link the repo; I remember watching a cool Xfire documentery and this has my curiousity piqued
https://github.com/darcymiranda/PFire
If you PM, I’ll give you the motivation you need. Let’s talk.
You really aren’t using github to its full potential if you’re not logging the bugs into the issues part of the website. that way people can put up pull requests that address an issue as they come in, and you can know what to prioritize over what.
I’ll ask Darcy for github permissions and perhaps oversee it, but as for now there’s no one updating the code and especially from the ground up. That’s the step I’m on. I need manpower before I can move forward.
The source code (which is open source) is already written and just needs a pair of trained eyes seeing where the issues stem from. This emulator was made 5 years ago by an amateur programmer who doesn’t have time to fundamentally fix the errors in his program. This program has been maintained and updated regularly, but these bugs persists. If anyone is interested in reviving this application, they would definitely get bragging rights in certain corners. Please pm me if interested.
Bugs are as follows:- most users (or everyone) disconnects when someone new connects to the server.
– can’t send messages after a few hours of the server running [high latency issue] (rebooting server fixes this but only temporally)
– users who connect might get singed in with someone else’s username / are able to chat as them. (it seems that a username / password doesn’t even matter) we probably want that to work properly.
– voice chat is nonfunctional and we don’t see why it can’t be fixed to work
Why didn’t you post the code if it is open source?
Most people would want to take a quick look to see if the code is horrendous before they even start to consider if they’d like to work on it. (Judging by the severity of those ‘bugs’ it is going to be 😛 )
Good programmers are lazy. I was even almost too lazy to write this comment. If there was a link to the code however I would have taken a wee look.
I think if you want others to contribute you should really be logging these issues with details in your repo (GitHub issues, JIRA, etc.). Those types of things don’t require code experience and greatly help with those who want to help.
Good luck with it!
Thanks Gen!
Holy crap I was actually in that Area51 cod4 clan.
That’s a crazy coincidence. That clan was unwittingly immortalized in one of the few screenshots of Xfire.
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