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Okay so
14 years ago
There's a lot to tell you gaise.
First of all, I'm nearing completion on the new layout; just a few more pages to bring up to speed. That's my primary goal for the day.
Second, and more importantly, the server has a new home. No longer looking like the victim of a mad scientist's work (which it kind of is) laid out on a metal table in my living room, it's now whirring away comfortably in a climate controlled server room with floor sections that lift up and really dim lights and everything.
That is not to say, however, that Watchtail is soon to be back online. Far from it. It just means that now, instead of running up and down the stairs with a thumb drive like a lunatic (I am now a whiz at mounting/unmounting thumb drives in Ubuntu), I can connect remotely and actually TEST things. Things like why red5 didn't boot properly. Things like getting my room application out of the test environment and into the real world. I AM DOING SCIENCE SO HARD RIGHT NOW.
So what's that mean for you? Well, it means I'm going to put a dummy interface in the rooms until such time as they actually work. This'll give me a chance to work out bugs in the interface, and for you to give feedback on the video quality. I've figured out how to do that without connecting to the server, and I have a lot of control over the compressor now. I suspect audio will have its own issues later on, but that will just have to wait. I am not going to stress myself out about this.
If you weren't picked for the closed beta, don't worry. What's live on Watchtail right now is something akin to an open alpha. Go and do stuff, what little you can. Mess around with your account settings. (Careful, I added a "cancel account" link, which 404s right now but just watch where you click, ok?) That also means that if you see the layout break horribly, it's probably me making an absolute disaster of the CSS. If you see red boxes all over the page, that's a good sign that it's exactly what's going on. There should be little of that from this point on, though.
First of all, I'm nearing completion on the new layout; just a few more pages to bring up to speed. That's my primary goal for the day.
Second, and more importantly, the server has a new home. No longer looking like the victim of a mad scientist's work (which it kind of is) laid out on a metal table in my living room, it's now whirring away comfortably in a climate controlled server room with floor sections that lift up and really dim lights and everything.
That is not to say, however, that Watchtail is soon to be back online. Far from it. It just means that now, instead of running up and down the stairs with a thumb drive like a lunatic (I am now a whiz at mounting/unmounting thumb drives in Ubuntu), I can connect remotely and actually TEST things. Things like why red5 didn't boot properly. Things like getting my room application out of the test environment and into the real world. I AM DOING SCIENCE SO HARD RIGHT NOW.
So what's that mean for you? Well, it means I'm going to put a dummy interface in the rooms until such time as they actually work. This'll give me a chance to work out bugs in the interface, and for you to give feedback on the video quality. I've figured out how to do that without connecting to the server, and I have a lot of control over the compressor now. I suspect audio will have its own issues later on, but that will just have to wait. I am not going to stress myself out about this.
If you weren't picked for the closed beta, don't worry. What's live on Watchtail right now is something akin to an open alpha. Go and do stuff, what little you can. Mess around with your account settings. (Careful, I added a "cancel account" link, which 404s right now but just watch where you click, ok?) That also means that if you see the layout break horribly, it's probably me making an absolute disaster of the CSS. If you see red boxes all over the page, that's a good sign that it's exactly what's going on. There should be little of that from this point on, though.
What do you think?
Oh, is the new server going to be able to hold more than 15 users to a room? I know that was the biggest problem with the old WT and seemed to be a reason alot of artists stayed away.