Bookmark a backup

Yesterday I got an email that looks like a fishing attempt. Bla-bla, validate your identity or else we'll suspend your domain, bla-bla. Just in case it is not a scam I recommend you to save a backup name that leads to this blog: http://nameless--fairy.blogspot.com (note the double dash).

Significantly reduced GFDB precision

Starting from 03 Nov 2019 the frequency of the log data updates returned by the game server changed once again: now refresh interval is more than once per hour (~20 updates in 24 hours). If this is a permanent change then it's rather bad news for anyone expecting meaningful statistics from EN GFDB in the future.

UPDATE: On 06 Nov everything got back to normal.

On modern software

Today I noticed that gfdb updates were broken again. It was the third time it happened, so I knew this deserved a post.

I caught first update breakage purely by accident. One day I looked at the process list and noticed a chain of git commands sitting there doing nothing. Apparently at some point git decided it was time to do garbage collection, so it ran "git gc --auto", which, for reasons yet unknown to me, could not complete in 50 minutes on a fairly small and completely linear repository. This step should have happened before the push took place, but since it just hung there (with no cpu/disk activity, by the way) it was killed by task scheduler every hour to start new task, which repeated everything. This was going on for 5 days before I noticed. I run "git gc" manually and it finished in about a minute, cleared the clog and all was good (for a while).

First Girls' Frontline guestopocalypse

Today during the maintenance I noticed an error in craft scraper log that I've never seen before: all login tokens were being explicitly rejected. This slightly scared the hell out of me, it could mean that my account, which I kept as a guest, was also in danger. After the mainenance concluded the error message didn't change, my own account was also locked out.
Well, shit.

Girls' Frontline production anomaly.

Today I was looking at the GFDB and noticed something strange: there were some results that just weren't supposed to happen:
1 (one) [SMG] C-MS each from HG recipe 130-130-130-130 and AR recipe 97-404-404-97,
1 (one) [SMG] 100 Shiki each from HG recipe 130-130-130-130 and AR recipe 91-400-400-30,
1 (one) [AR] MDR from SMG recipe 400-400-91-30.

Girls' Frontline statistics, parts of the missing chapter.

Alright, you primitive screwheads, listen up. See this? gf-db.github.io This is your new GFDB.

Girls' Frontline Statistics

Putting a bit of "everything else" in the blog. This post is about a mobile game and applied statistics.
There will be absolutely no mentions of touhou (other than this one) in the post. Estimated time to read: 15 minutes.