GunslingerBara

GunslingerBara

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Reply to (Minor Request) Time Zones in Forum Issues

[quote who="DivingDuck" reply="3" id="2677743"]Can New Zealand cities get some love in the time zone list? Pretty please?!? You've got some pretty out there places in the list, just none of ours.[/quote] I used a standard list from another website for the locations. Does it really matter though? Most people know what timezone they are, the location names are just a formality. Bara

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Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="408" id="2676209"] Don't take this as me not believing you guys when you get these errors, I'm just saying don't get upset over it Bara Bara, have you seen this? https://forums.wincustomize.com/385636[/quote] I hadn't seen that, no. Looks awesome. I personally prefer more subtle skins but that looks great for a DT-themed skin. Someone should make one that is based more on the Dark Tower itself a

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Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues

At about 8AM this morning one of our web devs noticed that a setting was wrong for our servers hosting the forums. This setting was changed while we were trying to figure out the Demigod forums problem from earlier, and was never changed back. This has been fixed, so you should not be getting the "page not found" or "connection reset" errors anymore. Apologies for the mistake. And yes, it is "occasional." According to our database logs, there are maybe ~50 errors out of th

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Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="388" id="2675385"]Thanks for the update. Apparently it was not all in our head as some people tried to suggest nor was it linked to where we are located.[/quote] There may be some reduction in performance in locations outside of America. There are no plans to improve this in the near future, but the changes I make in the future may help overseas users too. Bara

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Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues

On July 1st we found out that our database re-indexing job stopped working properly due to our database logs reaching their maximum size limit allowed by the server. We increased the size limit (to double it's previous value) and did a manual re-indexing. That seemed to help the forums with performance issues. What the re-indexing job does is to recreate the indexes in the forum's database to help keep everything fast. If you're interested in how database inde

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Reply to Forums go Boom every time I try to post! in Forum Issues

An update: We had an idea of what may be causing the problem, so we dug through our database logs to verify. Turns out our idea wasn't correct, but it did help us to pinpoint where the problem may be coming from a bit better. We're going to continue looking into the issue today but unfortunately a fix may not be available until next week (if we come up with a solution by then). On the bright side, our database guy will be back from vacation next week so we'll have him look i

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