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Site updates
« on: October 21, 2010, 12:12:37 am »
I have some site updates, but first of all, I would like to remind everyone that have troubles posting new topics and replies or to login or logout that they must clear their internets Bowser from any biscuits from the old Omnimaga housing provider. Clearing your Opera/Firefox/Chrome/IE cache should fix those problems. It is usually in your browser options, but if you have troubles figuring out, check the manual or try a Google search on "clearing browser cache" without the quotes. You may need to restart your browser once this is done. Those problems are most likely due to the change of server (most likely the different IP or configuration).

Now for the updates:

-First of all, an error with the latest downloads was fixed, so they should no longer give a 501 Not Implemented error.

-Secondly, SpyBot45, the post notifier bot, now uses a proprietary URL shortener for post notifications on IRC. Instead of TinyURL it now uses OmniURL. This service only works for Omnimaga topic/post links, though. To access http://ourl.ca/7531/130785 for example, you would type http://omniurl.tk/4934/76661 . This should be useful to shorten the new post notices without adding too much load on TinyURL and also to link to replies/threads in IRC channel topics, for example.

-Third, do you remember this? Well, now the forum themes were all modified so each topic that got attachments in it shows an icon and the total amount of attachments in them. Clicking the icon or the number opens a pop-up listing all attachments included in the topic in a more convenient way than what we had. It should make it much easier to download a program without having to search through 90 pages of posts.

It also looks like everyone can access the site again now. Tuesday morning, only a few people could get in, then during evening most people could, except some ISPs in Australia, China and some schools. Quigibo was one of the last person to be able to get in again. :P Sorry again for the long downtimes the move might have caused to some people.

Enjoy!

UPDATE: Fixed time offset error on the board stats page for daily/weekly/monthly top 10 posters/topic starters.
« Last Edit: October 21, 2010, 01:40:13 am by DJ Omnimaga »

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Re: Site updates
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2010, 12:14:13 am »
Yay. the site's working completely again!
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Re: Site updates
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2010, 12:15:38 am »
Don't forget to mention that it's fast as hell now. :P
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Re: Site updates
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2010, 12:19:02 am »
Oh I thought I did in the other news article O.o

EDIT: yep I did.
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Re: Site updates
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2010, 12:19:51 am »
Oh I thought I did in the other news article O.o

Ah, I didn't see it.
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Re: Site updates
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2010, 12:32:23 am »
Yeah I put it in the news. I was not sure at first since we just moved but now the load is still low.

Most page execution times are under 0.1 seconds now. They used to range between 0.5 and 1 seconds. The stat page, the heaviest page on the site, used to take between 3 and 40 seconds to generate. Now it takes less than a second! The new post page now takes like 0.2 seconds when it used to take about 1.  

Also I think Aspiration Hosting uses 2x faster processors and they got about 8x more RAM per server for shared hosting. On top of that Aspiration Hosting only puts a max of 80 sites per server for the plan I got and 1and1 could put around 1000-2000. Imagine when many of those sites were busy at once X.x
« Last Edit: October 21, 2010, 12:33:58 am by DJ Omnimaga »

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Re: Site updates
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2010, 11:04:36 am »
I really like that attachments feature! Is there a way to make it show up inside the topic as well (maybe at the top)?




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Re: Site updates
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2010, 06:52:48 pm »
Sadly nope. If I find a mod that lets me insert stuff above every first post, I could maybe iFrame it or something, but I doubt it.

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Re: Site updates
« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2010, 08:15:16 pm »
nice i love the attachment feature. very good!
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Re: Site updates
« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2010, 08:19:47 pm »
Sweetness!!!! Speed and new features!

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Re: Site updates
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2010, 11:26:06 pm »
Thankfully my budget allowed me this host. I was worried at first but I checked my finances and it seemed like I would easily be able to afford it. I could have afforded Aspiration Hosting's unmanaged basic dedicated server plan, but I did not feel like setting up a server and stuff x.x. I'll see later if I ever need more bandwidth. If bandwidth becomes an issue I can easily move the songs/videos back to the 1and1 host anyway.