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What if I say increasing the coordinate space will decrease performance for everyone, not just the 3 people using the increased coordinate space? This is due to obvious reasons: Coordinates take more space in memory, which decreases the amount of coordinates that will fit in the CPU cache among othe...

I've added 5 helpers which should be plenty for now. Thanks for the interest.

There's been a bit of a lack of moderator attention on this forum for some time now and I need to do something about it. If you visit the forum often and feel like you'd like to do something when you see spam, PM me to volunteer as a moderator. New moderators will be assigned as "Helpers" ...

Moved to General Discussion.

If someone is wondering... Yes, MT will be abandoning Github the day Microsoft accounts are required there.

I think it might be possible to build even the newest MT for windows xp, but it gets tricky. You need to use custom builds and outdated versions of some libraries.

But yeah, I agree with Linuxdirk, damage is done and now can't be revoked without cutting off people from the chat; as far as it can matter, I changed title again) That's not true. The unofficial discord existed before the bridge was made and almost nobody has moved to Discord due to it. On the con...

Celeron55 recently wrote on IRC that migrating from IRC is 'unthinkable', so the decision has been made. Please stop pulling opinions branded as mine out of your ass. I've never said that referring to anything else than Discord. As for the actual topic here: I think Matrix is definitely a better id...

So I ask you: where are the others? I've been reading this thread, but don't have much to say. For me the hardest part in delegating is I'm not a social person and don't know people. It's been a problem for 10 years already, so as you can imagine what you're saying had gotten old to me before you e...

Personally I'm a bit particular about menu design philosophies (structure wise), but visually this looks ok. Not simply a color theme. Unique enough, flashy enough, simple enough, flexible enough. It's a bit 90s, which is kind of cool these days. Also, it's a simple enough concept to be applied anyw...

I don't think there's need for this much polarization. Assuming different games don't want to call their nodes and items the same, we can (should?) define an API that games can implement that allows a mod to know the names of some very common things, like those that Sokomine listed. The API can also...

All valid points. However, they're more about culture and less about rules (except for a few). Everyone can take what they can from these. But did you know? Anyone can become a core dev by suggesting themselves or their friend to me. I hate headhunting and I don't have an HR department so you have t...

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Wed Apr 29, 2020 17:27

viewtopic.php?p=370540#p370540 layout is broken, and the FAQ link is a 404.

These are now fixed. Post reporting is also fixed.

Fixed.

The only thing I have and need is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu

Cloudflare makes me sick with its big brother nature. The Internet isn't scary enough for me to warrant trading free speech for safety.

Thanks for the update! Amazing how one rogue bot can bring down an entire website. :D Or was it actually multiple bots? It was making requests from about a thousand source IPs. That's also why it didn't look like a crawler at first glance amidst normal traffic, but once I shut the forum down for ma...

Did some updating: the forum now runs on PHP 7 and is a way more recent version of phpBB. Also, it turned out part of the massive slowdown was caused by a Chinese crawler bot doing absolutely silly amounts of random page loads. I blocked the entire IP range the crawler was using at the firewall leve...

@Fixer @uwu The backup size for the forum and wikis is currently at about 5GB. If you think the community might trust you with an encrypted backup and you're up for setting up the receiving end (including limited ssh access, the necessary cron jobs to prune old backups on your end and whatever else ...

The forum and wikis were down from 2019-05-01 to 2019-05-03 due to a VPS crash and disk corruption. During downtime I restored the forum and the wikis to my latest off-site backup dated 2019-03-13 and upgraded the base system to OpenBSD 6.3. Much of the data left on the server was unusable, like the...

That being said, we haven't had any issues with the forum related to this, with its policy.

I do think it would not hurt to start the content db with the FSF/OSI limitation. Everyone likely understands that it is the safest thing to do, allowing us to be spared of extra issues on top of any technical and other ones we'll have anyway. This can then be opened as a question again when things ...

LOL this is getting out of hand! You heard from me via rubenwardy not because I'm using him as a puppet but because he just happened to ask me on IRC. Anyway... Forum Policy is pretty much "open source" when it comes to these issues, even while it doesn't say it. It was written a long time...

I changed the backup script of the VPS to shut down the database in order to get better backups. The forum shows that page while the database is down.

I guess I should make it more descriptive...

We're trying to make Minetest better, and would welcome your efforts too.

Just saying...

My opinion has always been that we should have our own pure Lua toolkit. Expose some 2D drawing primitives from core to client-side Lua, and let it do the rest.

It could also be published as a stand-alone library for others to use. AFAIK there is no pure Lua toolkit available at all currently.