Jun 27 2009, 05:49 PM
There will be maintenance during or around this timeframe,
The maintenance is merely shutting down the system and changing a few cables, then rebooting it. We estimate should not take longer than approximately 10 minutes.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Jcink
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May 23 2009, 04:09 AM
Today I'm pleased to announce that we have launched a brand new face for the JFB website. It includes a fresh custom design, and video (Thanks Jeff 
) as well.
To check out the update, visit: http://jfb.jcink.com
We hope current users and newcomers will enjoy the updated design. 
Please let us know what you think; if you find any problems in the layout/bugs on the site, do report them.
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Apr 20 2009, 09:54 PM
At 10:30 PM there was a service interruption. Our system was turned off to avoid improper shutdown before the UPS systems became exhausted. The server was rebooted once they became charged. Things will be a bit slow as the system warms up again and reloads all the sites into memory.
We apologize for any inconveniences.
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Apr 20 2009, 06:49 PM
Today I've issued a security update release for PHP-Quick-Arcade (3.0.21). This addresses a few security problems found by a user who alerted me about them via IRC (Name: mib_xqe8za), one being serious so please apply these updates as soon as possible. The update does NOT contain any bugfixes or new features.
This is a serious one, so make sure you do the Arcade.php edit below. In Arcade.php, find:
| QUOTE |
| $countquer = run_query("SELECT gamecat FROM phpqa_games $fav_quer".($_GET['cat']?" WHERE gamecat='".$_GET['cat']."'":"")); |
| QUOTE |
| // Patch - 04/20/2009 if($_GET['by'] || $_GET['by'] =="") { if($_GET['by'] != "game" || $_GET['by'] !="gameid" || $_GET['by'] !="about" || $_GET['by'] !="Champion_name" || $_GET['by']=="") { $_GET['by']='game'; } } |
This one is a potential problem, but not confirmed. Just apply it anyway, it stops an error message if it's messed with. Find:
| QUOTE |
| if (!mysql_fetch_array(run_query("SELECT id FROM phpqa_games WHERE gameid='".$_POST['gameid']."'"))) die("Ha! Like I'd leave myself open to THAT one"); |
| QUOTE |
| // Patch - 04/20/2009 $_POST['gameid']=htmlspecialchars($_POST['gameid'], ENT_QUOTES); |
Save and close Arcade.php, all done.
Next one is minor because they can only be run by somebody with mod/admin access, fix if you want. You can still upload php files and all that anyway so you just need to take care of who you make arcade admins.
In acpmoderate.php, find:
| QUOTE |
| $ArcadeCSSOpen = fopen("./banned.txt","w"); |
Delete the line directly below it, and replace it with;
| QUOTE |
| fputs($ArcadeCSSOpen,htmlspecialchars($_POST['cssforarcade'], ENT_QUOTES)); |
You can do the exact same to acp.php if you wish as well.
Alternatively you can go to http://quickarcade.jcink.com and download the files, upload Arcade.php and acp.php to get the update if you have not modified the arcade files.
Let me know if you have any trouble applying the update or have any questions.
Thanks.
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Apr 16 2009, 05:00 AM
Jcink.com celebrates 9 years of being online today!
Thanks to everyone; without all of the great community support and feedback, we would not be here right now. We look forward to many more years of services - here's to it!
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Mar 31 2009, 01:18 AM
We will be doing some cleaning of the forum host database for inactive forums. This is an advance notice for people to make sure to login to any extremely old boards they may have registered if they still need them. All you need to do is login to the root account of the board to preserve it, nothing more. If the board hasn't been touched for at least a year and quarter then you should log in.
I would take a moment to explain why we are doing this. In our terms of service there has always been a clause that forums inactive for 30 days can be deleted; but this has not been enforced because boards don't take up much space. The issue here is not space.
Registered boards have added a sigificant amount of files to the database. As a result, this makes doing proper backups of the system on our end more difficult and time consuming. We have noticed the last few backups took longer than projected and it was largely due to the sheer amount of files. Millions of files make up the database. This clearance is out of the interest of having easier and more speedy backups. We'll likely also be doing a RAM upgrade to the server to make things run even smoother and to complete this process faster as well.
We have been looking at sites that have not been logged into by the admin since July 2006 to Jan 08. That means nearly a year and a quarter of no activity, and most of the boards coming up haven't been used since 06 and 07, which is a long time.
Please login/save any very old sites you want that you might have registered in the past and forgot about for over a year. I'll close this topic when I decide to do the clearance soon, but I will give some time for people to save content.
If you have any questions regarding the clearance, please feel free to ask.
06-April-2009: The clearance is now taking place.
Thanks for your understanding and cooperation,
Jcink
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Mar 23 2009, 07:50 PM
At this time we are experiencing issues with our domain name servers. This is an issue with our domain host and not our servers, so it is not within our control. We will update you on the situation as more information becomes available. Apologies for any inconveniences.
Please bookmark the support board URL, which is our direct IP address so you can get updates on the issue:
http://96.242.25.2
Note that all of the skin images and everything else will be broken as well without any domain name server to direct the traffic right, but you should be able to navigate around.
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Feb 25 2009, 02:43 PM
A default skin change has been applied the forums.
As many already know, I redid the default skin to integrate our website into it recently. Thanks to the feedback here most bugs have been worked out, and the skin was generally well received, so I've decided to release it for public use.
We hope you'll enjoy this new skin, and let me know about any other bugs you find in the skin feedback thread posted above.
Thanks.
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Feb 15 2009, 10:50 AM
All skins are back online and working again. If you have any problems please let us know.
Thank you,
Gunblaza
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Feb 14 2009, 05:03 PM
A few older skins in the skin importer have crashed, they have been hidden from the importer until they are fixed. The main reason is due to a server upgrade over at the images host.
So do not panic if you see the red x's. Everything should go back to normal when the host upgrades their server.
Sorry for the inconvenience,
Gunblaza
JFB Skin Importer Manager
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