so my fix doesn't work in Oprah or whatever weird browser you use. 

All I did was hit Submit multiple times 

well, stop it! The idea is to prevent accidental double-posts when people hit refresh after posting. If you manually hit back and then submit again, you're a dork. 

I didn't hit back, just submit multiple times, you dork. 

 

 

Just double-clicked submit and it only came up once. IE6. 

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my question was directed to other previous members, which i thought was equally obvious. 

well, a simple "map tracker" would be handy, for instance just a list of author|map|download location|site

And it should be searchable etc, would be very handy for a map db with download locations all in 1 place, and what better place is there than here? :) 

Since Moddb is for mods, why not have a 'Mapdb'? 

(aside from the fact that moddb blows goats) 

the closest I think of with regard to map listings is Pipeline, and Peekabooms site, both of which have slowed down a lot (I think peekabooms is dead???).

GIMME MAP DB! =) 

I always thought it was interesting to look at; just to see what was going on for others. 

I honestly don't feel a need for map listings. Most maps will probably get listed and never released, and if you're that keen on keeping people aware of what you're doing then you can update your website on a regular basis or post a message in General Abuse (or both).

Having a database for map downloads would be cool in the short term; in the long term, most of the links will be broken. Had Func_Msgboard been built for it, there could have been a classification system for news items (map releases, tools, reviews, etc) in which case that could have been a nice archive. 

 

post them on your website, or someone can make a MapDB which is always out-of-date and incomplete and hard to maintain. 

I'm trying to archive the contents of Func_ with a web spider and most of it works well. However, it can't seem to parse the view_all_threads and view_all_news pages.

There seem to be some difference between all the other threads and these two. My suspicion is that these seem to be read with the extension .php instead of .php.htm (which might be added by the spider).

Is this intentional or could something be done about it? 

it's not intentional, and i can't think of why that would happen. Also, all pages on func are .php, so the spider might be adding .htm to the ones it successfully downloads. 

most likely true. I've tried three different spiders and all seem to have problems with those pages. In one spider I got an error message that indicated that there was insufficient memory to load one of those pages.

What could it be that requires extra local memory on those pages? I could believe if it was the "General abuse" thread that caused this error but that works fine in all spiders.

I *am* running Win95 but I seriously doubt that there's a problem with virtual memory. In that case it's one of the 64k resource heaps, but I doubt that too, I've got them monitored all the time.

Any ideas?