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Deactivated the "Hire a Programmer" section, people rarely used it, instead using regular threads. Consolidated threads into Traders Hideout and closed the subforum.
Is there another way to see Today's Threads?
When I first check the forum I usually mark the others as read.
If I come back later in the day, I just click 'todays' posts' if I remember I forgot to check something.
Not a big deal if it is gone.
Just something I used occasionally.
Rejoice in the Thunderstorms of Life . . .
Knowing it's not about Clouds or Wind. . .
But Learning to Dance in the Rain ! ! !
I am really happy to say that I finally figured out the Ctrl-V / Paste function for replies to support pasting screenshots directly into the system.
So, if you use a program like SnagIt to take screenshots, just make sure the image is in your buffer (ie, Ctrl-C first or etc as needed) and then you can Paste / Ctrl-V it into your reply.
Excellent. This section only caused problems, with people posting to it thinking they were doing some normal post, not realizing that no one could respond in the thread, only by PM. They didn't realize it was to advertise for a programming job, not to just pose a question. I don't know why they didn't read the very clear explanation of what the subforum was for, but they didn't.
The idea made sense, but in practice it mainly just gave people trouble. I had to close a lot of threads and tell a lot of people that they had to repost in a regular thread, because they were just asking a regular trading question, not trying to hire anyone at all....
It was just too different from everything else on the forum, I guess.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- 7:30am: Site crashed hard due to an out of memory exception on one of our nodes, which then caused a ripple effect with our Galera MariaDB replication that broke the other nodes (my fault, see below)
- 11:00am: Arrived to find site down, I manually brought it up, but one node was not coming online (again, my fault, see below)
- 1:00pm: Figured out my mistake, everything back to 100%, and my mistake corrected
*my fault: The other day when I was trying to solve the newsletter issue, I modified a parameter to allow a lot more mysql connections as a debugging measure. I forgot to move it back to the normal amount afterward. At 7:30am we had a big spike in traffic and it actually exceeded available memory on one of the nodes, which caused an out of memory exception (OOM) that crashed that nodes galera server. However, then the other two nodes crashed due to my second mistake.
*second mistake: Weeks ago, I had changed the galera mariadb replication method. I should have left it to its default value, rsync, which was working totally fine. The crashed node refused to come online today with odd and non-descript errors. Then I finally looked at my notes from when I rolled out the nodes initially, and saw the replication method was rsync. So I remembered I had changed that, long ago, and it had been working up until today (first time we had a node fail with corruption on the node). I reverted to the old config using rsync, and the node immediately synced and came online.
Sorry for the 3.5 hrs downtime guys! And I had just been here a few minutes before it crashed, too.
- Propagate to edit post, new thread, and private mesage functions
- Find a working method to get the drag/drop to work as an assigned variable, so I can set (document.body) as the destination dragging listener, so you can drop files anywhere in the window and not just on the blue background area
The first is really freaking hard thanks to the way vBulletin is built. I can't just make one global change, I have to change things four times which makes version control difficult.
The second, I dunno. Shouldn't be hard but so far eludes me. On my list, because people can inadvertently lose their post if they drop in the wrong area and don't realize they can press back to recover the post.
