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Piecemeal Forum Improvements
| December 21st, 2011 at 3:48:45 PM permalink | |
| JB Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 309 Posts: 902 | I can't be the only one who has been getting "500 Internal Server Error" messages and general slowness accessing the forum lately. I am going through the site, page by page, making piecemeal improvements where I can see that they need to be made. When I designed everything, I took the attractive approach of abstracting the data that is stored in the database to make it easier to work with. However, it's becoming increasingly clear that that approach just isn't going to cut it. So I'm modifying the code to "trim the fat," so to speak. It may take a couple days to get everything trimmed down, but it will hopefully speed the site up. |
| December 21st, 2011 at 4:01:26 PM permalink | |
| MathExtremist Member since: Aug 31, 2010 Threads: 46 Posts: 2517 | Is there a reason you're not using phpBB or one of the other extant open source forum packages and making piecemeal improvements to that? "In my own case, when it seemed to me after a long illness that death was close at hand, I found no little solace in playing constantly at dice."
-- Girolamo Cardano, 1563 |
| December 21st, 2011 at 4:09:03 PM permalink | |
| JB Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 309 Posts: 902 |
We decided to create the forum from scratch. Simplicity was the goal when the forum was started. |
| December 21st, 2011 at 5:34:14 PM permalink | |
| Face Member since: Dec 27, 2010 Threads: 37 Posts: 941 | Just an FYI while you're diggin around, if I try to access anything but the first page when in "subcription" section or "my posts" section, I get a 404 error. Been like that for many moons " 'Luck' is probabilty taken personally" - Penn Gilette |
| December 21st, 2011 at 5:36:19 PM permalink | |
| JB Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 309 Posts: 902 |
Thank you - I'll look into it. What exactly do you mean by the "my posts" section? |
| December 21st, 2011 at 6:13:40 PM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5699 | There are a couple features that phpBB and the other packages have that I wish WoV had, but I like the look and feel here. I'm also intrigued, watching the gestation of it, and seeing where it's going. I know you're not looking for suggestions here, but these are the ones that come to mind: - Avatars and a couple other "user info" type things - urls that become clickable automatically - Formatting buttons Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
But how much does it cost to knock on wood? |
| December 21st, 2011 at 6:28:27 PM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6383 | Avatars would be cool. Very very cool. One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
| December 21st, 2011 at 10:25:21 PM permalink | |
| JB Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 309 Posts: 902 | Okay, the main forum page has been revamped internally (externally, everything should look the same). Its database queries are basically as tight as possible now. Not only should this speed up that particular page, but hopefully it will speed up the site overall somewhat too since that's the page that gets the most traffic. |
| December 22nd, 2011 at 5:00:32 AM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5699 | Really? I would have thought that http://wizardofvegas.com/recent/ gets the most traffic. And it's always been the slowest to load. For the record, I DO think the recent posts page has gotten a little faster since you made the sorting change last week. Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
But how much does it cost to knock on wood? |
| December 22nd, 2011 at 1:40:53 PM permalink | |
| JB Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 309 Posts: 902 | Well, trimming down the main page doesn't seem to really have helped much at all. (Open mouth, insert crow.) Hopefully trimming the fat from all of the pages will help. It may also be due to this site being hosted on a shared server, in which case, nothing will really help much. |
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