And I'm pretty sure bandwidth is not affected by the "disk-space" they occupy, but I wouldn't bet my hand on that, so it's kinda difficult to know without the advice of someone knowledgeable.
As far as quick fixes go... disabling guest access to the vault would work... for a bit... But, back when we did that while the vault was still the gallery... we just got a huge amount of new registrants.
If you don't like people talking about how you do a "job" you "don't get paid or rewarded" for... simply don't pay attention to it, or don't do said job.
I would just like to say... be careful with saying that.
You have no idea how many of the staff members have apologized to me, saying that they wanted to quit. Many of them irreplaceable in the fact that I felt I could trust them with access to features that could easily break the site.
And as far as anyone else that could be hired... I actually actively discourage anyone who wants to be staff, of anything. As a friend once said, "Never staff a convention you actually enjoy".
General spam bots attempt to click links (and even javascript popups) to log in and post on a site. If they have an account already... it would be very likely that one could accidentally report via that same method (using the default text).
I'll see if I can throw in a default-text check later today.
SMF is... SMF; can only really fix problems as they arise.
Wordpress... that's always been a resource hog, despite Jack's many fixes.
Brawl Vault is somewhat a worry at this point, the code is 2 years old now --- made at a point in time where I was still extremely new to PHP and SQL. The stats page would probably be the easiest for 'an outsider' to fix. Right now stats are calculated each page load; changing it up to once a day or so would free up some resources / possibly allow for collaborations to be included in hack total count. (If you'd like to play around with it a bit, I can export out a small chunk of the vault DB for you to play around with --- it'll be quite apparent how much of the setup was an afterthought)
Do the logs that smf generates in the db have any other purpose than to just tell what errors occurred when and what activity goes on in the vault? Stripping some of those could save space and unclog the db, at least a little bit.
I'm pretty good with php and sql. I wrote two [simple] websites using them (and slightly customized a smf 2.0 on the second site). Only if you want me back, though...
Pretty much. I clean those semi-regularly.
Brawl Vault also creates a huge log, part of which is devoted to the report management system. (And I can't stress enough how much I hate that such a bloated system was even required in the first place) Any resolved report (and non-report data) is removed semi-regularly.
As far as I can tell, the big problem we have is with the forum itself. With the amount of users / simultaneous connections, the server times out on certain requests (sometimes halfway through an operation). Miacis's guess on 'illegal operations' accumulating is, as far as I can tell, an accurate description of the problem.
The smaller problems (anything not directly dealing with our over-burdened server) should be helped by running the General Maintenance stuff in the Forum Maintenance section. Some of these are likely server / DB intensive processes and should not be run during our busy hours.
(Edit: Just ran the table optimizer, it didn't do much
First off I have no way to test it myself and second... aside from viewing new stuff, the vault is near useless on a device that cannot download stuff.
That said, if someone else (who has experience with mobile site design) is interested in helping...
The 9001 people who have said collabs don't count are right.
It would require a rewrite of the stats page to be generated once daily in order to do that.
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It really should be done but I neither have the time nor the incentive to do so. (It's not interesting damnit! I do boring programming for 8 hours a day at work. ;_;)
Has no freedom of expression with the Nazism there, any report with is completely forbidden.
That is it: as soon as you see a report with Hitler, Nazi or sign, ca has a raport obliged with the genocide of the Jews.
Actually... it is up to our staff to decide what is free to say or not here. Hitler Mario, the character this animation hack was created by one of our staff. See where I'm going with this?
Now... if this hack was a sound clip saying 'death to all ____', I could see where you're coming from. Those incidents? The entirety of WW2? History. --- Personally, I'd have tons of fun beating up an army of Hitler Mario's and find it offensive that you won't let me.
I includes not how people can make it hack or laugh about it.
That is valid that this guy puts this hack. Well, the hack was now deleted.
I can't tell at the moment who deleted the hack, but either way, I'm sad about it. It's a blow to freedom of speech, freedom of expression, just because some people can't accept it.
While yes, there are people who will be offended and might cry because Mario, a hero, has been turned into a Hitler clone. But there are others... others with sense... others that even have seen the atrocities with their own eyes eyes that understand that something like this is not hurting anyone.
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