Alright .. I rather unwisely tried to change the forum around without thinking it through, it needs more thought and input so I've reverted that. If there are any problems with the forum let me know, but it should be the posts+users from after the change with forums from before the change.

Hi, Is there an introduction thread? My name is Larkin. I live in New England and I'd like to play Diplomacy. I am gullible and easily manipulated. I expect that I would need some tutoring in online play so I would probably make a perfect puppet. Oh no! I'm having an anxiety attack... Larkin Shenan...

Whatever you just did seems to have solved it. Games now process when everyone has readied. Also, though it may be obvious from the lack of continuing complaints, the "sticking" problem where pages wouldn't load is a thing of the past. Thanks for keeping the site going. I'm new here, and it's great...

If the big technical issues are fixed, I have a couple suggestions. I saw these first two issues come up with people who never played Diplomacy before. https://webdiplomacy.net/intro.php should say there are Spring and Autumn phases each year, and ownership of supply centers is only calculated at e...

Hi,

This is related to IPv6 IPs I believe; either disable IPv6 clients or change wD_Sessions and wD_AccessLogs so the IP column can be null. Hopefully a new release will correct this soon.

Diplomacy, bacon and casinos eh.. The dreams I remember seem to be mostly my mother forcing me to go back to high school to complete some unit I didn't finish and me doing anything to avoid it / postpone it. Weird business, I'd prefer casino-bacon

Afraid so I don't think they're very worthwhile myself, but what can you do

Okay I think I've found what's going wrong; there was a hook in ajax.php that meant when orders were submitted that could act as a trigger, but I was looking in the vote code.

Processing should hopefully continue when all players are ready now, but let me know how it goes.

Okay .. reading into it more it looks like there are exemptions for "strictly necessary" cookies, which includes storing user preferences, authentication, website functionality etc, so the Accept/Deny cookies banners are really only for cookies relating to tracking. Well that's a relief .. still not...

We're doing a few things to try and modernize webDip a bit, one of which is getting compliant with the GDPR cookie rules. I think it's absurd; it can only affect cookies on the site you're visiting not tracking cookies in 3rd party requests, and it's something a user should set themselves in their b...

Righto, well let's see how it goes. The change shouldn't have any negative effects at least

Thanks guys, that is good news. I've made a change so that right after order submission there is now a check to see if the game needs to be processed, but now that I think about it I'm not sure if that's the issue here. The problem is that everyone is Ready and has voted that they're Ready in a game...

Yep that should be what it's doing. Previously in that circumstance the game would get processed immediately within the board page itself, but now a flag is written so that the gamemaster knows to process the game next round (which should occur every 15 seconds or so)

Hmmm.. well you do need to view the game in order for it to get marked that processing is ready. The idea is that previously games would get processed when they needed processing and were viewed by a user, so instead the game is flagged as being ready for processing when viewed by a user and should ...

How long would you say you have to wait for? It shouldn't really take very long, the rate should be once every 5 seconds or so

The bots weren't giving orders briefly there, thanks for letting me know about that, and there was some brief gamemaster downtime. Just getting more familiar with how memcached works in practice

Okay I've changed the functionality so that when a player sees that all members are ready it leaves a hint/flag for the gamemaster to process it next round, rather than it getting processed within the board directly. Let's see how this goes

Ah thanks I think I missed that. Okay, I think this should be straightforward. Good news that it seems smoother. Are there any pages in particular or just in general? Votes previously caused an immediate process in the board code. The api/board code is best to tally votes/orders but not a good place...

Yep that's fixed, I just turned up the error reporting to show warnings and previously that was under the threshold to report. Looking promising.. no deadlocks, stable speeds and no issues for a few hours at least .. https://webdiplomacy.net/images/Untitled.png Still more optimizations to go but I t...

Hi Nescio, Did you put in any votes or did you have any votes going before it started processing in a loop? The issue should be resolved, but if this happened due to you placing a vote it would make sense, but if it happened spontaneously there might be something strange going on with the bot voting...