K_N

Your idea didn't matter before. Having a normal TLD exposes us to 10 times as much traffic.

Yup. Right now I'm working on putting tech support agents out of a job.

That's kind of what I do for a living. Except more advanced.

Bottom of my list of things to fix atm

Tell him to check his spam folder for the email. Otherwise, he can have you PM one of us what he wants his password changed to.

SimplePortal causes the most issues. Rather, exacerbates them. The issue is that SMF makes a lot of unoptimized, load-heavy queries. SimplePortal adds a bunch more to every pageload - especially in forum thread listings.

Right now I'm focusing on fixing the slowness issues first. Unfortunately the biggest cause of slowness is the system that gives us the most features.

I have!

I mean, each of you is free to contribute your programming or sysadmin skills as well as money for hosting fees if you feel things aren't good enough. I'm certainly not going to refuse.

Nips_Of_A_Angel

The doohickey that lets the site talk to the server so it can save the posts and stuff was old and the server doesn't talk that way anymore so I had to make it use a different way to talk to the server, otherwise we'd have to use old stuff on the server that's easily hacked.

The Likes plugin is not functioning correctly after the move. I'm not sure why it isn't, but it's on the bottom of my list of things to fix right now.

It does "update". Just not meaningfully. For example I had to hack the source code just to get it to use a modern database API so we don't have to run it on an insecure version of the PHP interpreter.

That's fine, but don't expect your experience on the web to work normally when you disable a core part of it's functionality.

Why don't you globally accept cookies? That's incredibly silly. We changed domains recently, that's all.

It is not being actively developed. 2.0 came out around my 21st birthday and I'm almost 30. There's a big difference between an active project and one that's had a little work done recently.

Bots and non-logged in users can't view any part of the board anymore.

I'll fix the like button thing at some point. Right now my concern is speeding things up. Particularly finding exactly what is causing the slowdown and fixing that part.

What he said.

It's too many database calls combined with too many users at once. Or something Viper and Admin installed that's hammering the database.

It's software that hasn't been actively developed in 7 years that our admin doesn't want to switch off of because we'll lose features. You can't "optimize" too many database queries.

Yeah, for some reason we got a huge influx of guest/spammers. I just disabled their ability to see the board so that should help a lot.

Try the password reset now.

You do. To me.

We have a load average of ~50 active users, occasionally up to 100. 20 would be easy.