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metirish Mar 12 2007 12:23 PM

been slow here for me all day...freaking daylight savings time has the world screwed up.

KC Mar 12 2007 12:27 PM

Yeah, there was something wrong. A tech musta signed on as me, 'cause I didn't start this thread. Seems to be working again ... but yes, it's dread- fully slow to load the board today.

Farmer Ted Mar 12 2007 12:32 PM

I sent a message to Edge...was getting a DEBUG ERROR message earlier.

Rockin' Doc Mar 12 2007 08:32 PM

The board was dreadfully slow and I kept getting a DEBUG MODE warning every time I attempted to post this afternoon. Hopefully, thew board is running more smoothly now. Upon edit: Now that's more like it. Everything seems to be back to normal.

metirish Mar 13 2007 09:41 AM

I don't know if it's the board or my browser(other pages are loading fast) but the board is taking forever to load today,anyone else having the same problem?

ScarletKnight41 Mar 13 2007 11:45 AM

It's sporadic. Sometimes it takes forever, then it'll go into stretches where it's fine.

KC Mar 13 2007 06:59 PM

It might help if we archive large threads that are 15 pages long and no one reads what's on page 3 anymore. It's not like they're deleted, just moved. The school one, the nothing one comes to mind first. Ones about pets and commercials and tv and the latest sex position could also be removed and replaced with Part ll's, and lll's and IV's. The forum seems to perform better when there are less ultra-large threads on it being opened. Even if this is an illusion on our part, it would still make the daily back-up of this forum easier and would move the archived threads to where we have basically an infinite amount of server space and we have little control over the cybermessageboard.ehost server where the actual board resides.

seawolf17 Mar 13 2007 07:04 PM

You're slowly trying to kill SK with this school post thing, aren't you?

cooby Mar 13 2007 07:07 PM

There's a sex position thread?

ScarletKnight41 Mar 13 2007 07:09 PM

seawolf17 wrote: You're slowly trying to kill SK with this school post thing, aren't you? So it seems. It hasn't even hit 15 pages, and he's looking to get rid of it. And, for the record, I do occasionally read the whole thing. It's been nice for me having everything together in one place in that thread. Additionally, the theory doesn't hold water. Most of the very long threads have been moved recently, and the Pool's performance in its current home has never been worse than it has been this week. A couple of occasional long posts aren't the difference between this place working or not. Give it until the end of the summer, and you won't hear another peep from me. OK?

KC Mar 13 2007 07:32 PM

Re: Sea ... Kill SK? They're all gangin' up on me. I think each admin has already sug- gested we continue lowering the size of the forum. It's at 120 MB at least, our original target was 100 and that's why Yancy invented the archives. Re: coob Sunday Papers cycled through on the ipod earlier, I guess that's where I pulled new sex position out of. Re: SK you're a pip, you make it sound like I'm an enemy Re: 2007 This place isn't exactly Grand Central Station, but once the season starts and there's news and IGT's we're going to need to be mindful of what is important to keep loadable on THIS server and what merely may just have to be moved to another server. I don't understand why this is such a polarizing thought.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 13 2007 07:40 PM

KC wrote: Re: SK you're a pip, you make it sound like I'm an enemy Enemy isn't the word I'd use. But you know I'm going through shit this semester. You know that I take a certain amount of comfort in having all of the school posts in one thread. And you know that I'm in striking distance of being done with the program. So if you could hold off talking about moving the thread for another five fucking months, I'll stop getting annoyed with you.

soupcan Mar 13 2007 07:41 PM

cooby wrote: There's a sex position thread? Great minds coob, great minds..

seawolf17 Mar 13 2007 07:57 PM

I just like instigating SK/KC battles, because they're some of the very few Poolers I've met, and I know they like each other when they're not in the Pool. /giggle giggle

cooby Mar 13 2007 08:05 PM

KC wrote: Yeah, there was something wrong. A tech musta signed on as me, 'cause I didn't start this thread. Seems to be working again ... but yes, it's dread- fully slow to load the board today. so now we have to guess when it's you and when it's not? I can't imagine the REAL KC saying "dreadfully". ]Re: coob Sunday Papers cycled through on the ipod earlier, I guess that's where I pulled new sex position out of. Just figured this out...

KC Mar 13 2007 09:48 PM

c: >>> so now we have to guess when it's you and when it's not?<<< Dude from ehost made the first two posts, emailed me to answer. I did this at work. Re-reading some of this thread all I can say is ug.

Rockin' Doc Mar 14 2007 05:26 AM

Throughout the debate over the Going back to school thread I have sat back and remained quiet while being amused by KC's and Scarlett's verbal sparring. However, those who truly know me would tell you that I can only keep quiet for so long. I personally believe that this forum and it's members should be concerned with what is best for all it's members and the forum as a whole. Sorry Scarlett. I think that the administrators should archive any overly long threads that exists if such threads adversely effect the operation of the forum. With opening day looming in the near future, it is important that the board (server) is functioning as smoothly as possible. I have recently started reducing my visits to the forum because of the very spotty and inconsistent performance of the board. If cleaning out large multi-paged threads will help the forum to perform more efficiently then I'm all for it. If it's so important for Scarlett to have the Going back to school thread saved in it's entirety, then why can't she simply copy it into a word file and store it on her own hard drive rather than have it potentially bog down the forum for everyone? Then she can start a version II thread and when she finishes school, she can copy the Going back to school II thread into the same word file and have the entire experience saved in one continuous piece for her future viewing pleasure. That way KC and the rest of us get the smoother running forum for the baseball season and Scarlett gets her continuous thread of memories in one piece. If for some reason, the archiving of the larger threads did not enhance the forums performance, then the school thread could be restore to the CPF.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 14 2007 05:56 AM

If I thought for one minute that the school thread was adversely effecting the operation of the forum, then I'd be on board with you Doc. But I don't. It's far from the longest thread around, it's not image intensive, and it's not the cause of the problems around here. If the pages of threads that have already been purged haven't helped things operate here more smoothly, then this one thread isn't going to be the one that makes a difference.

KC Mar 14 2007 07:38 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Mar 14 2007 03:20 PM

I've been emailed by more than one teflon-coated-prolific-poster asking why the thread got special treatment when there were others being archived. I was put in the middle, and I kept (and will keep) my mouth shut as far as that part goes. That's part of running an asylum, I do it during the day in real life and do it during the evening on the internet. Now it's a humorous (not to Scarlet, she wants to leave over this) argument between me and her when all four admins have opined that things need to be leaner around here? There's a difference between purging and archiving. I'll start posting again when Scarlet does**, I'm sure half the forum will be glad to see me go since I've "been so hard on her". ** screw that part, I haven't done anything wrong

metirish Mar 14 2007 07:47 AM

I think it should be put to a vote , put a poll up and let the members vote on weather the thread and other large ones should get archived,and at how many pages it should be sent to the gallows.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 14 2007 07:58 AM

I hadn't been reading this thread, and wasn't aware of the controversy that has recently heated up. I think the whole "Back to School" thread issue is a tempest in a teapot. That one thread isn't dragging down the whole forum, but I don't see the problem with archiving it either. As Doc said, if it was archived and resumed in a new thread, parts 1 and 2 can be pasted in a Word document and stored offline. However, to correct one point that Doc made, archiving is a one-way street. There's no way to restore an archived thread to the active forum. In my opinion the real space hog in this forum is the Featured Archives. It currently holds almost 13,000 posts, and takes up more than 40 per cent of the entire forum. I would suggest that each thread in that sub-forum (or many of them, anyway) be archived, and replace in the Featured Archive Forum with a new thread (and consequently a much smaller one) containing a link to the archived version of the thread. The way we're currently doing things, Featured Archives will always grow and never shrink, and we'll never be as lean and mean as we'd like to be.

cooby Mar 15 2007 04:33 PM

Sounds like a good idea

Edgy DC Mar 15 2007 05:05 PM

The idea of FA is to keep it around if it gets relaunched. But it's not. And if it does, it can get relaunched with a new thread and referenced. I'll see what the other admins think.

KC Mar 15 2007 07:12 PM

We could move the latter half of that forum and see if it does anything. If it doesn't solve performance issues, it solves backup issues and gets us be- low the threshold I think (we thought at one time) we should be for the best efficiency. Which was my main point from the beginning whether posted or in admin off-forum discussions. The notion that I had it out for one thread (while others were archived, that one survived, that I had anything to do with it's survival, or that I was lobbying for it to be archived for some reason other than it was large, or any other thing that the asylum can come up with) is nonsense.

cooby Mar 15 2007 07:29 PM

As someone pointed out, game threads are a-coming, and a LOT of those posts seem to be animated pictures