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20/01/2010: Downtime for maintenance by dmg

- This night (european time) a downtime is scheduled to update the http server. This should implies a few slowdown and a short downtime (around 1 hour).

Regards,
-- Damien

01/01/2010: Happy New Year! by dmg

- The OGS Staff wish you all an Happy New Year 2010.

24/12/2009: Merry Christmas by dmg

- The OGS Staff and myself would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

02/12/2009: Captured stones/suicide detection issue by Hourousha

- Hi everyone,

We're currently experiencing some issues regarding captured stones not being handled correctly and suicide move detection. If you are experiencing either of these two problems in your games, please report it as a reply to
http://www.online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=714 or
http://online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=714 . This will help us in fixing the board positions as soon as possible.

Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you very much for your patience!

Best,
Jon

EDIT: The bug is now fixed. For users still encountering phantom stones, please report the board number *only* at
http://www.online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=720 .

22/11/2009: Server update by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

Today, I'll update the OGS gaming engine and a lot of thing will change. I hope you'll like the new version and that all bugs were removed during beta testing.

-- Damien

*EDIT*: Updated! Enjoy :)

16/11/2009: Last days downtime by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

Here a quick translation of the tech words on the downtime that happened during the last three days (deadlines were extended).

The webserver lost successvely 2 hard drives of its RAID array on Friday 13th evening. It was restarted after a long maintenance this afternoon thanks to a lot of effort from technicians (who are, I must recall, free workers). No data was lost.

Technical maintenance will be planned to avoid the same thing to happens again.

If a new downtime happens again. Please take a look at http://senseis.xmp.net/?OGS/Status
Regards,
-- Damien

09/11/2009: Server maintenance this week by dmg

- Hello all,

The MySQL server will have several updates this week and some slowdown are expected during the night (GMT time).

Also a downtime will be planned to update the server hardware. I'll know more in a few days on this downtime.

Regards,
-- Damien

03/09/2009: OGS Bot runner change by dmg

- Hello everybody,

maproom's computer is now overcharged with bots. Maproom decided to give the position to Aloril who is also a computer go programmer. We agreed to it so now Aloril is the new bot runner.

Aloril is running under a unix-like system and thus won't be able to run AyaGo. Therefore, AyaGo and AyaGo6 will be closed in a few months.

In exchange, Aloril is planning on running a lot of bots of different level from 30k to 1d :).

Regards,
-- Damien

31/05/2009: Change in the rating system by dmg

- Hello OGS users,

Today, we have switched the rating system. There is no more a provisional stage but all players get a rating confidence (displayed on the profile page) depending on how many games they've played and the frequency of their games.

This rating confidence impact the ELO system on K Variable. The more your rating is confident the lower your K is. The more your opponent rating is confident, the higher your K is. (K' = K * opp rating confidence / your rating confidence).

Best regards,
-- Damien
PS: with this system, the three time out rules had been dropped also.

26/05/2009: Downtime for DB Crash by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

Due to a power outage, the OGS db have crashed yesterday. We made some mistakes when recovering the database and made a wrong correction on the deadline extension. Therefore several games were unduly timedout.

We have restored the database to the last coherent backup which was made 5 hours before the downtime. As a result a few moves have been lost. Sorry for the inconvenience.

All deadlines have of course been extended by 2 days.

Regards,
-- Damien

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