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What's with the locked topics at SB?

Arankor's To Rule quest was locked as well. It displeases me.
 
Well facehugger mention that he got no idea as for why those where locked.
 
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Scia said:
Well facehugger mention that he got no idea as for why those where locked.
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uh, maybe one of the other mods is experimenting with a way to cut down on lag?
 
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or made a mistake as someone reported them for being overlengh *shrug*
 
SuperS4 justanswered that they apparently don't know why it happenned and they are going to try and fix it.
 
Well, that's a weird possible abuse of power by one of the mods.
However, I'm sure it was a mistake.
 
On the bright side a sudden loss in faith of SB will be good for this site.
 
MrGazzer said:
As if the horrible amount of lag wasn't already doing that.
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Funny enough, we only got a handful of people from that.

Like, I haven't seen more then a half dopen new ppl since the lag got bad, and they're all for rihaku quest.
 
We have an answer. Quoting from SB...

Thanatos locked those threads because they were high volume due to their massive pagecounts, not for any other reason. This is because the lag has been getting worse and worse, and BROB is the driving factor in why. He can't currently get on SB at the moment, so asked someone to come and clear this up.

In short guys, there's no reason why people can't make new threads of the Quests or RPs that were closed down- just try not to go over a fifty to a hundred pages this time, which is what has been thrown around as the figure for the new page limit.
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Megaolix said:
We have an answer. Quoting from SB...
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Somewhat irritated that Thanatos apparently just decided to do this at random, without telling anyone what he was doing or why (including his fellow mods).

Still, I can kind of see the point. Lag has gotten worse over time, even with the 200 page limit.
 
That seems incredibly random, locking them without any sort of warning or explaination. And impairing the ability to link to new threads. Also has crossover pics been locked? It's much worse than any other thread.
 
Vindictus said:
Somewhat irritated that Thanatos apparently just decided to do this at random, without telling anyone what he was doing or why (including his fellow mods).
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Actually, he tried. But he was unable to reach SB to do so. Quoting him...

I tried to create a thread earlier but since the site is basically taking a shit, I am preemptively closing the larger threads that I could get to.
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Can you guys tell me where this is happening because the thread by Super S4 in BROB just vanished for some reason.
 
On the general forums, a thread called Thread Locks
 
Thanatos just posted a thread in CrW 10 minutes ago. He's experimenting with the lag issue, heres the post:

So as many people have noted, their threads may or may not be locked. I apologize for the delay in this message explaining why but server\isp issues prevented me from creating this thread earlier.

Basically, as you may have noticed, the site has been having some latency issues and so as an experiment I have closed the largest active threads to see if that makes any kind of difference. While this is not an official policy, I will talk to the admins on the site about changing the limit to one hundred pages, as we had a very large number of active threads with post counts over 2500.

Please feel free to continue any closed threads.
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Irritating and inconvenient but no purge.
 
I have noticed that we've gotten quite a bit of traffic today. Hopefully some of them decide to stick around. :)
 
The lag problem at SB isn't because of the threads, it's because the server is shitty and cannot easily support a thousand connections.
 
They got dos by regular usage?
 
Well, the lag still sucks although maybe not AS bad is it can be, but I'm not sure this counts as a significant improvement because I'm still refreshing the same pages multiple times to get it to work.
 
Hymn of Ragnarok said:
Well, the lag still sucks although maybe not AS bad is it can be, but I'm not sure this counts as a significant improvement because I'm still refreshing the same pages multiple times to get it to work.
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You got a page to work?!

also i think this proves it has very little to do with posts, and thus BROB/CrW.
 
Carrnage said:
You got a page to work?!

also i think this proves it has very little to do with posts, and thus BROB/CrW.
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Sometimes! At one point I actually loaded multiple pages of topics and they loaded in seconds. I was annoyed, because I'd been trying to get Killer for Hire to reload so I could see if my post got through.

Spoiler warning: it didn't.
 
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You got a page to work?!

also i think this proves it has very little to do with posts, and thus BROB/CrW.
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I normally just select or reload a page and then go do something else until it finally loads.
 
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I normally just select or reload a page and then go do something else until it finally loads.
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Same. Often several pages and hope one sticks while I read something non-laggy. Or open the same page several times if I really want to read what's there.

Opening a page without targeting a specific post also seems to help.
 
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The lag problem at SB isn't because of the threads, it's because the server is shitty and cannot easily support a thousand connections.
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How do you figure that? I mean i'm not implying that the server isn't bad, but just the dismissal that the threads could contribute to it.

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also i think this proves it has very little to do with posts, and thus BROB/CrW.
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Why? I mean, the threads on there are somewhat of a drop in bucket for BROB.
 
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How do you figure that? I mean i'm not implying that the server isn't bad, but just the dismissal that the threads could contribute to it.
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Well, what I meant was that the threads themselves aren't the culprit, it's the attention they draw. Hundreds of people refreshing the page to see the newest posts means quite a bit of server load. Locking the threads isn't going to help that if people simply start new threads.
 
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Well, what I meant was that the threads themselves aren't the culprit, it's the attention they draw. Hundreds of people refreshing the page to see the newest posts means quite a bit of server load. Locking the threads isn't going to help that if people simply start new threads.
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I thought it would help because Xenofor is loading the whole thread when you open a page of it instead of only loading that page? At least if I remember it right.
 
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