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| 01 Jan 2012 11:40 AM |
Cube Bomb closed :(
This is Stuffmaker's (Cube Bomb's owner) final remarks:
Goodbye, Cube Bomb.
I have seen much and learned much while working on Cube Bomb. In fact, I am a better person because of it. The past two years have changed the way I percieve technology, people, community, and ownership. Thank you.
Cube Bomb was originally designed to be a small project to fill some holes in my programming experience. I understood most that was required by an average programmer to write proper and functional code, however that alone wasn't good enough for me. To become a true master of a programming language you must start a project that stretches your abilities. Well, that's how I do things. Web development and design was relatively easy. The difficult part was the need for quick response, bug fixing skills, and near-flawless code from the first run. These were conquored soon enough.
Over the two years of operation, Cube Bomb peaked at 80gb of bandwidth/day. That equates to about 94 mb every SECOND. Bandwidth costs money, and that was a problem for our hosting providers. I was on a camping trip in California when I discovered the problem. Sitting in the car with my laptop, I used the free wifi to hear the bad news. Devistation set in. This was the cause of the "This account has been suspended" error.
So, at this point, the project was out of control. Once the wheel starts down the hill, it's unpredictable. I had to upgrade my server.
For a long while I managed the project, but I frequently found myself requesting to be cloned so I could keep up with the work. Soon after, I would spend most of my weekends programming new features and fighting off hackers (Haha). By the way Tom, thanks for that. ;) This is when I decided it was enough.
I am now off to new projects and new languages. Perhaps you will stuble upon one of my creations one day...
- StuffMaker
p.s. Just because Cube Bomb is offline doesn't mean I don't still own my copyrights.
Statistics: In the time that Cube Bomb was public, it set many personal records:
+There were a total of 6,299,624 profile views. +A total of 9,994 chat messages were sent, of which 178 of them were never read. +24,970 items were purchased in the official catalog. +21,747 items were purchased in the user catalog. +There were 11,201 votes on the likez bar. +133,461 personal messages were sent, of which 92,492 were read. +8,847 comments were posted on official items. +12,284 comments were posted on user-created items. +2,407 images were uploaded to the dropoff and moderated. +1,102 accounts were registeded with a valid email address. +113,068 posts on the forums. +14,705 forum topics. +People changed their characters more than 3,078 seperate times.
The original bombian was designed to be 512x512 px in size, and the bombian that everyone knows today was supposed to be an icon. (I accidentally forgot to add support for the large image, but at the time I remembered it was too late; all the items were created for that small size.) |
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