Change Your Country (and the PHP 8.1 Upgrade FAIL)
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Dreamhost has made PHP v8.1 available. Instead of waiting until the upgrade is forced I went ahead and took care of it. If any pages aren't loading or you're finding any errors please post URLs of those pages here.

AND!

After almost 17 years of having BotBr flags chosen by their IP address, y'all can now designate whatever country you want by going to the "Edit Profile" tab of your Homebunk.

=== EDIT ===
uh.... the upgrade looked fine and then a few hours later some things started going really bad... so I've rolled the site back to php 7.4
there's a chance the entries submitted during this 8.1 time were not saved and that new botbrs might be missing data... i'll be around throughout the day to try and rectify whatever went awry
=== MOAR EDIT ===
entry submission has been tested and seems to be working fine -- found a missing entry file in temp storage and manually moved it
i'll be around!!! x__X
 
 
154247
Level 23 Pedagogist
ViLXDRYAD
 
 
 
post #154247 :: 2022.03.28 8:10pm :: edit 2022.03.28 9:16pm
  
  nitrofurano and skydev liēkd this
Sweet! And thank you for your work and time put adding features and supporting Battle of the Bits, puke7!

As a tangent, also cool for me is Wales flag to be recognized sometime too in: It has a DRAGON on it!
 
 
154251
Level 31 Chipist
damifortune
 
 
 
post #154251 :: 2022.03.28 8:46pm :: edit 2022.03.28 8:49pm
  
  nitrofurano liēkd this
some users' profiles are broken, i found from thumbing through the World page.

instead of their profile, the following error is displayed: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/239107754575265803/958209395857186846/unknown.png

example broken botbrs: squar3wave, Daimon, osoumen, jaxcheese
 
 
154252
Level 20 Mixist
Luigi64
 
 
 
post #154252 :: 2022.03.28 8:47pm
  
  VirtualMan, Xaser, Jakerson and nitrofurano liēkd this
alright everybody set your country to brazil to join the brazil fan club
 
 
154253
Level 23 Pedagogist
ViLXDRYAD
 
 
 
post #154253 :: 2022.03.28 8:50pm
  
  Xaser, nitrofurano, Jakerson, doctorn0gloff and Luigi64 liēkd this
Huehuehue ptbr
 
 
154254
Level 22 Chipist
3-UP
 
 
 
post #154254 :: 2022.03.28 9:19pm :: edit 2022.03.28 10:09pm
  
  damifortune liēkd this
Going to the Spring Tracks page or any of the entries there also seems to be broken for me

Edit: It only seems to be select a few entries like bluenocturne's right now
 
 
154255
Level 29 Hostist
puke7
 
 
 
post #154255 :: 2022.03.28 10:49pm
  
  mirageofher, Lincent, Jakerson, nitrofurano, ViLXDRYAD, hanna, skydev, cabbage drop and sean liēkd this
Hey, folks, things have gone all sideways!

Most of the site seems to be loading just fine.

It's past my bedtime -- I'll try to figure out whats crashing some pages (especially the homebunk) in the morning.
 
 
154258
Level 8 Mixist
NINSID
 
 
post #154258 :: 2022.03.29 3:03am
  
  mirageofher, nitrofurano and skydev liēkd this
Im from Ukraine. Why my country shows as Unknown? I Know that Russians tryed to genocide our people. But we still fighting for our freedom. This war can be 5 years. And I must wait until it end?
 
 
154259
Level 20 Chipist
skydev
 
 
 
post #154259 :: 2022.03.29 3:15am
  
  ViLXDRYAD liēkd this
site is currently borked , please have a little patience... you are able to set your location manually from the edit profile menu (which is currently inaccessible)

it doesn't have anything to do with the ongoing conflict , although it is very deeply saddening and my heart goes out to you all. Whatever was being used to automatically set your location based on ip was a little wonky, and everyone was showing up as "Unknown".
 
 
154260
Level 29 Chipist
nitrofurano
 
 
 
post #154260 :: 2022.03.29 3:18am :: edit 2022.03.29 3:54am
  
  skydev liēkd this
@Luigi64 just like how our swedish mate @MrGamer did last year? :)

@NINSID Слава Україна!!!! \o/

https://battleofthebits.com/ redirects to this forum thread url, is this supposed to happen?

cool would be if we could have regional and independentist flags as well - for example, a basque would prefer a basque flag instead of spanish, as catalonian and galician would do as well, and so on... :) - and for sure, @pedipanol would prefer minas gerais flag, not brazilian! ;)
 
 
154263
Level 27 Chipist
KungFuFurby
 
 
 
post #154263 :: 2022.03.29 6:08am :: edit 2022.03.29 6:10am
  
  nitrofurano liēkd this
I agree with nitrofurano. This is unusual. I'm being redirected to this very page via the same URL. It also means that other than remembering URLs I'm not sure how to edit my profile or beghasts battles in this state.
 
 
154264
Level 28 Mixist
argarak
 
 
 
post #154264 :: 2022.03.29 6:15am :: edit 2022.03.29 6:15am
  
  nitrofurano liēkd this
the redirect to this thread is intentional, likely because the home page is not yet functional

borked:
https://battleofthebits.com/barracks/
https://battleofthebits.com/barracks/RollCall/n00bs/
https://battleofthebits.com/barracks/RollCall/moldy_n00bs/
all entries and pages for the Advent Calendar 2021 battle, e.g.:
https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Battle/6735/Vomitorium/BotB+Advent+Calendar+2021

that's all i found so far. all profiles seem to work. make sure to reload each page without cache (ctrl+f5) when testing!
 
 
154267
Level 31 chipist
Chip Champion
 
 
 
post #154267 :: 2022.03.29 6:39am
  
  nitrofurano and tennisers liēkd this
hey this isnt teh homepage....
 
 
154268
Level 22 Chipist
Kot
 
 
 
post #154268 :: 2022.03.29 6:43am :: edit 2022.03.29 6:45am
The PHP Development Team carefully crafting the worst fucking changes to their product
 
 
154269
Level 28 Mixist
argarak
 
 
 
post #154269 :: 2022.03.29 6:46am
  
  nitrofurano liēkd this
at least they got a cool mascot...
 
 
154280
Level 29 Chipist
nitrofurano
 
 
 
post #154280 :: 2022.03.29 8:53am
talking about chosen flags, curious that they appear fine on our profile, but not from the entries at https://battleofthebits.com/barracks/Profile/[botbrname]/Browser
 
 
154281
Level 27 Chipist
KungFuFurby
 
 
 
post #154281 :: 2022.03.29 9:35am
So you reverted the PHP upgrade apparently? Citing your new thread title.
 
 
154283
Level 23 Chipist
MelonadeM
 
 
 
post #154283 :: 2022.03.29 9:59am
epic php fail
 
 
154293
Level 29 Hostist
puke7
 
 
 
post #154293 :: 2022.03.29 11:11am
  
  nitrofurano and Lincent liēkd this
updated entry flag reference to reflect the new flag mechanisms
 
 
154298
Level 17 Playa
Grumskiz
 
 
 
post #154298 :: 2022.03.29 1:34pm
  
  Lincent and puke7 liēkd this
Sorry you had a shit day, pukez. Mine also sucked *headpats*
 
 
154329
Level 24 Chipist
YQN
 
 
 
post #154329 :: 2022.03.30 5:03am
  
  Viraxor, mirageofher, Lincent, argarak, Xaser, nitrofurano and puke7 liēkd this
Coundn't find Earth or Botbistan in the list :/
 
 
154425
Level 27 Chipist
KungFuFurby
 
 
 
post #154425 :: 2022.04.01 9:41am
In hindsight, given the usual April Fools... this is all for the better that PHP was not upgraded.
 
 

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