University of Bristol Computer Gaming Society

Spring Updates

March 7, 2011 | Posted in IRC Bot,News,Website, Tagged

Here’s a list of the updates to our various sites & services:

  1. Our forums and home page have had a re-skin – for a while we’ve wanted to make an attempt to change things so that there’s less of a disconnect between the two portals.
  2. IRC statistics have been updated and can be found at the usual place
  3. A new COGSBot feature, !scratch has been added. If you often find yourself connecting to IRC from different machines and are fed up of losing or emailing yourself links to webpages, this may be of interest to you. As long as you are identified with NickServ you can use “!scratch message” to save your own personal list of stuff. You can retrieve this scratchpad (as long as you’re identified) anywhere by typing !scratchpad
  4. A !committee trigger has been added to COGSBot, which allows you to attract the attention of a committee member if you need to bring something to our attention, e.g. we got the date for an event wrong. Or you found our cash box. Or whatever..
  5. We’ve handed a nice ergonomic keyboard to COGSBot, as the demands on typing are high these days. Hopefully this is going to help cut down on those spelling mistakes that have been cropping up.

Feedback on any & all of the above is most welcome. Feel free to get in touch with us on the forums or IRC.

-WiFi

COGS Accounts Updates

November 23, 2009 | Posted in Website, Tagged

Accounts on the website (for posting on the forums and for signing up to events) can now be modified after logging in.

Since most people had their data imported from the forums which doesn’t collect everything we do, it will be useful to have a look and make sure your details are correct. We had to fill in everyone’s name as their nickname, and if you need or give lifts you can fill in your address and phone number to save typing it in every time you sign up.

In other news, there is now a proper 404 page, a duff link has been removed and it is now easier for admins to reset users’ passwords.

Hackers

June 15, 2009 | Posted in Website, Tagged

As most of you know our server provider was hacked recently, and all of our website services were taken offline as a result. We’re back now, but we still have some restoration work from backups to do…