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Hey!

People have been asking — what are we doing? Do we actually work on stuff? Or do we sit in the staff discord, eat snacks, and make fun of Luigi?

It's a good question. We've never really told people what we're working on. I'm going to try to change that.

I'll post every single Stratus thing I ever do here. Some of it will be boring. Some of it will be vague. Some of it will be a secret. But it'll all be here.

This is mostly from the last 2 days, since my memory doesn't extend beyond that. Some of it is from earlier this week though.

This doesn't include stuff other people are doing, unless I did it with them. For example, Shiny has put in a ton of dev work on some of the projects listed here.

Also note I am in school, so I don't do much developing right now. It's both time consuming & tiring, so I'm holding off on it until this summer, when I graduate.

Things I did:

• All staff meeting. Discussed pretty much everything. Some marketing thing is happening as a result, but I'm not sure if it's a secret & I'm not involved, so no details here. Overall lots of good & helpful ideas from the staff team.
  
• A pre-staff-meeting meeting. Very short, we just wrote the agenda & made fun of Luigi.
  
• Discussed some internal staff stuff.
  
• Snuck into an EC meeting about the next tournament, even though I'm not an EC, to see what was going on.
  
• Had a meeting about a secret (V) project.
  
• Met with another ranked about getting our plugin set up for them
  
  • Bought a server for them
    
  • Worked with Shiny to set up the server for them
    
  • The server didn't work
    
  • Asked for a refund
    
  • Looked for other servers
    
  • Bought another server
    
  • Worked with Shiny to get the server set up
    
  • Worked by myself to break the server
    
  • Shiny fixed it
    
  • Explained to them various commands
    
• Got automatic deployments set up to event3, and some of our ranked partners. This doesn't mean much for you guys, but I love it. Now, when someone tells me to edit a config file (which happens every week) I can do it once instead of 13 times
  
• Gave admins & ranked managers permission to edit the map pool on ranked. Not sure how we didn't have permission to edit it before, nor how it was being edited
  
• Apparently people could just ban other people on anax. Fixed that
  
• Looked at getting some proxies set up, to help people who have inconsistent ping. Shiny told me how, but I couldn't figure it out
  
• Investigated why a ranked server was broken. Shiny figured this one out too — a game of playground had been running for 1 hour that everyone had left
  
• Deployed an update for Siege so that gapples & arrows don't drop (thanks Ant for doing the hard work of actually fixing it)
  
• Helped a few people change their ranked accounts
  
• Talked to mods about /mute and how it is broken, sometimes.
  
• Had a secret meeting about a secret (U) thing. We actually worked on the thing during the meeting and made a lot more progress than I was expecting. I'm excited for when this isn't a secret!
  
• Talked in #feedback for a while. I was more grumpy at the start than I should have been, on account of the fact I had just woken up, but honestly there were some really good ideas in there and I appreciate everyone's feedback.
• Talked about how we handle mutes, bans, and chat problems, and how we can fix it.
  
• Wrote a proposal on how we can handle minecraft chat moderation better.
  
• Talked to Shiny briefly about duels.
  
• Talked to a new potential dev.
  
• Edited some secret (U) config files.
  
• Made this thread!

Hey! I meant to take a break today to do my homework, but instead I:

• Met about a secret project (V).
  
• Met about another secret project (U).
  
• Did a bit of work on the secret projects (V & U).
  
• Met about the tournament.
  
• Got a proxy set up! It'll be released soon, and will:
  
  • Help people with inconsistent ping
    
  • Pave the way for more proxying goodness
    
• Organized a meeting about yet another new secret project. This one isn't very secret, and shouldn't take more than a few days. I'll called it (W).
  
• Helped Godzilla with their first big day of ranks. A few minor issues, but overall very smooth!
  
• Helped fix some issues on our servers. More fixing remains to be done.
  
• Did a few account changes on ranked.
  
• Got another message about a new thing I'm not allowed to talk about. I guess we'll call this once (X). I don't mean to keep getting new secrets but I don't really know what to do about it.
  
• Talked to Shiny about fixing the post-match stats bug.
  
• Talked to Zero_Frosty on anax. Man can he build.
  
• I wanted to, but didn't get a chance:
  
  • Update ViaVersions,
    
  • Add autodeployment to more servers.
    
    
    

Now, it's almost 5 am, and I really really should start on my homework.

Hey! Took a day and a half off for homework, and now I'm back at it.

• Secret project (W) didn't work out
  
• Luigi talked to me about secret project (U)
  
• Fix some issues on the event servers
  
• Got autodeployment set up on event1 and event2
  
• More ranked name changes
  
• Worked on improving how #reports in handled
• Talked to Conquête about their new season
  
• Broke the website
  
• Fixed the website
  
• Updated some certificates
  
• Talked to some folk about UHC
  
• Tested out the proxy some more. Might announce it
  
• Fiddled around with tournament brackets
  
• Briefly talked to mods about mod stuff