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Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

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Firefox refuses to show me the site due to a bad certificate, apparently its certificate is valid for domains belonging to arrowloans.co.uk - this is consistent with other reports saying they're being forwarded to a loans company. Looks like your site got hacked, or maybe some weird DNS problem?

Oopsie. I totally took out the server. Should be back again later.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#82

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Aww man, really sorry. Not my doing. Trying to sort it out. My hosting account's been suspended. It's all gone a bit pear shaped. Oopsie.

When you get some time to breathe, I would love to hear a "retrospective" about how an account suspension turned into a redirect to a loans website. Did a bad actor notice your account was suspended, took over it somehow and then they sent traffic to their website? Is this standard protocol for your hosting provider (similar to those domain landing pages which link to all sorts of weird crap)?

The sysadmin thought I was up to no good and suspended me, which seems pretty reasonable to me. He was really cool and not even pissed off that I wiped out a server. All got cleared up. The site is on a different server now.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#84

I did about 15 questions waiting for the game to "end", not realizing it would go on forever. IMO if the game is infinite, count how many questions I get correct in a row, and have the game end when I get one wrong. Keep track of my high score and display it somewhere on the page, so I have a baseline target to beat. That way the game is replayable and now has a metric for how well someone plays it. I got all questio…

Yeah, I agree. Counting winning streaks is good. I was thinking of an acheivement system too.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

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Same, very curious what's going on here.

Apparently the author was hugged to death. Hosting provider started to redirect the traffic elsewhere.

Yeah man, the server got hugged to death. My provider was awesome solving issues and all back up again. I could do with a hug after all that!

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#86

Chrome is flagging your SSL cert as being invalid, just an FYI.

That's because it's forwarding the traffic to some entirely unrelated website for some reason. Not sure if the DNS went screwy, but something is not right.

OP here. Everything went screwy! Should be working again now. I don't even work in tech anymore. I haven't been involved in a website launch in over a decade. It's been one hell of a day. My plan for the day was literally to put the site up and then do some craft work, spinning wool into yarn for making my friends a couple of hats (it's wool from their sheep). I'm not even joking! My day went so off the rails.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#87

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Ahh, it's joke data: { name: "a ton of bricks", plural: "tons of bricks", frequency: 0.01, weighWord: "weighs", min_mass_kg: 1000, max_mass_kg: 1000 }, { name: "a ton of feathers", plural: "tons of feathers", frequency: 0.01, weighWord: "weighs", min_mass_kg: 1000, max_mass_kg: 1000 },

:) Nitpicking: I use 1 ton = 1000 Kg, but world wide it's more complicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton

Bah! Well spotted!

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#88
post #68

Bait and switch? User account was created an hour ago.

OP here. Nah man, not bait and switch. The server got fried! Username is my reddit username. Of 11 years, although I hardly use it. I read HN daily but never created an account (not that I can remember anyway). Should all be getting fixed now.

Re: Show HN: I Made a Stupid Game

#90
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Yeah, I'd find that more readable too. I aimed for something anyone could understand.

Maybe greek prefixes or even spelling out the bigger units? I.e. 9.4 gigagrams or 54 billion kilograms. Of course you might have the issue of short scale vs. long scale billions but a footnote should solve that.

Yeah. A friend was playing with a group in a room and one of them was trying to read out the questions. Not a problem with 800 gorillas but it is with bigger numbers. Hmm, not sure what to do. The Greek prefixes I find really hard to remember! For simplicity and debugging it was easiest to just slap the numbers up.
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