Many thanks to Brad who sent me an email with (a remarkable number of) match server updates for the leagues. Furthermore, he gave me a link to a web-based IRC client (called "qwebirc") hosted by freenode.net. This made it possible for me to include it in the same way as I did with the old CGI:IRC interface.

Have fun!

I added the template for the new 2.99 server description details - LuaRules, LuaWorld, replay server. (This is the 7th server detail template.)

It seems many registered BZstats users choose the theme "desktop". This one is pretty special since nearly all colors depend on the local computer's desktop theme (if browser and GUI support that). Different studies showed internet users do NOT prefer websites with a color theme similar to the desktop UI. :)

I had to fix a bug in my source code parser for BZFlag's key bindings. The bug affected the displayed bindings since 9 months and I didn't got aware of it...uhoh...

Today I spent some time with bringing my PHP query scripts up-to-date and reading the SVN commit logs.
Fortunately, there weren't too many changes. Beside the return of the client's Lua scripting interface, the bzfs seems to send a strange lag state message to each new listening client connection. This behaviour is pretty annoying but something I have to live with. However, everything up to protocol version "BZFS0116" is readable. The corresponding BZstats server detail template will be uploaded soon.

GOODBYE BZFLAG v1.7x

This is BZstats' official farewell for the good old 1.7x release servers. Since the last public server went offline at 2010-02-01 13:20 UTC, this part of BZFlag's history book seems to be closed now. :o(

Today, the data update for the server and player cache tables has been changed. The modification will avoid some minor issues when using the BZstats website. Most benefit will be for users of Tut Tank Ahmon's BZFriends Jabber Bot (JabberID: bzfriends@jabber.org). The bugfix will prevent from getting short-term incorrect player status messages. (Yes, that was a bug on my side!)

During the described change I was very close to deleting all historical player and server data (by mistake). Not, that there aren't backups or BZFlag server query logs. But I'm sure I wouldn't have the time or the motivation to recover everything again.
Phew...one of the moments when you believe in some kind of god controlled intervention. :o)

Congratulations Anticipate the Rush - winning team of the first "Ducati Cup"!

This night the "Ducati Cup" ended with the final matches between the teams Rive and Anticipate the Rush. Well done players (of all team) and good job ostatnia_lama who organized the whole event.

What a mess!
After investing all the preparation to reduce the server's downtime (time without BZFlag server queries) during the server change we had some other issue today. So we "lost" data for around 80 minutes (= 22 server query runs) today due to some obviously crappy software neither [dmp] nor I have to account for.
In the end it's with this software like with the BZstats - you get what you pay for...

BZstats on a new (and more powerful) server...

[dmp] (server owner) and my humble self moved the BZstats website to a new web server. I already noticed a significant performance enhancement during the test phase which never is a bad sign. :o)

To make the collected information of global BZBB members available the section "BZinfo" contains a new item called "BZBB Members". Here you can look for some BZBB top/flop statistics and callsigns that are or were in use. Beside finding good old friends the search form can also be used as an indicator of players using multiple BZBB accounts.

The BZstats own list server got some small enhancements which were helpful during the latest down-times of the official BZFlag list server. For those who told me some servers were missing during the last weeks in the BZstats server listing: In this version of BZstats the fallback list server can not compensate the official one but reduce potential issues in case the official one is not available.

Additional to the other stuff there were a few bugfixes too.