Hello Sodaplayers,

We are aware the forums have fallen down and are taking steps to fix them or possibly go with a new solution. More soon…

We have updated our moderation tools so please if you find models that are obscene or otherwise offensive please send the full URL (web address) for the offending model to: moderation@sodaplay.com and we will remove it.

Plans are in motion to update Sodaplay  and we hope to be addressing some of your concerns and issues and adding new features in the near future. Apologies this has taken some time.

(Soda)play on !

Fiddian

There have been some exciting changes behind the scenes here at Sodaplay we want to tell you about. The main transformation is that it is no longer Soda Creative doing Sodaplay’s development and administration grunt but a new entity called, quite bizarrely, ‘Sodaplay Ltd’.

You are in safe hands, the Sodaplay Ltd team has familiar faces Alex, Fiddian and Tim at the helm. We will be dedicated to making Sodaplay a compelling creative play and gaming experience for you folks. To do this effectively we will work with you, as dedicated and inspirational Sodaplayers, to help us shape the new Sodaplay.

Please keep checking in for opportunities to help shape Sodaplay’s future and experiment with innovative developments as we roll them out.

Happy (new!)Sodaplaying.

We have moved our blog over to wordpress.com. The daily spam count was getting out of hand and our previous blog system did not offer us an easy solution for that. This move will also free us from one other system we have to look after and maintain and let us focus on the real show:Sodaplay.com

For the time being it looks somewhat generic (we are using a standard template) but it is a good start!

Looks like we have to start 2008 with one big apology. Some models could not be saved between New Year and today due to a server configuration issue. We have fixed this problem now and everything is working fine again. This will also put an end to the slow downs you might have experienced over the last few days.Unfortunately we can not bring back the models that were not saved properly during that time. We are very sorry. 

Sorry about the disruption to sodaplay over the course of the last eight hours or so – we ran out of disk space on our main partition – this was caused by our new backup process being a bit too enthusiastic and saving too many previous versions of all the models (combine this with a migration of models from the database to the filesystem, and there’s a recipe for problems). We’re in the process of adjusting this.And btw, that probably contributed to the problems we had launching the online page – which is still waiting in the wings for things to settle down (probably won’t until after Christmas now).

We’ve added a small feature – you can now see how many people and who else is online (check out the link at the bottom of each page).

Server is happier and a change (which some may have noticed already) is that the models should be loaded faster (because the application is loading a gzipped version of the xml, rather than the xml itself).

The sodaplay server needs some love and care, and a few behind the scenes updates. Sodaplay will have to be taken offline for a while from about 10am on Tuesday Nov 13. I’ll comment here when it goes offline (and then when it’s back online correcly)

We’ve just released Race on Sodaplay.You can now race your constructor models over editable tracks.Good luck!

Many apologies for some bumpiness just now – this was initiated by our otherwise lovely hosting company mistakenly rebooting our server the hard way (by knocking against the power cable) and then our server (which hadn’t rebooted for a few months) being slightly disconcerted for having been rebooted. All sorted out now, sorry for the interruption.