Thanks Tony.
Now that it's back, I invite you all to send me some post-Valentines day friend requests. 
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Great to hear Tony!
Thanks for the update!
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Yay I finally have a Faces. 
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Hooray! And grats to you both for getting it fixed! 
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I am now a Face.
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Good to see CoHFaces back!!!
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Yay now i can update the page with my New mains and stuff. Was wondering when it was coming back.
Going to miss the fun and nice people here at CoH. Feel free to add me on PS3/XBox360
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Another piece of the COH social machine has come back home. Thanks for all the hard work from everyone who brought Faces back from the brink!
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In the interest of making sure credit is given where credit is due, it really was around 99.44% Codewalker. The guy is a powerful force for nifty, and you're probably going to be hearing his name a lot more going forward. |
Originally Posted by Turgenev
Another piece of the COH social machine has come back home. Thanks for all the hard work from everyone who brought Faces back from the brink!
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We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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Thanks for that, but don't sell yourself short! When I decided to take a swing at it, I compared the current state it was in with a baseline copy made right after the old server was shut down, to see what had been done so far. I knew you'd been working on it in your limited spare time but was surprised at the volume of the changes. It definitely saved me a lot of time!|
Originally Posted by TonyV
In the interest of making sure credit is given where credit is due, it really was around 99.44% Codewalker. The guy is a powerful force for nifty, and you're probably going to be hearing his name a lot more going forward.
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Most of the work so far has been on revamping the back end into a more modern architecture. It's clear that it's one of those sites that got quickly thrown together as a "hey, this would be cool!" thing and then just got more and more pieces added on to it. Which is absolutely fine, that happens a lot, there just comes a point where you have to go back to square one and re-think a few things. I can definitely sympathize with the folks at Paragon who have to reverse-engineer old systems to be able to maintain them.
There have been a few minor tweaks to the interface that long-time users may be able to spot, but nothing huge. It should be quite a bit faster now, too, though that might be hard to tell after months of it being down.
Going forward I do have a few ideas for improvements to the site that you'll hopefully be seeing Soon(TM). I've never really used Faces in the past, but just navigating it and testing things I already see a few obvious enhancements. Looking at the forums, I see some of those have been requested before, like paginated comments, and I'll try to tackle them as time allows. It's clear that the site still needs some love.
That said, I don't have unlimited free time, so I think applications for a dedicated Faces developer are still open.
Updated profile info and password... now to redownload the tools... and check my characters.
Nice to see this back again.
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Great to see CoH Faces back. Thanks Guys for all your work.
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Rabbits & Hares:Blue (Mind/Emp Controller)Maroon (Rad/Thermal Corruptor)and one of each AT all at 50
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No one I actually play the game with has a Faces account, sad face. I had my Photoshop readied with an arsenal of twirly mustaches!!!
And my only Faces friend is Maverick X. I have no idea who he is, or how he got on my friends list, but he seems like one popular dude. For some reason I want to call him Tom.
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There's something wrong with Faces. I can't find the fields in which to order some of the more attractive ones.
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What server? I've found some of the people I know from Triumph on there, with varying degrees of activeness.|
Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
No one I actually play the game with has a Faces account, sad face. I had my Photoshop readied with an arsenal of twirly mustaches!!!
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Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
And my only Faces friend is Maverick X. I have no idea who he is, or how he got on my friends list, but he seems like one popular dude. For some reason I want to call him Tom.
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Maverick X was involved in creating the site years and years ago, and has since moved on from CoH to other things. New accounts no longer automatically add him as a friend.
We've debated whether to remove him from everyone's friends list, but didn't want to do that across the board in case there really is someone on there who keeps in touch and wants him on their list, since he does pop in from time to time.
My favorite solution is to just move him to "pending" status so it shows up as you got a friend request, but even that might be too overreaching.
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Virtue. I clicked like 50 pages back in the latest updates for Virtue, before giving up. And admittedly, I didn't do searches for every global friend; mostly just those that wouldn't be creeped out if I sent them a link to a picture of their face with a twirly mustache, or a third eye or something. I don't want to ask my friends if they're on there, I want to surprise them. Hee hee.|
Originally Posted by Codewalker
What server? I've found some of the people I know from Triumph on there, with varying degrees of activeness.
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And I disagree with Zombie Man, when I was clicking back, I saw a few attractive faces. But come on, this isn't Hot or Not. I'm not going to be friends with someone based on that.
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Yeah, he's the Tom of CoH Faces.
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No, my point is I can't put in an order for the attractive ones. The site's broken.
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Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
And I disagree with Zombie Man, when I was clicking back, I saw a few attractive faces.
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I think some Google wizards were working on face recognition algorithms that could spot more attractive faces according to a bunch of polls.
Since I don't think that's in the cards, Codewalker would have to put a clickable hotness 1-5 rating on every picture, so that we could then sort by hotness according to the polls. He could make a page listing for hot people and hide results for anything below a 5, so that hot people would feel flattered if they were totally hot, but would not be included in the ratings at all if they were not.
I'm joking.
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I think we're planning on introducing the "Request-a-face" bounty feature and "Hero-or-Zero" rating system sometime in early April, but I need to check with Tony to make sure everyone still can make that schedule.
Faces is back!
Hey all, in case you missed Codewalker's post in the other thread, he's been doing a lot of work lately on restoring CoH Faces, the last site on the Titan Network that was still down from our hackage back on Halloween. Aside from getting the software updated to avoid a similar hacking in the future, he's also fixed some other bugs and holes that could have caused potential problems. Yes, he really is that dreamy.
Anyway, we're really sorry it's been down for so long. As we've modified the code semi-extensively, if you notice any bugs or weirdities, by all means, let us know by posting a message on our forums or otherwise PMing me or him or responding in this thread.
Enjoy!
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
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