IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING PMs!

calmon · #1 July 15th, 2008, 03:28 PM

I've ~300 outgoing and another ~300 ingoing pm's mainly diplomacy messages from mp games.

I never thought about the fact this cram a database. With a hint/warning i would have deleted most of the stuff immediately.

However i'll do it now.

Kristoffer O · #2 July 15th, 2008, 03:33 PM

I have 485 ingoing

Is there a quick way to delete them all?

Kristoffer O · #3 July 15th, 2008, 03:37 PM

Ha! Now I have 0 messages!

I hope I didn't forget to answer anyone

Mindi · #4 July 15th, 2008, 03:52 PM

LOL @Kristoffer

You didn't have to just zap them all, but I appreciate your enthusaism to do your part.

I was guilty of keeping too much history for moderation purposes as well, but I just copy and pasted the ones I felt I needed into a word document and then zapped them.

Kristoffer O · #5 July 15th, 2008, 03:54 PM

To boldly go where no man has gone before!

Mindi · #6 July 15th, 2008, 03:54 PM

Quote:

calmon said:
I've ~300 outgoing and another ~300 ingoing pm's mainly diplomacy messages from mp games.

I never thought about the fact this cram a database. With a hint/warning i would have deleted most of the stuff immediately.

However i'll do it now.

We've always been pretty lax on letting people upload just about anything under the sun and not setting limits on PMs and other things that take up a lot of space because we want to have a strong community, but when the PM part of the import takes more than all the rest of the import put together, we decided it was time to put some limits up.

Sombre · #7 July 15th, 2008, 04:05 PM

100 or so pms deleted, that's all I had.

I guess I could get people to send me more and delete them too if that would help.

Mindi · #8 July 15th, 2008, 04:32 PM

I'm mostly concerned about the 190 people or so that have a total of 69,000 PMs.....if we can get those people down to the limit then we will cut our PM databse to less than 1/2 what it currently is...so don't feel you need to delete stuff that you need. But by all means, if you have less than 100 and feel you have stuff you don't need anymore, go ahead and purge them.

Darkstone · #9 July 15th, 2008, 04:41 PM

Out of curiosity, when is the upgrade going to occur?

Mindi · #10 July 15th, 2008, 05:04 PM

That date is not set in stone yet, so it's hard to say, but it's been delayed the last several weeks because of problems with the import process into our test board. We've nailed down many of the problems and now the reason the import is taking so long (and failed this last time) is because of the PM database. So we can't move forward until some of this is taken care of, so the faster people clean up their PMs the quicker this will all be done.