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Site Feedback and Questions / Re: Dear Omnimaga
« on: November 13, 2014, 06:05:14 pm »
There have been many reported issues that were literally ignored. Part of the issue is http://ourl.ca/issue. That thing is in no way a proper issue tracker. This subforum is a much better place to be heard, but you guys are encouraging the use of an unusable feature instead.
You are correct, that is not a proper issue tracker, we could be more transparent on our issue managment. I can tell you though that there are only eight issues currently on the issue queue, of them only three haven't been touched yet. Some "issues" reported with ourl.ca/issue are not concidered an issue but a request (Which should use ourl.ca/request) and have been moved to that queue instead. That queue is much larger currently, but since it's not a break in functionality, implementing it has a lower priority then the issue log.
If you feel that there are many issues that have been ignored, could you compile a list of them and bring them to us so we can let you know what has happened with them and why?

In response to the fact that you called ourl.ca/issue unusable, could you let me know how it is unusable? As far as I can see people have been able to submit issues and we have been able to resolve them. While yes, the public can't see what is going on in the issue tracker behind the scenes, things are being done. There is also a plan in place to replace it with a proper issue tracker that will have email notifications and more for users. The issue with the subforum is that it also is not a proper issue tracker. Things reported there are easily lost and forgotten about. With the tool we are currently using, it is rather easy to see how many issues there are, who is working on them, what their priority is and if anything

In my experience, Eeems can come across as over-bearing, but my disagreements with him are almost certainly not the ones you have. People never see 90+% of administrative discussions because we deliberately keep them out of public.
I'm just use to being very direct with people I feel comfortable with :(

Tell us. Pull someone aside in a PM and say "what he did was not cool, here are the logs". I have personally called other admins out for being arses before and I'll have no problem either doing it again or explaining why it was not as it may seem. We're here to listen to you, but we can do our job much more effectively if you talk to us.
Thank you for calling me out when you do btw. I quite appreciate it.
So we were saying "we feel that Eeems is not perfect".
And you answered "he's the most perfect of all our admins, he does everything".
That is not what they are saying, and that is not how you have come across with this. When a public "petition" is posted about a specific person without first talking to that person about your grievances and trying to resolve them. When you have also not talked with the other authorities and brought your grievances forward. Then no matter what your intentions are the person brought into question, and the authorities who you have also spurned will see this as an attack against the person in question.
What was said was also not that I was the most perfect of all the admins, it was only that I am the most publicly facing of all admins and that I'm not acting on my own whims.
Well maybe what this means is that since Eeems has to do everything on his own, he's getting stressed out and gets bitter sometimes when some of us complain about almost nothing when he made so much work.
I do not have to do everything on my own, but quite often I have to go out of my way to make sure that the other admins get involved in things in a timely manner. This is something we are working on for our internal process. It's understandable that they are quite busy with their schooling/work. I'm one of the lucky ones who works on a computer all day long and thus able to see things almost as they happen and react (Unless I'm busy in meetings).
I do get stress though and sometimes a little bitter about people complaining about things that I'm working hard on implementing. Thus is the life of a sysadmin.
So maybe we were actually not targetting at the right problem, but that doesn't mean there is no problem.
I agree
There's a reason why we didn't talk of it with other admins, it's because we never see them. Maybe they come once a day and do things but we never hear of them, we only see Eeems, we can only talk to Eeems.
I'm pretty sure geekboy is on a lot, and shmibs is on in the evening every day or so.
So maybe admins should be more present, or more numerous, or both, so that Eeems doesn't have to do everything on his own, and he'll be less stressed out and nicer, and we would feel better. Plus, work would be done faster.
I would like for them to be more active and to help with the issue/request logs, I prod them about it almost daily. I usually am nicer when I have no stress :)
Sorry Eeems if we have hurt you if it wasn't your fault. But since you were the only one present and bitter (probably due to being tired), we felt like you were the problem even though probably not.
I wouldn't say I was all that bitter at the time. Thank you for the apology though, it's greatly appreciated :)
In disagreement with the OP, http://ourl.ca/issue is not ineffective. If you prod an admin about something you put in the issue form, they will tell you the result, BUT in my experience, only after you prod them. I think communication with the user who sent in the issue should be mandatory through email or PM, so the user does not feel ignored, even when they aren't.
We are perfectly willing to tell you guys things, but since we are busy we don't activly prod you about issues unless we need your help in resolving it. I am working on a replacement for the issue system that will have full transparency in the process and have email notifications.
Also your the best Lobster Pimath <3
Almost as good as Netham, but he's not just a normal loberster
<3

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Site Feedback and Questions / Re: Sent PM not saved by default
« on: November 12, 2014, 02:54:00 pm »
I noticed that my sent PMs were not being saved. Turns out this option is disabled by default. I'm not sure what the reasoning behind this is (might just have been an oversight) but it sure as hell is annoying to not be able to review your sent PMs after you send them, so I'd like to suggest this option to be turned back on by default.
This was an oversight. I've enabled it by default on the current theme.

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News / Re: Migration Delayed
« on: November 08, 2014, 03:02:42 pm »
Oh, what's up?
http://chat.eeems.ca:9003/?server=irc.omnimaga.org%206667&channel=omnimaga&date=Sat%20Nov%2008%202014#1415476203295
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[19:50:03]< Eeems   > Alright, migration is delayed
[19:50:52]< Eeems   > It's either that or pay $30/month extra for servers
[19:51:12]< Eeems   > I have to wait until Monday to get into contact with their sales team to get a deal

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News / Migration Delayed
« on: November 08, 2014, 02:59:42 pm »
Due to some unforeseen circumstances with our provider. The migration will be delayed until further notice. I am expecting to get a reply from their sales department on Monday and will update everybody on when the migration will take place as soon as I do.

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Site Feedback and Questions / Re: Tapatalk nag
« on: November 06, 2014, 11:48:01 pm »
Yes and no. Yes I could go through their code and figure out how to disable it (since there is no setting for it). No I wont spend the time doing that because I have a lot more important things to deal with (like migration, backend services, my job etc) right now. I also don't want to modify too many things from their main codebase to make upgrading easy. We already have too much custom code that we have to manually deal with right now.

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News / Re: Upcoming downtime
« on: November 05, 2014, 05:35:52 pm »
What is the current platform and what is the new one? By the way will you get better technical specs like extra disk space, RAM and bandwidth?
We are just switching from their old internal platform (third party) to their new in house solution. I'm not sure on the specifics for resources (I haven't talked to their sales team yet) but I don't expect it to change. We currently have a lot of bandwidth and pretty good RAM/CPU specs. Our disk space is smaller then I'd like, but the disk speed (SSD) makes up for it. I also take steps to keep resource consumption (bandwidth/cpu/ram/disk) to a minimum where possible. Even though we have enough to spare, I'd rather keep as much extra unused so that we have a lot of breathing room if something happens.


EDIT: testing edit notifications. Ignore

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News / Re: Upcoming downtime
« on: November 05, 2014, 05:16:58 pm »
Oooh, new servers. Where are you guys going?
Just migrating platforms inside the same host. The current platform is rather unstable and they have recommended that we migrate off of it.

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News / Upcoming downtime
« on: November 05, 2014, 04:47:13 pm »
The servers/sites will be read only, and down for an unknown period this Saturday. We will be migrating everything over to new servers. Keep an eye on twitter during this time to know what is happening. The migrations will be staggered so that there will always be IRC access on Omninet. During this time I would suggest using irp.irc.omnimaga.org to keep from having to switch servers when they are brought offline though.

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General Calculator Help / Re: Purchase question
« on: November 04, 2014, 11:54:32 am »
Split post into a new topic.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Post your desktop
« on: November 03, 2014, 02:59:26 pm »
Ah sorry to hear. Does it break GIFs that are not resized or does it break all of them? That said, I seriously would hope that no one here would post a 1920x1080 gif of their desktop, especially not an animated one <_<
It breaks them all.
They wouldn't be able to upload a GIF that large due to file size constraints on attachments.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Post your desktop
« on: November 03, 2014, 12:58:21 pm »
Is there a SMF mod that auto resizes large images so that they fit in their post?

Although IMHO I encourage people to manually resize them in an editor before posting them or just put a link to it. Unlike myself, certain members have bandwidth caps.
Yes and no, You can automatically resize attachments, but that breaks gifs.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Post your desktop
« on: November 03, 2014, 12:27:59 pm »
I would like to remind people to limit the width of their images on this thread.
Eg:
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[img width=1000]http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/10600000/congrats-D-you-lost-the-game-10676796-750-600.jpg[/img]

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@eeems you know how DJ likes to exaggerate a bit :P such as saying I vanish for 3 months every year because I'm playing KSP. Wait, is that even an exaggeration?
Just because someone likes to exaggerate doesn't make it okay when what they are exaggerating on is calling into question the ability of others to properly do what they are suppose to do, which is what his statements are doing.

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I think in one or two cases  I didn't use the report form (I think it was because I was worried about spamming the report form for the same issue over and over) so that would probably be 4 or 5 times at least. I was skeptical since each time it never seemed to get fixed until after I complained about the issue.
That's probably because you were the only one who noticed it yet. I've fixed it myself when I've noticed multiple times.

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