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[Krazy]

Forums back! Yayness and such. Pitty to lose those forums. Critics lounge and competitions in particular  :'( Hope they're back soon though!

[Ali]

Hoorah it's back!

Hooroo, the problem is still there.

I don't know how PayPal works, but if there was a simple and safe way of donating to the forums I wouldn't mind parting with a few pennies.

[Andail]

Instead of getting rid of 25% of the threads, we could get rid of 25% of the dumbest n00bs.

I dunno, just an idea

[jetxl]

So the forum has become the victim of it's own succes.

[SSH]

Just wondering: would it help if we delete old messages?

[Haddas]

I practically bursted into tears when the forums were down for more than 2 days. I also had withdrawal symptons. Like a smoker being left without cigarettes for a week. or me like with my computer broken. I'm glad to see it's back, although only in a partial form.

[m0ds]

Ahh, good to see the forums are back - even though I didn't notice they'd gone

[mousemat]

Phew its back...

[YOke]

I practically bursted into tears when the forums were down for more than 2 days. I also had withdrawal symptons. Like a smoker being left without cigarettes for a week. or me like with my computer broken. I'm glad to see it's back, although only in a partial form.

I'm really glad the forums are back. I'm totally broke now and have to go a week without cigarettes. It's nice to have at least one of my addictions covered.
Best of luck to CJ with finding a solution to the problem.

[Oliver]

Yeah, same here. Mostly I visited the competitions, offtopic and critics lounge boards. The rest was just...too complicated:P

[LGM]

I say we have someone scour through all the old posts and save the real good stuff... Technical information, Popular Threads, Informational Threads... Then just start over.. Delete 90% of all the threads.

We also have way too many 1-5 post users. We should have a tougher registration method. Maybe we should have a group of administrators to analyze registration submissions.  Right now I think alot of people join so they can either troll, ask one question and leave, or announce a game and then not show up for 21039 more days.

Maybe some bandwidth-eating features should be disabled... Is there some sort of mode you can use with SMF boards to show a slimmer text mode to save bandwidth? (an option people can choose, maybe?)

I dunno. It's obvious some changes are needed. We'll let CJ figure it out. And I'd also be willing to donate via paypal.

[Volcan]

Finally the ags forums are back.

Too bad, the hints/walkthroughs forum is missing.

Where can I post if I am stuck in an ags game?

[Ishmael]

Withdrawa symptoms... yes. Severe.

I don't see why we need a comitee to analye new member submissions. We need a bloody big warning on the registeration page that says "If you have posted less then ten posts in x weeks/months/whatever your account will be automatically deleted because of bandwith issues." or something...

And about the donations, don't simple bank account transfers work too? Like, if I wanted to donate a bit to CJ, I'd just need to know his account number and transfer the money from my account? ..or?

Where can I post if I am stuck in an ags game?

Nowhere.

[Ali]

We need a bloody big warning on the registeration page that says "If you have posted less then ten posts in x weeks/months/whatever your account will be automatically deleted because of bandwith issues." or something...

Maybe long-dormant accounts should be deleted, but I'm not sure sure that compelling members to post frequently would solve the over-popularily problem or the too-many-stupid-or-thoughtless-posts problem.

[Ishmael]

We need a policy that ALL stupid posts will be locked or deleted (deleted could be like the moved thing... "DELETED: My uber l33t thraed!!!!1!1!" and the single message would just have a message from the mod that deleted it...), and if a user does that kind of stuff repeadetly, despite of being warned, their account will be deleted, and/or they will be banned for a matter of time....

[Domino]

Glad to have you back forums, even though not in the best of shape right now.

But CJ, i'd also be willing to donate, if possible to keep the AGS Forums up and running.

I wouldn't have a problem with it at all. (I do have PayPal)



Shawn

[Radiant]

It seems to me that inactive users (e.g. 1-5 post people, or people absent for a lengthy amount of time) do not take up any bandwidth. That would be strictly the amount of data drawn from the agsforums site by whomever. So the obvious solution would be to delete threads that are both pointless and active (e.g. most of the non-topic forum, I'm afraid).
But didn't CJ say that computing power was in fact the problem? In that case the bottleneck would be an overloaded server, and a viable solution would be to delete a lot of old material to reduce database size. Old threads that are useful for reference could instead by stored as plain text rather than forum msgs, as that would take less CPU time to send.
Anyway I'm in favor of the paypal donation system to help CJ.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

What about someone sell some bluecups at www.cafepress.com and donate earnings to the forums or simething?

Just a mindless suggestion, don't mind me, carry on.

PS - WELCOME BACK, FORUMS! Boy, I missed you!

[Iwan]

Im gald to see that the forums back. As long as I know that they arn't lost completely i'll be fine. Good luck CJ in finding a solution.

[Mr Flibble]

I'd be happy to donate, but I don't have the means to use PayPal. But hey, if you'd accept cash, I'd be happy to help.

A while ago a forum has this thing where you could only join if an existing member invited you. Maybe that would help. And it would also discourage immature or obnoxious noobs. Perhaps.

Or maybe if locked threads were deleted.