Kuuki Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 sorry to diss the forums, but so meny actual forums lagg it up so much, i cant even search the forums for a certain thread cus the admin disabled that. (why have it?) i think a 'clean up' is in order cus these forums (reguardless of a new server) its still pretty bad. (i also know comparing to other forums is not really 'fair' but...) forums.winamp.com has about 80,000 mambers and each has their own avatar and 'several' pics in his/her sig's, and has quite alot less forums, and runns a thousand times better. (sorry to sound a little bitchy, but just that features that Vbulletin should have that isnt enable ticks me off, plus some of the anger is comming from my dumb computer (also to explain some anger )) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 Weyhey, yeah okay those are some valid points you've got there. But do you know how to run a huge ass site like this? I bet ya that it's harder than it looks. Try seeing it from the staffs point of view, most of them have other jobs, other responsibilities. The people at Winamp.com probably have dedicated staff and everything to control their forums. Me, I don't mind it when it lags sometimes or goes down, these things happen, we just gotta tolerate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted August 25, 2002 Author Share Posted August 25, 2002 i do have to admit wa forums does also go down a few times now and then due to natural bull crap with servers. and im not sure how much of a dedicated staff WA has (i bet i could ask right now and get a confermed answer ^_^ ), but still wouldnt you say if the staff desides to bunch up all the star wars games forums into one big game forum [for instence], wouldnt it be a little better? and as for the search engine.. why is that disabled, i try to look for a thread, what i get admin has disabled... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 THAT would not be a good idea. You see the folks in each forum may not get along with each other. And I do know that a lot of people don't like Aresener's. If we were to merge all the forums together there'd be a lot of people getting banned for flaming and many arguements. Plus a lot of people post topics so the list of new topics would be 5 pages long... it's best to seperate the insane from the sane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted August 25, 2002 Author Share Posted August 25, 2002 Originally posted by Lynk Former ...it's best to seperate the insane from the sane well we are famous for that ^_^ (>")> Kirby! <("<) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 Yeah we are .... /\ .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... \ / . \===/ .... || .... || .... U Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted August 25, 2002 Author Share Posted August 25, 2002 Originally posted by Lynk Former Yeah we are .... /\ .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... | | .... \ / . \===/ .... || .... || ..... U Link [off topic] you know you dont need all those dots in there ya know... just use underscorse as the spacing and change the color to what the background of that current post would be in hex of crouse not just plain text (must be exact...) [/offtopic] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 ...yeah but i couldn't be bothered... *shrugs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewok Hunter Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 Oh, searching has been disabled because it would crash the server if many people used it. only admins and maybe mods can. imagine if a few people were to go and say try to look up all of Red's posts at the sime time. Yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 i think if someone did that the whole forums would go down permanently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_da_Darth Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 @Lynk: Yeah, I could see how that would get annoying, the first few times I was here HTML was on which was nice...kinda wish they'd turn it bad on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 Originally posted by ewok hunter Oh, searching has been disabled because it would crash the server if many people used it. only admins and maybe mods can. imagine if a few people were to go and say try to look up all of Red's posts at the sime time. Yikes! Yikes O_o Of course, they could put a cap on the amount of results...couldn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_da_Darth Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 Yes, Red. Yes they could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted August 25, 2002 Author Share Posted August 25, 2002 coolness, yet another flame war has been prevented (>")> Kirby!! <("<) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_da_Darth Posted August 25, 2002 Share Posted August 25, 2002 Too bad that can't happen more often than not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pisces Posted August 26, 2002 Share Posted August 26, 2002 Ah, there's not that many, if any, flame wars around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wraith 8 Posted August 26, 2002 Share Posted August 26, 2002 well... what can we do about it right now? we cant do anything ... so it is all upto the big admins.. but the winamp forums are NOTHING compared to these forums.... this isnt just one lowsy forum.. no these are like 20 forums devided into another 20 forums at least.. with ontop all kind of info sites on those star wars games.... its a little bit bigger than you think...... just have a little patience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuki Posted August 26, 2002 Author Share Posted August 26, 2002 i knew that this had more then jsut gaming forums. was was just saying that as an example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikhnaton Posted August 27, 2002 Share Posted August 27, 2002 The problem is not with vBulletin, it is with our servers. The server load is usually about maxed out and that is why the forums are either slow or unavailable, and why server intensive features like search and sig pics are disabled. If and when these forums move to beefier servers (this all costs money which is why we have so many ads) that can easily handle the load, then perhaps more features will be enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1DC Posted August 27, 2002 Share Posted August 27, 2002 what affect did the merger have on the general speed of things? yeah, its all fine and good that we have 30 million people posting... but what ever happend to quality vs quantity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikhnaton Posted August 27, 2002 Share Posted August 27, 2002 how did it affect it? more forums on fewer servers. more people going to more and more forums. all that equals higher server load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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