Re: [hlds_linux] HTML MOTDs not rendering?

[Cameron Munroe]

Maybe next time you should think about looking at the more up to date 
posts.

On 9/13/2012 10:29 AM, doc wrote:
You don't make money.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Cameron Munroe
<cmun...@cameronmunroe.com>wrote:

How else would you suggest a server make money?

Also the issue with the video should be fixed in the new version of pinion
so it won't keep playing after you join.

Also its not on youtube, it is hosted by the company.



On 9/12/2012 8:36 PM, cladiron wrote:

No disprespect, but i disagree.
I think theres more going on in the back end than what you think.
I'm not going to name the server, but there is 1 i play on, and has that
crappy motd ad in it.
Even pressing the button to move on to the next window to enter the
server,
the youtube video will still play in the back ground till it's finished.
The only think i know to do is disable the HTML in the client settings so
it will not render it.
Then the issue is fixed. Downside, it suxs to have to go to setting each
time i join a server that has a video in it.
Keep in mind, the video has to precache to play just as it does when
looking at it threw IE or firefox.
This precache lags players when entering the server until the video ends.
Another thing that has to be considered is if the video at youtube is also
under a heavy load.
Have you ever gone to youtube and waited on a video to load, and have to
reload it to play ?

I just hope the admin's really think about the clients, and not bogging
them down as they join the server.

Before anyone jumps in and says well change servers, i like the one i play
on due to my ping.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Frank <ad...@gamerscrib.net> wrote:

  Now this is ill informed post if I ever saw one - the ads in the MOTD are
not causing this issue. There have been instances when they had some bad
ads
but they were quick to fix it.  It's not a bad thing to want to recover
costs incurred for running well managed servers - people need to stop
seeing
this as a bad thing. You only see the ads for maybe a moment then you can
click right by them but they do help support good managed servers.

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Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] HTML MOTDs not rendering?

I hope this isn't for one of those really annoying HTML ads that some
degenerate servers have been abusing their players with.



On 9/12/2012 4:41 AM, Bjorn Wielens wrote:

Hi all,

This was touched on in a previous post - Does anyone know a solution for

MOTDs not rendering (just a gray box, not even a background/plain text
shows).

I've had this happen to me with both HTML motds and plain text contained

in the motd.txt file.

The weird things are that:

a) some people can see the MOTDs fine.
b) right clicking the box and hitting 'view source' shows the HTML

content
of the correct MOTD page

c) I've gotten it to show up for me exactly once.


Running our servers on Linux, there's no flash content or ads in the

motd,
and they render fine in a webkit-based browser.

I've tried both just the MOTD url in motd.txt as well as a META refresh

to
redirect. both have the same result.

If anyone knows of a fix, I'm all ears as we're in a situation where
most

of our traffic is passthru Quickplay, and I'd like to at least inform
them
about server rules and the existence of our other
servers/extended/non-tf2
community

Thanks!
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