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What's new with this upgrade 3/24?

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by cynthetiq, Mar 24, 2012.

  1. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    This is a growth upgrade. We needed a larger server for some items that while directly unrelated to TFP will impact TFP. Again, those of you who are on facebook may have already heard about these things.

    Here's what's new:

    Bigger server.

    Blog updated. Longer comments.

    Inactive user reminder emails. Sorry to spam you but life gets busy, so sometimes it's nice when a friend calls and says they miss you.

    Advertisements. Okay, just kidding. Not really, the framework has been setup, but you'll more than likely never see them. Registered folks will not see advertisements.

    Removed the What's new at the top of the forum. It was REALLY chatty. I mean 33Gb of data bandwidth chatty. It pinged the server every 20 seconds you were sitting on the page. It's nice that it keeps you current, I'm trying to find a better solution, like maybe every minute or so. In the meantime the main page will have all the forums listed there.

    Thanks for your patience.

    cynthetiq
     
    Last edited: Mar 24, 2012
    cynthetiq, Mar 24, 2012
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  2. rogue49

    rogue49 Tech Kung Fu Artist Staff Member

    Location:
    Baltimore/DC
    And thank you for your efforts. :cool:
     
    rogue49, Mar 24, 2012
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  3. Zen

    Zen Very Tilted

    Location:
    London
    Cyn!
    I just tested the character limit for responses to blogs.
    2000!
    YeeHaw!

    Thanks for that and for everything else.

    Best wishes :)
     
    Zen, Mar 24, 2012
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  4. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    The blog author is going to release a new version soon he claims. This was his last free update. I'm ready to buy his new version as soon as I test it. If 2k is still not enough, I can adjust it.
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 24, 2012
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  5. Fangirl

    Fangirl Very Tilted

    Location:
    Arizona
    Wowza!
    Nice effort!
    Much appreciated! :)
     
    Fangirl, Mar 25, 2012
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  6. pan6467

    pan6467 a triangle in a circular world.

    Location:
    somewhere in the center yelling about extremists

    I concur... You do so much Cyn, I just hope you realize how much your efforts and what you do here is appreciated. I remember you and Jazz from way back when you were just nobodies like myself....lol You've come a longgggg way and you deserve all the kudoes you get and then some.
     
    pan6467, Mar 25, 2012
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  7. Lish

    Lish Very Tilted

    Location:
    Im here, but heart is somewhere else
    The amount of effort cyn goes to around here is phenomenal. ...and thats just the stuff you see. The fact that its all done for free is even more amazing....we're forever indebted to his services at TFP.
     
    Lish, Mar 25, 2012
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  8. Freetofly

    Freetofly Diving deep into the abyss

    Location:
    From Philly USA, living in London UK
    Nice to see these changes!
     
    Freetofly, Mar 25, 2012
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  9. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    We appreciate all your hard work dude. :cool:



    I'm particularly hopeful that you find a better solution, even if it's to update the "What's New" every few minutes. I understand the problem of a very cool feature being a resource drain so you have to make adjustments somehow. Hopefully you are able to reach a workable resolution, because I absolutely love(ed) that feature.
     
    Borla, Mar 25, 2012
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  10. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!

    I agree with you about the "what's new". That's how I enter the site each time I use it.
    I don't have any technical knowledge whatsoever, and what shall be shall be, but I hope that what's new can come back.

    Thanks Cyn for all your hard work.
     
    fflowley, Mar 25, 2012
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  11. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

    Location:
    Florida
    will there be a private option with the new blog version by any chance? hmm?
     
    mixedmedia, Mar 25, 2012
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  12. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    Thanks, Cyn.
     
    Plan9, Mar 25, 2012
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  13. grumpyolddude

    grumpyolddude Very Tilted

    Location:
    Metro Detroit, Michigan, USA
    If I ever have to grow up, I wanna be a lot like cynthetiq. Not exactly, but a lot.
    Do I have to grow up?

    Thanks, cyn. You ROCK!
     
    grumpyolddude, Mar 25, 2012
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  14. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    Yes, I like that feature too. I'm having conversations with original author so that I can tweak it a little bit. Even if I adjust it to 30 seconds it will be a good thing. I'm hoping to make it 60 seconds since most of the time between those posts is several minutes.
    A few things he's stated in the past is that we'll be able to adjust the comments into a real editor so you can have links and other bbcode. Private entry was something he stated as well. I'm not sure how he will execute that.
     
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  15. Fangirl

    Fangirl Very Tilted

    Location:
    Arizona
    The blog option of privacy v. no option for privacy is why I don't use my blog. Not saying I have a particularly scandalous life but I've started many a blog post just to abandon it 'cos I'm not comfortable with that level of exposure. Also 'cos I don't really use my blog I forget to check other folks' blogs whereas back in the day (of privacy enabled) I checked them each day.

    I do understand and very much appreciate that bit-by-bit, The TFP is growing ever-more awesome. Still, I'll be really stoked with a privacy blog option. :)
     
    Fangirl, Mar 25, 2012
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  16. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    Fangirl, remember that at the basic level the blogs are not crawled by google nor seen unless registered. I'd like to get the privacy space back as well, because of the same reasons you're making. I don't go back there as often as I should or used to.
     
    cynthetiq, Mar 25, 2012
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