i mean ive not seen anything like this in a while. how about anyone else? i apologise, as i did not ask for artik's permission to post the picture, but it was so weird i felt i had to   There's a reason the bet ID's aren't shown. That progression definitely didn't happen when I queried the database  |
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The devs are clueless, and Stunna apparently won't pay for CloudFlare premium even though it's $20 a month for pro, which has way better DDoS mitigation and speed compared to the free nodes. Meanwhile, the webserver IP can be directly accessed and the staff is nowhere to be found like usual.
This is false. All interactivity with the PD site goes through websockets. Only Enterprise customers from Cloudflare have websocket support. Enterprise is around $5,000 per month and obviously not worth it. Actually true statement. Do you really think they provide a quality free service? No and that's why the latency is so high. The nodes are DDoSed with multi GB botnets almost 24/7. They spend more time mitigating the pro, business and enterprise attacks. I realized this after I said it. They need to use a different service because all cloudflare free does is slow down the site more. FYI: The only thing that goes through websockets are the live stat updates & chat. and that isn't being processed through cloudflare. Websockets are being processed directly through a cheap herokuapp server(s) with a shared CPU.. I just don't understand all of this. Because in reality PD traffic is actually at an all time low. So is the number of bets. There are about 1000 bets every 5 seconds or so. There are only like 120 people on at a time now. But during August before they capped everything and made a bunch of changes -- I could shoot out 1000 bets every 5 seconds, just on my account. And that was WITH 400 people online and WAYYY more bets being processed Edit: Apparently this one players level is higher in their stats than in their profile tab. Either this is a glitch from the chat EXP nerf or the DB shards aren't synced correctly. Edit2: Nevermind this is for everybody. Definitely the chat nerf Traffic is actually at an all time high. The active users on the landing page used to be inaccurate as it was counting the number of socket connections which didn't reflect the number of users. As for bets we're processing over 14 million a day now which is 3x higher than when we launched Primedice3 and nearly 20x higher than Primedice2. Scaling our servers is a definite issue for us As for the cloudflare issue we're already working on a fix. We were forced to downgrade our CF due to means out of our control. |
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Just watched all the recently submitted ones! Great job, pretty sure all of them will place in top 15 for sure! Be original like them What about mine? Hope 1-5th place Great job too! The nice syncing with the music |
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I think this is just a publicity stunt.
I doubt it. Another dice site recently started allowing profits of up to 40 BTC per bet. If PD could have safely continued without halving their maximum payout, I'm sure they would have. It's not much of a publicity stunt to show how much people can win and then immediately withdraw the very bet sizes he used to win that much... True, if this were some sort of publicity stunt we wouldn't try to limit our future profits. We had the bankroll to handle bets of that size very comfortably before but now are less comfortable handling them. As I've said before, there's no point in trying to convince skeptics otherwise as I'd probably question it myself if it wasn't right in front of me. However, in this situation logic would point to this being real given the actions we've taken and the course all of this took. It's pretty aggravating to put in so much work and effort into something and have absolute odds and still fail to turn a profit. I lost some faith in the odds this week, but I'm fairly confident that the loss will be recouped within the next 100 days given the growth of PD and things will work out over time. We will consider re-raising the max bet at that time. To put it bluntly, shit happens but we're going to stay positive and work hard to firmly hold our position at the top of the gambling scene. Dooglus, stop wasting your time calculating obscure statistics no one cares about and re-open your dice site already.
Much love.
Stunna just lost 2000 BTC in a few days and must be stressing about it. "Is there an exploit? Is he cheating? Is he going to bust me? Should I reduce the max bet to prevent further losses, or would that just prevent him losing his gains back to the site?" I remember having all those worries whenever anyone got lucky on JD, and don't miss them. Mwaaaah. These concerns are very much here and have seriously stressed me out the past few days. While the win is extremely unlikely we haven't found any proof of ill intent/exploiting and opted to pay out huffle as there was no definitive proof of anything. As far as we can tell and in my opinion he legitimately got very lucky and won quite a bit but we can never know for sure. I fully understand why you (doog) felt the stress was too great. Honestly the only thing that keeps me sane is the fact that our stress & workload is divided between a few people each of which have an insane tolerance for risk and loss and don't need bitcoins to make ends meet. I've said this many times but we're long term believers in bitcoin and cannot be heavily shook by great losses in terms of the price of bitcoin or losses to players. Proof of this is further given by the fact that I've never sold a single bitcoin for fiat currency. We sustained a massive loss but we were once again given an opportunity to prove our trustworthiness and how that even in an anonymous environment where we'd have ultimate control to act unethically we never for a second considered it. *Not that this will stop people who lose 5 satoshi bets from questioning the fairness and wielding their pitchforks after a 6 loss streak  |
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Also we fixed/uploaded the change that dooglus pointed out with regards to the strange multiplier rounding on certain payouts.
oh no, whats dooglus going to do now with his unlimited time You think that's the last case of someone or something being wrong on the Internet? I'm sure I'll find something else upon which to exercise my particular brand of pedantry.  When doog talks, we listen. We obviously try to pay attention to all the feedback we can but a lot of it diffuses into background noise given the volume of issues that are reported, many of which are client-sided. This is intensified by a quickly growing user-base that we are quickly attempting to scale to handle. I've disagreed with Doog initially before but I don't think I've ever seen Doog critique something that turned out to be a mistake on his part or untrue after investigating it myself. |
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Max payout is now halved to 20 BTC opposed to 40 BTC.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Is this because of hufflepuff? If it is, why not increase the max bet, to allow him/her to lose all his/her balance quicker? We don't have infinite funds and that would be pretty irresponsible on our end. This is obviously an extremely difficult decision for us to make knowing that we may not have a chance to win back the 2k+ BTC in losses due to this new limit depending on his reaction. Also site has returned from maintenance, reload and roll away! Cool. But it is probable that he'll lose it in the end, if he don't withdraw in time. That's good to hear! Also I'm sending you a pm, please check your inbox. EDIT: The site is still down at my end, please fix that. Try reloading https://primedice.com not the maintenance page. Redirecting/domain type stuff is sometimes slow to propagate. Works for me and many others are on the site currently. |
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Max payout is now halved to 20 BTC opposed to 40 BTC.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Is this because of hufflepuff? If it is, why not increase the max bet, to allow him/her to lose all his/her balance quicker? We don't have infinite funds and that would be pretty irresponsible on our end. This is obviously an extremely difficult decision for us to make knowing that we may not have a chance to win back the 2k+ BTC in losses due to this new limit depending on his reaction. Also site has returned from maintenance, reload and roll away! |
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We're going to put the site into maintenance mode in five minutes while we tackle the issue of a query breaking causing lag a few times a day. Also we fixed/uploaded the change that dooglus pointed out with regards to the strange multiplier rounding on certain payouts. Website will be down for ~1 hour from the time maintenance started while we hopefully permanently repair the issues you've all encountered the past few weeks. In the meantime feel free to check us out on Reddit, Twitter and FacebookEdit: back earlier than expected, reload to play |
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Max payout is now halved to 20 BTC opposed to 40 BTC.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
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I think this is just a publicity stunt.
Looking at this from a third person perspective and seeing that this guy is still betting I guess that Primedice isn't in trouble for now. At least not yet. If this is really happening the hard part for PD should be paying out this guy. That's a great way for us all to see if Primedice is really as big as it wants us to believe it is. But all this makes me somewhat suspicious too. HUfflepuff has been paid out in full. Our max payout is now only 20 BTC instead of 40 BTC. |
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This doesn't seem like a very good way to talk to your biggest customer:  Ed & Huffle have talked on Skype a bit before. They're on a pretty chilled basis I assume |
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Why the hell did I get muted on PD chat? u:1Ruru
I didn't mute you myself but I probably would have. Sent to me, via another website: 04:22: a1choi hell yeah
04:22: cowbay you will jack?
04:22: ruru I'm gonna need some backup with this LOL
04:22: ruru I'll raise the max bet
04:22: HomePage http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/bistro-central-parc-san-francisco?select=R0zIYAyvlLP5uwm56cAmrA#QlRYifRWBB8rYBZjxG88pg
04:23: ruru that would be fucking hilarious
04:23: ruru he loses 1800 coins.
04:23: cowbay how are you going to persuade him to come?
04:23: Puerto Rican MLB are you guys hungry?
04:23: Puerto Rican MLB oh can i come?
04:23: ruru We are the best alternative after PD's soon to be nerfed max bet
04:23: HomePage lol
04:23: ruru I'm under the assumption that fucker will move here
04:23: a1choi is the nerfed bet for certain?
04:23: a1choi did he just announce he will?
04:23: Puerto Rican MLB who ruru?
04:23: HomePage well I'm going to PD to spam the .com a bit
04:23: ruru i read on PD
04:23: a1choi sweet
04:23: ruru something something stunna
04:24: cowbay stunna is shopping for an elephant butt plug after that session
04:24: Puerto Rican MLB ruru you are the best
04:24: ruru ruru1 has been muted.
04:24: ruru I got muted
04:24: ruru LOL
04:24: ruru WTF
04:25: a1choi lol
04:25: a1choi that was quick
04:25: ruru " if stunna does that, I will jack the max profit on PRC to more than this site's max bet Therefore, huffle's resting place will be PRC >:)"
04:25: a1choi i guess he doesnt take kindly to people advertising other sites
04:25: a1choi go to btctalk If you're going to come use the chat and mention another dice site between conversation I could care less, but if you are going to come onto chat to expressly try and pump up your investment then please don't bother. |
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All I can say is I'm glad the website is not investment based as I can't imagine the type of scrutiny this would have brought forth and I'm glad I didn't quit my day job.
We had this happen on Just-Dice. The investors were surprisingly OK with it for the most part. I didn't handle it very well, but they did. Also, there seems to be a bug with the payments when he bets high (>66.99) and wins at 3x. He bets 12 BTC and so should profit 24 BTC, but only gets 23.999988 BTC each time. I posted details here. Honestly, I'm not too sure why that happens, I've forwarded all the info to our developer and we'll try and get that sorted for tomorrow night when he's available along with crediting the difference. It isn't a critical issue, doesn't seem to have effected much but I agree that it would be good to get that fixed asap. |
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Max payout may potentially be halved if huffle continues at this pace. Depends how brave we're feeling.
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Just watched all the recently submitted ones! Great job, pretty sure all of them will place in top 15 for sure! Be original like them |
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maybe he is a house player and this is just a publicity stunt.
I can see why you might think that, as an outsider it probably would appear that way. I'm one of the first to be skeptical of these sort of things whenever I see them happening. I'm not going to waste much time trying to prove it's true to you as it wouldn't really effect anything and doesn't really matter but I will say this 1. He's been betting for around 12 hours per day the past few days, I've been staying up pretty much 24/7 to keep an eye on things. 2. You could probably dig up all the transactions on the blockchain if you were so inclined (cashouts/deposits). He's been betting for well over a month. Losing lots of bitcoins is whatever but it's irritating when you have people that question the validity of it. I won't hold it against you though as I'm finding this pretty hard to believe myself. All I can say is I'm glad the website is not investment based as I can't imagine the type of scrutiny this would have brought forth and I'm glad I didn't quit my day job. As I said though, I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise feel free to think what you wish I was just pointing out that this would be a weird way to go about things and would have cost me 20+ hours of my time. |
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That's crazy. But can he withdraw such a large amount, or, does PD have any proof they have so many coins to payout?
I don't think that do any kind of "proof of solvency", but they don't have a crowd-funded bankroll, so it's not such a concern. They offer a 40 BTC max payout, with a 1% house edge which would be reckless without a bankroll of at least 4000 BTC. Huffle's already been paid out all his winnings thus far so this isn't much of a concern. If he continues to win at this pace we'll lower the max bet if the risk becomes too great for us. |
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We're back up, sorry about that. There's a query we have running once or twice a day which seems to strain the site to the point of it going offline for a few minutes. Will try and find an alternative way around that.
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