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Posted by haymaker on Fri Aug 15th at 1:25am 2008

yesm loving the speediness and clean layout.

A bit sad to see the map comments are gone... for good or are they part of a continual upgrade?



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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Aug 15th at 2:21am 2008

Yeah, I was wondering about that, it looks like you can't make comments either.



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Posted by G4MER on Fri Aug 15th at 2:39am 2008

Is it just me or does the site lag some? It takes forever for pages to load.. I also noticed that some of my messages get extra characters I did not type in them like //// those things?

I have tried the page in 4 browsers with the same results in each..

Opera, IE 8.0, Firefox, and Flock.

I love the new look and feel.. I am still learning all its little quirks, and gizmos. but it is a major improvement over the last version. Would like it to be a little less laggy though.. maybe its because I am in Hell Paso Texas it laggs.



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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Aug 15th at 4:23am 2008

The site is so slow because of the server this site is hosted on (Globex or something like that). Globex is quite slow and unreliable but its cheap. For memory, the web hosting has been paid up till some time next year, and either Leprous or Gwil paid for it.

And those extra characters are just a perk with the new website :P. Oooh Larrrrchyyyy...

[ Edited by aaron_da_killa on Fri Aug 15th 2008 at 4:24am - total edits: 1]




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Posted by ULTRA_NINJA on Fri Aug 15th at 5:58am 2008

Hey

whats up with the 200 word law it makes it hard to say that something is up with the map. And so if someone wants to post a quick reply of the map they have to search the whole of the forums just to find the map to talk about. That's because the search doesn't work, it could be just a Firefox error.

that's my say. Sorry if you didn't like it.



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Posted by larchy on Fri Aug 15th at 7:25am 2008

Quoting ULTRA_NINJA
whats up with the 200 word law it makes it hard to say that something is up with the map.


Quoting aaron_da_killa
Yeah, I was wondering about that, it looks like you can't make comments either.



On the original beta site there was a map commenting system which I believed was nice and accessible. You specifically argued that this should be removed and replaced with 200 word minimum reviews. Other members agreed and I made the change.

[ Edited by larchy on Fri Aug 15th 2008 at 8:13am - total edits: 1]




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Posted by larchy on Fri Aug 15th at 8:02am 2008

Quoting ULTRA_NINJA
That's because the search doesn't work



Apologies, some of the search libraries were PHP5 only. I have uploaded PHP4 versions so that they work on the current hosting.



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Posted by larchy on Fri Aug 15th at 8:12am 2008

Quoting Muhnay
Is it just me or does the site lag some? It takes forever for pages to load.. I also noticed that some of my messages get extra characters I did not type in them like //// those things?


The site has been pretty slow for a while, although it can be fast at times.

Since I updated the database it seems to be a bit more consistently quicker, although thats probably just coincidental. If you have a look at the beta site you can get an idea of what things should be like. However, the forum database is pretty enormous (there are over 150,000 posts IIRC) so that may have something to do with it too... just guessing though.


Could you please provide some more information with regards to the appearance of '/' characters? I fixed an issue yesterday to do with this server being configured a little differently, causing the functions which handle input text to behave differently. This cause '\' characters to be added before quote marks when previewing a post.

As far as I know that is the only issue, so if you could please let me know exactly when the issue you describe is occurring (eg making a post, editing, previewing etc) then I'll be able to fix any problems that remain.

Thanks.

[ Edited by larchy on Fri Aug 15th 2008 at 8:27am - total edits: 1]




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Posted by Le Chief on Fri Aug 15th at 11:19am 2008

I think I know what he is talking about, earlier today, when i previewed a post, then went back to editing it, it will for some reason add "\\\\\\\\\" or whatever before every "'".

Example: That\'s. (After one hit of preview then back to edit)

Edit, just realized it does it to other symbols :S.



[ Edited by aaron_da_killa on Fri Aug 15th 2008 at 11:20am - total edits: 1]




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Posted by mazemaster on Fri Aug 15th at 1:46pm 2008

Sup yall. I still lurk, but I haven't mapped in a couple years. Relaunch looks good, but I'd like to see the map comments system (and old map comments) back.

[ Edited by mazemaster on Fri Aug 15th 2008 at 1:49pm - total edits: 1]




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Posted by Riven on Fri Aug 15th at 6:23pm 2008

After re-filling out my profile (the profile text box), I found that it likes to add the / (backslash) marks in there too. FYI


Blog: www.playingarchitecture.net
LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202



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Posted by larchy on Fri Aug 15th at 6:48pm 2008

Cheers guys... obviously this isn't happening on the beta site or any local apache config I've tried, so not sure why its happening on the snarkpit web server. I'll fix things as soon as I can.



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Posted by wil5on on Sat Aug 16th at 5:31am 2008

Am I missing something, or is it not possible to skip to first unread post in the forums?



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Posted by larchy on Sat Aug 16th at 7:47am 2008

OK, backslashes appearing after returning to editing a post after previewing should now be fixed, and the display of slashes in profiles.

If you spot this happening anywhere else just let me know - sorry there isn't a single quick fix for this, I've got to actually go through and add extra stuff in all the places the scripts handle output (the issue is occurring outside the normal text processing functions unfortunately, else I'd just be able to modify them and have done with it).



Added a memberlist link to the top right of the forum display.



The reason you can't sort by post is I was worried about the workload for the database as it would have to be done in such a way that would require a lot of queries/processing. I'll have a look into it and see what I can work out.


So far as map comments go thats something you'll just have to discuss amongst yourselves. I've done what's been asked... so if some members aren't happy, well, thats down to you guys.

I will look at moving over old map comments into the reviews system - thats something that has obviously been overlooked with the changeover.



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Posted by larchy on Sat Aug 16th at 8:44am 2008

Old map reviews moved over to the new review system.



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Posted by larchy on Sat Aug 16th at 11:02am 2008

Yeah, added a "sort by post" to the memberlist.. works fine locally and on the beta site, but on here the database just dies for a couple of minutes and the entire site is unusable until it eventually gives up.

There is a 'less good' way of doing it which should work.. I'll see about trying that.



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Posted by larchy on Sat Aug 16th at 11:20am 2008

Hmm sorted something out... see how it goes.



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Posted by **Dedi** on Sat Aug 16th at 2:19pm 2008

Wow larchy, beautiful work I see happening here. You seem very active and on top of everything. Hopefully The Snark Pit will soon be as lively as it was back a few years ago, and with you actively fixing all these little bits, it's all looking brighter for the future. Wonderful work! Keep it going!



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Posted by larchy on Sat Aug 16th at 4:47pm 2008

oo, thanks smiley



Theres always gonna be bugs, just gotta fix 'em all asap so ppl don't start getting annoyed. Hopefully its mostly gonna be little things smiley




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