What the hell is wrong with scoobynet?
23 August 2001, 04:19 PM
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1. It is so damn slow!
2. It has double posted a couple of threads of mine and i dont knwo why.
3. It sends me to the flood control screen yet allows me to post anyway.
4. I am forecd to ctrl + F5 as it never updates any of the pages.
5. It lets me make typing mistakes every other word.
6. The forum moderators can edit my posts without my permission.
7. I can see my house from here.
I think this is a disgrace.
I expect much better quality from a free service 
For a start there should be policing! I dont want to be part of any bbs that would have me as a member.
Is anyone else having these problems?
I dont see any other people double posts.
I dont see any other people double posts.
[This message has been edited by MorayMackenzie (edited 23 August 2001).]
2. It has double posted a couple of threads of mine and i dont knwo why.
3. It sends me to the flood control screen yet allows me to post anyway.
4. I am forecd to ctrl + F5 as it never updates any of the pages.
5. It lets me make typing mistakes every other word.
6. The forum moderators can edit my posts without my permission.
7. I can see my house from here.
I think this is a disgrace.
I expect much better quality from a free service For a start there should be policing! I dont want to be part of any bbs that would have me as a member.
Is anyone else having these problems?
I dont see any other people double posts.
I dont see any other people double posts.
[This message has been edited by MorayMackenzie (edited 23 August 2001).]
23 August 2001, 04:29 PM
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Funny this.
I posted 2 'jokes' (I use the term jokes, loosely
) to the Muppet Forum, they turned up in 'Members Gallery'
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I posted 2 'jokes' (I use the term jokes, loosely
) to the Muppet Forum, they turned up in 'Members Gallery' [This message has been edited by DavidLewis (edited 23 August 2001).]
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23 August 2001, 05:14 PM
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I reckon Simon's deliberately degrading the BBS so that when the new software goes live everyone thinks it's a big improvement
I'm convinced that's what some of these patches that you get from Windows Update do (e.g. make Win 98 slower and slower so you have to upgrade to 2k)
I'm convinced that's what some of these patches that you get from Windows Update do (e.g. make Win 98 slower and slower so you have to upgrade to 2k)
23 August 2001, 05:24 PM
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i've certainly a few probs past week or so ?
does seem slower than usual
and i've having to do a lot of refreshing on threads where its missing the off the last ie newest posting ?
steve
does seem slower than usual
and i've having to do a lot of refreshing on threads where its missing the off the last ie newest posting ?
steve
23 August 2001, 05:39 PM
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LOL Luke
I am lucky 'cos here at work we have the luxury of three rather fat internet connections and scoobynet is slow on all of them.
As Adam says its not what I would expect of a free service :P hehe
I am lucky 'cos here at work we have the luxury of three rather fat internet connections and scoobynet is slow on all of them.
As Adam says its not what I would expect of a free service :P hehe
23 August 2001, 08:27 PM
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Does anyone else find that when they post a reply ,their television changes channel?????
Also iam sure that "Flash messages" are been shown on this BBS trying to convert us to Devil worshiping. If your really quick you can see it pop up for about 10.th of a second.
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Also iam sure that "Flash messages" are been shown on this BBS trying to convert us to Devil worshiping. If your really quick you can see it pop up for about 10.th of a second.
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23 August 2001, 11:55 PM
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Hi All
There has definitely been a slow down over the last 3 weeks...
there are a few reasons.. the traffic increases every month (which is great) so gradually things will slow down slightly (but not really enough to notice on it's own)..
also, we've changed back to our own ad software which is perl based about 3 weeks ago and this is the exact time that it all slowed down as it's putting an extra strain on the server.
I've spent the last couple of days writing an asp based one which will help..
but also UBB (the BBS software) needs updating, so the new software will help no end.
LOL re: slowing it down so the new software looked better!
I hope to have the ad software fully operational tomorrow / saturday and hope to have time to finish the remaining few bugs with the new BBS software next week...
I hope to then finally be able to finish the scoobynews cd!!!!
Deepest apologies for the slow down. It's still damn fast compared to the majority of the internet, but is definitely slower than it has been.
A quick question..
on the new bbs, how much more important is speed than asthetics and features?
All the best
Simon
There has definitely been a slow down over the last 3 weeks...
there are a few reasons.. the traffic increases every month (which is great) so gradually things will slow down slightly (but not really enough to notice on it's own)..
also, we've changed back to our own ad software which is perl based about 3 weeks ago and this is the exact time that it all slowed down as it's putting an extra strain on the server.
I've spent the last couple of days writing an asp based one which will help..
but also UBB (the BBS software) needs updating, so the new software will help no end.
LOL re: slowing it down so the new software looked better!
I hope to have the ad software fully operational tomorrow / saturday and hope to have time to finish the remaining few bugs with the new BBS software next week...
I hope to then finally be able to finish the scoobynews cd!!!!
Deepest apologies for the slow down. It's still damn fast compared to the majority of the internet, but is definitely slower than it has been.
A quick question..
on the new bbs, how much more important is speed than asthetics and features?
All the best
Simon
24 August 2001, 08:57 AM
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The amount of info and the design of the site seems fine to me, i've been impressed with many areas. I popped on the SIDC website and all the post answers seemed to be by one person, alot of reading but not alot going on.
Am I missing something
Mark
The amount of info and the design of the site seems fine to me, i've been impressed with many areas. I popped on the SIDC website and all the post answers seemed to be by one person, alot of reading but not alot going on.
Am I missing something
Mark
24 August 2001, 09:04 AM
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<B>SDB said "A quick question..
on the new bbs, how much more important is speed than asthetics and features?
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Can't we have both?
I prefer simple layouts and useful features.
Frames are the work of the devil
I think the 'import picture' function we talked about is an essential feature.
I'd sacrifice a slight drop in peformance to have a working and flexible search feature. I think it's up and working on the new software but it seems to be broken now
on the new bbs, how much more important is speed than asthetics and features?
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Can't we have both?
I prefer simple layouts and useful features.
Frames are the work of the devil
I think the 'import picture' function we talked about is an essential feature.
I'd sacrifice a slight drop in peformance to have a working and flexible search feature. I think it's up and working on the new software but it seems to be broken now
24 August 2001, 09:19 AM
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There seems to be more and more people using fancy emoticons ... does this have much effect on slowling down the pages.
You have to remember that a lot of people who mainly use the bbs through a dial up connection rather than a LAN. I prefer speed to looks (although I don't own a MY01 )
Lunchie
There seems to be more and more people using fancy emoticons ... does this have much effect on slowling down the pages.
You have to remember that a lot of people who mainly use the bbs through a dial up connection rather than a LAN. I prefer speed to looks (although I don't own a MY01
)Lunchie
24 August 2001, 11:10 AM
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You don't have to trade appearance with speed. Webservers don't have any troubles serving out static files so images etc are fine.
Enhanced functionality however normally requires interpreted code, database back-ends - this is where the oomph goes.
A good idea is to follow the route that a lot of the bbs makers are doing now - get people to log in first to provide a tailored appearance. the sidc software allows you to specify an enhanced or minimum (low bandwidth) appearance.
Perl on windows..urgh. Its a bit long in the tooth now from a time where choices were limited and unix was the king. ASP *has* to be the way to go.
Not sure what backend you are using - avoid Access even for adserving. People I know have benchmarked it for overall query performance, concurrency stability etc and its a big bottleneck on a site like this. mySQL is a much better choice but is limited. If funds allow then MS SQL appears to be the choice of many - the bbs makers I watch tend to use MS SQL as their recommended back end and make use of many of the features it provides. Pricey, but hey when you've got the need, you want the speed :-)
Enhanced functionality however normally requires interpreted code, database back-ends - this is where the oomph goes.
A good idea is to follow the route that a lot of the bbs makers are doing now - get people to log in first to provide a tailored appearance. the sidc software allows you to specify an enhanced or minimum (low bandwidth) appearance.
Perl on windows..urgh. Its a bit long in the tooth now from a time where choices were limited and unix was the king. ASP *has* to be the way to go.
Not sure what backend you are using - avoid Access even for adserving. People I know have benchmarked it for overall query performance, concurrency stability etc and its a big bottleneck on a site like this. mySQL is a much better choice but is limited. If funds allow then MS SQL appears to be the choice of many - the bbs makers I watch tend to use MS SQL as their recommended back end and make use of many of the features it provides. Pricey, but hey when you've got the need, you want the speed :-)
24 August 2001, 11:12 AM
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Sorry should have qualified the first statement. Trading appearance for speed - I am referring to server cpu load.
Obviously if you are on a slow connection then lots of graphics will slow you up. Otherwise serving graphics don't load a machine, just consume bandwidth.
Obviously if you are on a slow connection then lots of graphics will slow you up. Otherwise serving graphics don't load a machine, just consume bandwidth.