As the title says.

So I figured out that while the servers disks were full, the minecraft server could not write config files to the disk. This is a major problem since a lot of plugins only load a config file when it’s needed (let’s say when the server starts or a user /home when the user joines the server) and then writes it back to the file once the server shuts down or the user leaves the server. Some plugins ALWAYS load the file on startup and ALWAYS write it back to the disk, even if the file was not changed during that time.

So if it cannot write the file back to the disk because there is no space, it will simply write an empty file to disk. That means that the information is lost, /homes are gone or the whole plugin config is wiped.

That caused the IRC system to fail the chat colors to be reset and those users who have been online during the issues had their /homes reset.

I think I was now able to restore all of the plugin settings, but I will not go and restore all the user settings like homes. This is because there are tens of thousands of them and it’s a major hassle to find out which are the right and which are the wrong ones, specially if the user has logged in since the issue and a generally valid /homes config has been generated since.

So I will restore homes by request now. If you are affected by missing homes, you will have this week a chance to get them restored. After that, you will have to recreate them.

So if you KNOW that your homes are not working (please test that first!) and want to have your homes reset to what they were before the 2nd of January, please post your UUID (do a /who on yourself) as a comment here, and I will restore them for you.

If there is anything else not working, please let me know ASAP.

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• jakegames (from Citizen to Architect)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

So there are some files that got corrupted during the outage and I will have to restore those. I managed to restore the whitelist from the last backup, but it seems more stuff is missing, such as homes or even more. I am sitting in a car now and cannot fix those. Please post here as a comment if anything is missing and then I will try to restore it once I am back home.

The server will be down for the next 24+ hours.

Uncovery

I managed to find the issue in the last second, all back to normal.

Uncovery

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• jensenisbatman (from CitizenDonatorPlus to ArchitectDonatorPlus)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

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• greywolf182 (from CitizenDonatorPlus to ArchitectDonatorPlus)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our server code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 105, Password resets in-game should use the URL instead of entering a password directly. (  code upgrade  )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our server code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 105, Password resets in-game should use the URL instead of entering a password directly. (  code upgrade  )

I would like to point a finger at the forums where Alleywig kindly posted a nice instruction on how to stream your crafting skills with twitch. So if you want to show of your 1×1 noob towers or want to show off your town build to lure in more builders to support you, feel free to go ahead, we happily post stuff on the blog if you are up for the publicity!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our server code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 108, FAQ direct links (  enhancement  )
  • Issue No. 107, Fix webmail (  bug  )

Hey all, I just wanted to give a short status update!

So first of all the web based email seems to be broken since WordPress was upgraded to the newest version. I will try to fix that asap.

Second of all, I have not replied to emails that I got in the last 4 days since a) I had a quite severe cold which I still could not get properly rid off until today and b) well, the webmail is broken.

Third, I will be leaving this Friday on holidays and be back on the 4th of January. So while I will still have internet, you won’t get very fast replies from me until then.

So no matter if and in what dimensions you count your gods, I want to whish you all a relaxing time over the the holidays and a great New Year 2016!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our server code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 106, Mod unmute command is broken (  bug  )

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• dani0010 (from CitizenDonatorPlus to ArchitectDonatorPlus)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our server code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 106, Mod unmute command is broken (  bug  )

Please see the latest upgrades from the voting system:

• unipr0 (from CitizenDonatorPlus to ArchitectDonatorPlus)

Congratz and thanks to all voters!

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our server code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 105, Password resets in-game should use the URL instead of entering a password directly. (  code upgrade  )
  • Issue No. 104, Add a graphical footer to the website (  enhancement  )
  • Issue No. 103, Implement new Tab layout for all tabbed pages (  code upgrade  )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 89, replace openflashchart with non flash alternative (  code upgrade  )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our server code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 104, Add a graphical footer to the website (  enhancement  )
  • Issue No. 103, Implement new Tab layout for all tabbed pages (  code upgrade  )
• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 102, Do not insert ( ) into Github issue update if there are no labels. (  code upgrade  )
  • Issue No. 101, Use PayPal IDN instead of TDN (  code upgrade  )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 89, replace openflashchart with non flash alternative (  code upgrade  )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 101, Use PayPal IDN instead of TDN (  code upgrade  )

This is a daily update on the status of the work done behind the scenes. You can see the complete status here.
By the way our code is Open Source. You can help improving it here.

• Issues Closed:
  • Issue No. 100, Setting up a local testing environment? ()
  • Issue No. 98, Allow More “Lazy” Item Names (  enhancement  )
  • Issue No. 97, Do not allow inactive users to be added to a lot (  code upgrade  )
  • Issue No. 96, Add in-game mail to /money send (  enhancement  )
  • Issue No. 93, /who online check broken (  bug  )
• Issues Opened:
  • Issue No. 99, Create a class for plugins (  code upgrade  )
• Issues Updated:
  • Issue No. 48, Show correct lot colors on the 2D map for donator users (  bug  )