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Space-Pope posted:lowtax, in a warehouse full of boxes, which contain "city name sports team" jerseys. he's sitting on one of the boxes, and just crying about his investment i'd buy one tbh
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verified OS gang tags that give you access to exclusive forums to chat with fellow android / ios /beos users
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i seriously can't comprehend what's so complex about the forums that we haven't been able to upgrade to something non poo poo, ever. put a load balancer in front of the forums, write a new version that talks to the same database master, drain traffic from one to the other over the course of a week or something. that's the front-end taken care of
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and then, like, if you're not happy with the database schema, just shut the forums down for a week or something and migrate it. who cares? it's not a nuclear reactor, it's okay to take it offline and fix it
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Improbable Lobster posted:also i should be able to win things by posting ah, gamification. excellent. we can incentivize consumers to interact with their favorite brands in a way that provide sthem benefit (tangible winnings and a feeling of social inclusion) while simultaneously charging companies to represent their brands on the platform.
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horse mans posted:and then, like, if you're not happy with the database schema, just shut the forums down for a week or something and migrate it. who cares? it's not a nuclear reactor, it's okay to take it offline and fix it since lowtax is too cucked to let anyone with an actual software engineering background let alone a 4 year CS degree look at the internals of this website, we'll probably never know
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FamDav posted:cucked 
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horse mans posted:write a new version that talks to the same database master really we only have ourselves to blame
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jony ive aces posted:radium was working on it but because everyone made fun of him and lowtax fired him now we'll never see titan well if it worked and he wrote it that would be a world's first soooooo
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horse mans posted:and then, like, if you're not happy with the database schema, just shut the forums down for a week or something and migrate it. who cares? it's not a nuclear reactor, it's okay to take it offline and fix it this would be even better if it just probated everyone for the downtime instead
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The site isn't down, you fucks are too terrible to post you see
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horse mans posted:i seriously can't comprehend what's so complex about the forums that we haven't been able to upgrade to something non poo poo, ever. put a load balancer in front of the forums, write a new version that talks to the same database master, drain traffic from one to the other over the course of a week or something. that's the front-end taken care of writing a new version that reaches feature parity with the current one is hundreds of thousands of dollars in development effort, so you can forget that. modifying an existing forum is cheaper, but still several months of work. the real solution is to teach lowtax to code, give him some pills to cure sad brain, and put him in a time machine back to 2000 so that instead of spending a decade and a half playing video games he could have finished this by now. remember to warn them about 911 when you get there, lowtax
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lowtax should have sprung for new forum software in ~2005 instead of saying "lol this forum is bad" and then doing nothing about it for a decade
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Sweevo posted:also i honestly don't understand how he thinks gbs is good for the forums and not the thing that immediately drives away 95% of potential new users don't worry, the 5% it filters in are only the highest quality gbs posters
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3742083 anyone got a link to lowtax talking about how he funds the forums? it would be a real shame if this lovely website were to suddenly disappear what's the internet without Something Awful?
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Sweevo posted:also i honestly don't understand how he thinks gbs is good for the forums and not the thing that immediately drives away 95% of potential new users what's so bad about gbs, anyway? i haven't been in there in ages
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prefect posted:what's so bad about gbs, anyway? i haven't been in there in ages but you cant tell them to stop, because then apparently youre part of the "gbs 1.0
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Sweevo posted:also i honestly don't understand how he thinks gbs is good for the forums and not the thing that immediately drives away 95% of potential new users people need to know what they're in for
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PleasureKevin posted:most important, an API developers can use to make things like Awful.app and their EVE clans better i've come pretty close to just writing Something Awful as a Service (SAaaS) for awful.app poo poo more than once. if anything i'm actually worried that if it made the server load drop enough it might make lowtax just give up 
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ther forums software/backend thouugh... how is it holding anything back? from the user perspective I dont really "get" the problem, unless we want it to do more than it is currecently but can';t...
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I posted from the actual website recently for the first time in months and was shocked at how terrible it is. awful.app makes it 1000 times better and they should really just abandon the html front end for a web api.
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awful.app is garbage
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Shaggar posted:awful.app is garbage The Management posted:awful.app makes it 1000 times better not mutually exclusive
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i wrote an sa app. the smilies are cached locally and images can be turned off which works well in my 3rd world country. includes a pretty good saforums parserFamDav posted:since lowtax is too cucked to let anyone with an actual software engineering background let alone a 4 year CS degree look at the internals of this website, we'll probably never know wonder if the passwords are hashed. pretty sure metafilter still stores them unhashed sa is a read heavy site that primarily needs a good cache layer that can be pushed to CDNs. so thats a question of serialization (eg data dependency graphs) to model that you'd need a graph of the forums/threads/comments/users, and then triggers to update the serialization then have a client library that other apps can build upon as far as migration i don't see any need to take the site down for this -- you'd probably run it in parallel on a subdomain w/ access to the same db i'll start the pwiki N.Z.'s Champion fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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what's so bad abou the website?? seriously every other forums I ever go on is harder to read, and posting here is easy and simple
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from a user perspective the forum is mostly fine (search excluded of course). i think the problem is that all the backend stuff is such a shitfest that when something breaks lowtax has to pay someone to fix it, and i bet many of those billable hours are just the tech guy trying to figure out what the gently caress is going on and why something that should be a simple job is done by fifteen different scripts spread over five servers, none with any error checking, and which provide helpful error messages like "someone has stolen all your trees"
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i really want to see what kind of state the backend of sa is in, i have a morbid curiosity
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lowtax give me read only access to the servers
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Awia posted:would /you/ trust a goon? what choice does he have? this is sounding like action movie dialog
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