IRC logs (Nordicbots) are down

[Simon]

Hi,

Lix's IRC channel is #lix on irc.quakenet.org, join chat in your browser or use a dedicated IRC client.

The logs are usually at Nordicbots, but the logs are are down. I have seen that error, "At least one service is unavailable at the moment. Please try again later.", several times this year, I don't know if the logs have been up in the meangime.

Also, the logging bot, named Lovely, isn't sitting in #lix. I don't remember when he was there for the last time. From my client-side log, the latest entry for Lovely has been:

2023-08-22 22:42:11 * |Lovely| has quit (Ping timeout)

The following two bots are unrelated to logging: Bot Q is for nickname authentication; to have owner rights and operator rights on #lix, I have to be registered with Q. Bot __ (two underscores) is Mindless's relaying bot for forum posts from Lemmings forums.

I haven't investigated more than this.

-- Simon

[Simon]

Flopsy wanted to catch me on IRC, and worried about how the logs were offline.

On Mon, 2023-11-20, Flopsy caught me late at night. We chatted about how to onboard new players for Lix multiplayer, or if the sessions became too one-sided with maps too experimental.

Flopsy is working on a multiplayer strategy guide. There will be pictures to make it easy to follow. And there will be a comedy section with excerpts from multiplayer:

<Flopsy> 10 instances of Icho picking on me for example
<Flopsy> 24 times Icho says "Ohhhhh Simonnnn"
<Flopsy> 14 times where geoo rants about blockers



These days, I sleep from 22:00 local time to 06:00 local time. I've been shifting the rhythm forward for a week -- I used to get up at 02:00 or 03:00 -- and it's finally back in line with normal people; I should stop shifting my rhythm forward.

On Thu, 2023-11-30, Silken caught me after I got up at 06:00 local time, and we played 2-player Lix.

minim, mobius, Rubix: Silken likes the Lix music. Thanks for submitting your music for Lix!

Silken shared a Lix logo in style of Lemmings Mobile and a single lix in that style from 5 years ago. Nice! I don't know who made it.

-- Simon

[Simon]

No news on the Nordicbots website. But on joining their IRC channel, one gets these news:

Topic for #Nordicbots is: Things aren't looking good. Harddisks _and_ backups have been encrypted by a crypto locker. Sorry. Looking into it.
Topic for #Nordicbots set by Q (Wed Aug 23 00:41:59 2023)

That August 23rd matches the date of my last sight of the logging bot, August 22nd.

-- Simon

[Simon]

The topic for #nordicbots is still the same (Wed Aug 23, 2023, see my previous post). The Nordicbots homepage still hasn't printed any news since 2013.

Looks like Nordicbots and the logs will be botched forever. I'm 50:50 on whether I'd like a logging bot again.

-- Simon

[Silken Healer]

As said in IRC, I'd support a logging bot. The sooner we add one, the further back the history starts from. You can always remove it again later if you change your mind