Posted Fri, 07 February 2014, 16:03 UTC by Tenboro
The Bitcoin Donations page has now received a significant update. Instead of using a third party to handle the Bitcoin integration, the site now interfaces directly with the Bitcoin network to handle payments. This makes the process much more resilient to external failures, and allows us to do some new stuff that would be more complicated before.
With the new system, a Bitcoin wallet address will be generated for you where you can send coins from any online service or wallet on your computer or cellphone. As soon as they have been confirmed by the network, they will be available from that page to apply either as a direct donation or towards Adopt-a-Server slots. Any coins sent to your wallet will remain in your balance until they are spent in one of those ways.
Note that the available BTC balance shown on the page is what is available for you to spend, not the "actual" balance on the Bitcoin wallet in question - for security reasons, everything is transferred to a cold (offline) wallet shortly after being received.
Edit: To further insulate people from random BTC volatility, we now use the highest of the 24-hour and 7-day weighted average. This means that the impact of a large drop on any given day should be negligible as long as you don't wait too long to apply a transaction.
Because it's the sixth one, isn't it. On to prizes!
The PHP Mersenne-Twister Random Number Generator returns to draw twenty lucky winners from those who entered. Like previous years, you got one ticket per level. The prize, recycled from last year and given to each of the lucky winners, is 100 Hath and one Tenbora's Box.
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The winner is: gatimuti (318516) The winner is: lord of dao (780319) The winner is: magicianmaster (1225350) The winner is: Teresa of the Faint Smile (702197) The winner is: cybchaos (289712) The winner is: Valkrey (519597) The winner is: Zunami (79096) The winner is: etothex (159384) The winner is: unit88 (691747) The winner is: Jose_Mourinho (1429263) The winner is: ConfusedPerv (967846) The winner is: cicco (542695) The winner is: tkm82 (759417) The winner is: southrim (291867) The winner is: Hurp Durp (1224430) The winner is: issary (1589710) The winner is: Rikis (176159) The winner is: wolfgirl of autumn92 (1068395) The winner is: blue penguin (924439) The winner is: Hoheneim (109890)
In addition, everyone who participated in the lottery gets a Free Cookie! The Cookie gives a 20% bonus to all gained EXP, and as of today, it also gives you 1 Hath every day you visit the site - and you don't even have to click it. (If you posted and didn't get a Cookie, that means there was more than one account posting from your IP address. Too bad.)
The Sixth Annual E-Hentai Galleries Award Show for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Excellence
As usual, everyone who made a showing in the Galleries Toplists (that is, made the Top 7 Top 25) will receive one Tenbora's Box for each placement.
As for this year's Unique Thingie, you get points for every toplist you place in, with 7 points for 1st place, 6 for 2nd, and so on, down to 1 point for 7th place. You also get half a point for every placement between 8 and 25.
If the points add up to a 1st place or better (7 points), you got the Ruby Heart, which adds +100% EXP, +4 Hath and +7000C per dawn event, and +3 mod power.
If the points add up to a 2nd-4th place (4 points), you got the Emerald Heart, which adds +75% EXP, +3 Hath and +5000C per dawn event, and +2 mod power.
And if you get at least one point, you got the Sapphire Heart, which adds +50% EXP, +2 Hath and +3000C per dawn event, and +1 mod power.
Posted Tue, 24 December 2013, 16:31 UTC by Tenboro
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As is customary in E-Hentai tradition, we always hand out a little something to our loyal members and contributors this time of year. Everyone who has reached the Member status on the forums should now have received a few trinkets of appreciation, namely:
10 Hath 1x Fiber-Optic Tree of Harmony (unique artifact) 1x Six-Lock Box (unique trophy) 3x Stocking Stuffers (trophy)
In a repeat from the last five years, everyone who makes a post in this thread can also participate in the E-Hentai Yuletide Lottery. To participate, spread some warmth by making a post in this thread containing the phrase Hearths and Hearts exactly as written somewhere in your post.
Make sure to enter before 23:59:59 (Midnight) UTC, December 31st.
As usual, The Yuletide Lottery Drawings will be done by the PHP Mersenne-Twister Random Number Generator. The winner will be announced on January 1st, 2014. Ish.
And to everyone, have a Happy Holidays, a Merry Christmas, or a Wonderful Whatever Holiday You May Or May Not Happen To Celebrate.
Posted Sat, 21 December 2013, 16:11 UTC by Tenboro
Because of some recent and persistent large-scale abuse, a number of changes has been made to the Dawn Event and Random Encounters to make them less exploitable as far as automated credit farming goes.
- The Dawn Event now only awards a negligible default credit amount unless you made a forum post in the last 30 days. (This does not affect people with a credit grant from donation stars.)
- Random Encounters will now randomly start with a Riddlemaster. The chance for this happening is quite low, but increases if you failed one recently.
- To compensate for both, the credit multiplier for Random Encounters was changed from x2 to x3.
Hopefully these changes will take care of the worst of it.
(Note that the abuse did not start with the recent lowering from 60 minute to 30 minute cooldown on the Random Encounters, but that change was mostly to prevent it from being an advantage for single accounts.)
Posted Fri, 20 December 2013, 20:19 UTC by Tenboro
Since the changes introduced in the 1.1 branch seem to be stable, we're pushing 1.1.3 BETA as 1.2.0 Stable as is. The only real change between these builds is that 1.2.0 does not print debug output to the console per default.
As part of this, the minimum usable version was increased to r69 (1.0.10). The 14 people with older clients will at least have to update to this.
To sum up the changes from 1.0.10 to 1.2.0:
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The major new feature for 1.2 is static ranges. If a client is assigned a static range, the server will always assume that the client is able to serve files from that range without tracking the files individually. Instead of being pre-distributed, if a file isn't currently cached, the client will proxy-request it from the image servers on-demand, then store it for later use.
Files in a static range will not be tracked by the server, nor will the client bug the server about it when it adds the file or in the unlikely case it decides to delete it. This should greatly reduce the server-side load of tracking clients. It will also allow us to greatly increase the file coverage per region.
Static ranges will only be assigned to faster clients that have a proven track record, and only if it has enough disk space set aside to store all the files for the static range - in other words, 1/65536th of all hosted images. Currently, the minimum requirement is 250 MB disk space and 3 KB/s effective speed per assigned range. A client can be assigned an arbitrary number of ranges depending on its capabilities. Note that static ranges will not be assigned unless the client has been running for 24 hours, and it will only be assigned one range every two hours at most.
A completely new client-to-client speed tester has also been added. This one will be able to detect higher speeds much more reliably than before.
This version of H@H will be able to make advantage of a lot more disk space than before. So if you have loads of it just laying around, it doesn't hurt to bump it up a bit.
- Core: Support for static ranges was added.
- Core: The client will no longer terminate if it fails to set socket buffer sizes for any reason.
- Core: Some platforms didn't like the argument order we used for ping, so this was switched around. (Only relevant for testing against pre-1.1.1 clients.)
- Core: Added user friendly interpretations for a few missing startup errors.
- Core: The stale file pruning mechanism will no longer run if the server hasn't been reachable lately.
- Core: HTTPServer should now recognize IPv6 localhost and private network ranges.
- Core: Removed support for pre-1.0.4 URL format.
- Core: The --use-more-memory mode is now the default. If this causes issues, you can revert to the old behavior with the new --use-less-memory flag. -- Unless you have physical memory limitations, if you run into Out of Memory errors, you should try using -Xmx1g flag first, which will increase the maximum Java heap space to 1GB.
- Core: Fixed logging could throw a NullPointerException if a null somehow ended up in the final print.
- Core: Added support for multi-threaded client-to-client testing.
- Core: The standard file download mechanism has been rewritten, primarily to support the new testing system. As a bonus, the new one uses significantly less CPU than the old downloader.
- Core: The database schema was altered to remove the unused strlen field. Note that the existing database will automatically be updated on first startup, after which you cannot downgrade without deleting the database.
- Core: The client should now be able to understand requests that use encoded equal signs (=) in the URL.
- Core: The client will now enforce available cache size, and will therefore no longer start if the setting for the cache size is larger than the available disk space minus the total size of the files in the cache. (You can adjust this from the web interface.)
- Core: Added a safety check to prevent the client from starting if it has static ranges assigned but an empty cache, which would indicate some sort of error. (To start a client that has lost its cache, you have to manually reset the static ranges from the web interface.)
- GUI: Workaround for Java 7 randomly failing to return the underlying text of the logging pane when using RDP.
- Downloader: Fixed cutoff for overly long filenames not being applied correctly. (Some poorly written operating systems fail the final file copy operation when total path length exceeds 255 characters.)
- Downloader: HathDL files with gallery names containing tab characters will now be filtered and handled gracefully, no longer causing the downloader to terminate.
- Web Interface: A checkbox for disabling the client-side speed limit was added to the on-site Hentai@Home settings page. This has the same effect as starting the client with the --disable-bwm flag.
- Web Interface: The limit on how much disk space you can assign has been removed.
- Web Interface: Added an option to reset static ranges, for those cases where the cache has been lost for some reason or another.
- Web Interface: Instead of having it as a warning, the interface screen will now simply refuse to change a client's port or key while it is running.
- Dispatcher: The trust mechanics was tweaked to take static ranges into account. Depending on the number of assigned ranges and frequency of requests, a request for a static range file can now cause a slight reduction in trust. The effect should be very minor for well-behaving clients, and is solely to prevent clients with frequent cache wipes from having ranges assigned.