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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 06 2018,10:09   

Re "Most users ever online was 175 on July 06 2018,07:52"

But is that people, or are most of them pests?

  
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,10:55   

I think I'm going to have to remove the "All" links from the forum view pages. When the multi-hundred page threads get a hit, it takes a pretty major amount of database processing to fulfill those, so when the bots come indexing the server gets choked. They have been a convenience, but now the inconvenience is outweighing the convenience.

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,12:29   

Oh, is that what was happening?

Guess it's either that or periodically start a new thread for the long ones.

Or maybe make availability of the "All "option conditional on the length of the thread? Or an option to load range of page numbers, with some upper limit on how many?

  
fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,16:53   

Yeah I got an error mentioning something about my squalid sock. I wonder how it knew...

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,18:40   

squalid sock? Well, as long as it doesn't have a sequel...

  
Cubist



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,19:04   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ July 10 2018,10:55)
I think I'm going to have to remove the "All" links from the forum view pages. When the multi-hundred page threads get a hit, it takes a pretty major amount of database processing to fulfill those, so when the bots come indexing the server gets choked. They have been a convenience, but now the inconvenience is outweighing the convenience.

Idea: For each thread, automatically generate a complete copy of pages 1 thru (N-1). Whenever someone clicks on the “all” button, retrieve that almost-all copy from storage, and append whatever the content of page N is.

How much of a hassle would that be to implement?

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,20:45   

As long as disk space isn't an issue, that sounds like it might be a good idea.

  
fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,21:45   

Quote (Henry J @ July 10 2018,18:45)
As long as disk space isn't an issue, that sounds like it might be a good idea.

Just use a smaller font.

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 10 2018,22:03   

That's disk space, not display space.  :p

  
KevinB



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(Permalink) Posted: July 11 2018,08:40   

Quote (fnxtr @ July 10 2018,21:45)
 
Quote (Henry J @ July 10 2018,18:45)
As long as disk space isn't an issue, that sounds like it might be a good idea.

Just use a smaller font.

John the Baptist used a whole river.

  
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: July 11 2018,08:50   

Quote (Cubist @ July 10 2018,19:04)
Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ July 10 2018,10:55)
I think I'm going to have to remove the "All" links from the forum view pages. When the multi-hundred page threads get a hit, it takes a pretty major amount of database processing to fulfill those, so when the bots come indexing the server gets choked. They have been a convenience, but now the inconvenience is outweighing the convenience.

Idea: For each thread, automatically generate a complete copy of pages 1 thru (N-1). Whenever someone clicks on the “all” button, retrieve that almost-all copy from storage, and append whatever the content of page N is.

How much of a hassle would that be to implement?

That is an option I've been kicking around for a while. The "All" option actually required me to make a new Ikonboard action to fulfill it, but that action simply needed to tweak existing code for getting a smaller page range. I'm not sure how much effort would be needed to have Ikonboard point to the *right* static page per topic.

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: July 18 2018,08:42   

spam on the vox day thread >:-(

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 18 2018,09:21   

Is that any worse than what's on that other thread? :p

  
Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: July 19 2018,02:09   

I've dyked out the "All" links. I need to think about what, if anything, I do to handle putting some replacement functionality in.

Given that registration is shut down because of spammers being able to game the software, it may be time to finally just shift to a newer forum package. There are various features that I haven't found in any replacement, which is disturbing, but bit rot seems to have caught up with the IkonBoard installation.

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Ptaylor



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(Permalink) Posted: July 19 2018,05:15   

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ July 19 2018,19:09)
I've dyked out the "All" links. I need to think about what, if anything, I do to handle putting some replacement functionality in.

I hope you do find something; I find the "All" function really useful for looking up historical info and links occasionally.

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Wesley R. Elsberry



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(Permalink) Posted: July 27 2018,13:28   

Quote (Ptaylor @ July 19 2018,05:15)
Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ July 19 2018,19:09)
I've dyked out the "All" links. I need to think about what, if anything, I do to handle putting some replacement functionality in.

I hope you do find something; I find the "All" function really useful for looking up historical info and links occasionally.

Yeah, so have I. That's why I hacked it in originally.

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fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 16 2018,12:17   

Anti-evolution refused connection to 185.100.188.xx over the last few days.

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
fnxtr



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 17 2018,17:36   

Also "Amanda" is spamming the Muslim Barbarian thread.

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"[A] book said there were 5 trillion witnesses. Who am I supposed to believe, 5 trillion witnesses or you? That shit's, like, ironclad. " -- stevestory

"Wow, you must be retarded. I said that CO2 does not trap heat. If it did then it would not cool down at night."  Joe G

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Oct. 24 2018,22:12   

Most users ever online was 178 on Oct. 24 2018,05:43
It's a record! But is it humans, or...

  
KevinB



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 06 2018,12:11   

I'm getting a black border around all the posts on the UD thread, starting with Bob O'H's comment of Nov 5, 12:55.

Does this indicate that someone else has been silently banned at UD, or merely that there's an unclosed tag that's crept in?

  
steve_h



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 06 2018,18:15   

Quote (KevinB @ Nov. 06 2018,19:11)
I'm getting a black border around all the posts on the UD thread, starting with Bob O'H's comment of Nov 5, 12:55.

Does this indicate that someone else has been silently banned at UD, or merely that there's an unclosed tag that's crept in?

The www.harun-yahya.net link in the preceeding comment has been mangled in a different way to the usual.

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2018,12:32   

Are we back up now? After 2 days of withdrawal? :p

  
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2018,13:52   

Quote (Henry J @ Dec. 31 2018,13:32)
Are we back up now? After 2 days of withdrawal? :p

Oh thank heavens.

   
Acartia_Bogart



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2018,17:49   

Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 31 2018,13:52)
Quote (Henry J @ Dec. 31 2018,13:32)
Are we back up now? After 2 days of withdrawal? :p

Oh thank heavens.

On the bright side, it was two days without Joe.

  
Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Dec. 31 2018,22:14   

Quote (Acartia_Bogart @ Dec. 31 2018,15:49)
Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 31 2018,13:52)
On the bright side, it was two days without Joe.

That was pleasant.

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KevinB



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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 02 2019,11:49   

Quote (Dr.GH @ Dec. 31 2018,22:14)
 
Quote (Acartia_Bogart @ Dec. 31 2018,15:49)
   
Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 31 2018,13:52)
On the bright side, it was two days without Joe.

That was pleasant.

He's probably gone cold turkey, with all the trimmings, and cranberry sauce as well.

This Friday's melt-down might well turn out to be the full fondue set.

  
KevinB



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(Permalink) Posted: April 04 2019,11:54   

I added a comment on the Joe G thread last night. The summary says that I'm the latest commentor, but the comment has not appeared.

Have I broken the thread, or has the board finally had too much of Joe?

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: April 04 2019,12:20   

Quote (KevinB @ April 04 2019,10:54)
I added a comment on the Joe G thread last night. The summary says that I'm the latest commentor, but the comment has not appeared.

Have I broken the thread, or has the board finally had too much of Joe?

There's a reason for those "bump" replies that sometimes get posted when there's a new page. ;)

  
KevinB



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(Permalink) Posted: April 05 2019,09:03   

Quote (Henry J @ April 04 2019,12:20)
Quote (KevinB @ April 04 2019,10:54)
I added a comment on the Joe G thread last night. The summary says that I'm the latest commentor, but the comment has not appeared.

Have I broken the thread, or has the board finally had too much of Joe?

There's a reason for those "bump" replies that sometimes get posted when there's a new page. ;)

Yes, but 24 hours without Joe posting suggested that there was more to it....

  
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: April 05 2019,10:15   

Quote (KevinB @ April 05 2019,10:03)
Quote (Henry J @ April 04 2019,12:20)
Quote (KevinB @ April 04 2019,10:54)
I added a comment on the Joe G thread last night. The summary says that I'm the latest commentor, but the comment has not appeared.

Have I broken the thread, or has the board finally had too much of Joe?

There's a reason for those "bump" replies that sometimes get posted when there's a new page. ;)

Yes, but 24 hours without Joe posting suggested that there was more to it....

Based on the quality of his "scientific" statements I just assumed he was sleeping off a rubbing alcohol hangover.  :D

   
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