I posted a event on my groups and got some replies back. Looks like about 1 out of 10 people lost their favorites.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/firefriendly#events/1568652965032880368 http://steamcommunity.com/groups/VigilanteCommunity#events/1802840145216817918 http://steamcommunity.com/groups/seriouspantsgaming#events/1605807661871652697 On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Ryan Stecker <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Fletch, > > Aaron asked me to repost his reply here, since he had digests enabled and > the reply would be better in the context of this thread. > > "I have little info as this did not happen to me personally. However, I > have > messaged a few of my server owner friends and some of my players. It seems > like 3 out of 10 people are having this issue. Some even reporting that > only a few servers were deleted and not all of them. > > Please don't derail this topic to DNS/ID support. This is very serious and > we need to get info on why this is happening." > > To add in my $0.02: I've heard of this happening during steam client > updates, and I've had it occur to me once in the past quite a while ago. > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Fletcher Dunn < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Favorites most definitely should not have been deleted. If you have >> any more info on exactly what happened, I’d be interested to know.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Max Krivanek >> *Sent:* Friday, April 19, 2013 11:45 AM >> *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> *Subject:* Re: [hlds] CS:S Server Favorites Deleted**** >> >> ** ** >> >> The problem is servers are transient in nature. Server IDs would be hard >> to implement.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> The short term and easy solution is to allow DNS to be saved. Like " >> ccsdm.mycommunity.com:27015" instead of always saving it as an IP.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM, E. Olsen <[email protected]> wrote:** >> ** >> >> I had actually sent Valve a suggestions a couple of years ago that they >> tie the server favorites to the server ID, as opposed to the server's IP >> address, so as to allow server operators to upgrade/move their servers >> without losing all the regulars we had worked so hard to build. At the >> time, they had replied that it was a good idea and they would see about >> adding that to the client/engine, but nothing ever came of it so I guess it >> was dismissed as unimportant.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I agree that it absolutely sucks to have to start again from square one >> every time we want to change a server's IP address and/or favorites get >> deleted for some reason. I would love it if they would make our server more >> "portable" and not tied to an IP address. There are a ton of great deals on >> new (more powerful) servers popping up, but if your current host >> isn't competitive, your forced to either stick with what you've got, or >> move to a new host and start back at square one.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Aaron D <[email protected]> wrote: >> **** >> >> After this update I noticed that my servers have been dead of the >> past few days. I was going crazy trying to figure out why when a few of my >> members reported to me that their favorites list got deleted. **** >> >> If this is true this is a freaking disaster and needs to be fixed right >> away. This is worse than having to move your IP to a new location, because >> at least then you could let people know a head of time what was going on. >> **** >> >> Please if anyone else is also having this problem make Valve aware so >> something can be done, we don't want this also happening during the TF2 >> update.**** >> >> Thanks.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds**** >> >> ** ** >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds**** >> >> ** ** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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