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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-22 16:50:19


At 1/22/23 04:41 PM, byteslinger wrote:Yes, I'm fine, just been on the road a lot. This 503 error is sporadic - when @cyberdevil first mentioned it, I logged in and it was working okay. Then a day later it acted up, then righted itself, and now its down again. I am going to reach out to the site hosting company and see what they can tell me. I'll keep you all posted - sorry about this!


Ah I've been checking in multiple times a day actually, and getting it constantly, but it seems that if I go about visiting NG Logs the correct way, it does sort itself out after a few refreshes. At least it did now.


Up till now I've just had this page bookmarked: https://www.wkrconcepts.com/nglogs/index.php?id=stats


...and visited it directly, effectively fetching new stats each day without necessitating a button click. As long as the username cookie's been created this seems to have worked fine thus far, but maybe it works differently/server errors are somehow processed differently if you go via the main site and hit the 'fetch stats' button there instead...?


Good to hear it's not constant anyhow, no worries! Hope it's an easy fix for them then.


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At 1/22/23 04:50 PM, Cyberdevil wrote:
At 1/22/23 04:41 PM, byteslinger wrote:Yes, I'm fine, just been on the road a lot. This 503 error is sporadic - when @cyberdevil first mentioned it, I logged in and it was working okay. Then a day later it acted up, then righted itself, and now its down again. I am going to reach out to the site hosting company and see what they can tell me. I'll keep you all posted - sorry about this!

Ah I've been checking in multiple times a day actually, and getting it constantly, but it seems that if I go about visiting NG Logs the correct way, it does sort itself out after a few refreshes. At least it did now.

Up till now I've just had this page bookmarked: https://www.wkrconcepts.com/nglogs/index.php?id=stats

...and visited it directly, effectively fetching new stats each day without necessitating a button click. As long as the username cookie's been created this seems to have worked fine thus far, but maybe it works differently/server errors are somehow processed differently if you go via the main site and hit the 'fetch stats' button there instead...?

Good to hear it's not constant anyhow, no worries! Hope it's an easy fix for them then.


Well, I think it's better now - it seems that some time in the last few weeks, the hosting company moved some sites around to a new server, but they used an older backup image for my sites. Some of the fixes I made recently were inadvertently undone, as I discovered when I compared the published file info against my source here. I uploaded and resynched the source code, and the internal error log was much happier. I was able to log in, get stats, and check the lists.


Let me know how it's working for you folks - If I missed anything, please post it.


Happy New Year!


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-22 23:02:21


At 1/22/23 02:35 PM, Cyberdevil wrote:It's a common server error that could mean a great deal of things, hopefully it's just temporary; easy to fix when she gets back.
Hope yer alright though too byteslinger; just temporarily in transit somewhere!


NgLogs has been acting up lately. Hope they can fix it soon.


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At 1/22/23 05:40 PM, byteslinger wrote:Well, I think it's better now - it seems that some time in the last few weeks, the hosting company moved some sites around to a new server, but they used an older backup image for my sites. Some of the fixes I made recently were inadvertently undone, as I discovered when I compared the published file info against my source here. I uploaded and resynched the source code, and the internal error log was much happier. I was able to log in, get stats, and check the lists.

Let me know how it's working for you folks - If I missed anything, please post it.

Happy New Year!


Hmm is there a new failsafe in place with this new code maybe? I'm getting a 'Quick Death - Too many requests from this IP today' message when I try to fetch stats now. I think I've just tried two or three times today - both times however gave me a 503 error thus far. Shall check again tomorrow I guess, maybe it's all good then...


Was thinking maybe there's an issue if you have too large a number of logs, and they're somehow counted as individual requests, but seems you have plenty too so I guess it's not that. Or more/bigger stats require more requests? Anyway I'll get back to this in a day, maybe it's a cache thing or something. Good to hear the new source was saved; is in place now too.


Congrats on the recent 27,000 blams! ;) Happy New Year!


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Still getting the 503 Service Unavailable @byteslinger. :/ I tried clearing out cookies, and using different browsers, no dice.


I can load the main site fine, but as soon as I attempt to 'jack in' it's 503 every time.


Got these two errors yesterday, now just the latter one on the fourth time or so that I try this:


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-24 17:47:57


At 1/24/23 05:10 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Still getting the 503 Service Unavailable @byteslinger. :/ I tried clearing out cookies, and using different browsers, no dice.

I can load the main site fine, but as soon as I attempt to 'jack in' it's 503 every time.

Got these two errors yesterday, now just the latter one on the fourth time or so that I try this:


There is still something odd going on with the hosting company. I am trying to get a tech on the line to figure this out. As soon as I have an answer (that actually works) I'll let you know. Sorry about this...


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-25 00:49:46


HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!


It seems that my web hosting company suddenly nerfed the PHP CURL library, so NGLogs and the EGB stat reader no longer can retrieve data from the NewGrounds website. I'm working with them now, and hope to have it resolved soon. This explains why NGLogs has been throwing 503 errors since 21-Jan-2023.


I'll keep you posted. Sorry about this.



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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-25 05:40:46


At 1/25/23 12:49 AM, byteslinger wrote:HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!

It seems that my web hosting company suddenly nerfed the PHP CURL library, so NGLogs and the EGB stat reader no longer can retrieve data from the NewGrounds website. I'm working with them now, and hope to have it resolved soon. This explains why NGLogs has been throwing 503 errors since 21-Jan-2023.

I'll keep you posted. Sorry about this.


Oh, that's a pretty commonly used library is it not?


Hope y'all do get it sorted. Good to know what's going on here... and no worries! Appreciate the the time you invest in keeping all of this stuff running.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-25 06:38:50


At 1/24/23 05:10 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Still getting the 503 Service Unavailable @byteslinger. :/ I tried clearing out cookies, and using different browsers, no dice.
I can load the main site fine, but as soon as I attempt to 'jack in' it's 503 every time.
Got these two errors yesterday, now just the latter one on the fourth time or so that I try this:


I received the same errors as well. This is not a good sign at all.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-25 06:40:06


At 1/24/23 05:47 PM, byteslinger wrote:
At 1/24/23 05:10 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Still getting the 503 Service Unavailable @byteslinger. :/ I tried clearing out cookies, and using different browsers, no dice.

I can load the main site fine, but as soon as I attempt to 'jack in' it's 503 every time.

Got these two errors yesterday, now just the latter one on the fourth time or so that I try this:

There is still something odd going on with the hosting company. I am trying to get a tech on the line to figure this out. As soon as I have an answer (that actually works) I'll let you know. Sorry about this...


Let us know when everything is corrected.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-26 07:23:21


Now it redirects to the can I has cheez burger blog. That was certainly a blast from the past when I tried checking my stats.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-26 08:08:39


At 1/26/23 07:23 AM, Art3misZer0 wrote:Now it redirects to the can I has cheez burger blog. That was certainly a blast from the past when I tried checking my stats.


Think you might be being affected by this: https://byteslinger.newgrounds.com/news/post/1131936


...more so than the most recent issue. Currently there should just be a 'we're working on fixing this ASAP' message there.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-26 18:41:42


At 1/25/23 12:49 AM, byteslinger wrote:HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!

It seems that my web hosting company suddenly nerfed the PHP CURL library, so NGLogs and the EGB stat reader no longer can retrieve data from the NewGrounds website. I'm working with them now, and hope to have it resolved soon. This explains why NGLogs has been throwing 503 errors since 21-Jan-2023.

I'll keep you posted. Sorry about this.


That sounds like a serious problem. Hopefully, they can fix it soon.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-26 18:43:14


At 1/25/23 05:40 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:
At 1/25/23 12:49 AM, byteslinger wrote:HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!

It seems that my web hosting company suddenly nerfed the PHP CURL library, so NGLogs and the EGB stat reader no longer can retrieve data from the NewGrounds website. I'm working with them now, and hope to have it resolved soon. This explains why NGLogs has been throwing 503 errors since 21-Jan-2023.

I'll keep you posted. Sorry about this.

Oh, that's a pretty commonly used library is it not?

Hope y'all do get it sorted. Good to know what's going on here... and no worries! Appreciate the the time you invest in keeping all of this stuff running.


Do you think the next update will be later than usual? I think you normally aim for the 11th of the month, correct?


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-26 19:06:02


At 1/26/23 06:43 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:I think you normally aim for the 11th of the month, correct?


Updates happen on the day of the number of the month.


At 2/2/21 05:54 PM, Cyberdevil wrote:I'll now be mirroring update dates with corresponding month numerals instead. :P Which does imply the amount of days between crawl date and hexalist update may grow somewhat before the end of the year, but hope y'all don't mind that too much.

Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-27 05:11:59


At 1/26/23 07:06 PM, GUTHRIE wrote:
At 1/26/23 06:43 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:I think you normally aim for the 11th of the month, correct?

Updates happen on the day of the number of the month.
At 2/2/21 05:54 PM, Cyberdevil wrote:
I'll now be mirroring update dates with corresponding month numerals instead. :P Which does imply the amount of days between crawl date and hexalist update may grow somewhat before the end of the year, but hope y'all don't mind that too much.


Right. Was about to say it's been that way for years at this point but apparently not that long hmm... good to know.


Would appreciate it if you didn't spam the thread unnecessarily DSB. I appreciate your being around here, and having regular conversations, but there's really no need for four almost identical NG Log related messages in a short span of time, that don't offer any new insights or aid or show of appreciation for the effort byte's putting into managing and fixing a free service on her free time...


Wouldn't want this thread to turn awry and without substance.


But yeah, next update should be 2/2!


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-28 16:46:34


At 1/26/23 06:41 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:
At 1/25/23 12:49 AM, byteslinger wrote:HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!

It seems that my web hosting company suddenly nerfed the PHP CURL library, so NGLogs and the EGB stat reader no longer can retrieve data from the NewGrounds website. I'm working with them now, and hope to have it resolved soon. This explains why NGLogs has been throwing 503 errors since 21-Jan-2023.

I'll keep you posted. Sorry about this.

That sounds like a serious problem. Hopefully, they can fix it soon.


IMPORTANT UPDATE REGARDING NGLOGS


With help of @BrenTheMan we were able to track down the source of the problem - old code. Most of the NGLogs code was written years ago, especially the database management and the CURL calls, using PHP 5.6 As of January 21st, the security requirements for CURL required a minimum level of PHP 7.*. When I upgraded the PHP level in the host from 5.6 to 7.3, the CURL functions worked again - but now all of my database access is failing because I am using expired methods.


I now have to rework the back-end database handling on the NGLogs and EGB sites to the newer methods. This may take a few days, but at least I know what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it.


Please bear with me as I update the code -- we'll be back online as soon as possible.



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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-28 17:02:46


At 1/28/23 04:46 PM, byteslinger wrote:IMPORTANT UPDATE REGARDING NGLOGS

With help of @BrenTheMan we were able to track down the source of the problem - old code. Most of the NGLogs code was written years ago, especially the database management and the CURL calls, using PHP 5.6 As of January 21st, the security requirements for CURL required a minimum level of PHP 7.*. When I upgraded the PHP level in the host from 5.6 to 7.3, the CURL functions worked again - but now all of my database access is failing because I am using expired methods.

I now have to rework the back-end database handling on the NGLogs and EGB sites to the newer methods. This may take a few days, but at least I know what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it.

Please bear with me as I update the code -- we'll be back online as soon as possible.


Big props @BrenTheMan!


Good to hear the source of the issue is clear at least, albeit with tiresome tasks in wait to get it all working again.


Hope it goes well! Appreciate the update!


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-29 22:43:58


GOOD NEWS!


It took a bit of work, but the database code for NGLogs has been updated and the site is now operational again. While I was in there, I added more error checking and retry logic so that the site is a bit more robust.


I'll be monitoring the runtime / error logs for the next few days, tweaking as needed. If anyone notices anything flaky, please PM me or post here and I'll look into it.


Sorry about the downtime - fortunately, no data was lost and everything is back on track once more.!


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-30 03:32:21


At 1/28/23 04:46 PM, byteslinger wrote:
At 1/26/23 06:41 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:
At 1/25/23 12:49 AM, byteslinger wrote:HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!

It seems that my web hosting company suddenly nerfed the PHP CURL library, so NGLogs and the EGB stat reader no longer can retrieve data from the NewGrounds website. I'm working with them now, and hope to have it resolved soon. This explains why NGLogs has been throwing 503 errors since 21-Jan-2023.

I'll keep you posted. Sorry about this.

That sounds like a serious problem. Hopefully, they can fix it soon.

IMPORTANT UPDATE REGARDING NGLOGS

With help of @BrenTheMan we were able to track down the source of the problem - old code. Most of the NGLogs code was written years ago, especially the database management and the CURL calls, using PHP 5.6 As of January 21st, the security requirements for CURL required a minimum level of PHP 7.*. When I upgraded the PHP level in the host from 5.6 to 7.3, the CURL functions worked again - but now all of my database access is failing because I am using expired methods.

I now have to rework the back-end database handling on the NGLogs and EGB sites to the newer methods. This may take a few days, but at least I know what's wrong and what I need to do to fix it.

Please bear with me as I update the code -- we'll be back online as soon as possible.


Thanks for helping @BrenTheMan. Just waiting until everything gets working again.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-30 08:47:23


At 1/29/23 10:43 PM, byteslinger wrote:GOOD NEWS!

It took a bit of work, but the database code for NGLogs has been updated and the site is now operational again. While I was in there, I added more error checking and retry logic so that the site is a bit more robust.

I'll be monitoring the runtime / error logs for the next few days, tweaking as needed. If anyone notices anything flaky, please PM me or post here and I'll look into it.

Sorry about the downtime - fortunately, no data was lost and everything is back on track once more.!


That is awesome news. Though I wonder - when I try to log in - it seems I don't actually get the login form now just...


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This after clicking the 'jack in' button on the main page. Tested different browsers, cleared cookies, maybe something still buggin' here...


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-30 14:25:26


At 1/30/23 08:47 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:


That is awesome news. Though I wonder - when I try to log in - it seems I don't actually get the login form now just...

This after clicking the 'jack in' button on the main page. Tested different browsers, cleared cookies, maybe something still buggin' here...


I checked the runtime logs, had forgotten a variable initialization - it's fixed and it looks like it's working again.


Thanks for the heads up!


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-01-30 17:49:24


At 1/30/23 02:25 PM, byteslinger wrote:I checked the runtime logs, had forgotten a variable initialization - it's fixed and it looks like it's working again.

Thanks for the heads up!


For sure, thanks for the quick fix too! It's always the little things...


After the big things.

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Welcome to the 2x10k Hexalist - Update #85 (2/2/2023)


It's a slightly less active one movement-wise this time, but gains are high, with Punisher creeping into the Top Gainers again too - seems he may be intent on keeping that #1 spot for some time yet. :)


Congrats @DRUM-SKUNK on jumping from the 2x10K to 3x10K tier with 10k blams!


Corrigendum for update #83: Biggest loser then was Shrapnel, with -101, not @Christopher. Sorry 'bout the number jumble! Unintentional script or formula hiccup.


There were also a couple duplicate users listed on updates #83 and #84. Have removed them retrospectively and attempted to fix counts, but the ranks/rank gain numbers are still slightly off there. Back to normal with this one hopefully.


Enjoy the stats!


Top 5 Gainers

Rank | Total Stat Gain | User


1. 3905 DoctorStrongbad

2. 3663 Pokemonpoeguygcn

3. 3547 GUTHRIE

4. 3356 Cyberdevil

5. 3212 Punisher


(Biggest Losers): cobra0528 -967


Times Placed in Top 5

Rank | Times Placed | User | +/-


01. 71 Cyberdevil

02. 71 DoctorStrongbad

03. 38 GUTHRIE

04. 22 fixit

05. 22 Pokemonpoeguygcn

06. 20 KaizoMartin

07. 18 TTRM

08. 17 classroomdj

09. 15 XwaynecoltX

10. 15 StatKing

11. 12 VJF

12. 8 Glamdrung

13. 6 MatthewF

14. 6 SFS1313

15. 5 Idiot-Finder

16. 5 Tribal

17. 5 MessiaH

18. 5 LIBPUCKCHICK

19. 5 Pingu

20. 4 gamejunkie

21. 3 EventHorizon

22. 3 Dev

23. 3 AfroUnderscoreStud

24. 3 Revenger44

25. 3 sumidiotdude

26. 3 Toocool100

27. 2 sushi13

28. 2 byteslinger

29. 2 Shantom

30. 2 Viper

31. 2 Sobolev

32. 2 Pyro-911

33. 2 Punisher +12

34. 1 Art3misZer0 -1

35. 1 ViceFullbuster -1

36. 1 queenofbabes -1

37. 1 Asandir -1

38. 1 Alexil -1

39. 1 greatguy92 -1

40. 1 MegaGold -1

41. 1 Gooch -1

42. 1 yeahha -1

43. 1 Bobogoobo -1

44. 1 WaffleCrisp -1

45. 1 OneThousandMeeps -1

46. 1 Blitz-Mage

47. 1 jasoNicman


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-02-03 01:29:31


At 2/2/23 08:56 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Welcome to the 2x10k Hexalist - Update #85 (2/2/2023)


Top 5 Gainers
1. 3905 DoctorStrongbad


I am very proud and honored to be the number one earner this update. All of my hard work and effort really pays off when I see how many gains that I have made.


Times Placed in Top 5
02. 71 DoctorStrongbad


My Iron Man streak of excellence continues with this update. Another reason why I am known as The Living Legend.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-02-03 01:39:24


Here are the numbers.


2 0 ***** DoctorStrongbad 68,264 25,586 242,442 26,900 5,376 13,709 382,277 +3905


That is a gain of 693 on first place. With a difference of 21,504.


Getting closer and closer to being first place.


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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-02-03 05:56:03


At 2/3/23 01:39 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:That is a gain of 693 on first place. With a difference of 21,504.

Getting closer and closer to being first place.


Mmm if you can keep this pace just another ~three years you'll be there!


Assuming Punisher doesn't really go through with that retirement thing...

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Response to Top 10,000+ Exp / B-P / Post List 2023-02-03 15:47:22


At 2/3/23 05:56 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:
At 2/3/23 01:39 AM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:That is a gain of 693 on first place. With a difference of 21,504.

Getting closer and closer to being first place.

Mmm if you can keep this pace just another ~three years you'll be there!


Three years is a very long time.


Assuming Punisher doesn't really go through with that retirement thing...


He said he would retire, but I haven't seen it happen. Maybe he will be a class act and actually go out on top?



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At 2/2/23 08:56 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Corrigendum for update #83: Biggest loser then was Shrapnel,


Shrapnel? Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time... A long time.


At 2/3/23 07:29 PM, GUTHRIE wrote:
At 2/2/23 08:56 AM, Cyberdevil wrote:Corrigendum for update #83: Biggest loser then was Shrapnel,

Shrapnel? Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time... A long time.


He's on OG for sure! Always nice when these old names pop up in updates again, but I wish it wasn't with losses... alas, all accounts do keep moving downwards. You see a lot of forgotten familiars in the list though if you scroll.


One thing I'm a bit surprised with though is how no accounts with exactly 10,000 posts have moved below it for... about a couple years now I think. Post amounts decrease gradually as well, but there are quite a few who've managed to stay on exactly that tier for a long time, with I'm assuming no activity to maintain it.


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