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01/08/2010: OGS Kuksu 10th Cycle Nines Class by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

I just draw the nines class of the Kuksu. Due to the increasing number of player I had to make it a 5 tiers tournaments to avoid groups to grow out of reason. To do so I had to pass from 3 groups in tier 2 to 2 and to do more relegations (they were based on score, everyone's who did not scored enough points (2 for tier 2, 3 for other) and all new players have been affected to the last tier as consequence). There's still a lot of players in tier 3 and next rounds will be more relegations than promotions again.

Sorry for the inconvenience but the group size have to be balanced.

31/07/2010: Nainwak Association is looking for a new hosting solution by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

There was a bunch of server downtimes recently that are becoming more and more frequent. Those downtimes are due to failures of the air conditioning and electrical current stops. The installation in which the Nainwak servers are located is getting old (the UPSs are out, air conditioning stops sometimes, etc...). This place is free of charge (it's an french company that is hosting the servers for free) for the Nainwak Association and was a good deal while this company was putting a bit of interest in hosting non-profit organizations. However, a recent change in the management of the company made the situation more complex as the new boss doesn't want to support anymore non-profit organizations.

Therefore, the Nainwak Association is looking for new hosting solutions in order to discuss the possibilities at the general assembly in september.

If any of you have good ideas, please tell us.

I remind you that the association already owns the servers and that the...

14/07/2010: OGS Rules and Policy by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

Recently OGS was used for massive spam by a specific user. Of course, this user was banned. I want to reminds everybody (and especially people not yet registered that are planning to use OGS as a place for spamming) that spamming is illegal in Europe. Furthermore, OGS is hosted in France and regarding French law, misuse of a computer system (OGS servers) for an illegal activity (spam) is a crime (5-years firm jail sentence and 300000 euros fee in addition to the sentence for spamming).

Well that said, I want to remind everybody some usage rules for OGS:
- Bugs and problems are to be reported using the ticket system available under Help and Support. You are supposed to browse open tickets before submitting a new one to see if it already under investigation.
- No bugs or problem are to be reported to me or other admin by personal message except if you are offering help to OGS (in that case you should message me) or you are handling a specific issue and the me...

30/06/2010: Strange behaviour in games by illluck

- Dear Users,

It seems like some games were affected by a server crash yesterday night. If you are encountering strange behaviours in games (e.g. missing moves, stones that have changed colour), please report it at either:

http://www.online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=896
or
http://online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=896

We will try to fix the boards as soon as possible.

apologies for any inconveniences,
OGS Staff

20/01/2010: Downtime for maintenance by dmg

- This night (european time) a downtime is scheduled to update the http server. This should implies a few slowdown and a short downtime (around 1 hour).

Regards,
-- Damien

01/01/2010: Happy New Year! by dmg

- The OGS Staff wish you all an Happy New Year 2010.

24/12/2009: Merry Christmas by dmg

- The OGS Staff and myself would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

02/12/2009: Captured stones/suicide detection issue by Hourousha

- Hi everyone,

We're currently experiencing some issues regarding captured stones not being handled correctly and suicide move detection. If you are experiencing either of these two problems in your games, please report it as a reply to
http://www.online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=714 or
http://online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=714 . This will help us in fixing the board positions as soon as possible.

Apologies for the inconvenience and thank you very much for your patience!

Best,
Jon

EDIT: The bug is now fixed. For users still encountering phantom stones, please report the board number *only* at
http://www.online-go.com/tickets/view_ticket.php?ticketID=720 .

22/11/2009: Server update by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

Today, I'll update the OGS gaming engine and a lot of thing will change. I hope you'll like the new version and that all bugs were removed during beta testing.

-- Damien

*EDIT*: Updated! Enjoy :)

16/11/2009: Last days downtime by dmg

- Dear OGS users,

Here a quick translation of the tech words on the downtime that happened during the last three days (deadlines were extended).

The webserver lost successvely 2 hard drives of its RAID array on Friday 13th evening. It was restarted after a long maintenance this afternoon thanks to a lot of effort from technicians (who are, I must recall, free workers). No data was lost.

Technical maintenance will be planned to avoid the same thing to happens again.

If a new downtime happens again. Please take a look at http://senseis.xmp.net/?OGS/Status
Regards,
-- Damien

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