<![CDATA[Future for tripleawarclub.org domain]]>tripleawarclub.org is one of TripleA's original domain's, a lot of nostalgia for that URL. These days it forwards to this forum, the PHP server that powered that old website was deprecated and shut down. One step back, two steps forward, the modern websites/forum replacements cost less both in terms of hosting cost and labor-maintenance costs (yay!)

But, we're still paying DNS costs to own the tripleawarclub.org domain. It seems we can save on this cost. It is not a huge amount, $30/year, but it does seem needless since we are not doing anything with the URL other than sitting on it.

I wanted to check with the community in case there is anyone that wants to take over the URL. I'm a bit reluctant to encourage that as I'd like any volunteer efforts to help the main project (there is room there, plenty to do!). But, at the same time, if anyone is rev'ing to go to create a fan-site; who am I to stop that? : )

Alright, so I don't really expect anyone to jump in on this, websites are a ton of work and we have an open source one that we are dying for help on - but in case: the triplea-warclub.org domain will likely not be renewed at the end of this year and tentatively planning to be put up for sale. If you're interested in owning that domain to keep it within the TripleA community, please contact me/reply here, this is your chance.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/941/future-for-tripleawarclub-org-domainRSS for NodeSat, 16 May 2026 01:31:08 GMTMon, 16 Jul 2018 16:28:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:19:43 GMT]]>@LaFayette All good hopefully another year will suffice since no one wanted to keep warclub πŸ˜‰

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/29248https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/29248Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:19:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:33:01 GMT]]>@RoiEX Let's proceed, but not worry about 1.9 (keep that working) and get everything fixed/ready for 2.0

Talking to @prastle , even if we had the 1.9 patch ready now, there's very little time to get everyone to upgrade/download.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/29149https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/29149Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:33:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Sun, 17 Nov 2019 13:25:32 GMT]]>@RoiEX I spoke with @LaFayette and we decided it was best to just renew it again to give time for the work to be finished.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/29124https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/29124Sun, 17 Nov 2019 13:25:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:02:42 GMT]]>Ok, I spent some time digging through the config files of the warclub server, and I think I found everything I needed, so if @LaFayette and @redrum give their approval on this we could migrate everything before the deadline.

Technical details can be found here: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/5091

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28851https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28851Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:02:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:59:07 GMT]]>@RoiEX gotcha πŸ™‚

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28850https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28850Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:59:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:45:33 GMT]]>I mean this is the only domain we have left there and the original plan was to drop it last year, so renewing it was just meant as a temporary thing

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28847https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28847Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:45:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:30:49 GMT]]>@RoiEX why don't we transfer it to something cheaper? google, for instance, charges 12 per year and including privacy.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28846https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28846Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:30:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:35:12 GMT]]>@ubernaut said in Future for tripleawarclub.org domain:

why are we paying $20+ per year for registration? just curious. πŸ™‚

Because that's what they charge us for this domain. As long as MARTI still runs on it we need it in order for things to work

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28845https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28845Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:35:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:35:54 GMT]]>Well @ssoloff and myself have a pretty decent overview over the code (this is all the code there is).
The problems of undocumented things really only becomes relevant once we leave our code and start being dependent on system configuration.
This is the case when MARTI calls the mail function, which invokes (we assume from the php documentation) the sendmail tool which then somehow sends a mail to somewhere which somehow lands into a users inbox most of the time. The details in-between are what's missing here.
But I'll try to have a look, maybe it's simpler than it seems and really all we need to do is to adjust the mail address

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28844https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28844Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:35:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:12:07 GMT]]>Also, i would say the fact that nobody knows how the marti server(s) work should be considered a top priority item. If we don't know how it works, how do we even know if it delivers quality results? πŸ˜•

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28841https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28841Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:12:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:08:10 GMT]]>why are we paying $20+ per year for registration? just curious. πŸ™‚

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28840https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28840Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:08:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:32:06 GMT]]>@RoiEX more directly, I think chances are good that is safe. We'd probably need to recreate the manual testing that was originally done for marti, ie: set up a test server, deploy the PHP code, hack the client to use the new test server, and verify it works.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28837https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28837Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:32:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:31:15 GMT]]>@RoiEX Funny enough, lobby is decoupled pretty strongly from email. How marti+email are set up on the servers is the current and largest systems documentation gap we have. There was zero documentation of any system setup when I took over the servers, that's better now, though as mentioned, marti+email have no documentation to them. I do not know how they work or are configured.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28836https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28836Mon, 11 Nov 2019 02:31:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:43:26 GMT]]>@RoiEX
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]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28810https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28810Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:43:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:27:42 GMT]]>@LaFayette You had to deal with mail servers for the current HTTP migration, do you think it's sufficient to just change this line in order to be on safe?

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28809https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28809Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:27:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:21:43 GMT]]>@prastle Thanks for the reminder, there are 2 things that need to be done. AFAIK we need to backport the URL change to 1.9 to ensure that PbEM/PbF games can be ended no problem on that version. That's the easy part and I can create a PR for that this evening.
The other part where we failed last year was figuring out how to change the server MARTI mails are being sent from. It could be the case that it's sufficient to just change the "from" mail but someone would have to "risk it" and fiddle around with production

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28808https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28808Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:21:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:10:42 GMT]]>@LaFayette and @ssoloff @RoiEX @redrum tripleawarclub domain needs renewal again or do I let it expire?

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28799https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/28799Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:10:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:58:42 GMT]]>@ssoloff It has been renewed for another year.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18292https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18292Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:58:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:14:51 GMT]]>@RoiEX It's been a long time since I did the MARTI stuff, so I can't really say what's the right way to go here. If I had to guess, I'd say a config-only change makes sense. I don't remember how the MARTI mail relay "proves itself" to the downstream mail relay--if that's done purely through DNS or there's something more substantial like a PKI validation.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18280https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18280Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:14:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:44:47 GMT]]>After digging through all the config files I'm almost sure sure that the mail could be migrated by simply modifying the hosts file to use lobby.triplea-game.org or something instead of tripleawarclub.org and to change the "From" email in the MARTI source code accordingly.
@ssoloff I'm not that familiar with how sendmail exactly works, but does my theory sound plausible?

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18267https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18267Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:44:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 22:34:02 GMT]]>@LaFayette Oki Doki

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18266https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18266Thu, 22 Nov 2018 22:34:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:44:01 GMT]]>In a non-compat state we can't get upgraded game clients out to everyone that easily as well. Having a few more weeks and avoiding an emergency release is worth $20. @prastle please do a renewal for a year. We can 'sell' the domain before the expiry when we are ready.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18265https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18265Thu, 22 Nov 2018 21:44:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:02:00 GMT]]>@RoiEX No real additional thoughts. If we can't get everything off the old domain then I agree renewing for a year.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18186https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18186Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:02:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future for tripleawarclub.org domain on Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:50:43 GMT]]>@RoiEX @ssoloff I can renew it for 1 year for $20.00. BUT @LaFayette and @redrum were the ones that said to not renew it and try to sell or close it... There have been zero offers on Go Daddy for a purchase.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18185https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/18185Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:50:43 GMT