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Website News Archive / Site switchover complete

« on: April 27, 2014, 16:23:46 »

Today we're live with a lot of behind the scenes updates, but also a few tweaks here and there - namely at the moment we are experimenting with:

- a new API path
- Unzipped Modules (!) This is in a testing phase, we may be turning this on and off while testing a few things on the public.
- a lot of visual tweaks
- UTF-8 support, hurrah for Unicode
- PNG support added to profile picture upload
- Download list of all of your favourites (allows you to wget them, basically), Go to your favourites list and scroll to the bottom.
- Screening crew can now rename files in the upload queue.
- There's quite a lot I can't tell you about, too, but tadaa!


If you spot any problems, please report them along with a few steps on how you got the problem to manifest.

Cheers!

(Ha! I have a beer fund, if you want to drop a coin. beer at modarchive.org) :-)

- m0d


P.S There is this news item from 1997:

A new year, a new Mod Archive! You asked for changes and we listened. The biggest changes are:

- All mods are now zipped!
- The interface is now much cleaner (If you have Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape 3.0).
- The Mod Archive now runs across multiple servers! www.modarchive.com now stores all html files, logs and data files. This server is a Dell Pentium 166 with a SCSI RAID disk array running BSDI and is on its own T1 line! www.watson.org (the old server) stores all of the zipped mods and handles uploads. This server is a Gateway P133 with many, many disk drives and 96 megs of Ram. It runs FreeBSD and is on a T3 line that it shares with thousands of other computers. www.modarchive.com is instantly updated whenever an upload is made to www.watson.org.

Gosh we are old.

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Website News Archive / NEWS! News news.

« on: April 15, 2014, 22:06:12 »

In a week or so the site will have some maintenance downtime, not for very long (we're planning on 10 minutes). During this time the site will undergo a UTF transformation, meaning our Scandinavian and German (and whoever else uses Umlauts) can bask in their glory.

Additionally, a quiet renovation is being done and should be ready in time for the switch over.

Additionally additionally, some of our staff will be attending this weekend's Revision Demoparty in Germany. Alpha C, m0d & Saga Musix will be there, so if you happen to be near (you can spot m0d a mile off, its the t-shirt) come and say hello!

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Website News Archive / Updated: TMA Recovery

« on: April 03, 2014, 04:12:27 »

The server is now fully operational again. The last outage was the insertion of the (finally good) new disk.

- m0d.

This has been a terrible week for TMA, unfortunately it looks like the hosting company may have replaced our broken disks with more broken or worn out disks, so right now the site is under performing as a result of this.

Hopefully we will not go down again, but it's hard to tell how long this will continue to work until they have resolved the issue (this time without making me rebuild the entire sodding server from scratch). Grrrrrr,

Update: The server is now running on at least one fully working disk, there will be further downtime next week while the new "new" replacement disks are installed. Then hopefully that will be the end of the disruption.

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Website News Archive / Modarchive.org downtime/catastrophic disk failure

« on: April 01, 2014, 05:13:33 »

On 29th March 2014 the worst case data loss scenario occurred, our RAID system had both disks fail at exactly the same time which meant the entire site and other services hosted on it were (and still are) affected. Due to diligently made backups, we suffered no major loss of data. The most inconvenience has been having to rebuild server configuration from scratch as some of it was well out of the scope of the backup.

We are missing about 60 modules which were uploaded between 27th and 29th March 2014, so if you noticed yours have gone missing from the processing queue, please re-upload them.

Unfortunately the site isn't fully operational yet as some systems are still being tested to make sure they behave normally. You may notice some features have a popup which mentions the area is in lockdown. This is normal.

Meanwhile, in parallel to rebuilding the server from scratch, the original broken disks have been shipped to an associate to try and see if it is possible to get some of the data for other services retrieved.

If you spot an anomaly on the site, please report it on the forum, we will have a look at it.

Other sites affected:

milkytracker.org
lite.modarchive.org
orgasmod.com

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The Lobby / MOVED: Request

« on: February 26, 2014, 01:41:03 »

This topic has been moved to Wanted: Music for Projects.

http://forums.modarchive.org/index.php?topic=3525.0

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MilkyTracker News / Google+ Community Added

« on: November 04, 2013, 22:57:17 »

A Google+ Community for MilkyTracker has been started. If you're a G+ user please join and spread the word.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103771269372172208743

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Website News Archive / Parteh time! The UKs biggest demoscene party is back!

« on: August 03, 2013, 23:44:05 »

Snipped from a post by community member Deltafire

Sundown is located in the seaside town of Budleigh Salterton on the south coast of England, in the land of cider, fish & chips, and nudist beaches. It runs Friday to Sunday on the 6th - 8th September, and is the perfect place to spend the last days of summer.

The party hosts a number of competitions, including streaming, tracked, chiptune and exe music. Remote entries are accepted.

For more details please visit the Sundown website:

http://sundowndemoparty.net/

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Website News Archive / Just some numbers :)

« on: April 23, 2013, 12:04:11 »

Since 2002 (which is when we started recording download hits) there have been 60,410,662 downloads.

The current archive has 142,483 files

The current size stands at 62,962,948,524 bytes (uncompressed, we don't store the compressed filesize in the database).

We have a total of 5,621 members of which 1,504 are artists and 44 are reviewers.

There are currently 15,443 comments and 216 published reviews.

These stats were last calculated on 23rd Apr 2013

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Website News Archive / 2012 Additions Torrent now available

« on: February 19, 2013, 22:32:44 »

All of the additions from 2012 have been generously generated by jantore and seeded ready for your leeching!

2012 Additions Direct Link

Other Torrents

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Website News Archive / We're still alive...

« on: February 12, 2013, 17:10:14 »

There hasn't been much to report on lately, which is why this page has seemed a little more than stale of late - if you have some news related to the tracking scene, or relevant parts of the demoscene please do drop us a note! Head over to out Forums and post your news. We'll check it out and probably feature it.