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08-13-2019, 11:43 PM | #196 |
Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs
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08-14-2019, 12:47 AM | #197 |
In Search of a Life
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in life shit is always c hanging, change is not a bad thing. People will get used of it. I been to plenty of forums that tried to hold on to the old software and finally said **** it, and upgraded, people got used of it, and its a non issue.
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08-14-2019, 12:55 AM | #198 |
Shaken. Not stirred.
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Its time for AC to snap his fingers and delete half of the bulk of the site.
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08-14-2019, 01:07 AM | #199 |
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Aren't the pics mostly just embedded from offsite picture hosts like imgur, etc? If so, then those are no more taxing on CP's servers than regular posts; the photos/videos are loaded from those hosting sites, not here. There are 196k posts in the picture forum and 495k in the media center forum as compared to 12m in The Lounge. If the issue is the number of database records then the pics/media forums are not the problem.
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08-14-2019, 01:42 AM | #200 | |
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Shaken. Not stirred.
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08-14-2019, 03:26 AM | #202 |
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08-14-2019, 05:41 AM | #203 | |
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08-14-2019, 06:18 AM | #204 | |
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The downside of that is probably no way to import accounts and post history outside of that there is no feature that I couldn't do without that I depend on. People would get used to it. |
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08-14-2019, 07:02 AM | #205 | |
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Migrating to another software such as Xenforo would be pretty much the same as they have conversion scripts. Just more time consuming. |
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08-14-2019, 09:09 AM | #206 |
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I'm not an IT guy, but it would seem to me that an equipment upgrade might be one of the easier fixes. I'm not sure how long that takes, but you'd have to shut the board down for a bit. Could we live without our beloved board for 6-8 hours?
One thing I have noticed is we have stuff showing up on the 1st page that are of little or no interest to most of us. Why do we need a Broncos thread? The last time I looked, there were over 35K posts. If you want to see donkey news, go to one of their sites. The same with the St. Louis Cards thread. I don't know how much effort it would take to do some pruning, but do we really need to bump a 2 year old thread, let alone one farther back? Personally, I don't know, or care to know, what software we have. I'll adjust to whatever changes are needed on my part. Again, if we can't bump a 2 year old thread or give a thumbs up/down, I can live with that. |
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08-14-2019, 09:21 AM | #207 |
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I dont know what the answer is but if we have to go back to the collection plate again HMU
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08-14-2019, 09:40 AM | #208 |
Politically Incorrect
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08-14-2019, 09:57 AM | #209 |
Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs
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hey but seriously.
DC takes up 16.5% of the total post count history here, on a football board, and it's a cesspool. That would clean things up reaaaaal easily for the short term. |
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08-14-2019, 10:19 AM | #210 |
In Search of a Life
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Seriously look into discourse: https://www.discourse.org/
It has sooooo many features that are an upgrade from vbulletin - the best being new posts auto-load w/o having to refresh the page. We could try out just for gameday threads or something. It's definitely a next evolution in forum software. AC - I'm a web developer. You could always hire me. I'll give you a good price to set it up. |
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