Scott Davies

Patreon Badges!

Hello everyone! I've gone back through every supporter and have tried to chase up anyone who has ever donated to RA to make sure that everyone has their Patreon Supporter's badge, and I'm certain I will have accidentally missed a few people out. If you don't already have your badge, please message or post either here or on the site and I'll get your badge added.

In other news, I love you guys so much! You've helped make my dream come true, and much more on top. RA is a genuinely inspiri...

RAWeb 3.0 is here!!

Hello guys! We have an exciting announcement, the site has had a major upgrade! Managed by luchaos, Jamiras and WCopeland, supported by many others, we have a bunch of upgrades, improvements and optimisations to help get the site running smoother than ever!

For more details, please see this post: https://retroachievements.org/viewtopic.php?t=22485

Thank-you so much guys for all your support...

PS2 Achievements!

PS2 Achievements are here! Launched today on RetroAchievements. 93 games supported on day one. So proud of the RA community <3
Get the *nightly* PCSX2 qt build from here https://pcsx2.net/downloads/#nightly-anchor

PSP

Has anyone tried out the new PSP achievements?

http://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=41

Tier 1 expanded

Hi everyone, I have expanded the number of patrons that will be able to access the first tier, I didn't realise it was full! I don't think I'm allowed to retroactively apply the tier to existing patrons (odd) but I'm told there is a way to assign yourself a tier via the dashboard on Patreon. If not don't worry there's no difference between the two, servers are still getting paid for and there's no "tiered" content. Let me know if I can help or if you have any questions. Thanks again for your ...

Continued thanks to the best community in the galaxy

Hey guys, just wanted to say thank-you so much again for your support, I know it's just the same message over and over but RetroAchievements doesn't exist at all without all the dedication, hard-work and financial support you've given to the site. I promise to keep RetroAchievements around for as long as I can, as always with no adverts, no monetisation, no gambling or dodgy incentives, no sponsors - just good clean functionality. You've made this happen and I will continue to make sure RA st...

May 2020 update (receipts for billing)

Hey all, just a quick update to give you numbers on the server costs, bit of transparency, sorry not particularly exciting:

AWS -> 85.99GBP/ 105.63USD
DO -> 51.78GBP/63.60USD

Current total cost: £137.77/$169.23

Still alive!

Hey all, just a quick update to let you all know we're still alive and kicking!

October 2019 looks like this:

Amazon Hosting (S3): £56.13 ($71.97)

Digital Ocean (cpu): £49.63 ($63.60)

Total: £105.76 ($135.57)

Tier Restructure!

Hi all,

Thanks to all your contributions, we're about to move to a new server on a faster host! So in order to celebrate, we have decided to simplify our Patreon (which if I'm honest, was a bit of a mess. Sorry)

All patrons are invited to take advantage of the  Super Ultimate 2018 Patreon Sub Tier which requires a (Patreon-required) minimum donation of $1/month. I don't want to discriminate financially, it doesn't seem a very classy thing to do, so any contributions...

GDPR and Site Updates

Hey, everyone else is doing it!

We take data protection seriously at RetroAchievements, and we have in place steps to improve our security, including adding https, and improving the server hashing algorithm to better store your data (see https://github.com/RetroAchievements/RAWeb/issues/99).

We don't currently gather explicit consent on RA, so please if you don't wish to be bothered, we won't b...

Cheaters!

Hi guys! One of the biggest problems plaguing RetroAchievements is the occurrence of cheaters. RA is not a closed platform. It's not unthinkable for a hacker to edit and build the entire toolset and award themselves every single achievement. Or they could simply inject their own packets to the server. However the hard-working admin have an squad put together via Discord who are weeding out the most obvious and clear cases of cheating, and have been discussing the best motivations for dealing wit...

December 2017

and here are December 2017's server costs.

November 2017

Here are the account details and costs for November 2017

October 2017

Hey all, have attached October's server cost invoice. The spike at the start of the month was confirmed to be a glitch that may be fixed by now (possibly due to initial integration with completionist.me? Also check out http://completionist.me !!)

Password Reset fixed

Hi all, sorry for the delay! Password Reset feature has been fixed finally, now if you forget your password you can have a password reset link emailed to you.

http://retroachievements.org/resetPassword.php

September 2017 Bill

It looks huge, but it's not really! The 50% purchase for 12 months of the t2.medium server is in there, and as a result the actual running costs are LOWER than previous months, so don't worry!

Fixes going in today

Code notes should be fixed

Achievement promotion fixed

Badge upload fixed

Search/lookups fixed 

Should help patch up some of the issues caused by the migration to the new bigger, better servers. Old server officially retired.

Server Upgrade Complete...

-ish. We are now on a t2.medium rather than a t2.small. This gives us twice the CPU, twice the memory and a fresh new start on a fresh new server. There are a few teething issues I'll be fixing now. Attached is the old server struggling with CPU credits, to the point of not being able to serve or host *Anything*. It shot up as soon as I took it offline (naturally)

August 2017 Billing Statement

Billing is a touch cheaper this month since we managed to block users from hammering the server. Looking to switch over to a slightly more powerful server, but offsetting the cost by paying for it all up front. Upgrade forthcoming

Ticket Management tools updated

Hey all,

I've made a few changes to ticket management to assist developers manage achievements that are flagged as either not working or working incorrectly.

High-use issue fixed?

Looks like we've finally found the culprit, fetching ./RA_Integration.dll over and over was causing issues (old clients). Looking forward to slightly cheaper bandwidth over the next few months.

Integrated Master System and N64

Master System and N64 are now referenced in the download page and in the Site Pages sections. The links currently point to the same ones referenced on the homepage.

Ticket Manager changes live

New filters added to ticket manager

We now automate a message when a ticket is resolved/demoted:

which is a non-modifyable system comment with timestamp to record wh...

July month recap

June month recap

Your Patience is Admirable

Thankyou so much Patreons for your inspiring patience, you haven't been forgotten! I have made some adjustments in order to be able to make some more progress on site features, I can't guarantee any new features just yet except to say watch this space! Don't forget we have a Discord server to discuss ideas, see the top right of the main page for more info!

Bump in bandwidth use in May 2017

Just to clarify - there was a bump in traffic (and cost) for some days in May, I've isolated it to being some very old clients that got stuck in an update loop, requesting RAIntegration.dll over and over 4-5 times a second, essentially draining the site of bandwidth. These holes have been patched now (we no longer serve the dll at the root, it's now in /bin), and I'll absorb the additional cost (as it was my mistake), which works out to be around 385gb, costing around $35.14. The total cost for ...

May 2017 statement

Hi all, providing a May statement to keep you up to date. The bandwidth totalled around 960gb over the month, with a few spikes due to mis-configured remote clients. This should now be fixed.

N64 Support Incoming!

Hi guys, just wanted to make sure to touch base with you all and make sure you know I haven't gone anywhere :) this is a Patron-only post, as will many of the forthcoming posts be.

RAP64 can be downloaded here: http://retroachievements.org/viewtopic.php?t=4686 - GameDragon has been providing the bulk of the support and development, and there are currently 10 games with a full 400 points to get: 

January - May 2017 Statements

January: https://i.imgur.com/kP5mL0x.png

February: https://i.imgur.com/TQqq7Pd.png

March: https://i.imgur.com/BoOMdtw.png

April: https://i.imgur.com/aXyIRAt.png

May: 2017-05-12 22:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post