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You are great, dev! Good luck with that!

So the rest of the fun section went away? There's only 4 pages... I went to look for DamnStraights thread, since it's her birthday and she pops by once in a while... and there were only 4 pages.

Providing you can get it to work of course, that sounds like a good plan. The only question I have about it is what would happen when this database gets large again?

Actually, this seems to have happened with everything in Real World. I have officially lost my first favorite thread, which was buried in General Discussion, but I still went back and reread every few months. If these threads are really gone for good, with no warning so that we could archive on our own, I will be officially displeased.

Maybe he changed the board's forum-wide default setting for displayed threads. That would mean they're still there, just not accessible right now. *crosses fingers*

Nope, sorry, they've been gone for about three weeks now, I've removed them as they hadn't been posted on for more than 3 months. I still have the original back-up I made of the boards, so I do still have that somewhere. I'll see if I can find a way to reintegrate them at some point.

Hi-ya dev. The board isn't letting me log out today.

And that's a problem?

Whyso?

(I have no idea what could be causing that, I'll look into it)

If anything, I'd check your cookies.

Hey! Leave Tim's cookies out of... oh wait. Yeah. Erm, check your cookies.

By the way dev, things have been awfully smooth for the last couple of days! Thanks for whatever you are doing that is making it so! xx

Shhhhhh


*waits for the failure*

[whisper]And if it is fixed, you can thank gossi for showing me how to fuck over everyone else on the server [/whisper]

Hehehe, all his diabolical secrets come to light.

Well, huzzah for gossi!

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Well, whatever needs to be done to protect your crew....Mal would want it that way. Thanks to you anyway, though....and the Gossi, too.

Yay! I'm so glad the boards have been behaving! Thanks dev and Gossi!

I hate to jinx it, but this seems to still be the case. Well done and thank you.

(I just thought it might be nice to come here and find a random compliment instead of a complaint. )

Hehe cheers, but I feel I should point out that there is no such thing as a complaint, just an opportunity to better your performance.

Well aren't you the enlightened one?


So, just to voice a slight concern....I'm now getting emails from fourteen minutes ago, and then from two hours ago, then 5 minutes ago, in a random haphazardness. Is this the notifications or my email?

They are all sent when they should be, so it would be either your email, or possibly just the internet.

Or possibly the FBI(Federal Bureau of Investigation)/NSA(National Secretary Agency)/CIA(ChrisIsAll)/MI5(Monkey Investigations 5) whoever reading them.

Though it appears an image from inside the serenitymovie.org server room has come to light:

I think the problem is solved, you need an upgrade.

Pish-Tosh! I dare you to find a finer and better built difference engine anywhere in t'interweb. I double-dare you!

The latest in mechanical thinking engines!
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Advanced and portable.

Yeah but it's not nearly so large and impressive-looking.

Hey dev/admin guy!

I am not sure what's up, but I haven't been getting e-mails since sometime during the night, when the threads I'm subscribed to get posted to. There are three threads (the Christopher Eccleston thread in General, the Getting to know you QUESTIONS thread in Fun and my own thread in Fun) that have been posted to today that I haven't gotten e-mails about.

I checked my spam folder and there's nothing in there... and I haven't changed any of my settings recently.

The last e-mail I got was when Code_Red posted a new thread "Google your username" in fun (I'm also subscribed to the fun forum itself). I should have received several since then.

I'll let you know if it starts working soon...

Well... maybe they were delayed? I just got an e-mail saying that Numfarvera had posted to my thread in Fun, which he has done quite a few times since the last e-mail I got...

so maybe whatever it was that was not working is fixed now?

ETA: Yeah, there's another one that says Num posted to my thread, which he hasn't actually done in a while... so it was a delay somewhere. Maybe one of the tubes was clogged.

ETA: Somebody applied the net-drano to the tubes. Over night/early morning I got a bunch of the delayed e-mails and from the time stamps, the issue was not with the boards, but with something between the boards and gmail, or just gmail.

So... disregard.

Ah, boogers...

I'm trying to change my avatar. The Control Panel is showing my new avatar as accepted and uploaded. But it's not showing up on the board, only the previous avatar. What am I not doing right?

It's a cache issue. I see your new one now. If you still don't, try hitting the F5 key on your keyboard.

I see it now, too. I just had to refresh a few times.

Weird. I refreshed a bunch of times, exited the board and went to another site & came back, etc. It didn't work until Explorer crashed and I had to restart the computer. Now I see the new avatar!

I don't know. I usually see the change right away, but I suppose it could have been the web server cache in addition to your computer's cache.

Short term solution:
tools->internet options->general->browsing history->settings->check for newer version->every time I visit.

Better solution:
www.firefox.com

Weird but not OMG weird: When I logged in today, the board told me I had 7 new messages. When I went to my inbox there were a good 10 or 11 messages marked new. Unfortunately, they were all old.

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Yeah, screencap might help.

Cheers

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The mind is the first thing to go....sad really....

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Anybody else having issues today? My connection to the internet in general seems fine, but I keep having page load errors and timeouts trying to get to the board.

*crosses fingers that this will post*

ETA: things seem to have sped back up to normal now.

Yay!

That was a bunch of us yesterday. Thankfully, it was better today

Today seems fine. Yesterday all I got was "IPS Driver Error" and couldn't even view the site.

That's because yesterday there was a problem with the database.

Thanks for fixing it.

Well, this isn't a board problem... it's totally a user problem, but I'm wondering if there is anything that can be done to help the user in question (me).

Every so often I accidentally hit the "mark all posts read" link. I hate that. It does exactly what it says it will do and it drives me batty when it happens.

I try to be careful and not click it, but it happens anyway.

Is there anything to be done? Does anybody actually use it on purpose?

I use it all the time.

It was one of the first things that I was asked to fix when I took over, and one of the first things I actually did fix.

Sorry about that.

Really? Bummer.

I'll just keep trying not to hit it accidentally... but when I do, I will be sad.

I also use it all the time.

Really? I just don't understand. A "mark all UNread" button would make more sense to me.

I don't feel a need to read all the threads, but I like knowing at a glance which ones I have read and which ones have new posts.