Yesterday WoW Bash broke its new all-time daily visit record : 11,533 visitors came to the website ! On an average day, the website sees around 7,500 visitors. So thanks everyone, especially the folks from the SomethingAwful Forums and Dual Boxing.com, who for some reasons both decided to provide a lot of visits to us the same day.
Moderately annoyed
02/10/2009, 19:50. WoW Bash
Like any website allowing comments, WoW Bash has got its fair share of trolls. We have been quite relaxed on the moderation side for now. Maybe too relaxed, because we started receiving emails pointing out specific users (I'm looking at you, FjantZ) were abusing the amazing anonymity Internet provides. Well, just so you know, we decided that if we decide to ban you, you will not have access to the website at all. We prefer lose some advertising money than allowing you to visit the website.
WoW Bash RSS feed relocated
19/08/2009, 15:19. WoW Bash
As a consequence of the addition of images in the RSS feed, the said feed will now contain advertisement. This means we had to relocated the feed to a new URI, which you can reach here. The old feed has not been completely removed, but has been replaced with a redirection to the new URI. It is recommended that you update your feed aggregator with the new address.
Some updates on WoW Bash
17/08/2009, 16:26. WoW Bash
People who use the RSS feed of WoW Bash will be delighted to learn, if they haven't noticed by themselves, that you can now see the images directly from the feed! That means you won't even have to come to WoW Bash to see your daily WoW chat porn. You will obviously still need to visit the website to vote and post comments. As a side effect, though, that means I will add some advertisement in the feed because, whatdayaknow, bandwidth doesn't pay itself.
Just for the kicks, here are some stats about the first two weeks of August. Checkout the bandwidth, and don't choke yourself!
| Day | Visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| 01 Aug 2009 | 5264 | 42568 | 365182 | 8.31 GB |
| 02 Aug 2009 | 12448 | 102665 | 1166986 | 30.74 GB |
| 03 Aug 2009 | 15001 | 166771 | 1588824 | 41.72 GB |
| 04 Aug 2009 | 10683 | 122335 | 1032557 | 25.49 GB |
| 05 Aug 2009 | 8130 | 87993 | 707778 | 16.27 GB |
| 06 Aug 2009 | 6347 | 56088 | 460041 | 9.59 GB |
| 07 Aug 2009 | 6624 | 61208 | 518020 | 11.74 GB |
| 08 Aug 2009 | 5377 | 45463 | 379686 | 8.56 GB |
| 09 Aug 2009 | 5557 | 46710 | 388687 | 8.58 GB |
| 10 Aug 2009 | 6778 | 56422 | 506673 | 10.59 GB |
| 11 Aug 2009 | 6405 | 56265 | 467388 | 9.61 GB |
| 12 Aug 2009 | 7052 | 63581 | 542905 | 11.34 GB |
| 13 Aug 2009 | 6798 | 53371 | 478709 | 10.37 GB |
| 14 Aug 2009 | 14850 | 75967 | 766081 | 11.61 GB |
WoW Bash move in progress
23/04/2009, 11:04. WoW Bash
The title says it all, really. The WoW Bash move is in progress. The files and database have been imported, the DNS changed, so now we just need to wait a few hours for everybody's Internet Service Provider to register the new IP adress of www.wowbash.com. If you see a "maintenance" message on this URL, that means your ISP has not updated its DNS case yet. If you see the regular WoW Bash, you're good.
Update #1: The move is complete, and everything went fine.
Update #2: Well apprently I was too quick when I said that' everything went fine'. The quotes and double quotes in the comments are showing with escaping characters. It will be fixed later this week.
Update #3: The problem above should be fixed, as well as the issue with the RSS stream. If you find any other unexpected bug on the website, make sure to contact me.
WoW Bash is moving. No, really.
21/04/2009, 10:58. WoW Bash
Alright, so as you can see, the moving of WoW Bash has been slightly delayed. Most of the technical difficulties have been fixed, so I'm hoping to actually move tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow. Not that you will see much of a difference, this is mostly a backend technical improvements.
WoW Bash is moving
11/04/2009, 01:00. WoW Bash
WoW Bash will be moved to a new server in the coming days. Maybe even today. We are tweaking things here and there, and once we are confident everything is fine, the website will be moved (and then all hell will break lose, as anybody who carefuly planned a server move before will tell you - it never goes as planned). If you see something's broken, please bear with us for a couple of days. It will also be required to update the DNS entries, so it will take some time, once we switched, for all the ISP to be up-to-date with the new IP adress of WoW Bash. If you see a message saying you are on the old WoW Bash server, it's because your ISP is not up-to-date yet, and you just have to wait.
This post will be updated as we go.
Coming on WoW Bash
10/04/2009, 16:18. WoW Bash
It's been a while since I posted what we have planned for WoW Bash. So here goes a list of upcoming features, in no particular order. Also, keep in mind none of this is set in stone, and everything is subject to change.
- People will be able to display only the languages of their choosing. For only English entries are shown, even though it's possible to upload in other languages.
- Fix a bug where the whole page is reloaded when you rate an entry.
- Add a quote system in the comments, so you can insult each others more conveniently.
- Add some WYSIWYG buttons in the comment box (bold, italic, and so on).
- Weekly newsletter with the 10 best rated entries of the week.