Does it involve the application of heat? Is it like welding?
I honestly do not understand this term it makes no sense to me.
it means fixing while the game is live without taking realms offline.
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It’s generally an attempt to fix what is a hot garbage that’s why it’s called hot fix
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Hot Fix sounds like a 1970s Rock band.
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But they do take it offline, or at least kick you off the server and make you apply the changes. That’s a hot mess!
Hot tap. The act of adding a fixture to a currently live (pressurized) pipe.
Hot fix. Presumably the same concept but with servers
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Still better than a hot pocket
How DARE you bring logic in here sir.
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Those things are delicious.
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But what about hot take?
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A hot fix is someone coming in to justify your absolutely awful hot take.
A hotfix or quick-fix engineering update (QFE update) is a single, cumulative package that includes information (often in the form of one or more files) that is used to address a problem in a software product (i.e., a software bug).[1] Typically, hotfixes are made to address a specific customer situation.
The term “hotfix” originally referred to software patches that were applied to “hot” systems; that is, systems which are live, currently running, and in production status rather than development status. For the developer, a hotfix implies that the change may have been made quickly and outside normal development and testing processes. This could increase the cost of the fix by requiring rapid development, overtime or other urgent measures. For the user, the hotfix could be considered riskier or less likely to resolve the problem. This could cause an immediate loss of services, so depending on the severity of the bug, it may be desirable to delay a hotfix. The risk of applying the hotfix must be weighed against the risk of not applying it, because the problem to be fixed might be so critical that it could be considered more important than a potential loss of service (e.g., a major security breach).
Similar use of the terms can be seen in hot-swappable disk drives. The more recent usage of the term is likely due to software vendors making a distinction between a hotfix and a patch.
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When the game is active and playable it is considered “hot” in some terminology. So a “hot fix” is a fix applied while the game is still running on client machines instead of waiting until the game is down and they can do it “cold”.
I guess.
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Per wikipedia
is a single, cumulative package that includes information (often in the form of one or more files) that is used to address a problem in a [software]product (i.e., a [software bug]).[[1]] Typically, hotfixes are made to address a specific customer situation.
The term “hotfix” originally referred to [software patches] that were applied to “hot” systems; that is, systems which are live, currently running, and in production status rather than development status. For the developer, a hotfix implies that the change may have been made quickly and outside normal development and testing processes. This could increase the cost of the fix by requiring rapid development, overtime or other urgent measures. For the user, the hotfix could be considered riskier or less likely to resolve the problem. This could cause an immediate loss of services, so depending on the severity of the bug, it may be desirable to delay a hotfix. The risk of applying the hotfix must be weighed against the risk of not applying it, because the problem to be fixed might be so critical that it could be considered more important than a potential loss of service (e.g., a major security breach).
Similar use of the terms can be seen in hot-swappable disk drives. The more recent usage of the term is likely due to software vendors making a distinction between a hotfix and a patch.
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They really shouldn’t call it a hotfix then I would call it a COBOL patch.
Or Hot Cakes!
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It’s gonna have to compete with my new forums-named band, Blue Pigeon Lady, for the proto-1970s rock crown!
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It’s this of course…
… but it’s probably coming in hot, too… 
cue up some theme music