Today is a Special Day Indeed

So. Today is a special day. But lets start a few days ago.

I created a set of install files from my development server and did a good bunch of testing to make sure that generally things that should work, do in fact work. And they did in fact... work. So, I sent them out to a few friends to test. And.... whaddya know. Doesn't work.

So, I'm scratching my head, trying to work out what's gone wrong. I install it on another physical device I have. Works. I run it using a different email address, thinking it might be some artifact from my login. That too, works. I do a bunch of trouble shooting, and I find that it's not working when I drop off the wifi at home and use mobile data. Now, if you're really clued on, you're probably solving this already - but that's not where my head was at. I was thinking that there might be some weird certificate issue between hosts that's for some reason showing up when I am on a different network, so I'm playing with stuff online, and no luck. More head-scratching follows.

I eventually dig into the code. And find that while I thought that all my code was working perfectly online, it was in fact secretly still happily dialling into my dev server for some aspects of communication. Okay, so there's that to fix. I'll cut to the chase, but a lot of code fixing and development of new code to handle certain functions was done and deployed online to my prod server. It's quite different as the tech stack online is different o what's at home. Anyhow. Not important. I finally got those parts properly online and deployed.

Huzzah.

Great Success.

My friends can log into the app, and finally start running about. And a lot of stuff doesn't work. So I've now been madly running about, arms flailing and the like making fixes to the code and deploying to the prod server. I've mainly fixes most things that are/were different. I seem to have completed a quest properly finally, which means quests are completable. I also broke something in combat. All the player characters seem to vanish in combat and not exist. So that's a tomorrow thing to fix. I played with a few things today, so I'm sure I borked it then.

Anyhow. Tonight I can enjoy and bask in the warm glow of no longer being the only person playing Torn Realms.

A huge thanks to Nath and Abhi who are installing my stuff, testing for me and dealing with many more app crashes than they should.