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BREAKING NEWS: MRT Services back online and unwhitelisted

At 1:14 PM Eastern Time, all MRT services were back online and unwhitelisted except for the MRT files server. This follows a crash of the services at around 11:40 AM on Sunday morning which Frumple stated was caused by Minecraft overloading the machine; this also brought down the associated services hosted on the same machine, including Mumble, the status page, the website, and the Wiki. The server appeared to come back online once the Beta server was brought offline, meaning that the blame could potentially be placed on the recent installation of uCars on the Beta server. However, the cause of the crash is not clear still and the Beta server at least for now has been brought back online.

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Administrative Staff Meeting held Saturday No promotions to Administrator yet

An Administrative Staff Meeting was held on Saturday; after the meeting, Owner Frumple held a press conference to announce the results. Most notably, no Moderators were promoted to Administrator at the meeting. However, Frumple did state that there is a shortlist of Moderators for promotion to Administrator and a promotion may be announced by the August GSM.

It was also announced that chiefbozx will become the GSM coordinator effective at the September GSM. This position gives him the responsibilities of coordinating GSMs, including scheduling them and managing the agenda. Other responsiblities formerly held by Frumple will be doled out at a later ASM likely to be held this autumn; it is also likely that Moderators will receive new responsibilities.

Frumple stated that a Head Administrator will be picked by the end of the year to serve as the head of the Staff in his absence, including having the final word on all decisions. The Head Admin will also receive full access to the server machine once the migration to the next machine after Epsilon is complete by the end of the year.

Beta server to move to 1.14 next week uCars also functional on beta server

At the July ASM press conference, Frumple announced that he will update the Beta server to version 1.14.3 next week. He has stated that he does not currently know if 1.14.3 is stable or not. It is unclear when the main server will update to 1.14 if it is deemed stable.

uCars is also currently installed and operational on the Beta server as of Saturday. This occurred after a recent uCars update. The current version of uCars does not appear to be causing the problems that led to the previous removal of uCars.

Corrupt chunk discovered on southeast Lab World Entry into area temporarily prohibited by Staff

Early on Thursday morning, the server crashed multiple times due to the entry of server members into a corrupt chunk. The corrupt chunk is located on the Lab World in the southeast at x=1258 z=527. It was discovered by Staff that loading the chunk in question causes the server to crash as well as possibly wipe away data.

Later in the morning, a message was sent by Moderator megascatterbomb on Discord warning members not to approach the chunk. Similar precautions to the corrupt chunk in Inchmuir have since taken place, including the creation of a WorldGuard region preventing entry into any areas that would load the chunk.

godzilltrain and Just_robinho both announce resignation from Staff Resignation to take effect on August 11th

Over the anniversary weekend, two longtime Staff members announced that they would retire from the Staff due to real-life commitments lowering their availability. Firstly, godzilltrain announced that he will resign from the Staff on Friday; this announcement was soon followed by Just_robinho's announcement of his resignation on Saturday. Both Staff members will have their resignations take effect at the next GSM on August 11th. Just_robinho has served as a Moderator since August 31, 2013, which gives him the longest uninterrupted tenure as a Moderator without a promotion to Administrator; he is also the only Moderator promoted at the August 2013 GSM who is still active. godzilltrain was promoted to Moderator on April 9, 2017, and then became an Administrator on January 2, 2018.

It has already been stated previously by Frumple that Moderator nominations will be considered at the August GSM; these prospective Staff members would likely replace the two resigning. In addition it has been confirmed that promotions to Administrator will be considered at the July ASM.

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