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A mass Distraction CavemanJoe sent out in May 2017 to notify everyone about the upcoming server migration. An identical message was posted as a Message of the Day and can be found here: http://improbableisland.com/motd.php?month=2017-05

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From: Admin CavemanJoe
Subject: Improbable Island Server Migration
Sent: 2017-05-20 16:46:00

Hello Islanders! We've been on the same dedicated server since late 2009, and we've thoroughly outgrown it. This weekend we'll be packing our bags, saying a final tearful farewell, promising to write, and moving to a fancy new machine ten feet down the hall.

I'll be performing the changeover on Saturday morning EDT, the 27th of May, a week from today. Due to timezone differences, the changeover will probably begin mid-afternoon UTC. Throughout the process, the Island and the Enquirer will be down.

You can get updates on the process by following our Mastodon account at https://mastodon.social/@ImprobableIsland. If there's important news, it'll get crossposted to our Twitter account at https://twitter.com/improbableislnd, or our Facebook page. After the move is complete, we'll no longer be using our Twitter account.

(I mean, I know we already don't use it. We'll just be making it official.)

It'll take all afternoon to transfer player data to the new machine. Improbable Island's database weighs 1.6 gigabytes.

Now, I know we're all used to massive files by now, what with the video and music and pictures and bells and whistles of the modern digital age. A film on DVD is like nine gigs, you might look at 1.6 gigs and think "yeah, big deal" - but we're talking 1.6 gigabytes of plain text, here. Places descriptions, chat, Distractions, Mementos, bios, that sort of thing. Yes, there's some overhead in prerendered output, item definitions and what-have-you, but the lion's share is stuff that you lot have typed out.

Between the lot of you, you've written the equivalent of about a thousand copies of The Fellowship Of The Ring - and that's not counting anything in the Enquirer!

So, it's going to take a little while to re-establish the database, put each sentence or paragraph or novel into its proper slot, and instruct the new electric pixies where to find it and whatnot. I've done a couple of dry runs and it usually takes a couple of hours. We'll bring the game back online first, and work on the Enquirer after it becomes clear that nothing broke when we transferred the game.

After the move is complete, DNS servers will need to cache Improbable Island's new IP address before requests to improbableisland.com get routed to the new server. In theory this can take up to three days, but in practice it's usually a couple of hours depending on your ISP.

When we're back, we'll be faster than ever, and we'll be serving pages over HTTPS for extra security.

Thanks for your patience throughout this whole process. By the way, Nerv is now crawling and saying dada. Don't worry, I'll keep her away from the dev machine.

~CMJ

Improbable Island Server Migration Distraction from Admin CavemanJoe {!if musicalbum} /

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Saturday, May 20 2017 @ 05:40 PM UTC

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Advanced Improbable Island How-To-Play Flowchart {!if musicalbum} /

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Monday, January 02 2017 @ 10:32 PM UTC

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Monday, January 02 2017 @ 10:32 PM UTC

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A nice song about the Island and what it is.

I did not make this video, I'm merely attempting to repost it here for posterity.

It Is an Island {!if musicalbum} /

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Sunday, October 02 2016 @ 10:18 AM UTC

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It's Aer. Yelling at you about the Island.

I did not make this video, I merely repost it here.

Improbable Island (Aer's Tutorial) {!if musicalbum} /

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Sunday, October 02 2016 @ 10:08 AM UTC

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Ebenezer drew this wayyyy back in 2010? 2011, at least. It's Micha! As a baby Joker!

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Friday, August 13 2010 @ 09:41 AM UTC

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14-11 Monthly Memento for November 2014:

"Thanks to globalisation, American and British November celebrations have slowly intermingled, with the end result being this turkey dressed up in a Guy Fawkes outfit with a load of fireworks stuffed up its arse. Traditionally one would light the fireworks and fire the turkey a few hundred feet into the air before watching it explode in a shower of colour and taste, an annual display of the obscene opulence associated with developed nations, but here on Improbable Island, it's far more useful to aim the turkey's rear end towards monsters."
---CavemanJoe

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Tuesday, January 13 2015 @ 12:10 AM UTC

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Monday, January 12 2015 @ 11:50 PM UTC

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Merry Christmas you sumbitches... =P {!if musicalbum} /

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Saturday, December 13 2014 @ 06:25 AM UTC

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Portrait of a Lady {!if musicalbum} /

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Friday, October 17 2014 @ 12:56 AM UTC

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Lovely commish by http://the-ez.deviantart.com/

Claude and Waverly {!if musicalbum} /

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Monday, August 25 2014 @ 12:10 AM UTC

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This is a commission for the wonderful Marly. It is Marly and Harris. Harris and Marly? Those two crazy kids :D

This is this story: http://enquirer.improbableisland.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dating_and_ewe

Crazy Love {!if musicalbum} /

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Friday, April 25 2014 @ 05:27 PM UTC

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