Personality Forge News

The Forge suffered an irrecoverable hard drive malfunction a few weeks ago. The best recovery companies tried to recover the data, to no avail. I've restored the Forge from its latest backups, which are as follows: database: 9/10, exports 6/8, imports 4/7, and transcripts 6/7. I'm going to be making more routine backups in the future. Accounts created after 9/10 will have to be re-created. Import files are able to restore chat bots, so if you've lost anything - import your latest Language Center. The good news is that the new server that's 6x as fast as the old one, and it's on a new internet connection.

I've done some coding to optimize the navigation, which was hitting the database more frequently than needed, and maybe once a week caused the site to slow to a crawl. This should help prevent that from happening, and if it does for any other reason, I've set up a nightly restart of the database that will ensure that it'll be back up the next morning.

I just implemented Facebook sharing for chat bots. There's a new share button in the upper right of each chat page that will let people post links to chat bots on their Facebook profile. I've set it up to include the bot's picture and bio if there is one. It looks like it's taking Facebook a little while to crawl the site so give it a little time if the name, title, and description doesn't show up right away.

I've completed a myriad - nay, a plethora! - of updates to the Forge, including expanded chat navigation links, iPhone and iPod chat interface (with mobile chat links to come), fixed javascript links, a link to our Facebook page and our bot quotes blog Animus Ex Machina, improved page titles on User and Bot pages, honor updates, built-in log-in areas, and more.

I spent some time this weekend investigating the slow decline of chat speed and found the cause - the steady increase of our user base was causing the bots' memories to spiral beyond what the database was able to handle well. So this weekend I reworked the Memory table, its indexes, and the database's memory allocation and now chats are running faster than ever.

I'm pleased to announce Animus Ex Machina, a blog of bot quotes from The Personality Forge that I'll be updating regularly. If you'd like to contribute, post your hilarious and impressive quotes in Great Quotes, and I'll go through them to find quotes to include.

I've added a page for The Personality Forge on Facebook. Click here to view it and become a fan - a great way to connect with other Personality Forge users.

I am excited to announce the next step in The Personality Forge's evolution. The project is underway to translate the AI Engine from PHP to C++, to run as an ultra-fast compiled core. If all goes well, this will enable it to run blazingly fast in high traffic situations, and also enable it to more easily be used in other applications, including robotics.

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