weewar is currently experiencing some issues with its Amazon servers. Please bear with us as we work to address the problems.
Update (July 12, 20:16 EST): We are back up and running though Weewar is a bit slow. The Amazon server on which Weewar was hosted seemed to have stalled, so we had to start a new instance and migrate everything over from a backup. Map images are being regenerated now. The forums are down temporarily. Games with less than 1 day turn limit should have had their clocks reset. Emails probably don’t quite work yet. Avatars are lost temporarily.
Thanks to the folks at EA for working on this yesterday and today and getting Weewar back up and mostly running.
Update (July 13, 21:02 EST): Weewar is back up and running. Forums are up, board images have been regenerated, and Zapp is running again. Unfortunately, avatar images were lost. You can upload a new one on your profile page. Thanks for your patience.
We have temporarily removed Facebook Connect from Weewar as we sort out some issues regarding it. If you normally log in using Facebook Connect and did not have a Weewar password set, please send us a message on the contact page and we will get back to you with a temporary Weewar password. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope to have Facebook Connect back up and running soon.
p.s. we’re aware the blog styling is off and are trying to figure out what happened there.
As some of you have noticed, Weewar is being a bit slow these past couple days. We’re looking into the cause and will be doing quick maintenance today at 4pm EST (UTC-5). See it in your time.
Update 4:05pm: We’re back up and will be monitoring Weewar for slowness issues closely.
Weewar will go down briefly on Sunday, December 11, 2010 – at 8PM EST to fix a bug regarding invites to new players. See it in your time.
This was originally for Saturday, December 10 at 10PM EST but has been rescheduled.
Weewar will go down for a few minutes at 10pm EST today for a security update. See it in your time zone.
Update 10:15pm: And we’re back!
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