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I host the internets from my BBC Model B (16k) in my garage.
You run a website that presumably gets 5 million unique users a month or.. 70 million page views or... 450,000 visits a day then if it's 10 times larger than this site.
😯 Jeepers!!! That's a hell of a lot of people that read our garbage on a daily basis.
STW = Awesome!!!
The Southern Yeti:Jeepers!!! That's a hell of a lot of people that read [s]our[/s] my garbage on a daily basis.
Fixed that for you 8)
I host the internets from my BBC Model B (16k) in my garage.
You tell the kids to day and you know what, they don't believe you.
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Jamie... that was my original draft! I changed it so as not to seem narcissistic!
You run a website that presumably gets 5 million unique users a month or.. 70 million page views or... 450,000 visits a day then if it's 10 times larger than this site.Cobblers! I don't believe you.
The forum equivalent of getting the slipper from the head master in assembly when you're 11 years old.
1. performance seems fine
2. it's unavailable too often
3. format and controls fine
4. mods lack transparency
So why not publish weekly stats of the uptime vs downtime so we can see the truth about stability?
And get the hamsters to blog what maintenance and upgrades they are doing, instead of scribbling illegible gibberish into a notebook
WGAF? Forum is up every time I visit (though I know it's had some database woes to sort lately), performance is perfectly fine for me, format and controls are fine (more fine division would be pointless - I run a site with much more fine division and I'm considering shrinking it back down because most people don't want to look through each board and stick to just one or two and odd posts in the satellite groups get ignored).
Mods/transparency - kind of agree, but ultimately it doesn't keep me awake at night.
Now, it is a hindrance, and makes the site feel amateurish and annoying to use (not helped by lack of Private Messaging, and constant downtime).Older users are bound to think that everything is perfect, and resist change. That doesn't make them right.
I disagree on many levels. The site doesn't feel amateurish and annoying at all, I find it perfectly functional and better than the old setup. I don't resist change, I run other sites (smaller scale) and prefer this to the ones I run which are more complex. Not everyone with an opinion about how they like things is right either. In this case I believe you're very much in the wrong. Change for the sake of change, features for the sake of added features are a mistake to be avoided. The regular contributors to the site don't have the complaints you do, maybe you're wrong?
Though PM would be nice on some levels, it's hardly essential and it means conversations stay on-board generally and stops people whispering in the background, which gives something of addiional transparency and openness in the group.
I run the entire NASA space programme, the Large Hadron Collider, Belgium [i]and[/i] the internets from a typewriter and Etch-a-Sketch™ in my cupboard....
So ner!
The forum is perfect the way it is, but the increasingly regular downs are annoying. I have to go and do other things. I've even had to ride my bloody bike recently. 😯
but the increasingly regular downs are annoying
Yeah there's too many people on a downer, that's what you meant right?
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so I'll zip it
Bet you don't! (Whay can't we have a yawning emoticon?)
Bet you don't! (Whay can't we have a yawning emoticon?)
We do. Secret code though. Just type *:yawn:*, without the *'s, and you get this:
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:sticks finger up at Jamie:
*chuckles*
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Like this?
That's it DS.
Now, it is a hindrance, and makes the site feel amateurish and annoying to use (not helped by lack of Private Messaging, and constant downtime).
[url= http://forums.mtbr.com/ ]other (subdived) forums are available[/url]
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Damn you with your clever computer knowing ways!
I hate you all!
Mwahahahaha! Today the emoticons and tomorrow a forum with 10 billion visitors, 15trillion gigathingies of something else, a server that'll never fail and even more activity than 7hs could ever dream of... hahahahahahahahahahahahah!