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Posted by metlslime on 2002/12/23 18:26:17

This is the forum to ask questions about this website, report things that are broken, request features, etc.

Be sure to check out the FAQ as well.

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#967 posted by Blitz on 2006/12/04 15:39:10

http://img.waffleimages.com/0a6d513759567f7f234cfcc2666e0fe636172f1f/auto_spam.gif

^^ Do you think they're creating accounts automatically or are they going to the trouble of doing it by hand? Might be something to look into

#968 posted by Kell on 2006/12/04 16:14:39

now there's the title of someone's next map :P

blitzsp2: Rabbit Vibrator

Heh

#969 posted by necros on 2006/12/04 16:39:02

i was just going to say we should leave rabbit vibrator. :P

Blitz:

#970 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/04 16:51:57

i was just looking at those dummy accounts recently. It seems like they're created automatically, but the bots suprisingly did a good job of putting the email, the URL, and the password in the right place. Maybe the bot reads the names of the form fields.

Note:

#971 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/06 02:12:40

i added a new layer to spambot protection. It compares the IP address of a post with an IP address in the original form, which would match only if you actually got served the form at the same IP, which may not be true for spambots.

Hmmm...

#972 posted by bal on 2006/12/07 02:05:13

Been getting an "ERROR: Error message number 42" in nice flashy red when trying to post this morning, worked after 2 more tries though.

Bal:

#973 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/07 02:14:33

hmm, might be becuase you had a cached version of the page you were posting to? That error should only occur if you try to submit from a different IP than the IP that you requested the thread from... which should never happen unless you're a bot, or if you had the page cached from a previous session maybe....

anyway, let me know if the problem ever comes back.

#974 posted by Trinca on 2006/12/07 02:20:42

metlslime u should add a who�s online :) and privet msg ;)

if u need help shot!

I Already Have "who's Online"

#975 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/07 02:37:51

check the FAQ page

#976 posted by Trinca on 2006/12/07 02:56:35

roulf never notest that :) first time i enter that area in page :)

Private Messages

#977 posted by Spirit on 2006/12/07 03:38:03

Dear god (metlslime), please ignore that request. Func is so great because it is reduced to pure functionality of a forumboard. Everyone is easily contactable via the profile (or with a post in GA).

privet messages would be funny though. :P

Metl

#978 posted by bal on 2006/12/07 04:02:49

Ah, right, well no actually, I dunno how it's done, but my IP seems to jump around every minute or so while I'm at work, guess I'm a bot. =)

Got it again 4 times when posting this, hehe.

Bal:

#979 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/07 12:40:43

hmm, this is troubling. I may have to disable this feature if people's IP addresses change within a single web-browsing session.

Does anybody else have the problem Bal is having?

Metl...

#980 posted by bal on 2006/12/07 13:16:51

If it's limiting spam, keep it, I only have the problem at work, and I'm sure it's cause our net connection is weird somehow (I also have problems on classic php forums, sets all messages to read every minute, hehe).
I only posted here in case it was abnormal, it doesn't really bother me.

Bal:

#981 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/07 15:42:12

if your IP keeps changing, doesn't that break a lot of web services? Like, you click on a link to request a page, but then your IP changes, so the server sends the page to the old IP, and you never get it? Or IRC, how does that work if your IP keeps changing? How does the data even get to you?

He's Bal

#982 posted by . on 2006/12/07 23:24:30

And he's French, and you can smell him many miles away.

^_~

Phait

#983 posted by JPL on 2006/12/08 00:03:18

.. keep cool please....

I'm Sure

#984 posted by HeadThump on 2006/12/08 00:25:42

Phait was refering to delicious cheese products Bal keeps on hand for guest, right Phait? MMM, Guda melted in an onion roux spread on some toast would be great 'bout now. Can be smelly, but damn good.

Metl

#985 posted by bal on 2006/12/08 00:49:57

Well I get disconnected from irc quite often, not that I come on a whole lot while at work =), web works fine otherwise, dunno...

By the way, I don't like cheese, and I don't drink wine, so scientifically speaking, it's kinda hard to say I'm really french. =(

Bal

#986 posted by JPL on 2006/12/08 01:42:19

Shame on you :P

Big Database Change:

#987 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/12 03:00:30

so i made a big database change which basically split the threads and posts into seperate tables. There are about 50,000 posts on the board, and 800 threads. This means that all SQL queries used to have to read a 50000-row table just to get thread data. Now threads are in a seperate, 800-row table, which is much faster to query :)

Pages that should load faster: news page, forum, thread archives. Pages that should be about the same: view_thread, people, faq, etc.

Anyway, please let me know if anything appears to have broken during this change. Things seem to work fine from what I've tested.

(Moderators will notice that they cannot reject a news submission. I will revive this feature soon. Just leave them in the queue for now and we can reject them later.)

Big Database Change:

#988 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/12 03:00:35

Big Database Change:

#989 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/12 03:00:39

Big Database Change:

#990 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/12 03:00:45

Big Database Change:

#991 posted by metlslime on 2006/12/12 03:00:55

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