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Yes. I know. We're all still waiting on #trivia. What happened?

So originally for some reason Thumbbot decided to add 45 misses to every single question. So it was bugging out for some reason, and while I have my theories, I can't prove anything because I don't know enough bot code. Miloticscale tried to get ahold of the person who could fix thumbbot, but got ignored. It bugged me, but it wasn't breaking the game, so it kept on playing.

But then it got worse and only asked questions that had less than 10 hits/the questions that were ridiculously hard.  We(I tired, milotic tried, a Thumbsshare staffer tried) still got no response from the one and only person who could fix the bot or let us have access to the bot to fix it, but decided to stop the bot for a bit until it could stop only asking the low hit, hard questions.

And then the person who had Thumbbot took it offline and went offline and nobody has been able to get a hold of him since then. That's what happened to thumbbot. We basically got thrown under the bus.

Then Miloticscale went to make a bot, and he made one, but it wasn't able to keep up with everything and kept on crashing, so he went to make one that could. However,  for reasons that I don't know, Milotic decided to take a leave of absence and left as a trivia staff member. (don't bug him about it)

So where does that leave us?

Well the good news is that while thumbbot may not be online, I do have access to all of it's info and the questions, and I'm pulling the questions off the bot and fixing the ones that need it(are poorly worded so that you don't know what it's asking, questions relating to ex-staff members, removing exact duplicate questions) and saving them.

The Thumbsshare staffer who still is around is getting a hold of the founders to get a new bot(as they made the original one) or to point us in the direction of who can make/has a new bot. So we will have a new bot hopefully soon. It will have all of the questions of the old bot. I can get all your scores off the old bot.

However as for when this will happen, I don't know. I hope soon. I'll message pretty much anybody and everybody who ever played trivia once it's up again, as I do want trivia to be as active and fun as it was way back when.

So will trivia play again? Yes. Yes it will. When? I don't know, but soon hopefully. So don't give up the ship yet...

Edit: If anybody knows anybody who knows python, please let me know...

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Hop-a-long...

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Long story short? Alright long story short.

My sister graduated from college out of state and we had a bit of a medical emergency with our puppy, So I've been MIA for the past week or two as a result.

The good news, the puppy will survive, however, sadly she may never be able to walk properly at all, so we are going to have to give her away eventually, unless my mom can figure something out or it learns to walk naturally somehow.

Also I haven't drawn anything still so bad Sarah, bad! =( I feel so bad about not drawing, but I've been so busy...busy playing video games....>_>....

Also the new bot we tried, well it almost works, but as it continuously crashes.  So we(and by we I mean monstash) are trying another one which Milotic swears that it will work. If it doesn't work, I'll first beat up Milotic with bags of marshmallows, and then go hire somebody to make a new bot. But we'll see what happens.

But basically, no matter what, I will not let trivia die.

On my end, I'm continuing to pull off all the questions off the old bot. Which is resulting in my finding a lot of duplicate questions. And by a lot, I mean, I think I've removed nearly 2,000 questions that were exactly the same as another one. @_@

So yes. We're still working on trivia. I need to work on drawing more. The puppy's hopping along like a bunny.

And that's all for now Starshine...

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Trivia ETA

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So the long and the short of it is that Thumbbot fixing, it just isn't going to happen anytime soon, so monstash went ahead and cloned it/made a new working Thumbbot. Yay! :la:

The good news:
Less crashing, less downtime, and potentially less glitching.

The bad news:
...well there really isn't any bad news other than in creating the new bot we have to manually put in all the questions from the old Thumbbot to the new Thumbbot. The plan is to have Trivia running as soon as we have a good chunk of questions added in, and will continue to add the questions from the old bot to the new bot. So there may not be as large as a variety of questions right away, but hey will be there eventually while you play.

So...ETA for trivia playing again?
As long as it takes to put in over 1,ooo questions back in. So a couple more days. =)

The other news:
The only other thing is when you come into the new trivia, you will need to ask to restore your original trivia score, though if you want to start from scratch, that's fine. The reason is there's tons of people who just don't play trivia anymore, and there's tons and tons of scores on the old bot, so we only want to add the scores of people who still play to the new bot. Adding the scores of people who no longer play doesn't make any sense and it doesn't take more than a few seconds to restore your score. =)

Lastly...
Yes I am still planing on have a Trivia contest. However due to the bot switch, that is probably going to have to wait until all of the questions have been transferred to the new bot, so that is going to have to wait. ETA on that is going to be mid to late summer. Possibly around DA's birthday.


In unrelated trivia news, I am drawing again, but nothing that I want to post. I'm very sorry watchers, I will post something soon. I feel bad that ya'll are watching nothing for so long. =( Soon! I promise!

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So what happened with Trivia?

Well, long story short, #trivia bot Thumbbot's code is old and just like an old car, it's not running like it should. The best way I understand it, it's just not working well with deviantART's newer coding, so we are looking into getting the bot either debugged and updated so it plays nice or we will create a new bot that works exactly like dear old Thumbbot. And by we, I mean MiloticScale, since I can only do stuff on websites and nothing elaborate like a bot.

How long will this take? Hopefully no longer than a week or two from now. Regardless, providing all goes according to plan, you don't have to wait much longer, so yay for that!

Will the questions be the same? Yes. Will your scores be the same? I believe so. Will the bot still be a pain in the with hints? No idea. Is there a contest coming where you can win points or a subscription?


...maybe. :meow:

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I would have announced this yesterday, but since it was moronic day...I mean April Fool's day, aka my least favorite day of the year, I didn't.

Providing all goes well, my mom's dog Fiona, an Irish Terrier, is going to have puppies! Four of 'em! Should have been six but apparently she miscarried two, so providing that doesn't happen again, she should have the little guys beginning of May!

For my mom's sake, I hope she doesn't miscarry the other four, this is her first litter so we are all sort of nervous, anxious and excited.

Not that my mom hasn't had a litter before. Way long ago in days of yore...or before I was born, my mom's Yorkshire Terrier had a litter of puppies too. So this isn't my mom's first time, but yeah, lets see what happens! =o

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