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[pudge]

It's an extra load on the server but it is pretty easy to build into the software given a bit of time for testing and agreement from the Big Boss Man. But I'd like to explore the server load issues before coming down definitively.

Do you mean like a constant strain slowing down the site or that it would require some downtime to implement.

 

[Ric]

Do you mean like a constant strain slowing down the site or that it would require some downtime to implement.

The former.

 

[Paul Lake's Left Knee]

Speak for yourself; I never have posted shite.

 

[Damocles]

Do you mean like a constant strain slowing down the site or that it would require some downtime to implement.

Strain slowing it down.

Every user has a certain number representing their name. Every thread has a number representing it and every post has a number representing it.

Very basically, threads are a collection of posts that match the thread number and shown in order of date posted.

The functionality here is to note down the number of every thread you post in. Then when you load certain pages showing the threads, replace the icon with an icon with a dot for any thread numbers that match the thread numbers that you have posted in.

However, as we have tens of thousands of threads and tens of thousands of users a record would have to be kept for every single user and every single thread and whether they combine. It's not as expensive a query as it sounds but implemented wrongly then it could hurt us server wise in terms of slowing down the site. We'll need to look into it and how best implemented in this version of the software but it is by no means impossible.

 

[pudge]

The former.

Strain slowing it down.

Every user has a certain number representing their name. Every thread has a number representing it and every post has a number representing it.

Very basically, threads are a collection of posts that match the thread number and shown in order of date posted.

The functionality here is to note down the number of every thread you post in. Then when you load certain pages showing the threads, replace the icon with an icon with a dot for any thread numbers that match the thread numbers that you have posted in.

However, as we have tens of thousands of threads and tens of thousands of users a record would have to be kept for every single user and every single thread and whether they combine. It's not as expensive a query as it sounds but implemented wrongly then it could hurt us server wise in terms of slowing down the site. We'll need to look into it and how best implemented in this version of the software but it is by no means impossible.

Ah, balls to it then. Certainly not a pressing matter.

If we lose tomorrow you might be best trying it I suppose.

 

[jimharri]

Ah, balls to it then. Certainly not a pressing matter.

If we lose tomorrow you might be best trying it I suppose.

"If"?

 

[pudge]

"If"?

 

[SWP's back]

Which problem? The needy histrionics, the aggression or the lack of a go to page button?

The multiple quotes thing is why bill stopped I think.

 

[Centurions]

Strain slowing it down.

Every user has a certain number representing their name. Every thread has a number representing it and every post has a number representing it.

Very basically, threads are a collection of posts that match the thread number and shown in order of date posted.

The functionality here is to note down the number of every thread you post in. Then when you load certain pages showing the threads, replace the icon with an icon with a dot for any thread numbers that match the thread numbers that you have posted in.

However, as we have tens of thousands of threads and tens of thousands of users a record would have to be kept for every single user and every single thread and whether they combine. It's not as expensive a query as it sounds but implemented wrongly then it could hurt us server wise in terms of slowing down the site. We'll need to look into it and how best implemented in this version of the software but it is by no means impossible.

Just out of interest (OK, nosiness) would that have a financial implication or are the server rentals on a fixed cost basis?

 

[Centurions]

The multiple quotes thing is why bill stopped I think.

I meant to ask @Ric or @Damocles whether the problem with using double quotes within a post (and the quote then not getting repeated on the next post) is a separate issue to the multiple post problem. Or are they intertwined?