Forum Down Time - Page 2

Slynky · #11 December 10th, 2003, 08:45 PM

Regardless, a little warning accompanied by time estimates (down at ??:?? and up at ??:??) would be very appreciated, I'm sure. I get tired of clicking the shortcut in order to find out it's still down. If I had an estimate on when it would be back up, I wouldn't be doing that. NOt to mention, if I knew when it was going down, I could make one Last look to see if there was any information I needed (like updating the Ratings site, games on hold, etc.).

Heck, I'm in the government and as poor as our reputations are, we don't pull down any server without first posting notification to everyone.

David E. Gervais · #12 December 10th, 2003, 10:25 PM

The forums were down this past week-end? Gee, I missed it. does someone have a transcript?

I spent the weekend and the past few days taking care of xmas shoping.

18 gifts to buy this year, 18 gifts to buy.
find a good one, make the purchase, 17 gifts to buy this year..
17 gifts to buy this year, 17 gifts to buy.
find a good one, make the purchase, 16 gifts to buy this year..
..5 gifts to buy this year, 5 gifts to buy.
find a good one, make the purchase, (Oops, my credit card is maxed and my bank account is empty.) still 5 gifts to buy this year..

Oh well, I guess the final 5 will have to be happy to get hand-me-downs. (AKA Used DVD's and VHS's)

What was this thread about again? LOL I'm loosing it people, it happens every year at this time.

Cheers!

Gryphin · #13 December 10th, 2003, 10:28 PM

It would be nice if there was a practiccal way to be notified by email. I'd sign up to be on that list.

Katchoo · #14 December 11th, 2003, 12:31 AM

Richard mentioned that they were going to try to upgrade the Forums in this Thread:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=14;t=000096

So it wasen't a complete surprise (to me at least).

Slynky · #15 December 11th, 2003, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Katchoo:
Richard mentioned that they were going to try to upgrade the Forums in this Thread:

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...;f=14;t=000096

So it wasen't a complete surprise (to me at least).

Oh. I only go to forum id 23...

. After all, this forum, Last time I checked, had more Posts than all the others combined.

Richard · #16 December 11th, 2003, 02:37 AM

No we are putting the forum move on hold. The problem is the move scripts that are used to move this style of board, to say any other style of board, are not perfect. There are things you have to tweak and prod and you can only do that after you export the board. You can test it all you want, but for a board this large it requires a lot of work afterwords no matter how much you are familiar with the process. There is just a lot of manual labor involved.

So for now the board move is permanently on hold as it is just not practical for a board this large. We have other alternatives we are exploring for downloads and such, but more on that in the future. The gist is the downloads will no longer be a part of the board, which is a good thing since downloads from a board are the wrong way to begin with.

Atrocities · #17 December 11th, 2003, 06:09 AM

I always considered the upload and downloads of this forum to be one of its greatest features. But bandwidth being as it is, I can see your need to seperate them out.

Thanks for posting Richard.

Fyron · #18 December 11th, 2003, 06:18 AM

If they are still going to provide a system to upload and download files, the bandwidth usage will not be different, unless they host them on different servers in different locations.

narf poit chez BOOM · #19 December 11th, 2003, 07:05 AM

well, i think they want to have a seperate download area. most websites have a seperate download area. but i'm tired and i can't think why.

Fyron · #20 December 11th, 2003, 07:08 AM

That seems to be the plan.

[ December 11, 2003, 05:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]