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Re: The FORUM is Back!

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 8:21 am
by La Reine Margot
gamblers1000 wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:12 pm are we getting a story section back i enjoy stories a lot
I'll be setting it up soon. We're still working with the main part of the Forum. We're monitoring the behavior of the site before we start adding things.

Re: The FORUM is Back!

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:44 pm
by A Viewer
How is the project going? Is there anything we, the visitors, can do to help? You have done a great job by the way.

Re: The FORUM is Back!

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 5:37 pm
by La Reine Margot
A Viewer wrote: Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:44 pm How is the project going? Is there anything we, the visitors, can do to help? You have done a great job by the way.
Thank you!

If you are referring to the work in the Forum, it's basically all done. Little details here and there, some adjustments, and so on. Right now the Forum is as good as it gets.

If you are referring to the previous Forum, recovering it is a bit of a task and risky. The Forum is growing a lot. I posted today, early afternoon my time, so my post was at the top. A couple of hours later it was down a lot and I bet that by tomorrow it will be in the second page.

People are posting a lot, more than before I believe. So, to bring back old posts, which overwhelmed the previous Forum and made it crash, would be a bit too much. I'll see if I can recover files and repost them in a special archives folder. I'm even concerned that soon we'll have to upgrade the server for higher capacity, which means we'll have to move this Forum again. We might need a bigger server the things are going.

I'm recovering all the posts that were in the hacked forum, and it is a big task. I don't do it everyday so it will take sometime. But I have most of the posts from 2016 all the way to 2018, we'll see how this goes. After recovering them I have to reconnect them. But this is not going to be happening soon. It will take a while.

One big issue right now is the number of spammers trying to register. I get over 50 per day. 1 or 2 of those 50 are legit, the rest are spammers. Getting help in that area would be great; however, I would have to give admin powers to those people and that is kind of a big issue because all that is involved. I will discuss it with Ralphus and figure out what to do.

Re: The FORUM is Back!

Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:52 pm
by La Reine Margot
A big discovery!

If I don't delete spamming registrations, if I leave them there, in purgatory, waiting, and waiting, and waiting... they can't try and try and try and try... because their user names and email addresses are in the system but they can't use them. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ... (Cruel laughter)

Legit registrations that I don't activate, I mostly do, 99%, usually contact me to find out why they haven't been activated.

So, in this way, I won't delete legit registrations and those hundreds of spammers that keep trying and trying and trying, will wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait....

Re: The FORUM is Back!

Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:39 pm
by wulf
La Reine Margot wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 5:52 pm A big discovery!

If I don't delete spamming registrations, if I leave them there, in purgatory, waiting, and waiting, and waiting... they can't try and try and try and try... because their user names and email addresses are in the system but they can't use them. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ... (Cruel laughter)

Legit registrations that I don't activate, I mostly do, 99%, usually contact me to find out why they haven't been activated.

So, in this way, I won't delete legit registrations and those hundreds of spammers that keep trying and trying and trying, will wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait....
I love it.
When I'm king of the World, very bad things are going to happen to spammers, hackers, telemarketers, and used car salesmen. :twisted:

Re: The FORUM is Back!

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:33 am
by Macabros
Any News?