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Baseball 2018: Interface Improvements

5/26/2018

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I'm better at adding features and fixing bugs than I am at describing new features. So I'm rather late in describing the "Interface Improvements" in Baseball Mogul 2018.​ Most of this work was cosmetic. ​For example, some buttons and clickable text in Baseball Mogul 2017 had problems with "artifacting" (shown at right)...
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Baseball Mogul 2017
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Baseball Mogul 2018
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Baseball Mogul 2017 ("glowing" text)
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Baseball Mogul 2018
I also fixed bad color combinations, and excessive "glowing" text, and fixed screen coordinates so that highlighted areas matched the corresponding text or button.
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Baseball Mogul 2017 (misaligned Transactions button)
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Baseball Mogul 2018
However, there were also some improvements in functionality. For example, "Expiring Contracts" is now a clickable button that populates the Sortable Stats Dialog with a complete list of players in the last year of their contract -- with a new "Eligibility" column showing each player's contract status at the end of the current season:
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Bitcoin uses more energy than Ohio

5/23/2018

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A new study calculates that Bitcoin is on pace to use about as much electricity as the Netherlands before the end of this year.

However, the media is generally ignoring the huge cost of Bitcoin beyond electricity. It took me about two months to figure out that my computer was being crippled by Bitcoin malware on our own bulletin board system.

After I had done every virus test and hardware diagnostic I could think of, I was beginning to think I needed to buy a new PC. But then I noticed that my system only slowed to a crawl when I had a browser window open to our forums. Once I isolated the problem, some googling revealed that vBulletin is one of many systems vulnerable to Bitcoin miners. I found the offending code within a couple of hours and removed it. As of a few weeks ago, there was no permanent solution other than continued vigilance.

I told our users about this hack and apologized that our system may have been causing their systems to slow down, but it seems that no one had noticed. Over eight thousand forum members and yet no one contacted me to suggest that our site was responsible for paralyzing their computers. This isn't a surprice when you consider that most users have 10+ browser tabs open at a time.

So, in addition to ruining the planet, you can probably add in several billion hours of lost productivity, all being taken illegally by criminals (as opposed to billions of hours lost perfectly legally to something like Baseball Mogul).
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