Bits - The Unix and Linux Forums (Experimental) Virtual Currency

[Neo]

Originally Posted by mgessner

The lottery drawing date still says 6-18-2009... I'm pretty sure that date has passed

When is the next one?

Sorry about that. I made a change in the code so it would display the last winning number and for some reason, there is a bug.

I'll look into it

Thanks.

---------- Post updated at 14:45 ---------- Previous update was at 14:32 ----------

I moved back the original file, the one before adding the SQL query to save the winning lottery number. Let's see if it will work now. The next drawing date is:

Drawing Date 2009-06-26

Sorry about that! It seems I might have broken it when I added code to write the winning number to the lottery table in the db.

Let's see what happens then. If moving the original file back does not work, I'll have to delete the winning number field I added to the lottery table. Or try creating a new lottery instead of repeating the one where there was no winner.

Thanks for your patience.

---------- Post updated at 14:50 ---------- Previous update was at 14:45 ----------

Note, daily crons seem to be running OK:

72577	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 18th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72535	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 17th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72491	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 16th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72450	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 15th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72404	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 14th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72368	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 13th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72328	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 12th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72285	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 11th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72244	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 10th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72196	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 9th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72152	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 8th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72104	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 7th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72063	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 6th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
72024	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 5th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.
71983	Daily vBCredits Tasks	23:00, 4th Jun 2009	Applied Referral, Birthday, Paycheck and Activity Credits. Picked Drawing Winners.

[mgessner]

Right now it says:

Lotto! 310,600 Bits Jackpot
Drawing Date 06-25-09

[Leppie]

wouldn't it be nice if users could buy a vip account (maybe even for a limited time)? or other things to make this forum even more worthwhile?

[Neo]

Originally Posted by Leppie

wouldn't it be nice if users could buy a vip account (maybe even for a limited time)? or other things to make this forum even more worthwhile?

Yes, that would be nice, but the primary purpose of making the Bits engine available is not for us, "The Forum Admins", to make things available to users. The primary purpose is for users to have an economic engine to conduct commerce. If the users do not find creative ways to use the engine, that is OK too And, is does appear that there is no "emergent property" going to happen with regard to this engine we provided.

One alternative is to simply pull the plug on it altogether if the users do not find a way to use it. It take a lot of time to write code and keep things moving and unless the users take the lead and use the engine, I have no motivation to spend a lot of time in further development. There are simply too many things to do, and further Bits development is not at the top of the list these days.

Thanks for your comments.

[Neo]

Yes, others have also suggested we move this forum up higher in the stack.

Any suggestion where exactly?

[DukeNuke2]

Originally Posted by Neo

Any suggestion where exactly?

with blinking red and blue light at the top of the list

[Neo]

Hahahaha.....

OK. Let's try it for fun

---------- Post updated at 20:30 ---------- Previous update was at 18:03 ----------

Originally Posted by DukeNuke2

with blinking red and blue light at the top of the list

OK, done, but without the blinking red and blue light (yet!)