Bored Aussie

Bored Aussie is online.

The Diablo II LoD realm is offline.

There are currently 242 users online, in 31 games and 79 channels.

The most users ever online was 3733 on 29/09/08, 10:26 PM.

The most users online today was 1686 at 12:45 AM.

In response to lots of questions users have asked, here is an explanation of the events of this week.

About a week ago we got an email from our hosting provider that their costs of bandwidth have quadrupled and they are going to start monitoring our usage (which they had not been doing previously). As it turns out, based on our daily average, we were going to exceed 3 times our monthly data quota.

We've tried alot of things to reduce our download quota including removing all images from the website/forums (with the intention of having all images hosted on a cheap US web host instead) and removing all banners from the gameserver.

Meanwhile, a rate limiter was imposed on us by the hosting provider which caused large amounts of lag. This rate limiter has now been lifted and things have improved.

We hope to have all problems resolved in the next 1-2 days.

- U-238

Please be patient with Bored Aussie's current technical issues. We are working to resolve them ASAP.

UPDATE: 20/11/08 2:00am:
The server is back online. Temporarily, all images on the website/forums are disabled, as you may have noticed. Don't worry, this won't be permanent!

I'd also like to thank Envisage Networks, our hosting provider, for being hugely helpful to us over the past few days. One of their techs has just been talking with us on MSN for the past 2 hours (at 2am)

UPDATE: 20/11/08 7:00pm:
The lag problem should be fixed now. Might be a few days before the website/forums are back to normal (and sorry if the forums look retarded with no images - hopefully most people have the images cached)

- U-238

Have you got some programming skills and something to prove?
Do you want to contribute something back to BA?

Bored Aussie for a long time has been in serious need of coders. There are issues that haven't been fixed for months, new features the staff want added and a huge backlog in the suggestions forum. I can't code all of it myself.

So, I'm looking for anyone with skills in PHP and/or C++ (I've got various projects for both). Serious applicants only please - some reasonable skill is required, I don't have time to tutor anyone Razz

Working with a team (or sometimes alone) on software development projects for one of Australia's largest gameservers provides an excellent opportunity to improve your coding ability, and looks impressive on a CV. This is an excellent opportunity to give something back to BA while at the same time gaining skills relevant to the real-world workforce. And for the most part, you can be assigned to the projects which you find the most interesting.

Some of the projects you could be working on include:

Fixing the clan creation bug
Creating a "Coverage Centre" for Bored Aussie tournaments including articles, match ticker, etc
An email "forgot password" utility
Fixing some recently-discovered bugs in the BA forums
Full game stats information in forum profile
Webpage to access full historial information about each ladder game including in-game stats
Anti-hack mechanisms
Your own suggestions?
Much much more...

Interested? Send me (U-238) a private message through the BA forums, stating your previous experience and examples of work (if any), and why you want to be a programmer for BA. I look forward to hearing from you!

Bored Aussie proudly presents...

The Roshan Slaying Competition

For more information, visit this thread: http://forums.boredaussie.com/viewtopic.php?t=16502

Good luck!

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Note: This tournament is hosted by Kyochi, and has the full backing of the Bored Aussie Tournament team.

All queries should be directed to Kyochi, or his staff.

Sup guys,

If you are interested in designing banner for the 8th official Bored Aussies Dota Tournament, then please feel free to submit your banners below.

The size should be approximately 658px × 150px [or closely thereabouts]. The theme should be Warcraft 3/DotA and the colour should be pale/dark green [to overlap the current Bored Aussies theme], but it can be another colour if you want.

Main heading text should be: '8th Official BA DotA Tournament" with the smaller heading "Australia's Premier Dota Tournament"

The winner will be chosen by the Administrative team.

Applications close on the Sunday 9th November 2008. The winner will get recognition and +5 invites.

Thanks,

foxQ

P.S.

This is the winning entry from the last tournament;

Other entries can be found here: http://forums.boredaussie.com/viewtopic.php?p=216987
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Post your submissions here: http://forums.boredaussie.com/viewtopic.php?p=216987