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Title: Losing a post here and there
Post by: DigitalBuddha on November 06, 2012, 04:50:59 PM
I think we are losing a post here and there, they seem to be getting lost or not showing up after submitting. I myself have dabbled in a couple of lost posts. Might be something in the new forum code for the site that is not holding on to them?
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: Masked Dude on November 06, 2012, 05:33:21 PM
It's gremlins, man. Gremlins.
8)
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: meekon5 on November 07, 2012, 11:44:29 AM
At the risk of getting technical don't they feed into a database to be presented by the forum as posts?

(It's the way I would do it)

If they are still in the data table they may be retrievable.

Unless of course they are stuff we (as admins) have removed?

Whats the database behind this forum?
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: cckeiser on November 07, 2012, 07:52:16 PM
Quote from: meekon5 on November 07, 2012, 11:44:29 AM
At the risk of getting technical don't they feed into a database to be presented by the forum as posts?

(It's the way I would do it)

If they are still in the data table they may be retrievable.

Unless of course they are stuff we (as admins) have removed?

Whats the database behind this forum?
I have not had to delete any spam in a while. When we changed over to this new format and Oliver added the phone app thingee we got hit pretty hard, but Oliver activated a spam blocker or something and the boards been running like a Swiss fucking watch!

What kind of posts are missing DB?
I do log in and run maintenance a few times a day. I optimize the forum, recount the stats, fix any errors, and empty the error log when it gets too large.
The error has log been running about 2000 errors a day....down from the 11,000 a day from the old forum.
Not sure if any of my house cleaning affected the forum posts or not. 8)
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: DigitalBuddha on November 07, 2012, 08:04:22 PM
Quote from: cckeiser on November 07, 2012, 07:52:16 PM
Quote from: meekon5 on November 07, 2012, 11:44:29 AM
At the risk of getting technical don't they feed into a database to be presented by the forum as posts?

(It's the way I would do it)

If they are still in the data table they may be retrievable.

Unless of course they are stuff we (as admins) have removed?

Whats the database behind this forum?
I have not had to delete any spam in a while. When we changed over to this ne format and Oliver add the phone app thingee we got hit pretty hard, but Oliver activated a spam blocker or something and the boards been running like a Swiss fucking watch!

What kind of posts are missing DB?
I do log in a run maintenance a few times a day. I optimize the forum, recount the stats, fix any errors, and empty the error log when it get too large.
The error log been running about 2000 errors a day....down from the 11,000 a day from the old forum.
Not sure if any of my house cleaning affected the forum posts or not. 8)

Yeah, the spam blocker is working great! (http://dudeism.com/smf/Themes/default/images/post/thumbup.gif) What kind of posts are missing, I'm not sure. No particular type I am aware of, seems to me a few here and there and random.
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: cckeiser on November 07, 2012, 08:12:13 PM
Ok. I'm going to do another house cleaning. Let me know if any posts vanish! 8)
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: DigitalBuddha on November 07, 2012, 08:25:29 PM
Quote from: cckeiser on November 07, 2012, 08:12:13 PM
Ok. I'm going to do another house cleaning. Let me know if any posts vanish! 8)

Will do. (http://dudeism.com/smf/Themes/default/images/post/thumbup.gif)
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: forumdude on November 13, 2012, 12:06:20 AM
I think it has something to do with one of the spam plugins i installed - in the old forum a list of topics held in moderation by the spam blocker would allow you to go through and pick out the good ones. but now i can't find any way to do that. i've disabled it for now. hopefully the other anti spam techniques will keep things unspammy enough.
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: meekon5 on November 15, 2012, 06:27:59 AM
OK it's now happening to me as well.

(though my very slight grip on reality may be part of the problem).

I posted some stuff yesterday (I'm am fairly sure), that seems to have disappeared
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: forumdude on November 15, 2012, 07:38:34 AM
really? crap. did it post and then disappear or did it never even post?
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: meekon5 on November 15, 2012, 08:36:35 AM
Now do realise I can be running about thirty to fourty tabs in Firefox at a time. But it seems to me that a number of posts i did yesterday are not there now.

I'll keep a closer eye on things so don't panic yet.
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: DigitalBuddha on November 15, 2012, 12:03:47 PM
Is this...what post is this? Hey, same here; will keep a watch for lost posts. 8)
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: cckeiser on November 15, 2012, 04:20:41 PM
Quote from: meekon5 on November 15, 2012, 08:36:35 AM
Now do realise I can be running about thirty to fourty tabs in Firefox at a time. But it seems to me that a number of posts i did yesterday are not there now.

I'll keep a closer eye on things so don't panic yet.

Do they show up here?
http://dudeism.com/smf/profile/?area=showposts;u=666 (http://dudeism.com/smf/profile/?area=showposts;u=666)
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: milnie on November 15, 2012, 05:11:55 PM
Is this only affecting the administers? I don't post too often but haven't noticed any missing
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: Caesar dude on November 15, 2012, 06:17:51 PM
I've lost one or two in the past... but I've lost many more days than that in my life...so what the hey...a missing post or two is nothing really! ;)

Peace dudes
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: meekon5 on November 16, 2012, 06:12:13 AM
Now they've mysteriously appeared.

I would like to point out that my user number (ie in "http://dudeism.com/smf/profile/?area=showposts;u=666") is

666

Yes!
Title: Re: Losing a post here and there
Post by: milnie on November 16, 2012, 03:31:28 PM
Maybe you need to add a couple of horns to your profile pic m5, or should we call you Damian ? ;)