maddog107

Testing Huge files FIXED!

welcome Regarding your sig / avatar question yea there is a thread somewhere (I think in general discussion ) to request avatar/sigs from one of the pros

We will be upgrading to faster hardware on Friday night. Pure SSD's, hopefully that solves most of our performance issues. Will be interesting to see how fast they are

BZ has been depressingly slow latey. Right now, I'm using a slow Internet connection and it's taking me forever to open a single thread/topic. And i'm using the same internet to browse another fashion forum, and it's working fine there.I think that to make things better, we need to stop using those pictures (I don't even know how it's called) that everyone has which appears under every post a member makes. I don't get it, and I think it's contributing to the slowness of the site.We shouldn't also be allowed to quote picture. They makes pages even slower. Quoting a picture is basically posting the same picture u quoted all over again. You can disable Signatures and Avatars if you wish. Click on your name at the top right of BZ then click on "My Settings" and then "Ignore Preferences" . Then you can do Ignore all avatars Ignore all signatures when reading topics Click save and that it

Strange, if you can link me to a big image I can take a look. Thanks.

Link plz? And those images are not on BZ so nothing I can do to make them load faster but maybe its a setting only allowing X thumbnails per posts. If you send me the link I will take another look.

The software did that. I am working on getting a resolution in place. (this issue has been brought up multiple times in this thread)

Have you tried to refresh the page? Perhaps CTRL + F5 to do a fresh get of everything?

huh? can you please post a screenshot or something. The font's seem fine to me. And what symbols in particular?

I played around with the setting a bit and I think I got it working better now. It should reduce the size automagically to 150x150 so that users dont have to download the full size image. But you can still upload a large image and it will auto shrink down.

Anyways once we get the SSD's I think itll be a lot better. And once I get varnish it will be better still (since all guests will no longer hit the DB )

oh wow, my external monitoring looks really bad. Probably because we have a lot users 846 users are online (in the past 15 minutes)

What exactly is slow, I have been using it all morning and it seems *ok*. Not unbearable or anything.

Thats what you get for being gone so long Welcome back

Site seems ok to me Anyways I have some new SSD's coming today which I will be putting the DB on and then I will finish setting up Varnish. Should be faster when I get around to those two things this weekend. I will let you know once its complete.

Avatars can now be hidden like Signatures are.

Sorry! I was so caught up with the other bugs, I completely forgot to check the maillog. We moved IP's and I didn't setup reverse DNS. So aol (and others) were rejecting our email! Should be fixed now, please let me know if you dont receive any email soon (you had a ton that was rejected). Thanks for bringing this to my attention

Made a few more small changes today (including enabling compression for most of the forum... not sure how I missed that before). Anyways hopefully it will be a bit snappier. Have a couple more bugs then I can get to the Skins issue for everyone

Probably, some of the adjustments I made were in how ACID compliant the DB is (meaning its perfectly up to date), I set it so that its not important as it significantly helps performance. So there may be some lag (probabaly just in the seconds range though) of statistics. Perhaps your computer was caching the results and you needed a cache refresh? CTRL + F5 to do a clean refresh

Sorry for the site blinking on and off the air this afternoon. I was changing more settings on the server which required multiple reboots and service restarts. I think I should be done now for a couple days as it takes 2days before I can run my diagnostics scripts again.

You should It works once you visit the thread, but not old ones prior to the upgrade. sorry

Just copy and paste the full URL, it will automatically create an embedded video

I removed it. In the past we have had members who wanted their accounts deleted and when we didn't comply they started deleting posts. The delete function made it too easy to remove valuable content, so its gone. Didn't think anyone would notice though

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