Hey hey hey! I thought I would give an update!
So as of, well the start of the month, MagiStream lives again! And with a fancy new look!
Not every aspect is back up at 100% yet but most of the important stuff is.
And as of today we actually have an update on the cause of the lag that has been plaguing the site.
[Caption: As you all know, we've been struggling with site slowness and lag for years now. We have finally narrowed down the cause, and it's not one we're happy to report. We had hoped it was simple bots, but bots are not the main cause. Gold mining is slowing down and crashing the site. As people have gotten more efficient at it, opening thousands of pages as people acquire more and more creatures, the site simply cannot keep up. Gold mining is essentially "DDOSing" the site--sending so many requests to pages that it cannot keep up. There is no way around this. Mining has to stop. This is an official stance from now on. If you are gold mining with add-ons and scripts, stop immediately. As we fix things around the site and make improvements, and control bots who are nuisances, we need a smooth site. If we notice IPs who are mining at unsustainable rates, you will be banned. If gold mining continues at rates that slow the site, we will remove the ability to get gold from adult creatures. There will be no point to setting up mining for all these pages or writing scripts to get gold. We will leave the ability to get gold from eggs and hatchlings, but if that also drives people to mine in ways that crash the site, that will also be removed. Obviously, people need a way to get gold. We will set up additional solutions, and are currently brainstorming ideas. We are open to ideas for ways to acquire gold and balance the in-game economy. Please feel free to discuss. I know people enjoy mining. But ultimately, the way it works currently is unsustainable. Please do not mine, and let other players enjoy a stable site. End Caption]
Rosehill has clarified that you can still use addons like snaplinks for things like, small groups of links on the Click Threads or the Nursery, but stuff like opening hundreds upon hundreds (or more) of pages at once formining in the Image Free Gold Mines is a no-no. (that said, the IFGM is full of dead and broken links-like hidden or missing creatures which won't generate any gold anywys- and it's not like it can be updated to remove all the links, so it's not all that good to use anyways.)
