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Off Topic / Re: Subpixel is now rotating boards?
« on: August 24, 2023, 08:41:06 AM »
this has been discussed before outside the forum, Idle and Subpixel are ran by the same person.  while the intention of Idle is for it to beat everyone else's online time, Subpixel has some other intention that involves rotating around every board on the forum on a 10 second interval doing something else.  the most likely explanation as already mentioned is some form of archive process, it's not a "DOS".

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Drama / Re: until we meet again
« on: August 22, 2023, 02:32:52 AM »
reported

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General Discussion / Blockland Online and Blockland Glass
« on: July 21, 2023, 01:29:25 PM »
I wanted to get some thoughts & opinions from however little users still remain on this forum about BLO and BLG:



BLO is a project I started before I joined Glass as a core developer, the original intention was to create a Steam Workshop-like in-game interface for downloading and managing add-ons.
To cut a long story short: the client was never finished (only a prototype was made) and I have been maintaining and making small changes to the site itself for over 7 years while simultaneously working on Glass throughout ~5 of those years.  BLO ended up just being an alternative add-on repo without the benefit of any in-game features like Glass, but it is one that has been online for almost as long as Glass has.

I ended up leaving Glass after a few years to spend more time working on personal and work-related projects and only ended up coming back recently because of the Glass breach incident.
Jincux, the founder and lead developer, is insanely busy nowadays and Crown, another core developer, appears to have dropped off the face of the earth.  After a discussion with Jincux it was agreed that ownership and upkeep of the domain be transferred to myself and that myself and a few others (Conan & McTwist) be added as owners to the GitHub org.  During this period, we were also trying to recover as much as we could from the original Glass VPS after the damage that was done.

Blockland Glass has now been successfully running on a new VPS for about 2+ months now with a completely rewritten version of the website, and Lake (new client developer) recently made a pull request on GitHub where he has updated the Glass add-on to remove all features that no longer work with the shutdown of Glass Live et al.  His PR was approved and it's now on the development branch, but it has yet to be publicly released solely because I haven't got around to rewriting the Glass' upload process on the website yet.

So with the focus primarily on Blockland Glass now, and the fact that I am paying for it alongside Blockland Online, I wanted to see if anyone else could think of a reason for BLO as it is to exist anymore.

My thoughts are that it would be best to shutter Blockland Online, take all the add-ons off of it, merge them into Blockland Glass, and then send an update order to all BLO add-ons to re-download themselves with version.json information pointing to Glass' repo instead.  All files, media, comments, view counts and descriptions could be transferred over.

The only major differences I can see between BLO and BLG are the following:

  • BLO has a "Brick Finder" tool that lets you do reverse brick UI name searches, primarily used for finding missing bricks in saves or identifying what add-on a brick is part of.  It would be trivial to move this to Glass.
  • BLO allows for add-on uploading without being held for review1.  I am willing to compromise on this by allowing Glass add-ons to be uploaded immediately, but not publicly displayed until they are reviewed by a moderator (whereas they used to simply not be available at all until review).

Any comments would be appreciated.

On an additional note, Glass will remain supported on v21 only and there is no intention at this time to have the service running for Blockland Rebuilt or other versions of the game.  Rebuilt have a fully working copy of RTB, which a lack thereof in v21 was the sole reason Glass was created in the first place.  There is no reason to compete with their own service and the Rebuilt team themselves have no current intention of getting their version of RTB working for v21, it only makes sense that it is done this way to avoid having two popular content services running at the same time on both versions of the game.  Any Glass add-ons running in Rebuilt should still update provided Support_Updater is installed, although I understand their preference is that you (as a developer) re-upload your add-on to their version of RTB.

1 Contrary to popular belief, this has never meant BLO was un-moderated.  I have always been notified of every new upload and update, and manually check the add-ons usually within 24 hours.  Users also still need to prove they own the game first in order to upload.

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums
« on: May 29, 2023, 03:09:52 PM »
There was a point when the forums suffered a timewarp incident, so any old threads that are still active will have this weird effect where a link to a post will bring you to the wrong spot

i remember that incident and watched it unfold, i forgot this was an effect of it though

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums
« on: May 29, 2023, 02:01:33 PM »
why does linking to a post on this thread take me to the previous page instead

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most should be recovered. however no guarantees on all mods as the zip dump the attackers dropped cannot be confirmed to contain all the addons, or to contain safe versions of them. there's also a file count discrepancy between what they dumped and what was deleted off the cdn, which may mean some addons are gone.

to further clarify, the cdn was completely erased and the "zip dump" was uploaded by the attacker(s) in its place.

the zip is encrypted but apparently has the contents of the cdn in it prior to deletion (the file names weren't encrypted so are viewable).

it's either:

- an attempt at a joke, i.e. a "we can see the data but can't ever get it back" deal.
- leverage for some form of ransom or demand, although to my knowledge no ransom or demand has been received to this date.  we wouldn't respond any way.

the file count discrepancy is not between the now-deleted cdn and the dump, the file count discrepancy is between what we actually have left over on the glass server and the dump.

the now-deleted cdn is exactly that - deleted - there is nothing to compare it with any more except that encrypted dump file, and as far as i'm aware it is literally just the entirety of the cdn but encrypted.  we will never know if they actually made modifications to the contents because the contents are encrypted, and even if we had the password it would still be considered an untrustworthy source.

regardless, we're confident that in time all add-ons can be restored as the ones that are missing can easily be found elsewhere.  what might be gone forever are all the add-on pages' screenshots since they were also stored on the cdn and it is unlikely anyone would have saved those specifically.

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Shores of Hazeron

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Drama / Re: Plastiware was arrested for child research
« on: January 20, 2023, 03:59:05 PM »
There's simply no happy ending or comeback story for this type of crime.

Your pathetic attempt at saving face by trying to explain yourself falls flat against the tens of thousands of children that are loveually exploited every year in the USA.
The people who view and download this content are as guilty as the people who commit and produce it.

I don't think any punishment or rehabilitation produced by the courts have affected your disposition for minors and I remain unconvinced that you have changed.
There's also no such thing as a former child enthusiast and all I can feel is contempt for you and the mental illness that you have.

If you aren't here to try and convince us, what the hell other reason are you here for? "Clarification"? Nobody cares about how life is going for a convicted love offender.

You are back here on a Lego forum at your own discretion telling us how your conviction wasn't fair (of which you had your chance to defend yourself in court) and for that reason alone I believe your rehabilitation has already failed.

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Off Topic / Re: Hiring dev(s) for a Blockland-inspired game engine
« on: August 17, 2022, 01:21:40 PM »
i love the minions menu open sounds, block fart noises and background music.

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Off Topic / Re: Hiring dev(s) for a Blockland-inspired game engine
« on: August 14, 2022, 06:15:08 PM »
So yeah, it's a crypto scam

i also suspected this when i discovered that one of the website's sub-domains had some sort of nft wallet/store app (https://id.brownbricks.com/p/my-nfts), but i kept forgetting to come back here and post about it and didn't know about their twitter either.

OP has been working on this "game" since 2019 since before nfts were popular, so he probably figured out recently that he could breathe new life into his project by grifting to the world's latest generation of handicaps.

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Drama / Re: Plastiware was arrested for child research
« on: July 30, 2022, 02:05:50 PM »
disappointing

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I brainfarted at first, but it's working again. I should have clarified that I couldn't sign into steam from BLO, but now I can.

I'll get it updated there shortly!

Done.

ah, Steam API might've been down again at the time, so you were probably right.
glad it's working now.

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Can't update Blockland Online's link due to BLO being down for maintenance

it most certainly is not.

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