I am inactive but don't
TrangOul
Insomaniac Location: Germany Joined: Feb 24 2008 |
I am inactive but don't delete me! Pretty please. :] |
I'm excited for upgrades! I
thedstring
Nate Brooks Location: Utah Joined: Jan 05 2011 |
I'm excited for upgrades! I love this site, but as a full stack web developer myself I can't help but wish for something more up to date when I come here =/
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Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDZ6Phrm42vhPfADrJqCwfw |
Ah I was wondering where some
a.christie.w
eren Location: United Kingdom Joined: May 17 2014 |
Ah I was wondering where some recent PM's had gone to
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what |
All good sir it happens this
BigHeadClanJoined: Jan 20 2012 |
All good sir it happens this is why we have backups! That said maybe load up a VM with a mirror of the site/server for testing instead of playing Russian roulette with the live version and potentially save yourself some headaches. :) |
Re: I am inactive but don't
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
TrangOul said
As long as you've made at least one post or comment, you won't be deleted :D
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Awww damn archard, you're
TrangOul
Insomaniac Location: Germany Joined: Feb 24 2008 |
Awww damn archard, you're from Boston?! We could have hung out when I was there last year. D: |
Hah, I moved from Boston a
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
Hah, I moved from Boston a few years ago. Just haven't updated my profile. I'm from Maryland originally, but right now I live in Singapore.
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All, I've amended my script
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
All, I've amended my script and set in in motion again. Please let me know if you find anything out of the ordinary happen again. I really appreciate it. dstring and BigHeadClan: I'm so not proud of the way I'm doing this. I'm a professional dev as well, and in a perfect world I'd have done everything the proper way. But right now my biggest constraint is time, having a full time job and family as my highest priorities. Getting the current site in a state where I could have a proper staging, testing, and deployment set up would be a very time consuming task that I question the value of. I'm hoping I can just power through the migration phase and then when everything's on stronger foundations I can start doing things the right way.
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Hah not a problem just had to
BigHeadClanJoined: Jan 20 2012 |
Hah not a problem just had to bust your balls a bit :) |
Edit: I missed the "I'll load
gudz
Location: Italy Joined: Nov 14 2012 |
Edit: I missed the "I'll load everything again" part. |
Re: Edit: I missed the "I'll load
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
gudz said
I would actually appreciate it if you'd resubmit it, if you wouldn't mind :)
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Re: Edit: I missed the "I'll load
gudz
Location: Italy Joined: Nov 14 2012 |
No problem at all, tomorrow I'll do it :) |
Thanks! Have deleted about
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
Thanks! Have deleted about 40,000 users so far. Anyone notice anything unusual?
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Re: I am inactive but don't
Clanver
Pixelfingers cant play Location: Germany, Kiel Joined: Jan 03 2009 |
archard said
Man, take the chance, and force them to make releases O_O! |
Re: I am inactive but don't
Clanver
Pixelfingers cant play Location: Germany, Kiel Joined: Jan 03 2009 |
oh my, did i just do a double post? Nah . . surely archard at fault here~ |
Holy shit! 40k users
thedstring
Nate Brooks Location: Utah Joined: Jan 05 2011 |
Holy shit! 40k users already?! That's insane!
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Still Alive
hashel
Location: Liège (Belgium) Joined: Mar 04 2008 |
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I do VGM covers and stuff at https://www.youtube.com/c/hashel |
Re: Holy shit! 40k users
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
thedstring said
The script kills 500 at a time, and it runs automatically every hour. I can also run it manually whenever I want, and have been doing so a lot the past few days ;)
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What to do?
MechaKrauser
Joined: Sep 04 2014 |
Hey archard, I've got a question. One of my tabs got caught in the rollback, so should I make a new submission post? I took what you said in the first post as you had backed up the recently posted stuff so we wouldn't need to do anything. But you told gudz to go ahead and resubmit his. So does that apply to the rest of us with missing tabs and recordings and such? Just repost it?
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Re: What to do?
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
MechaKrauser said
Hey Mecha, sorry for the confusion. I do have the data backed up, but it's still inconvenient for me because I have to manually go into the backed up data and manually add it back myself. So, if you wouldn't mind just resubmitting everything you posted, I would definitely appreciate that. Otherwise it might be awhile before I take the time and manually re-submit everything myself.
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Gotcha.
MechaKrauser
Joined: Sep 04 2014 |
Gotcha. I'll repost then, no biggie ;)
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Thanks! We're 100,000 deep
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
Thanks! We're 100,000 deep people! 40k to go! :)
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Very nice Archard, after this
BigHeadClanJoined: Jan 20 2012 |
Very nice Archard, after this phase of clean up is done whats next? Updating the security and new account authentication? @Hashel Dammit man now you have that song stuck in my head, going to drive me insane until I can play through it tomorrow night. |
I'm working on account
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
I'm working on account authentication now, and integrating that with the new forum. Once that's ready and we decide on the new forum structure. I will close this forum down and open up the new one :) All the inactive accounts have been purged and my script will continue to run indefinitely so that they will continuously be cleaned up, indefinitely.
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HTTPS is also active now. Aww
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
HTTPS is also active now. Aww hellz yeah broz
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Yeah I know. If there is
archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
Yeah I know. If there is content served from http on the page the browser won't consider it fully secure. Those will get cleaned up.
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Re: Yeah I know. If there is
JakeFanJoined: Sep 21 2022 |
archard said
It seems to me that it is worth consulting with experts and not picking the source code of the forum just at random. |
Re: What happened??? A message from archard
NedionJoined: Nov 24 2021 |
archard said
Hello! I believe that the owner of the forum is not obliged to understand all the new trends. There are those pages that make a profit and there are those who can do it. You just need to turn to those who understand development. A good example is the web development sydney. Find out the details of website transformation without major changes and you will have a real choice. |
archard
Joined: Jan 11 2007
It came to my attention recently that some users were being deleted from GameTabs for no apparent reason. That was my fault. You see, as part of my general plan for improving the site, I wanted to delete is many inactive accounts as I possibly could. There are many of them, more than 100,000 in fact. Most of them are due to spambot registrations. I developed a script which would automatically delete 500 inactive accounts every hour. I defined an inactive account as one where the user hadn't logged in for more than a year and hadn't made any posts. Unfortunately there was a bug in my script that deleted users who actually were not in active. So I was forced to restore the site to a backup that was made about a week ago. That's why there are currently missing tabs and posts. I will have to go back now and amend my script and make sure that it only deletes users who have truly been inactive. I did back up the database before I restored it to the backup from a week ago, so I do have all the have that were posted in the last week, and I will work to put them up as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.
The reason I wanted to remove all the inactive users is because it will make it easier for me to migrate the forum to Discourse, a modern, advanced forum that I think you guys will love and I hope will help revitalize this community. Unfortunately the current site is built on very old, very outdated software that is a real challenge to upgrade. But I'm on it! Stay tuned. Big upgrades are coming soon.