avatars temporarily off - Page 2

spartak · October 16, 2002, 10:40

God what a screw up. A victim of its own success. Would moving to another server help?

MarkG · October 16, 2002, 10:47

yes

i'm also turning off some other features for guests which are not needed that much(full userlist of people online, last message and users in chat, etc)

H Tower · October 16, 2002, 13:02

there is a wave of people coming to see moo3 coverage? there can't be more than 20 posts in moo3 per day

Immortal Wombat · October 16, 2002, 13:18

Eliminate default styles, and enforce a light style for everyone, with the default feature of the "Who Posted in this Thread" link. The rest is all unneccessary BLAH.

MarkG · October 16, 2002, 13:23

that's a bit unrelated to interview that was posted yesterday and is linked today from a dozen gaming news sites...

Provost Harrison · October 16, 2002, 13:42

Relax, you'll have avatars back by 2006

Martin Gühmann · October 16, 2002, 13:52

I disabled avatars in my profile anyway, to speed up the loading time a little bit as the new board was introduced. So I didn't notic anyway.

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Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Eliminate default styles, and enforce a light style for everyone, with the default feature of the "Who Posted in this Thread" link. The rest is all unneccessary BLAH.

Light style for everyone? If it is such a style like the default style for guests it is a bad idea, because this buggy style makes Netscape 4.78 hang and I have to close Nestcape 4.78 by the three (in)famious keys.

By the way Markos is the chat now stable in Netscape 4.78, I can't remember the issure solved and you dropped the thread.

-Martin

FlameFlash · October 16, 2002, 14:28

Quote:

Originally posted by MarkG
a small change in the code has been made, avatars will be automatically be turned off and on depending on current load

Cool!

Seek and ye shall find... however, I am curious why there couldn't be a "guest view" or whatever so that they don't automatically see the avatars... just like the other stuff you've said you're cutting out for them...

Keep the avatars going bye-bye when heavy load of users... but would that help in cutting back on the guest strain?

Method · October 16, 2002, 15:41

Quote:

a small change in the code has been made, avatars will be automatically be turned off and on depending on current load

that explains it. they were on a minute ago, now they're off. that's actually pretty cool

Thrawn05 · October 16, 2002, 16:01

I'm going to miss Uber's ranting Homer Avatar.

Too bad Markos that you don't agree with Rasbelin. Here is how I would do it (and NO, I don't want your job

).

Code ONE
Normal Bandwith: Not that many people surfing the forums, everyone get's their avatar.

Code TWO
Brownout: Getting close to max bandwith. Those who are King or higher and mods/admins keep their avatars.

Code THREE
Blackout: At or beyond max bandwith. Only mods/admins keep their avatars.

Code FOUR
Total Annihilation: All forums NOT dealing with Civ3/MOO3 are disabled. In fact you can't surf there.

Code ALL MUST DIE!
"Oh Frig it": Markos pulls the plug on the server for 48 hours (NOT counting weekends).

Method · October 16, 2002, 16:04

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Originally posted by Thrawn05
Code FOUR
Total Annihilation: All forums NOT dealing with Civ3/MOO3 are disabled. In fact you can't surf there.

better yet, ONLY civ3 is disabled

MarkG · October 16, 2002, 16:07

we never separated people by their post count and we dont plan to start doing it

H Tower · October 16, 2002, 16:12

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Originally posted by MarkG
we never separated people by their post count and we dont plan to start doing it

except for allowing custom avatars

MarkG · October 16, 2002, 16:15

giving stuff to people is different to taking stuff from them

Provost Harrison · October 16, 2002, 16:15

Oh, they appear to be back now!

Paul Hanson · October 16, 2002, 16:17

And now they're gone. In the space of about 3 minutes.

Provost Harrison · October 16, 2002, 16:24

Who are we to question the almighty?

Thrawn05 · October 16, 2002, 21:28

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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Who are we to question the almighty?

The last someone did that, they were sent to Mingapulco.

FlameFlash · October 17, 2002, 09:22

Quote:

Originally posted by Thrawn05

Code FOUR
Total Annihilation: All forums NOT dealing with Civ3/MOO3 are disabled. In fact you can't surf there.

Code ALL MUST DIE!
"Oh Frig it": Markos pulls the plug on the server for 48 hours (NOT counting weekends).

Those are just scary...

And while I'm also sucking up, I do agree that there shouldn't be penalties for being lower than king... just think of all the possible spamming and banning that might take place in a rush for everybody to get there...

Thrawn05 · October 17, 2002, 10:03

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Originally posted by FlameFlash
just think of all the possible spamming and banning that might take place in a rush for everybody to get there...

Would it be Apolyton any other way?

Thrawn05 · October 17, 2002, 10:10

Hey Markos, I didn't see this yet, but why not remove all of those pop-up and banner ads? I'm suuuuuuuuuure they are eating up bandwidth. Make some money by using product placement in your posts.

Example:

Quote:

Damn you spammers! If I wasn't drinking my cool, refreshing Pepsi , I'll be using my own banning rod!

Just a suggestion.

MarkG · October 17, 2002, 10:19

how about:

this server runs on Arab Oil??

Dauphin · October 17, 2002, 10:21

Why won't it post. :grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:

I've tried an attachment 5 times now, and it won't go.

Dauphin · October 17, 2002, 10:23

Given my colour scheme, it wasn't a good product placement.

Dauphin · October 17, 2002, 10:32

At last, took its time.

Gramphos · October 17, 2002, 11:11

Misses the avatars, but what has been done needs to be done.

DeepO · October 17, 2002, 12:05

What about stripping signatures at peak moments? I'm sure they are eating at least as much bandwidth as the avatars.... after all, every regular has most avatars cached, while the sigs can't be cached.

Besides, I don't use a sig

DeepO