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Patreon Badges!

Hello everyone! I've gone back through every supporter and have tried to chase up anyone who has ever donated to RA to make sure that everyone has their Patreon Supporter's badge, and I'm certain I...

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RAWeb 3.0 is here!!

Hello guys! We have an exciting announcement, the site has had a major upgrade! Managed by luchaos, Jamiras and WCopeland, supported by many others, we have a bunch of upgrades, improvements and op...

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PS2 Achievements!

PS2 Achievements are here! Launched today on RetroAchievements. 93 games supported on day one. So proud of the RA community <3
Get the *nightly* PCSX2 qt build from here 2022-10-01 11:32:28 +0000 UTC View Post

PSP

Has anyone tried out the new PSP achievements?

http://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=41


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Tier 1 expanded

Hi everyone, I have expanded the number of patrons that will be able to access the first tier, I didn't realise it was full! I don't think I'm allowed to retroactively apply the tier to existing pa...

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Continued thanks to the best community in the galaxy

Hey guys, just wanted to say thank-you so much again for your support, I know it's just the same message over and over but RetroAchievements doesn't exist at all without all the dedication, hard-wo...

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May 2020 update (receipts for billing)

Hey all, just a quick update to give you numbers on the server costs, bit of transparency, sorry not particularly exciting:

AWS -> 85.99GBP/ 105.63USD
DO -> 51.78GBP/63.60USD

C...

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Still alive!

Hey all, just a quick update to let you all know we're still alive and kicking!

October 2019 looks like this:

Amazon Hosting (S3): £56.13 ($71.97)

Digital Ocean (cpu): £49.63 ($...

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Tier Restructure!

Hi all,

Thanks to all your contributions, we're about to move to a new server on a faster host! So in order to celebrate, we have decided to simplify our Patreon (which if I'm honest, was a bit of a...

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GDPR and Site Updates

Hey, everyone else is doing it!

We take data protection seriously at RetroAchievements, and we have in place steps to improve our security, including adding https, and improving the server hashing a...

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Cheaters!

Hi guys! One of the biggest problems plaguing RetroAchievements is the occurrence of cheaters. RA is not a closed platform. It's not unthinkable for a hacker to edit and build the entire toolset and a...

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December 2017

and here are December 2017's server costs.

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November 2017

Here are the account details and costs for November 2017

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October 2017

Hey all, have attached October's server cost invoice. The spike at the start of the month was confirmed to be a glitch that may be fixed by now (possibly due to initial integration with completionist....

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Password Reset fixed

Hi all, sorry for the delay! Password Reset feature has been fixed finally, now if you forget your password you can have a password reset link emailed to you.

2017-10-30 12:38:43 +0000 UTC View Post

September 2017 Bill

It looks huge, but it's not really! The 50% purchase for 12 months of the t2.medium server is in there, and as a result the actual running costs are LOWER than previous months, so don...

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Fixes going in today

Code notes should be fixed

Achievement promotion fixed

Badge upload fixed

Search/lookups fixed 


Should help patch up some of the issues caused by the migration to t...

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Server Upgrade Complete...

-ish. We are now on a t2.medium rather than a t2.small. This gives us twice the CPU, twice the memory and a fresh new start on a fresh new server. There are a few teething issues I'll be fixing now. A...

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August 2017 Billing Statement

Billing is a touch cheaper this month since we managed to block users from hammering the server. Looking to switch over to a slightly more powerful server, but offsetting the cost by paying for it all...

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Ticket Management tools updated

Hey all,

I've made a few changes to ticket management to assist developers manage achievements that are flagged as either not working or working incorrectly.

2017-08-10 13:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post

High-use issue fixed?

Looks like we've finally found the culprit, fetching ./RA_Integration.dll over and over was causing issues (old clients). Looking forward to slightly cheaper bandwidth over the next few months.

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Integrated Master System and N64

Master System and N64 are now referenced in the download page and in the Site Pages sections. The links curren...

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Ticket Manager changes live

New filters added to ticket manager

2017-08-09 12:58:44 +0000 UTC View Post

July month recap


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June month recap


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Your Patience is Admirable

Thankyou so much Patreons for your inspiring patience, you haven't been forgotten! I have made some adjustments in order to be able to make some more progress on site features, I can't guarantee any n...

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Bump in bandwidth use in May 2017

Just to clarify - there was a bump in traffic (and cost) for some days in May, I've isolated it to being some very old clients that got stuck in an update loop, requesting RAIntegration.dll over and o...

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May 2017 statement

Hi all, providing a May statement to keep you up to date. The bandwidth totalled around 960gb over the month, with a few spikes due to mis-configured remote clients. This should now be fixed.

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N64 Support Incoming!

Hi guys, just wanted to make sure to touch base with you all and make sure you know I haven't gone anywhere :) this is a Patron-only post, as will many of the forthcoming posts be.

RAP64 can be down...

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January - May 2017 Statements

January: https://i.imgur.com/kP5mL0x.png

February: https:/...

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