Yes. To the. Err.. yes. </Thr night drinking >

On one hand: YAY, dogstameable wolves in 1.4 :D

On the other hand: GRRR! 503 again! Stop adding new stuff until you've fixed authentication properly! :@

You keep getting time out when tryying to connect - I think it's your 3G.

Scratch that - it's 503ing for me too :( :( :(

Minecraft website keeps constantly falling over. It's not just me, according to tits up.

Might also be be T-Mobile idiots also though - getting "connection lost / end of stream" error sometimes. :/

I'm getting that too. Did Notch forget to pay the server bill?

Nah, since it's returning 503 the server is there, but the software running on it is saying "go away, I'm broken".

Might be too many people connecting, or might have crashed for some other reason.

Logged in.

Looks like I missed the small window of it working. :(

I'm In! I'm In! I'... connection reset BASTARDS! :@

Are you getting any error message in the client? Server error is just disconnect.genericReason, which isn't very helpful.

 

I blame your 3G :C

Yeah, it's the standard one I get when T-Mobile drop the connection "Internal exception: java.io.IOException: mark/reset not supported".


Tell me what to get and I'll order from Three website tomorrow and hopefully be free from the bastards within the week.

<s>a landline</s>

 

Get a Desire HD or something. You don't need a hardware keyboard.

Yes. I. Do. :@

there is a fair amount of chatter, even on the minecraft official forums, that Notch is too busy with his millions these days to bother too much sorting the server issues out properly

Aye, there would be though.

Why?

Or possibly, he just doesn't know how to. :/

Having a good game idea, maybe even being a half-decent game developer doesn't mean you know how to write a scalable web-based authentication system. (which isn't hard, but it is a different set of knowledge).

Although I thought they had hired a guy just to do website stuff, but again - if it's been this long - maybe that guy isn't any good at it either. :/

Because I need to:
1) Touch the keys and feel them being pressed.
2) See the screen without it being obscured.
3) Be able to type on something sensibly laid out and appropriately spaced with a proper layout and not have to switch between different bloody modes to type numbers or symbols.

Why?