Seeking Programming Talent
Posted by Staff on 7 Jul 2017, 2:00 pm
We come to you today with the unfortunate news that our developer has been missing since the server move in June. We know that some of you have been waiting for a fix to the daily streak, and many prospective players have e-mailed us expressing concern over being unable to join the game, but we have not been able to fix these problems without the aid of a developer. It appears at this time we must accept the inevitability of finding another programmer.
Until we are able to find a new programmer, the Oceandome event is on indefinite hiatus. Our focus right now is going to be finding a developer who can fix the registration bug and fix the IP queue (which was unfortunately damaged during the server move as well). At that point, we can address the daily streak and start thinking about the Oceandome event again, as all of the documents for the event are planned out and much of the content is ready, we simply need the programming to go forward with our plans.
This lack of programming staff has thrown a big wrench into all of our planned changes, so please bear with us while we try to find someone who can appropriately tend to our codebase. As you may guess, Furvilla is a very large and complex site. As such, we have to be vigilant with who we hire to ensure their skill level matches the demands of the codebase.
That said, if you are a programmer familiar with PHP and the Laravel framework and are interested in becoming a Furvilla developer, please contact us with your portfolio at [email protected].
We hope to find a new developer soon so we can get back on track. We'll let everyone know when we've found a good match!
NOTE: The Oceandome Event is NOT BEING CANCELLED, the Event is simply being POSTPONED.
I agree with Luckyclaw and Coo.
I feel that some of you are being too harsh considering there was nothing that could have done to make their programmers reply faster. FV staff handled this the best they could given the circumstances.
Thank you for being transparent with us and letting us know about this issue and hopefully you guys will be able to find new programmers soon!
Thank you for your transparency of this issue! Hopefully another developer can be found soon! (and shame on the old developer who disappeared with no notice)
Good luck you guys! D: And thanks for the transparency. I know it wasn't easy, especially with how some users have to fly into a panic every time FV hits a snag. I'm sure y'all will find the perfect programmer soon!
wish you guys best of luck finding a programmer!
MariahKat
I didn't mean to make it sound like you seemed greedy. I simply haven't really seen the hype, mainly because I'm not following FV's social medias. But it stated they had to push the OD Event back. Never said they were going to cancel it, so that's why I thought it seemed selfish. Plus I would be sure they'd find a way in time, like you said, to get the event going when planned. Didn't mean any offense but it seemed selfish when they said they wouldn't be cancelling it.
@pollyanna I'm pretty sure they paid their coders; this just looks like a string of bad luck. I mean if they hadn't been paying the coders for a year, this place wouldn't be up and running ^^;
Sad to hear this, will be waiting as I love ocean dome, it's my home village and I would love to see it get the love it deserves.
@pollyanna If I can shed any extra light on this, I went to game design school for a while so I do have some wisdom on the topic. A lot of coders are paid commissions, or per hour spent on a job. You're hard pressed to find coders who come cheap, in any case. It can be hard to find coders to be dedicated to your site or project because they can make much more money, and learn more things, by working on other projects especially when there's downtime during a game's development.
It can also work out better for the company because they only pay for what they need. On some projects, like petsites, it may be better to hire a dedicated coder because these kinds of programs break quick, and they break hard. (I recall a story where a phone company had its service down for at least a full week, with people scrambling to fix it the whole time. Turns out the whole thing broke because someone misplaced a 1 or a 0 somewhere in their coding.)
I'm with Coo and Luckyclaw on this.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with postponing an event to get all the ducks in a row. I feel like that's very commendable of staff to admit that they can't do something when they are missing an arm, so to speak. For people to have the disrespectful audacity to accuse staff of keeping secrets from them, I must say, this has been the most transparent staff has been with us, and you should encourage them to continue doing so, not accuse them of not doing enough.
If I was more confident in my programming knowledge and didn't have so very much on my plate right now, I would probably offer my help. I genuinely hope someone comes along soon. I'll be passing on this opportunity to everyone I know that may be able to lend a hand.
theyd be paid by the hour i dare say.