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SteelSeries May giveaway!

Ladies & Gentlemen, This month we are doing something special for our monthly SteelSeries giveaway. We will give away 2 'SteelSeries APEX [RAW]', the newest keyboard of SteelSeries. In this contest we will not randomly pick a winner, this time ...

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League Of Legends 3-Day IP boost codes giveaway

This Wednesday, the 8th of May, we'll be giving away 30 IP boosts for League Of Legends. The giveaway will be in #leagueoflegends at 20:00 CEST and will last about half an hour. These IP boosts double the base amount ...

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Hetzner regional IP bans (Updated: 2013/04/23)

UPDATE: after an internal discussion we have decided to unilaterally remove all Hetzner bans. All Hetzner clients can connect to any QuakeNet server. While we still strongly feel Hetzner require significant enhancements to their abuse handling procedures we have decided ...

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Q cleanup now automatic

Posted by slug on Saturday 18 February 2012

QuakeNet accounts and channels expire when they haven't been used for 80 and 40 days (respectively).

The logic required to safely select which accounts were inactive had previously been unsafe in the presence of netsplits, and as netsplits are hard to detect automatically we required a developer to manually execute the cleanup process.

However Q has a shiny new netsplit-proof-awesome-authtracker, which can track users across splits, and as a result we've now scheduled the cleanup to run automatically everyday at 1am.

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Sorcerer said on Saturday 18 February 2012

Great stuff.

Bazerka said on Saturday 18 February 2012

lol..

chenwei said on Sunday 19 February 2012

:)

KoYoTt said on Sunday 19 February 2012

Great to see this improvement :)

nemesys said on Monday 20 February 2012

Nice to see, that the network isn't going down ;) So thumbs up.

Squeepy said on Tuesday 28 February 2012

q gets some love!

tehzomb said on Saturday 10 March 2012

Q gets a bit too much love already...

salt said on Saturday 31 March 2012