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Automatic Server Updates
#1
Hello Forums!
Tiger and I have been working on automating the Server Updates on the forums. If everything is working correctly, updates should now automatically be posted on the forums and then automatically uploaded to Twitter. I'm still looking into better ways of pushing an RSS feed to Twitter without ads in the redirect.
~ Mooga ...w00t? - SRCDS.com on Twitter
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fqdn Wrote:if you've seen the any of the matrix movies, a game server is not all that different. it runs a version of the game that handles the entire world for each client connected. that's the 2 sentence explanation.
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#2
Awesome! I'm surprised you guys didn't implement this sooner Toungue
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#3
It's been a work in progress.
Other things are also getting worked on.
~ Mooga ...w00t? - SRCDS.com on Twitter
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Please do not PM me for server related help
fqdn Wrote:if you've seen the any of the matrix movies, a game server is not all that different. it runs a version of the game that handles the entire world for each client connected. that's the 2 sentence explanation.
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#4
I can do the twitter thing with a PHP script and a cron job Smile
~ trewq
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#5
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