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The maintenance is complete and the bots are back! Enjoy! 🎉

[Scheduled Server Maintenance]
Today, 17.10., starting around 14:00 UTC, my bots will stop accepting new games for some scheduled server maintenance again. I will let you know when the bots are back working, but they will likely be offline for some hours. Sorry for the inconvenience! 🐒

The maintenance is complete and all the bots are back online!

[Scheduled Server Maintenance]
Tomorrow, 25.09., starting around 16:00 UTC, my bots will stop accepting new games and eventually stop working temporarily. This is due to planned maintenance on the server. I will notify you here once the bots are back online, this operation will probably take a couple hours.

[ThirtyOne Database Bug]
@ThirtyOneBot appears to have a problem with saving played games to the database - the played games are not saved. Possibly other information, such as achievements, aren't saved either. You can still play with the bot, just note that your stats are going to be incorrect (most likely, will not change even when you play). I'll try to figure this out in the next days.

Hooray, the server and the bots are back! Enjoy! 🎉

The server is currently down and I cannot reach it. I don't know how long it will take to resolve this problem. For now, all my bots are sadly down.
Apologies for the inconvenience, I will notify you in this channel when the bots are back online!

Update: It will take at least ~15 more hours, potentially longer.

Hi everyone, the 9th global Thirty-One tournament is starting soon! Check @ThirtyOneTournament to participate! 🐒

The reboot is complete and all the bots are back! Enjoy!

Since the bots started having some issues lately, and it's been a long time since I last rebooted the server, I will do so today.
For now, you cannot start new games. I will wait until the current games ended, then let you know when the reboot is complete and you can continue playing.

[@WizardGameBot Update]
The Wizard Game Bot has received an update with a few new game modes in order to have shorter games, since Wizard games tend to be very long. You can now use the following commands:

/startfull
Play a game with all rounds (like before this update)

/starthalf
Play a game with only even rounds (2, 4, 6, ...)

/startshort
Play a game with only half as many rounds as usual

/startlate
Play only the last third of a game's rounds. (For example, with 4 players, the game starts at round 10/15).

/startgame
Start a game with the preferred game mode of the group. Group admins can change that in /config, the default setting remains Full game.

If you haven't heard of Wizard before, feel free to join @PlayWizard! The game is more complex than Thirty-One, but it's really fun :)
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Hey everyone, @ThirtyOneBot was down for some hours.
Interestingly, the bot didn't crash or run out of CPU, but it appeared to just not receive any messages anymore.
The bot is back up now, I hope that this doesn't happen again.
Enjoy playing! :)

Hi folks, it is time for the 8th global Thirty-One Tournament! Check @ThirtyOneTournament if you want to participate! :)

[New donation page]
Hello everyone,
since we moved away from the old hosting provider, we can no longer use its feature of accepting donations for the server.

Instead, we have created a Ko-Fi page where you can donate to help us keep the server running.
Donating is absolutely no requirement for anyone, but I'm glad for every motivation to keep my bots online and perhaps create new ones some time?

As before, per 5€ you donate, you can get a custom badge in @ThirtyOneBot as a little reward.
To donate, click here or go to @ThirtyOneBot and use the /donate command. The payment will currently go to my friend Florian on whose server the bots are hosted.
Then, come to @ApeGroup to claim your badge.

Cheers and have fun playing everyone! 🎉🐒
~ Ludwig

I migrated ThirtyOne, and it was quite a challenge compared to the other bots. 🎉

I hope that it runs stable, please report to @ApeDev if there are any problems.

I'll do Wizard tomorrow, probably. :)

PROGRESS UPDATE
I'm going to migrate the bots somewhere else.

For two reasons, ThirtyOne and Wizard will probably be down for yet another while:
- There are multiple possible options for the new server and am yet figuring out the best one.
- They were written with Windows in mind, but are going to run on a Linux server in the future, so some code needs to be adapted.

This message will keep you updated about my progress in getting the bots back online.
I don't want to flood this channel, so check this message for updates on all my bots.


✅ @TriviaDuelBot is currently up and running! (Though all previous stats were lost, sorry.)
✅ @CastleSiegeBot is currently up and running!
✅ @uwuTypeBot is cuwurrently uwup and ruwunning!
✅ @ThirtyOneBot is currently up and running! Stats since 20.10. are lost.
✅ @WizardGameBot is currently up and running! No stats are lost!

You don't even wanna know.

Somehow the server got blocked by the hosting provider for "Abuse: DDoS, Brute Force, Portscan, etc."
I have no clue why, because the server isn't being used for malicious purposes (and was only recently re-installed).
The bots are currently down. 🙄

Be sure that I'm going to migrate my bots to somewhere else as soon as I find the time to. This is so annoying.
I can't tell when the bots will be back at the moment, sorry.

The server must have shut down yesterday, and the bots all stopped working. They are all back online now!

I apologize for the many issues and messages lately.

It was brought to my attention that both these bots didn't actually work, so I tried my best to fix all issues that I found. Now both Wizard and TriviaDuel are really up and running!

Wizard Game Bot and Trivia Duel Bot are back!
Finally, @WizardGameBot and @TriviaDuelBot are also back to life, completing my bots!

Read more about Wizard
Read more about Trivia Duel

Thanks for all your patience, and enjoy playing! 🎉