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TranquilSlogan
 Posts: 25 Location: Columbia, SC |
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This is exactly why you should hire me to come aboard your staff
 No seriously, do it please.
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patch
 Posts: 677 Location: New York, NY |
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any updates on wtf happened?
looks like the admins are slacking
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
 Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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Since you were able to write that message, it means the problem is theoretically fixed. Right now I'm just waiting to see if the server crumbles under the load or not.
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hagakure|returns
Posts: 407 |
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Blame it on all those:
-useless one or 2 word replies like "that rock" or "cool" post. -lame repeated topic Dub Vs Sub, Berserk Season 2, etc. -all post asking where to download and get locked -senseless topic that doesn't discuss anything like this I would hope for more constructive posting and topic to save bandwidth. I suggest mod should delete topic that break the forum rules and give warning to those who post senselessly. 
Last edited by hagakure|returns on Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:31 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Mohawk52
 Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Ah! Good to have you back! So I take it that some house cleaning has occured with some of the old threads. Can a programme be installed that deletes these old threads after a while, say 1 year of first posting?
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
Posts: 3792 Location: Montreal |
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While the number of posts and topics in the database was one of the causes of the problem, it was not to blame. After all, a database is *supposed* to contain huge amounts of data. The main culprit was a phpbb mod that contained a poorly designed SQL query. So instead of deleting a bunch of topics, the problem was solved at the root by fixing that query. Well... I *hope* it was fixed.
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Toboe
 Posts: 138 Location: Rakuen |
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Thanks for fixing it, Dan.
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Shinotaku14
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 233 Location: Greenville or Rock Hill, SC |
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Awesome Dan! Good Job.
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angel_lover
 Posts: 645 Location: UK |
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Hmmm, thanks for screwing it in the first place, Open Source hippies
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Kalium
 Posts: 84 Location: Michigan |
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Well, phpBB is Open Source to begin with, so... Consider how difficult and expensive it would be to get a propretary forum program to integrate with the rest of ANN like phpBB does. The end result would likely be either A) a huge, buggy mess, or B) no forum at all. |
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angel_lover
Posts: 645 Location: UK |
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At the risk of going severely off topic, this is simply not true. A friend of mine was unhappy with the Open Sore (sorry, Source) stuff that was around and wrote her own forum system in her spare time that integrates nicely into the rest of her website, using Front Page extensions and proper SQL Server. It works perfectly, and in multiple languages too (English, German, etc.)
<edit> OK, I might concede the point about integrating a system like that into a completely PHP-driven site, I've never had much exposure to PHP because the company I work for is very Microsoft-oriented |
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.Sy
Posts: 1266 |
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 Anyway, I'm glad the forum is up and running again.
Last edited by .Sy on Sat Aug 20, 2005 7:40 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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DemonEyesLeo
 Posts: 844 Location: Japan |
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Great. Glad to see them back up and running.
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Proman
 Posts: 947 Location: USA |
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Good to see you guys back!
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Tamakun
Posts: 39 |
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What I found particularily entertaining was with the announcement that the forums were down, there was still the option to "discuss" (although it didn't work).
Good to see everything's back up and running (theoretically)! 
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