03-30-2002, 06:15 PM
OK, I went over this a little before and I will do so again.
The main reasons for our changes are two fold.
First and foremost, it is to cut down on the CGI usage of the board. We are a high traffic site. Now, while we still are under our band width issues, the server has a server block in place to make sure that any site, which includes ours, doesn't crash the server. The CGI usage for dynamic pages kills us. So, I got rid of all the screnes that server as transfer pages which is just fuckin redundant. The quick reply also cuts posting ion half when it comes to CPU usage. Instead of using another, seperate page to post, it lets you do it right here. It also Gets you out to the main forums automaticly because when you are the last to post, why would you need to re read what you just typed? True, the new code buttons take a little to get used to and yes I know some of them are a little Quirky, but, for the most part it is a positive change. The drop down to the bottom of the page is something I will look to change even though I actually like it because everyone knows I don't read shit in the first place.
we lost the glow names for mods and a few other quirks are present because I just udpdated the board software comepletely without doing a fresh install. This means that a few silly things are going on and I will track them down eventually. Like the problem that was reported to me from someone using IE5, thats a tough one for me to locate because I use IE6 and these errors don't show on my browser.
Maynard is still a dick, all the fixes and hacks in the world won't change that and I still think BrokenJ is an asswipe.
As far as why FTL is no longer here. Well, your friendly nieghborhood mod does not like me or the site all that much. I know he has passed this along to other people and may or may not have posted shit like that elsewhere. He seems to have a thought process that it is a good thing we all left OA.com because we were not good posters in his limited eyes. Funny thing is, I don't fuckin care if he likes me or not actually. We are doing alot of work to make us our own site. Sure, we have alot of the same members and shit but in the long run, IU do think alot of you can make a distinct case that we are slowly making ourselves a different place altogether from our former home of our banter. I got rid of FTL because the fuckin rat faced goon was just wasting our CPU space and time by sitting on the board doing God knows what. He would lurk for days at a time and suddenly, I am seeing and hearing about slight changes on Oa that just seem a little to familar to me and that doesn't fuckin fly with me.
Another thing most of you are in the dark about and have no clue about is the announcements from OA.com and shit. Well, I know a little more about them then just about all of you combined times 2. One of the real big announcements was going to be the drop of the OA.com name and the renaming of that said site to The hell Hole. Matt and I discussed shit and the convo turned to a possible merger of this site with Oa under the hell Hole banner. I was thinking that since most of you still have active accounts on OA and the site was basiclly going to mirror ours if the change went through, then, why have two sites about the same fuckin thing with the same people as well? I wanted to make sure everyone still had a place to post and shit because our cgi usage was getting pretty fucked up around the same time Anthony threw his temper tamtrum. It seemed like a good fit and fix to everyones problems. GS even did his thread calming the masses down for he knew of what was on the table.
I had second thoughts rather quickly. Now, while I would have been a mod, yes, my third tour in message board Nam, no other mods from here had the welcome wagon to be mods as well. But, all his mods stay. What the fuck is that happy horseshit anyway? If anything, CDIH has proven that we are a viable choice of a message board even though we have some short comings. I would only be a mod and really have no say in board policy. This is why I was MIA for a week for I was mulling all the shit over at the times that I would have been posting. I also knew Matt couldn't walk from the OA shit because thats his shtick. I do not fault him for this in the least. What I fault him for is making all of us here at CDIH a back up plan. I don't think that we with our almost 40K posts should be a back up for anyone. He would have gained more by this than us for he would have seen the return of his quality posters. You don't think we are quality? Go look at that site ans tell me how we rate in the topic comparision since alot of us walked and posted exclusively here. I made my decission to stick with CDIH as only my mods can atest to for I posted about this shit a week ago in our forum. I do want to thank the mods for they showed great restraint while holding a smoking gun concerning this ifo and it never got back to me that others knew the deal.
As for the silly ass shit being said that we can't afford the site and shit, you couldn't be more wrong. I even offered the server CO. to up our plan but they actually said that it wouldn't help us and said we should try and use a more efficant software instead. If money ever becomes an issue, I will give you all the heads up and we will decide from there what our best course of action will be. You have my word on that. For now, I will do every update and install every hack that may help with our cgi problem. If it doesn't work out, we will, as in all of us from the mods to the members to even Buttmunch and Fezzy, will figure out what we will do.CDIH is not goping fuckin anywhere.
The main reasons for our changes are two fold.
First and foremost, it is to cut down on the CGI usage of the board. We are a high traffic site. Now, while we still are under our band width issues, the server has a server block in place to make sure that any site, which includes ours, doesn't crash the server. The CGI usage for dynamic pages kills us. So, I got rid of all the screnes that server as transfer pages which is just fuckin redundant. The quick reply also cuts posting ion half when it comes to CPU usage. Instead of using another, seperate page to post, it lets you do it right here. It also Gets you out to the main forums automaticly because when you are the last to post, why would you need to re read what you just typed? True, the new code buttons take a little to get used to and yes I know some of them are a little Quirky, but, for the most part it is a positive change. The drop down to the bottom of the page is something I will look to change even though I actually like it because everyone knows I don't read shit in the first place.
we lost the glow names for mods and a few other quirks are present because I just udpdated the board software comepletely without doing a fresh install. This means that a few silly things are going on and I will track them down eventually. Like the problem that was reported to me from someone using IE5, thats a tough one for me to locate because I use IE6 and these errors don't show on my browser.
Maynard is still a dick, all the fixes and hacks in the world won't change that and I still think BrokenJ is an asswipe.
As far as why FTL is no longer here. Well, your friendly nieghborhood mod does not like me or the site all that much. I know he has passed this along to other people and may or may not have posted shit like that elsewhere. He seems to have a thought process that it is a good thing we all left OA.com because we were not good posters in his limited eyes. Funny thing is, I don't fuckin care if he likes me or not actually. We are doing alot of work to make us our own site. Sure, we have alot of the same members and shit but in the long run, IU do think alot of you can make a distinct case that we are slowly making ourselves a different place altogether from our former home of our banter. I got rid of FTL because the fuckin rat faced goon was just wasting our CPU space and time by sitting on the board doing God knows what. He would lurk for days at a time and suddenly, I am seeing and hearing about slight changes on Oa that just seem a little to familar to me and that doesn't fuckin fly with me.
Another thing most of you are in the dark about and have no clue about is the announcements from OA.com and shit. Well, I know a little more about them then just about all of you combined times 2. One of the real big announcements was going to be the drop of the OA.com name and the renaming of that said site to The hell Hole. Matt and I discussed shit and the convo turned to a possible merger of this site with Oa under the hell Hole banner. I was thinking that since most of you still have active accounts on OA and the site was basiclly going to mirror ours if the change went through, then, why have two sites about the same fuckin thing with the same people as well? I wanted to make sure everyone still had a place to post and shit because our cgi usage was getting pretty fucked up around the same time Anthony threw his temper tamtrum. It seemed like a good fit and fix to everyones problems. GS even did his thread calming the masses down for he knew of what was on the table.
I had second thoughts rather quickly. Now, while I would have been a mod, yes, my third tour in message board Nam, no other mods from here had the welcome wagon to be mods as well. But, all his mods stay. What the fuck is that happy horseshit anyway? If anything, CDIH has proven that we are a viable choice of a message board even though we have some short comings. I would only be a mod and really have no say in board policy. This is why I was MIA for a week for I was mulling all the shit over at the times that I would have been posting. I also knew Matt couldn't walk from the OA shit because thats his shtick. I do not fault him for this in the least. What I fault him for is making all of us here at CDIH a back up plan. I don't think that we with our almost 40K posts should be a back up for anyone. He would have gained more by this than us for he would have seen the return of his quality posters. You don't think we are quality? Go look at that site ans tell me how we rate in the topic comparision since alot of us walked and posted exclusively here. I made my decission to stick with CDIH as only my mods can atest to for I posted about this shit a week ago in our forum. I do want to thank the mods for they showed great restraint while holding a smoking gun concerning this ifo and it never got back to me that others knew the deal.
As for the silly ass shit being said that we can't afford the site and shit, you couldn't be more wrong. I even offered the server CO. to up our plan but they actually said that it wouldn't help us and said we should try and use a more efficant software instead. If money ever becomes an issue, I will give you all the heads up and we will decide from there what our best course of action will be. You have my word on that. For now, I will do every update and install every hack that may help with our cgi problem. If it doesn't work out, we will, as in all of us from the mods to the members to even Buttmunch and Fezzy, will figure out what we will do.CDIH is not goping fuckin anywhere.
Are we going to get the smilies back?