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I want my 250 posts back!
De La Soul ^ | 8.11.04 | me myself and I

Posted on 08/11/2004 1:59:20 PM PDT by Xenalyte

So lots of changes to FR lately . . . and change is good.

Except for one change.

When I go to a thread - any thread - I can only see 50 posts at a time. That's not enough. I want as many answers per page as I can get - 250, the way it used to be!

I've gone to More, then to My Preferences, and set Views to 250. Several times.


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To: stands2reason

I have it selected. I have some of the teasers, but I'd say a good 1/3 of the posts don't have one.


61 posted on 08/11/2004 2:40:32 PM PDT by jtminton (Kerry/Edwards 2004: It's Boring in America again!)
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To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson

60-some posts in, it occurred to me to ping the guys who might actually be able to fix it. :)


62 posted on 08/11/2004 2:42:08 PM PDT by Xenalyte (I love this job more than I love taffy, and I'm a man who loves his taffy.)
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To: Quix
My total posts were up over 95,000 or so. And now they are down around 21,000 or so.

Where do you find where the "My total posts" are located?

The only stats I see for us are "You've posted a total of 965 threads and 6,744 replies."

63 posted on 08/11/2004 2:43:41 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: Xenalyte

That's OK, they were probably out getting their beebers de-stuned.


64 posted on 08/11/2004 2:50:51 PM PDT by Argh
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To: Xenalyte

Bump for an understanding of recent FR changes


65 posted on 08/11/2004 3:00:07 PM PDT by Texans
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To: demlosers

THAT'S IT!

I was calling "replies" "posts."

--on your personal page or some such.

Thx.


66 posted on 08/11/2004 3:05:00 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: Xenalyte; Admin Moderator; Jim Robinson

And I would like to know why the MODS move news articles to BLOGGERS!

And then don't answer.


67 posted on 08/11/2004 3:08:23 PM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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To: Xenalyte

And your base does belong to me :)


68 posted on 08/11/2004 3:08:50 PM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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To: COUNTrecount

69 posted on 08/11/2004 3:10:08 PM PDT by Calpernia ("People never like what they don't understand")
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To: stands2reason

THANK-YOU!!!!!!!!


70 posted on 08/11/2004 3:13:56 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Bush is Hell on liberals and terrorists.)
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To: Constitution Day
want to see the # of thread views again. That was up for a few days and now it's gone.

They used to have that in the old days until there started to be bandwidth or database problems so they took it off. They had a little chart of how many were lurking and how many logged on. It was kind of kewl in a small-town way.

71 posted on 08/11/2004 3:14:17 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: Xenalyte; John Robinson

I don't do 250 but I like 100. I hate 50! I'm with you Xena, I want my 100 back! I asked John for it a couple of days ago on another thread and haven't yet heard back.


72 posted on 08/11/2004 3:15:45 PM PDT by Sally'sConcerns (It's painless to be a monthly donor!)
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To: Xenalyte

Thanks for raising the issue. I'll be interested in hearing our host's reply.


73 posted on 08/11/2004 3:15:48 PM PDT by jimt
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To: Xenalyte

Oh yeah! Stune my beeber, baby!


74 posted on 08/11/2004 3:46:25 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Liberals - The Other White Meat.)
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To: Constitution Day
"I want to see the # of thread views again. That was up for a few days and now it's gone."

Weird. Yesterday, I didn't get the numbers on my Netscape browser, but today I do.
I don't see them on IE, but I do on Safari. :)
75 posted on 08/11/2004 4:33:56 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: Xenalyte; Sally'sConcerns; Quix; Constitution Day; All

250 results is putting an incredible strain on the database. I have a switch that allows me to put a hard limit on the number of results returned, and I'm playing around with different hard limits in order to find one reasonable. [50 seems to be it, btw.] However, this is temporary, I have more programming to do, I can cache more things, and we ARE under a heavier-than-average load. Hence, we're in "overload".

And, after running view counts for awhile, I found that I cannot do them in (quasi-)realtime without more programming. I am still recording views, just not displaying them.

[geek]
For those interested in the technical aspect of the later, I cannot perform concurrent UPDATEs and SELECTs on the same table. Every update blocks all selects, and that gums up the works. MySQL updates of MyISAM tables are table locked on update. :-( [But they do allow concurrent INSERTs and SELECTs--so it isn't all sucky.] I haven't investigated the other table types, it may be possible to use e.g. a heap table for just the counters that have been updated. I'd sync the counter table with the main table during the night for permanence. (Heap tables are RAM only--they vanish when the daemon/server goes down.) Or, I could do away with UPDATE and use INSERT on a table, and just sum the counts for a group of articles. Syncing during the night to remove rows. I have options. (BTW, I'd probably use Memcached to increment a per article counter so I don't have to do a GROUP operation for every article I want counts on, I'd just use the in-memory cache for the realtime reporting.)
[/geek]


76 posted on 08/11/2004 5:42:09 PM PDT by John Robinson
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To: Xenalyte

Have you thought to blame George Bush yet?


77 posted on 08/11/2004 5:43:39 PM PDT by Osage Orange (STOP REPEAT OFFENDERS...DON'T RE-ELECT THEM..!!!)
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To: Xenalyte

LOL!!!


78 posted on 08/11/2004 5:44:04 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: John Robinson

Exactly what I figured!

;^)


79 posted on 08/11/2004 5:48:45 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Stune??? LOL


80 posted on 08/11/2004 5:51:33 PM PDT by cyborg
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