I've done some work with the game finding part of the site.  When you now queue for a game, you can choose whether you want a Standard, Cities, or Any game, and the game finder algorithm will match you up appropriately.

I've also lowered the number of players to 2 again until people start queuing again.

Finally, I've added the ability to the system to determine if the update script is running or not.  If it is not running, the link on the left side of the page will say "Server is offline".  If you see that, you will know that the game finding will not be working.  If it says otherwise, everything is good to go.  This should go a long way to relieving people's frustrations about whether the site is working or not.

The reason the update script goes down is because we're running on a shared host right now and we can't setup cron jobs to automate it, so I have to manually kick it off via a ssh login, and if my login terminates, so does the script.  If anyone's got any great ideas on how to keep it going, I'm all ears.  It's just a simple PHP script that gets executed.

Yeah, I have some time these days to put into the site, so I'm developing it again.  What happens with s3dconnector is up to the people, I don't put any effort into maintaining it.

Who hoo!!!!

You could try this or some variation on it.

cat > update.sh
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
sleep 864000
phpcli updater.php
done
^D
sh update.sh &
logout

Alternatively you could set up an SSH private-public key pair on a machine that does allow cron jobs and schedule

/usr/bin/ssh host "phpcli updater.php"

or whatever. AIUI, you can use ssh-agent to store the decryption passphrase for the private key. This is helpful if you're using a shared machine.

If you only have access to Windows, you could try using plink.exe and pageant.exe (Google for plink.exe)

Also, you could have the PHP script set the date of a file when it completes. I have an idea for a resilient scheme using that if it's of interest.