Rogue15 Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 There's less popup ads and ads with girls on them so lucasforums shuts down like 6 hours a day. THANKS FOR COMPLAINING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 13, 2002 Author Share Posted March 13, 2002 o my look, they even got rid of our sigs and avatars for sith's sake!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 13, 2002 Author Share Posted March 13, 2002 o no 2 more posts and i'm at 5900!!!! insane retaliation is comin for YOU!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!! no wait if i did that...i'd get banned....help. i'm asking for the popup ads and sexy women ads to return if it means i get my avatar and sig back. Where's my avatar?!? (03-13-2002 until 04-13-2002) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As a temporary measure to keep the server running efficiently avatars, signatures and searches have been disabled. We hope to turn these back on as soon as possible. oh. whatever u say boss. *ceases invasion beginning dances* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Homer Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 I don't know what you mean by "no pop-up ads"...I get pop-ups everytime I go to another page. I had to close down two windows just so I could type this....I agree with the avatars and sig thing, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisw_30 Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 no...my sig is gone... Oh well I will type it The names Williams...Chris Williams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Influenza Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 LOL, I turned off Signatures and Avatars a LOOONG time ago. It really bugs me when people post a one-line comment followed by 10 lines and 3 images in their signature. Another thing missing: the Jump-to-Forum menu that used to be at the bottom. I feel so lost now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 X_x Now I can't just be lazy... My sig, my beautiful sig! And my lovely avatar! Gone! NooooOOOOOOoooOOOOOoooOOOOOooooo!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young David Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 I really must go search another home forum ... this is getting insane ... 30% chanche that the forum is down. Ads everywhere Pop-ups on every page and now they take away our sigs and avatars ... In the words of Mas Amada "This is a crisis" Young David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heavyarms Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 I got an idea guys. Why don't we all just click one of the banners rapidly, so that they make a lot of money racking up for the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 It's ingenius! things will be better soon guys. Hang in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 5 Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 maybe if everyone took out the really big pics out of their sigs we could have sigs and avatars back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaming Nut Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 I have yet to see an avatar that slowed the forum down yeah the sig's where getting insane but no reason to take the avtars off. But I post at many forums and will just leave if it's not fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Originally posted by Wraith 5 maybe if everyone took out the really big pics out of their sigs we could have sigs and avatars back Done. If only everyone else would take out their sig banners (dang you eeets j/k ) it would be good. Animated Avatars might not be a good idea either.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havoc Stryphe Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Originally posted by Tie Guy Done. If only everyone else would take out their sig banners (dang you eeets j/k ) it would be good. Animated Avatars might not be a good idea either.... I too have removed my banner for the good of the community. Hopefully this action by the majority will allow for them to enable avatars and sigs again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 5 Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 now all we need is to know if that really would help or not To chris... "Master would it help to lose the big sig banners? and what of the animated avitars?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted March 14, 2002 Author Share Posted March 14, 2002 i'm never taking my sig pic off. i'm a mod and don't need to. mwahahhaah well, they could always disable the img tags... i'd rather have my sig tho....than avatar. cuz it has a link to my levels.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 5 Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 we didn't say kill sigs all together, just the big banners in the sigs... you could still link to your levels... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 o_o Ummm..... most of your sig pictures aren't hosted on Lucasforums so how is it going to ease the load on this server? The avatars and signatures are hosted on the server, therefore, if they are disabled the servers load is lightened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenthunter Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Originally posted by AU_heavyarms I got an idea guys. Why don't we all just click one of the banners rapidly, so that they make a lot of money racking up for the forum. What a good idea Whenever you see a popup, click on it then just close it down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_drake Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 damn i can't belive they took my sig and it took me days to finlly get it right any news about when we will get them back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 For this post I assume that avatars and sigs were turned off to help with the frequent database problems. In case none of you know about the complexities of vBulletin, I'll fill you in... The avatars and sigs are stored IN the database. We'll ignore everything except sigs for now. Say 20 posts in a thread, each poster has an avatar. Each time someone views the page, avatar.php is called and a new database connection is established FOR EACH AVATAR ON THE PAGE. So 20 posts, say 10 people reading the thread...that's 200 queries, just for ONE thread. Multiply that by about 10 for each forum...2000 x 15 forums...that's 30000 connections Of course, not everyone loads the page at the same time, so that number is a bit huge Basically, bear with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tie Guy Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Originally posted by Boba Rhett o_o Ummm..... most of your sig pictures aren't hosted on Lucasforums so how is it going to ease the load on this server? It's not, but it makes the page load faster in general, which seems to be the problem here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eets Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 In the words of the immortal C3P0: "We're doomed!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boba Rhett Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 Originally posted by Tie Guy It's not, but it makes the page load faster in general, which seems to be the problem here. I know, I was just questioning their reasoning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zygomaticus Posted March 14, 2002 Share Posted March 14, 2002 what seems to be the problem, gentlemen?? ahhhh the sigs are missing, and so are the avatars. I found it really weird at first but now im quite ok with it....but sure would love to see nice colorful pictures and links soon:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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