Roy 10,832 / 0 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 My Departure Hi everyone, This is a difficult thread to write, but I am announcing my departure from GFL. I made GFL over ten years ago and it has exceeded all my initial expectations by a long shot (especially since I made it as a joke at 13 years old, lol). GFL is by far the biggest project I've worked on in my life time. It was also a big factor in all the technical knowledge I have now and technically responsible for the two big jobs (one current) I've had in the past. I am not going to go into detail on why I made this choice, but it's related to my personal life and health. To be honest, I think it's more overdue than anything and I've wanted to make this choice in the past, but something kept bringing me back over and over again (I guess that happens when something was such a big part of your life?). One thing I want to say is while GFL has had its ups and downs in the past/present, it has had so much success throughout the years (look at this thread for instance). We're still going as well! We've beaten our previous records earlier this year which was amazing to see! The community itself is very unique and I know there are many individuals with a lot of potential in the community both GFL-related and also life/career-related. (I know these individuals are going to go far 🙂) I wanted to thank every single person who has made this journey possible from our staff to Supporters/VIPs all the way to regular players/users on our game servers, website, and Discord server(s). There are many people I wish I could tag for their help, motivation, and amazing friendships, but the list would be far too long and I know I'd forget to tag at least some individuals which wouldn't be fair. What's Next? I am passing the community's ownership to @Aurora. Aurora has been a huge contributor in GFL's success the past few years and has been a very great friend of mine. She is the only one I've trusted enough to hand ownership over to which should speak high volumes on how I believe she'll do. To me, she has been doing more for GFL than myself over the past couple of years. She has a unique skillset and definitely has what it takes to run GFL both from a technical and community prospective. There were some legal issues due to Aurora's age and where she lives. She cannot legally own the PayPal account or the business itself. Therefore, I stated I'm fine with owning the PayPal account and business entity for now and we can revisit the topic once she is legally allowed to own these entities. I am also creating a secondary account for her on our PayPal account so she can use it to purchase plugins, servers, etc. for GFL in the meantime. I also advised on dismantling the Anycast network due to some issues we've had and since I was the only one actively maintaining it (or at least trying to with the time I had). The Anycast network was a huge part of our success the past couple of years I believe, but I could never get around to completely remaking it like I had planned. I was starting to work on a new project called "RoyNet" a couple weeks ago which would have replaced Compressor. I made it pretty far, but ran into a roadblock. I knew how to get around the roadblock, but it would have been a lot of additional work. Unfortunately, I was getting very stressed from working on this project, working on other issues in GFL, and then working my full-time job which is why I decided not to go forward with it. Since we own the IP blocks, thankfully we can move to any hosting provider we'd like. I suggested GSK obviously since we have dedicated servers there already and I work there. We can setup a BGP session to have the Anycast IPs assigned to the machines themselves, but I will need to teach Aurora how to route them to the machine from our private switch with GSK. This would also resolve the annoying IPIP tunnel issue we've had on our game server machines themselves (e.g. servers getting a "cannot bind to port error") and will save 20 bytes off of each packet since we will not be tunneling the traffic through IPIP anymore (less inbound bandwidth to our machines, hooray!). These back-end processes will take some time, but I believe that is the current goal. @Aurora will likely update everybody on these as time goes on. I know dismantling the Anycast network will require downtime after a solution is found, so that'll definitely be announced when it comes along. To conclude, I hope to stay in-touch with the friends I've made from GFL and I just wanted to thank everybody again for making all of this possible! This post isn't as in-depth as I had wanted it to be, but I'm honestly trying to avoid going into detail because I know I'd be crying for a good few hours thinking back about everything in GFL, etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigi 57 / 3,573 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 aw shit bye Things I've made/help make and done: Rather excellent noteblock music A highly amusing lil group Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
señor pablo 11 / 1,692 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 we love you king julian!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MythicalGrubbin 4 / 1,196 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 its been a wild ride man, sad to see you go. I hope you fare well on your new things you do MythicalGrubbin, certified idiot and terrible Traitor! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loucop 48 / 1,919 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 goodbye, be safe 🫂 best of luck to your future!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum 105 / 1,343 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 I legally forbid you from leaving Roy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuruia 3,145 / 27,990 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 I think we all knew this was coming at some point. You've been practically hinting at it for years now, and Aurora was always the best choice to pass the torch to. Been a good ten years, at least. I'll never forget the 2011 squeaker Roy. I won't take a photo—I'll tell it through words. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
ReaperJK 91 / 2,368 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 I go cry now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthVader 15 / 732 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 but what about boblox division 😧 dark bader from mc from ttt mc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calebevb 106 / 3,072 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 Roy doesnt love us 😢 nahh jk man best of luck on whatever is going on in your life Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auralanity 1,097 / 19,918 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 o7 sir. And congrats @Aurora to becoming the new owner of GFL. I am so proud of you and I know you will continue to lead GFL on the right path~ ♡ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItzTropicalx 49 / 2,953 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 What an absolute legend. Goodbye, you will never be forgotten and best of luck to you. Steam: ItzTropicalx | Discord: itztropicalx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogpod 122 / 2,890 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 hvUgUEDZIsoHSvE2.mp4 http://pls.propkill.me/rsnJ.gif Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runda 206 / 5,844 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 Take care Roy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora is smelly 192 / 5,018 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 Edited July 13, 2021 by CSS ZE Secretary Roy you better still talk baseball with me that’s all I ask May we never forget the legend of Christin Deacon on hogwarts rp constantly getting detention Edited July 13, 2021 by CSS ZE Secretary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salad 1,132 / 18,831 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 love ya roy Director of Divisions and Physion Unturned Division Leader xQc on GFL Surf 7/16/22 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick 1,651 / 17,967 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
JGuary55 707 / 14,712 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 What the fuck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominikk 111 / 6,335 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 goodbye @Roy, hold on well Im dead... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamtaro 54 / 3,048 Report Post Posted July 13, 2021 Does this mean Phas nights are no more @Roy? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...