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ceagleFor New Year's, I decided to swing by old mucks to see wot's happenin'.. sorta to nostalgically celebrate the 2022-2023 transition. :>
I s'pect part of the reason was that I used to spend many years hangin' with ShadowKat during the new year's eve transition on other mucks too. Some memories are just nice to have hovering there in the ol' neurons.
The evening didn't start well, ... because for years I've been using the buggy-but-nice-UI BeipMU, recommended to me by ol' pal Sennard. I guess one of his buddies is/was a programmer on it.
This time around, it fired up just fine initially, with all my data there... BUT, when I closed it, it ERASED ALL of my world locations... so I spent the next few hours trying to pursue solutions... looking for backups... doing online research... trying to get back what it took from me. I suspect it's some sort of nasty backdoor updater that breaks stuff due to computing's worst enemy: lack of thorough testing.
I read their notes on SourceForge, and apparently it's a known issue, but I didn't get the sense they really care enough about this monumental glitch to fix it... so.. I'm probably done with BeipMU for good. It's not your fault, Sennard :} I still like the UI, but I won't have it stealing my preference files.
I couldn't find backups on my other computer (they are probably on some drive in the closet somewhere)... Ultimately I went back to an older (reliable) client (GMud) and just rebuilt my world list from memory (hope I didn't forget any).
Once I was back in gear, I spent the last while on a throw of the dice, going to SpinDizzy.... and wound up meeting some pleasant critters there. This really improved the evening greatly... so it was a happy ending (beginning?) after all.. ^v^
Happy New Year everyone! ... *tailwags*
I s'pect part of the reason was that I used to spend many years hangin' with ShadowKat during the new year's eve transition on other mucks too. Some memories are just nice to have hovering there in the ol' neurons.
The evening didn't start well, ... because for years I've been using the buggy-but-nice-UI BeipMU, recommended to me by ol' pal Sennard. I guess one of his buddies is/was a programmer on it.
This time around, it fired up just fine initially, with all my data there... BUT, when I closed it, it ERASED ALL of my world locations... so I spent the next few hours trying to pursue solutions... looking for backups... doing online research... trying to get back what it took from me. I suspect it's some sort of nasty backdoor updater that breaks stuff due to computing's worst enemy: lack of thorough testing.
I read their notes on SourceForge, and apparently it's a known issue, but I didn't get the sense they really care enough about this monumental glitch to fix it... so.. I'm probably done with BeipMU for good. It's not your fault, Sennard :} I still like the UI, but I won't have it stealing my preference files.
I couldn't find backups on my other computer (they are probably on some drive in the closet somewhere)... Ultimately I went back to an older (reliable) client (GMud) and just rebuilt my world list from memory (hope I didn't forget any).
Once I was back in gear, I spent the last while on a throw of the dice, going to SpinDizzy.... and wound up meeting some pleasant critters there. This really improved the evening greatly... so it was a happy ending (beginning?) after all.. ^v^
Happy New Year everyone! ... *tailwags*
