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Title: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 10, 2018, 20:28:53 PM
1GB database was full, now its less full  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Binary Shadow on April 11, 2018, 06:14:03 AM
Wow seems odd to fill the DB with so little activity lol  :muttley:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Serious on April 11, 2018, 16:40:24 PM
Hmm, seems my post count has gone down 5,000% :p
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 15, 2018, 17:07:31 PM
It was runaway error logs that filled it, though the posts still account for around 700MB
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on April 16, 2018, 05:05:19 AM
It is funny because just doing enterprise sites we easily have over 1GB before all content is even in because the logging is the key stuff. Logging and recording the activity of visitors of a site even if they are not logged, IF and when they join, all their activity and then pushing different things to them depending on it all is the biggest thing for our high end customers these days.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: knighty on April 16, 2018, 10:37:53 AM
it's the tekforums curse!

forum can't go too long before we lose all the old posts :-o
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on September 12, 2018, 07:59:18 AM
Show unread posts since last visit. For me never works.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on September 12, 2018, 20:28:36 PM
Show unread posts since last visit. For me never works.

That is literally all I use :dunno:

If you mean you are seeing everything its because it thinks everything is unread for you, you need to mark all messages as read then it should only pick up new ones.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on September 24, 2018, 02:54:25 AM
Show unread posts since last visit. For me never works.

That is literally all I use :dunno:

If you mean you are seeing everything its because it thinks everything is unread for you, you need to mark all messages as read then it should only pick up new ones.


Yeah, done that and used to use it all the time. It may be a browser or plugin, I will have to look as it is always empty for me these days.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: zpyder on September 28, 2018, 22:13:41 PM
Show unread posts since last visit. For me never works.

Me too. I was just thinking this as I visited the forums just now. I Saw the "Show unread posts..." link and thought to myself "Why do I still always open each sub-forum in a new tab and then open each thread that looks updated into a new tab, when I could just click that link.

I think it actually does work but most of the time it also shows older content that I'm not interested in...
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on October 09, 2018, 05:09:22 AM
Actually working for me for the first time in a long time. Everyone should really just get on Discord really though. Lot more options, voice chat channels, gaming options, chat and all the media stuff as well.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on January 22, 2020, 17:51:23 PM
Updated us to the latest version and PHP 7.3, let me know if you're having any issues :ptu:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on January 23, 2020, 15:45:35 PM
Also going to switch over to HTTPS in the coming days finally.

Hold onto your butts
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: knighty on January 24, 2020, 08:58:26 AM
let me know if you're having any issues

The tendon for the tip of my left index finger it buggered..... what do you recommend ?
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on January 24, 2020, 09:09:18 AM
Stop using the tip of your left index finger. :thumbup:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: knighty on January 25, 2020, 11:33:41 AM
Stop using the tip of your left index finger. :thumbup:

ohhhhh, I didn't think of that

to be fair, that's the same thing the surgeon who's fixing my thumb said  8)
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on January 28, 2020, 04:57:20 AM
Stop using the tip of your left index finger. :thumbup:

ohhhhh, I didn't think of that

to be fair, that's the same thing the surgeon who's fixing my thumb said  8)


What are you having fixed on your thumb?
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: knighty on January 28, 2020, 08:19:18 AM
the metal plates/screws in my wrist cut through the tendon you use to bend your thumb in the middle.... I can move my whole thumb around like normal but can't bend it at all, tip of index finger is the same

had an opp. to take the plates out of both wrists, need to go back to fix thumb

surgeon was keen to do a small opp to fix it in place, so they bend it a little bit then fix it there permanently, he said fixing it properly is 3 operations over 9 months and not worth it.... but the more I think about it the more I think I'll go for that, I'm not worried about the operations and I'm pretty used to a bit of pain/discomfort

surprisingly not being able to bend it is unnoticeable 99% of the time, but then bloody frustrating now and again - things like trying to puck up a little screw you've just dropped inside a pc case etc.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on January 29, 2020, 05:13:53 AM
I had that tendon, ligaments and all the muscle torn when I had it pulled out its socket playing rugby.
Had to rebuild the tendon from a bit in my arm and pull stuff around from my palm, sounds like your getting the cheap and dirty solution :(


Plates are from when you crashed the van I take it mate?


I had to have 11 operations but the main issue was I got nerve damage which then caused chronic pain. Shooting pains up into my head from my hand all day every day and had to have some serious treatment to kill the nerves.


Just some things to note with regard to your thumb mate :(
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: knighty on January 30, 2020, 08:20:21 AM
plates in left wrist were from when I was at the top of a ladder that slid down the wall... for some reason I put my arm through the ladder and tried to get hold of the wall on the way down, when I hit the ground my wrist was under a rung of the ladder and I was on top of it, wrist was pretty mangled

broke the right one when I fell through the roof, no idea how it broke, it was pretty minor compared to the left

surgeon who took the plates out said (paraphrasing) plates in left wrist were a mess and they should have been taken out years ago, I had the right wrist ones taken out too just in case

sounds like I got off pretty easy compared to you tho!

how you doing now?
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Serious on February 08, 2020, 18:02:14 PM
I'm banned from climbing ladders, driving, cooking...

Think I already put it up somewhere but last year I accidentally stood on a food processor blade in the kitchen. Hadn't put any shoes on so good 2 inch cut in the back of the heel. Now healed.

Have very little sense of down when I close my eyes so tend to lose balance a good bit. Turning too fast can cause dizzyness too.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 10, 2020, 21:16:50 PM
You can probably tell, I haven't gotten around to this yet but it's not been forgotten.

Maybe we should call this BionicForums with the amount of metal in you guys.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: knighty on February 11, 2020, 10:01:41 AM
You can probably tell, I haven't gotten around to this yet but it's not been forgotten.

Maybe we should call this BionicForums with the amount of metal in you guys.

they're taking the metal back out of me!

I don't really care... but at least on a date when they noticed the suicide looking scars on my wrists I could say I've got metal plates on both wrists....
now I have to say I had metal plates in my wrists but they took them out again....  you can tell by the looks on their faces they think it's bs and I've been slashing my wrists :-s
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on January 27, 2023, 11:45:08 AM
Also going to switch over to HTTPS in the coming days finally.

Hold onto your butts

So this never happened obviously  :lol:

But I'm resurrecting this thread as a warning that I am going to try to plan a time to upgrade to SMF 2.1, which despite being a minor version upgrade is not trivial in the slightest, sh*t is likely to break. The main reason for this is that PHP 7.4 is end of life and I need to move the forums onto PHP 8.x before I start getting charged real monies for extended PHP support. Plus security and all that... After that I will consider doing the HTTPS change too.

Backups will be taken, ofc :w00t:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: XEntity on January 27, 2023, 21:19:28 PM

After that I will consider doing the HTTPS change too.


(https://i.imgflip.com/5fgm1p.jpg)
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: soopahfly on February 03, 2023, 16:38:18 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/NqvKxNG.gif)

Here we go lads.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 03, 2023, 17:19:18 PM
Jesus, I'd forgotten about that  :lol:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on February 06, 2023, 00:54:52 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/NqvKxNG.gif)

Here we go lads.
That just loads a white page now. Could go look up who owns the domain, can not be bothered though.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on February 06, 2023, 00:55:58 AM
Jesus, I'd forgotten about that  :lol:
Rather then doing HTTPS we could do what we had a chat about and maybe get a mastadon server setup and migrate into it if people would use something more dynamic more? Get some good bots going on it etc?
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 06, 2023, 10:14:00 AM
Maybe in addition, but I don't want to shut the forums down, I don't mind doing these quality of life improvements, it's just a case of having time to do them. Putting on a proper mobile-first/friendly theme would be another. But we're not the only dinosaurs on the internet, the Blu-Ray.com forums are still not mobile friendly at all and they have a huge userbase. I'm always happy to discuss any and all ideas with people on what they'd like to see improved either way.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: XEntity on February 06, 2023, 12:31:14 PM
Personally I like the nostalgia of the forums looking as they do, for 30 new topics a year it’s hardly worth upgrades that are not essential  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on February 07, 2023, 01:01:20 AM
Personally I like the nostalgia of the forums looking as they do, for 30 new topics a year it’s hardly worth upgrades that are not essential  :thumbup:
For me it is more migration to a more dynamic medium. I tried the push to get everyone on discord for example but Mastadon is quite new and if you had a tek based server in their list (which there is not really a big one) it could get a lot of growth.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: XEntity on February 07, 2023, 09:23:05 AM
Not a fan of discord, it’s good to get a quick answer to a question but I try to spend as little time as possible on there. Once they get any significant numbers of users it’s just a stream of people talking over each other.

Not heard of Mastadon so can’t really comment, will have a look and see what it’s all about
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: neXus on February 09, 2023, 02:35:04 AM
Not a fan of discord, it’s good to get a quick answer to a question but I try to spend as little time as possible on there. Once they get any significant numbers of users it’s just a stream of people talking over each other.

Not heard of Mastadon so can’t really comment, will have a look and see what it’s all about

Mastodon is a decentralised social network made up of independent servers organized around specific themes, topics, or interests.
Basically it is cross between a forum on topics like this and twitter. So just dynamic.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: soopahfly on February 09, 2023, 08:59:27 AM
Social Media has killed the internet IMO, so much knowledge has been lost due to forums shifting away from BBS type systems to things like Faceache and Tw*tter.  I'd rather it stayed like this personally.  Discord is OK as an IRC alternative, but shouldn't be the focus.
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on February 09, 2023, 09:26:01 AM
Just to reiterate, I absolutely have no plans to shut the forums down even if we tried other things and the cost for me keeping them running is negligible. :ptu:
Title: Re: Recent errors
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on March 21, 2023, 11:53:23 AM
I've taken a clone of the site now, which is running fine, over the coming days I will try upgrading that clone to the latest PHP and SMF versions to see what, if anything, breaks. :ptu: