Comments on Revolution Elite

Thank you Gizmore for setting this up and allowing RE to join wechall.
I will be writing the script for auto-update over the next day or two and will mark the site accordingly once I have done so.

Thanks again!

sabretooth

edited - I aparently typo bad England </sarcasm>

I played through a few challenges last night, sabretooth. Looks good so far. That is an interesting way to organize things.

Hey sabretooth, nice to see you and your website here too.

Thanks for the kind words

I am happy to announce that Revolution Elite now auto-updates upon a user solving a challenge

sabretooth

Source: https://www.sabrefilms.co.uk/revolutionelite/REbbs/index.php?topic=191

Reviving some old challenges from lost-chall.org

There has been mixed opinion about this idea but let me fill you in on some background.
My humble beginnings as a site-admin were on lost-chall.org courtesy of Bregi who granted me the freedom to make challenges for the site.
I ended up with around 55 challenges there, some of them which I consider my best work.

Since leaving the admin position in 2010, many of my challenges there came under a state of disrepair. Many are non-functional, important challenge files were removed or altered - mostly due to site redesigns, updates, and other issues. As Bregi has little to no knowledge of my challenges, it is unlikely that unless I step in and rewrite around 30 challenges, they will never be fixed - something which I am not prepared to do for a site which I have had no contact with in a few years.

I am planning on not exactly porting these challenges to Revolution Elite, but reusing some ideas in order to revive some of the greater flares of ingenuity and evilness which I had back in the day.

Bregi will be informed of this decision, and maybe one day I will fix up the lost-chall versions to their former glory also. I will add (LC) to a challenge title whenever the challenge I put online has an idea originating from a lost-chall idea.

I do not see this as any disservice to lost-chall. In fact it would be wonderful if these challenges going online would persuade some of you to visit this great site and keep it active, because after all, I am not going to be reusing ALL my ideas, just a select few, and Bregi's own challenges (at least after seasons 1 and 2) are really something to behold. I learned many things from this guy and still hold him in high regard.

One final note - This is in no way an indication that I am running out of ideas. The last time I checked my ideas file I had around 90~ challenges which could be coded and put online, not including extra contributions from alucardo, lonewolf219, and caesum still sitting in my inbox.

Thank you all for your understanding of this decision.

sabretooth

I set security headers on the site: X-XSS-Protection, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Strict-Transport-Security (the last one will be an issue if you want to use an intercepting proxy. you'll have to import the site certificate to get around this)

If any challenges are non-functioning due to these changes, please let me know.

I cannot reach to this site. I'm getting e-mails about new challenges so I assume it's up but not reachable for me. I wonder if it is just me having this problem?

The site is up and working fine for me

I always reach there through wechall. Is there any address change? My browser tells me "there is no answer within the timeout limit, maybe the site is too busy etc.". I try it time to time for last 10 or 20 days and not even once there was any successful connection for me.

Right clicking on the site name on the right hand side list and selecting "open in new tab" works fine for me, going to: https://www.sabrefilms.co.uk/revolutionelite/