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What happened to cwal now

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Sonic_md
Profile Joined March 2020
Moldova275 Posts
March 16 2025 18:17 GMT
#1
Hi.
what happened to cwal?
A couple days ago i can find games of any player from a month ago at most.
A week ago I could find games from a year or two years ago.
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BonitiilloO
Profile Joined June 2013
Dominican Republic626 Posts
March 16 2025 18:20 GMT
#2
On March 17 2025 03:17 Sonic_md wrote:
Hi.
what happened to cwal?
A couple days ago i can find games of any player from a month ago at most.
A week ago I could find games from a year or two years ago.


Problably running out of Server Storage? i mean saving all replays will take space i guess.
How may help u?
Dakota_Fanning *
Profile Joined January 2008
Hungary2357 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-18 14:36:07
March 17 2025 09:21 GMT
#3
I saw no official post about this, but before the cut, there were already millions of ladder replays available on cwal, and that's already several hundreds of gigabytes (metadata not counted). Without having much use of them (e.g. users mostly download most recent replays and majority of the replays like 99% never get downloaded), it's way not optimal use of resources and cost. So the most obvious reason would be to reduce costs.

That's why it's important to support services you like and use even if they are available for free, to make them profitable (or at least not loss-making), else this is what you'll find one day: either your beloved feature is removed or the whole service completely disappears from one day to another (like bwreplays.com did).

Meanwhile if you're interested in older replays (either ladder or non-ladder), you can get them from https://repmastered.icza.net. So far I've kept all replays going back to the beginning (2001), counting more than 43.6 million at the moment.
https://repmastered.icza.net
LUCKY_NOOB
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Bulgaria1496 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-03-17 12:21:21
March 17 2025 12:20 GMT
#4
The games seem to be working fine. But I see ranks and points not updating properly (no biggie).
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RJBTVYOUTUBE
Profile Joined December 2023
Netherlands989 Posts
March 17 2025 13:42 GMT
#5
On March 17 2025 21:20 LUCKY_NOOB wrote:
The games seem to be working fine. But I see ranks and points not updating properly (no biggie).


Something happened on blizzard's end with the ladder. Ladder's not updating points and not adding new names to it.
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LUCKY_NOOB
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Bulgaria1496 Posts
March 17 2025 14:30 GMT
#6
On March 17 2025 22:42 RJBTVYOUTUBE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 17 2025 21:20 LUCKY_NOOB wrote:
The games seem to be working fine. But I see ranks and points not updating properly (no biggie).


Something happened on blizzard's end with the ladder. Ladder's not updating points and not adding new names to it.


Preparing for the year 2106 when we don't need points or ranks! ^_._^
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bITt.mAN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Switzerland3693 Posts
March 18 2025 22:40 GMT
#7
Wow, that's a crazy amount of replays ...
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Gooseheaded
Profile Joined May 2009
United States126 Posts
March 24 2025 06:55 GMT
#8
Battle.net's APIs are not providing up-to-date information.

The amount of storage being used by CWAL is not the issue.
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Navane
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Netherlands2748 Posts
March 24 2025 07:57 GMT
#9
The ingame ladder has also been broken for the same amount of time
Dakota_Fanning *
Profile Joined January 2008
Hungary2357 Posts
March 24 2025 10:59 GMT
#10
On March 24 2025 15:55 Gooseheaded wrote:
Battle.net's APIs are not providing up-to-date information.

The amount of storage being used by CWAL is not the issue.

Actually the author confirmed my theory on discord. Misbehaving API wouldn't effect historical games / replays. The reason was to "reduce server costs and improve site performance".
https://repmastered.icza.net
SpaNiarD
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Spain349 Posts
March 24 2025 21:10 GMT
#11
Actually is weird because for some accounts it does. For example this game I played 18 min ago, you can see it in my opponent's profile but if you click in my name, my account is like it doesn't exist. Same for other games from this guy -_-


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