The Nethernet Community News

The Nethernet is the product of GameLayers, Inc. The Nethernet is fun, but it’s too expensive for us to fix and maintain. We are working on other games, that we hope to play with you in the coming months.

So, with sadness, I have to tell you all that we’re facing a tough choice. We can leave The Nethernet online, and there will be technical issues that may prevent basic activities. Basically, a limping The Nethernet. Or, we can take The Nethernet down, and save the slow pain with a swift goodbye.

Maybe, some day, if our other efforts pan out, and the stars align, we can come back here and hack away to make this game work right. For now, I’ve asked my team not to spend any more time fixing bugs on The Nethernet, because we have other fun we are building.

So for the people who have been playing, and the people who love this game, would you rather we shut it down, or leave it up without fixing it? Post your thoughts in the Forums, if you can get through.

We’ve been in the process of moving The Nethernet to another hosting site, so a lot of stuff is wonky right now. We’re looking into it, but largely these issues will resolve themselves over the next day or so. Many apologies for the interruption of service.

Many, many apologies for the lateness of this post. We’re down today for maintenance again. Come back tomorrow.

Greetings Netizens

There will be some further maintenance taking place today.

It is planned to begin around 4PM PST and will most likely continue for the rest of the day.

Access will be restored as quickly as possible.

Salmontickler

Mortmer was offended when the Seers took over the Pathfinder leaderboard a few weeks back and voiced his objections in the forums here -

Mortmer Objects

This led to a new contest between the Seers and the Pathmakers who are now trying out each other’s tools for the next three days. Take a moment to check out their handiwork in the following threads and cheer on the team of your choice.

Team Pathmaker Promotion Thread

Team Seer Promotion Thread

Around 20 minutes ago we experienced a disk error on our master database. We’re working hard to fix this with our hosting company, Engine Yard, and we’ll get the game back up and running just as quick as we can!

– Update (12:40 GMT): The website is now back up and we should be getting back to normal. There’s some more work to do in order to replace the disk, but we’ll aim to handle that with as little interruption as possible. Apologies for the downtime!