Forum Problems

Talk about everything else besides Stratovarius here in English. Please try to put more serious topics here, and silly topics in the Spam section.
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Post by Neorave » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:30 pm

Ok, I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I've been having difficulties accessing the forum lately. The only way I could get into it was by clicking on one of the links to one of the posts on the main Strato page.
Somehow I still have an account...yay...?

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Re: Forum Problems

Post by MetalAngel » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:33 pm

Hehe, you can already find the topic here :

http://www.stratovarius.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7856

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Re: Forum Problems

Post by browneyedgirl » Wed May 03, 2006 3:07 am

Well, it seems to be fixed now. But about 30 of my posts have disppeared from my count. ??? :?
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Jaakko » Wed May 03, 2006 5:04 am

BEG you could easily spare another 3000 posts and nobody would notice ;)

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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Dave » Wed May 03, 2006 7:19 pm

I lost one post! :D

EDIT: Hm.. and i just noticed which post that was..
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Post by browneyedgirl » Wed May 03, 2006 9:46 pm

Jaakko wrote:BEG you could easily spare another 3000 posts and nobody would notice ;)
I wouldn't either, because 2/3 of them are gone anyway, from all the culling&cleaning in the past. You know, every few months someone deletes useless topics which are long since dead. Thats where they all went, as everyone else's. Spam is disposable anyway. :D
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Dave » Wed May 03, 2006 10:37 pm

hey you're right.. before the clean up, the spam area had 4 pages, now they're just 2..
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Paola » Thu May 04, 2006 12:04 am

Hey, I didn't watch that thing...I lost like 54 post...

Another problem, I don't know if is happening to you but the forum is very slow... :?
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by IceBreaker » Thu May 04, 2006 12:29 am

browneyedgirl wrote:You know, every few months someone deletes useless topics which are long since dead. Thats where they all went, as everyone else's. Spam is disposable anyway. :D
I didn´t know because hadn´t ever looked that. But thanks for the info. Now we have the reason for why some posts disappeared. :)
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Stratolily » Thu May 04, 2006 12:41 am

I have problems with the forum too. Sometimes I got that annoying message that it can't get the data server or something like that and I can't load the forum :?

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Re: Forum Problems

Post by browneyedgirl » Thu May 04, 2006 3:30 am

IceBreaker wrote:
browneyedgirl wrote:You know, every few months someone deletes useless topics which are long since dead. Thats where they all went, as everyone else's. Spam is disposable anyway. :D
I didn´t know because hadn´t ever looked that. But thanks for the info. Now we have the reason for why some posts disappeared. :)
Well, this clean-up is necessary, I guess. Otherwise the bandwidth would get loaded down, or something.
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by NeonVomit » Thu May 04, 2006 3:34 am

All the stupid massive topics slow down the forum. On some forums they have a policy whereby once a topic reaches 1000 posts, it automatically gets locked.
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Paola » Thu May 04, 2006 3:45 am

Maybe you've right :?...

Damn...I can't lie!! :x You've right!! :cry:

When a forum begins to fuc* like in this moment the major possibility is that!!
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by IceBreaker » Thu May 04, 2006 6:02 am

NeonVomit wrote:All the stupid massive topics slow down the forum. On some forums they have a policy whereby once a topic reaches 1000 posts, it automatically gets locked.
Or even 100 posts!

Hm then I think it would be good not to start/post lots of topics with a huge bunches of photos. Perhaps only "Funny Strato-pics" and "Show me your picture" should be allowed or...
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by cliff » Thu May 04, 2006 6:09 am

IceBreaker wrote: Hm then I think it would be good not to start/post lots of topics with a huge bunches of photos. Perhaps only "Funny Strato-pics" and "Show me your picture" should be allowed or...
actually pictures don't particularly slow down the forum, since they are external links). What the PHP forum only does is to send the html code to your browser (no matter if a picture is 2Kb or 495MB, the code is still <img src="picture">)
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by stratohawk » Thu May 04, 2006 7:49 am

hey, did you notice that some topics have disappeared? The spam section is much smaller again. And also some users (including me) complain about having lost a couple of posts.
I just noticed cuz I was looking for the "songs you couldn't get out of your head"-topic and can't find it anywhere.

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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Stealth » Thu May 04, 2006 7:55 am

Oh, so it wasn't my imagination... I did lose a couple of posts!
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Post by browneyedgirl » Thu May 04, 2006 2:27 pm

My perfume topic is gone. :(
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by IceBreaker » Thu May 04, 2006 11:47 pm

stratohawk wrote:hey, did you notice that some topics have disappeared? The spam section is much smaller again. ...
I just noticed cuz I was looking for the "songs you couldn't get out of your head"-topic and can't find it anywhere.
Yes we have... Because Dave & someone else already have already mentioned that above. :roll:

That´s sad, though that topic was very spammy, it was a very nice topic, because I bet everyone is having some song on his/her head continuosly.
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Paola » Fri May 05, 2006 2:01 am

IceBreaker wrote:
NeonVomit wrote:All the stupid massive topics slow down the forum. On some forums they have a policy whereby once a topic reaches 1000 posts, it automatically gets locked.
Or even 100 posts!

Hm then I think it would be good not to start/post lots of topics with a huge bunches of photos. Perhaps only "Funny Strato-pics" and "Show me your picture" should be allowed or...
We can let the link of the photos in these topics...
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by NeonVomit » Fri May 05, 2006 2:03 am

Paola wrote:
IceBreaker wrote:
NeonVomit wrote:All the stupid massive topics slow down the forum. On some forums they have a policy whereby once a topic reaches 1000 posts, it automatically gets locked.
Or even 100 posts!

Hm then I think it would be good not to start/post lots of topics with a huge bunches of photos. Perhaps only "Funny Strato-pics" and "Show me your picture" should be allowed or...
We can let the link of the photos in these topics...
I agree. Pictures should be restricted to a certain size. We don't need screen-filling images.
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by IceBreaker » Fri May 05, 2006 5:59 am

NeonVomit wrote:
Paola wrote: We can let the link of the photos in these topics...
I agree. Pictures should be restricted to a certain size. We don't need screen-filling images.
Yes, forgot to mention that on my previous post.

We should learn that from the Sonata-forum again. Or if thinking bout size restriction, sth limited to less than 600-640 pixels wide...
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by MetalAngel » Fri May 05, 2006 4:26 pm

Hey! I created a topic about the troubles that the forum recently experienced...:roll: Don't forget it! I'm the prince of spamming! 8) So, you can also participate on my topic... :wink:

It's only a proposal, not an obligation, but... :P
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Dave » Fri May 05, 2006 4:31 pm

MetalAngel wrote:Hey! I created a topic about the troubles that the forum recently experienced...:roll: Don't forget it! I'm the prince of spamming! 8) So, you can also participate on my topic... :wink:

It's only a proposal, not an obligation, but... :P
Jens did close it, so we can't :wink:
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by MetalAngel » Fri May 05, 2006 4:36 pm

:?: :?: :?:

Why did he close it? :?
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Dave » Sat May 06, 2006 12:54 am

Because the problems should be fixed now, I guess :wink:
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by Paola » Sat May 06, 2006 2:00 am

Well, We've to wait a time and watch if we have problems with the forum... :?
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by browneyedgirl » Sat May 06, 2006 4:33 am

It has been a couple days, so if we hold our breath, and keep our fingers crossed maybe everything will be alright! :D
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by IceBreaker » Sat May 06, 2006 5:47 am

Paola wrote:Well, We've to wait a time and watch if we have problems with the forum... :?
Maybe those problems were really fixed but there may or will come some new problems... :?
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Re: Forum Problems

Post by browneyedgirl » Sat May 06, 2006 5:05 pm

Jens' forum was totally deleted/wiped clean---now we are having fun starting all over! :D New topics&everything! :D
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