It's been a while - but we've finally added a proper forum for the brainCloud development community.

We don't do this lightly. Although we're a small team - focused, direct support is important to us - which is why our direct chat forums have been in place since day 1 of brainCloud's launch.

That said, especially in the past six months or so, the call for community forums has become deafening - and as our community of developers is rapidly growing, we're realizing that enabling the community to help support itself (in addition to our crack support team) has its appeal! (We're Canadian, not dumb!)

After a long search, we decided upon NodeBB for our forum software solution. The software is modern, nimble, and fast - with a clean look-and-feel. We were also able to integrate it with our Portal logins - so you don't need two accounts to participate (that was important to us). As a bonus, NodeBB is also built in Canada! (We honestly didn't realize that until just a few days ago!)

Now that we've got our forums in place, we're hoping that you all will visit often and contribute! It's too clean and tidy now - come on in and mess it up!

Feedback welcome!

Cheers!

Paul.

Update - we suspect that this is the same problem:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/ios-post-request-with-raw-data.690514/

Hi folks,

We've discovered what looks to be a pretty significant issue with using brainCloud for large packet requests on IOS devices. (edit: removed mention of Android as we have confirmed that it does not occur on Android devices).

The issue appears to be limited to Unity 2019.X.

More info here - https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/warning-unity-2019-x-ios-issues/

We are constructing a minimal test app so that Unity can easily repro this issue (i.e. trying to take brainCloud out-of-the-test loop) - and then we'll submit the defect to Unity directly.

We'll keep you posted.

Paul.

Hi guys,

The plan is to release 4.5 in April.

Cheers!

Paul.

We are pleased to announce the new brainCloud Roadmap! site.

This Roadmap gives a view of:

• what we're currently working on
• what we're planning to add to the platform
• what we're considering adding to the platform

(Note - we won't be necessarily putting everything we're working on here. We still like to surprise!)

Make yourself heard! Vote for the features that are most important to you - and submit suggestions for new features!

In the short-term, go check out the list of goodies that will be included with Release 4.1 next week!

Paul.

Good news?

Looks like Unity is aware of the defect (and working on a fix)...

From discussion here - https://forum.unity.com/threads/ios-post-request-with-raw-data.690514/

Paul.

Hi folks,

Our planned 4.6 release was getting too big - so we're splitting it into 4.55 and 4.6.

The 4.55 release should arrive within the next 30 days.

The big headliner feature is at long last, brainCloud will support Amazon In-app Purchases !

There are also a bunch of useful API additions. Check out the details on our Roadmap.

The bad news is that Cloud Code Folder are still planned for 4.6 - which is going to be a bit longer. That said, we're working hard to get it right!

Cheers,

Paul.

Hi folks,

A new release of brainCloud is set to drop either tomorrow or Monday... (a few last-minute issues showed up unexpectedly last night - we're still assessing the impact).

Features/improvements in 4.5 include:

• Shard cloud code scripts (beta)
• Global Files V3 API (beta)
• Custom Entities Official Release + JSON Templates()
• Improved Room Server Support for Unity & Unreal
• and more!

Full release notes here:
https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/release-4-5-is-coming/

Note that this release also includes the addition of "deep data" usage pricing to brainCloud.

As always, we aim to keep the pricing low, elastic, and apply it only to those devs using the affected features (which in this case or Custom Entities, Chat and Messaging). There's a new article describing deep data usage here - http://help.getbraincloud.com/en/articles/3967940-what-is-deep-data-usage

As always - feedback is welcome. Thanks a bunch for choosing brainCloud!

Paul.

Hi folks,

We are pleased to announce that brainCloud 4.4 is live.

In this release you'll find:

• Sign in with Apple support
• Google OpenID support
• Custom Entity improvements - including Global / User Editors, Import/Export, etc.
• Cloud Code ES6 Support
• Much Faster API Reference !!!

Plus some key customer requests:

• Ability to exclude Item Catalog for Deployment Pushes
• Ability to manually reset non-rotating leaderboards
• Ability to create SHA256 with RSA signatures
• And more!

You'll find the full details in the release notes.

Be sure to pick up our latest Client Libs to take advantage of the latest APIs, fixes and performance improvements.

Let us know what you think! Feedback is good! Which feature(s) of 4.4 do you like best? What do you want next?

We'll be updating the Roadmap in the next week - so now is a great time to sound off on what features you'd like added to brainCloud next!

Paul.

The brainCloud Forums are built on NodeBB - which allows a lot of personalization.

Here are some settings that you may want to tweak:

User name
Change the user name that is displayed for your posts.

• Click on your Account button in the top-right corner, and then Edit Profile
• Click the [ Change Username ] button on the left-hand side

Profile Picture
Change the profile picture that is displayed for your posts.

• Click on your Account button in the top-right corner, and then Edit Profile
• Click the [ Change Picture ] button on the left-hand side.

Forum Look-and-Feel
To adjust the colors that that forum uses:

• Click on your Account button in the top-right corner, and then Settings
• Change the skin selected in the "Select a Skin" option (top right).

Note - there are a bunch of other settings that can be configured as well.

Email Settings
By default, brainCloud's forums won't email you anything. To turn emails on...

• Click on your Account button in the top-right corner, and then Settings
• Customize the settings in "Notifications & Sounds"
• You can also Subscribe to an Email Digest in the "Email" section

We hope that helps you to get the most out of our forums!

Hi Lee,

Apologies for the issue.

As you mention - it appears that the issue was due to a Redis failure - and some fail-over handling in our API Servers that didn't seem to work properly for all servers. This resulted in some RTT errors for some apps.

The issue has since been addressed (by rebooting the failing servers).

We're going to do a post-mortem on the Redis fail-over code to see if we can find the offending code-path - and we've added additional monitoring alerts that will look for just this sort of error in the future so that we can act upon it immediately.

Thanks for reporting it!

Paul.

Hi Chad,

We'll look into it. There are structural complications - in that we keep a separate queue of players waiting to join each type of lobby... so you're looking at in this case changing it to a global (or filterable) queue of waiting players... we'll have to think on that.

I'm assuming that the team and min:max counts for the various lobby types differ? Cause if they don't, you could have a single lobby type - which lobby info that determines the type of game.

Would that be an option for you?

Paul.

Hi @Ali-Raza ,

They were added in brainCloud 4.4:

• SysUpdatePropertyJson() - https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/apiref/?objective_c#capi-globalapp-sysupdatepropertyjson
• SysUpdatePropertyString() - https://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/apiref/?objective_c#capi-globalapp-sysupdatepropertystring

Hope that helps!

Paul.

Hi @Ali-Raza ,

Actually I have good news - we added that API to 4.4!

These two methods are available to you now:

• SysUpdatePropertyJson() - http://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/apiref/#capi-globalapp-sysupdatepropertyjson
• SysUpdatePropertyString() - http://getbraincloud.com/apidocs/apiref/#capi-globalapp-sysupdatepropertyjson

I guess we should have publicized their addition more!

Hope that helps!

Paul.

Hi folks,

Our planned 4.6 release was getting too big - so we're splitting it into 4.55 and 4.6.

The 4.55 release should arrive within the next 30 days.

The big headliner feature is at long last, brainCloud will support Amazon In-app Purchases !

There are also a bunch of useful API additions. Check out the details on our Roadmap.

The bad news is that Cloud Code Folder are still planned for 4.6 - which is going to be a bit longer. That said, we're working hard to get it right!

Cheers,

Paul.

Hi @Alexandru ,

We've just officially added the Segment call you're looking for to brainCloud 4.55 - which is targeted for release in the next ~30 days...

Updated Roadmap here - https://portal.productboard.com/braincloud/1-braincloud-baas-roadmap

Paul.

Hi Bigzer,

We aren't aware of any issues running our javascript client lib under Edge - and haven't been able to repro your issue.

I'm not a javascript guy - but I'm noticing other warnings / errors there - do those also happen in Chrome?

Paul.

Ah - indeed @Carson-Herrick , you are correct.

Turns out "bchosting" is the name of the group we use in our repo example. braincloudhost is indeed the correct user name.

Apologies for the confusion!

Paul.

Hi @Carson-Herrick ,

You set the permissions in Dockerhub - it's the repository we will retrieve your custom image from.

In summary, you need to do the following in Dockerhub:

1. Create a team, called "brainCloud" probably, that you are going to use to give us access.
2. Invite our user, braincloudhost to your repo, and place us on that brainCloud Team. (Note - this user still has no permissions in your repo)
3. Go to the image that you want to share, then the permissions tab, and give the "brainCloud" team read-only access to that image.

If you do this properly, our braincloudhost user will have read-only access to that image, and nothing else.

I hope that helps!

Paul.

Edit - fixed step 2 with the correct user name, braincloudhost... (I had mistakenly said "bchosting")

Hi Chris,

User entities are primarily indexed by profileId + entityType - so the singleton API will scale well no matter how many players you have.

That said, if your use case gets more complicated, with say hundreds of entities of a particular type per user (say maybe you are modelling user created towns, that sort of thing) - you could consider using Owned Custom Entities instead. You can define addition, custom indexes for those... keeps those lookups fast and efficient.

In addition, if you end up having >1000 Global Entities, you should definitely look at switching to Unowned Custom Entities. Same deal - you can define your own custom indexes...

Hope that helps!

Paul.