Recent posts by pjt33 on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / Half Stars

More options aren’t always better. There’s some interesting research which has been done on it. (That link is really just a starting point for reading).

Topic: Kongregate / [Archive] Badge of the Day 2012

Originally posted by SamsterSamster:

I’m not pissed, I can run Unity well, but I can understand how Linux/laggy PC users would easily get pissed.

I don’t often miss the badge of the day, but I’m a Linux user and this time I have no choice. What I really don’t understand is why Kong would allow some new technology which probably very few people had installed before, but point blank refuses to allow Java.

Topic: Kongregate / "Hey! Are you running an ad blocker?"

I got the message even though I don’t run an ad-blocker. I do, however, use my hosts file to block certain ad providers. To get on that blacklist, they need to come to my attention, and the main way they do that is by taking ages to load and blocking access to the page for long enough for me to get bored, look at the status bar, and write down the domain name. If Kong wants me to see the ads, all you need to do is stop outsourcing to incompetent third parties and serve text or images directly from your own servers.

Topic: Technical Support / 403 Forbidden on chat

The problem seems to have fixed itself in the past 7 hours, so I’m inclined to label it provisionally as a temporary routing issue.

Topic: Technical Support / 403 Forbidden on chat

Chat isn’t loading at all (which is a nuisance when it comes to getting badges, if nothing else). I used the browser dev tools to discover that chat.kongregate.com is returning me a 403 Forbidden.

I’ve tried logging out and in again in case it was a cookie issue, and I’ve tried doing a DNS lookup from another computer and editing my /etc/hosts in case it was a single Akamai host having problems. Before editing /etc/hosts the domain was resolving to 212.106.219.177. I’ve also tried 204.0.5.56 without success.

Any ideas?

Topic: Kongregate / Two challenges per week?

The Current Challenges page says:

“Each week Kongregate will feature two time-limited Challenges that you can complete to win prizes like points, Kongai cards and raffle entries. These challenges are featured on the front page and start every Monday and Thursday evening.”

There haven’t been two challenges for several weeks now. Is this an intentional change to policy which you forgot to mention in a news post and update in the Challenges page, or are you just lacking the time to set the challenges up?

I suspect the latter, given that at time of posting there’s no current challenge, but it would be nice to have confirmation.