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Title: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Forum Admin on 01/10/05, 04:10:39 PM
Going to the new forum software, faster porn soon!
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Gantry on 01/10/05, 05:21:23 PM
Test post with the new software...
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Felonious Gunk on 01/10/05, 05:23:59 PM
...and I'd say it works... :P
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Gantry on 01/10/05, 05:36:31 PM
Yes, the upgrade was oh so painless, check the thread in anything goes if you notice things that aren't right.  Or new features, since we're all a little green with the software update...
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/11/05, 08:50:02 AM
New stats are cool, post per day, plus in profile you can check out posts per board and posts per time of day.  Also able to upload your own icon, sweet.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Gantry on 01/11/05, 09:22:44 AM
Lots of neat little tricks added.  Though it's a completely rewrite of the software, it behaves just like the old one.  All-in-all a good upgrade...
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: GDavis on 01/11/05, 01:38:37 PM
The quick reply thing is pretty cool
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: JoeDirt on 01/11/05, 02:36:27 PM
Quote from: GDavis on 01/11/05, 01:38:37 PM
The quick reply thing is pretty cool

what's that?
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Gantry on 01/11/05, 03:07:37 PM
Wow, this is cool!   Click on your name, then go to Look and Layout Preferences - you can enable quick reply all the time.  It shows on the bottom of the thread and you can reply on the same page...
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/11/05, 04:50:37 PM
Another cool new feature is that you can click on the people online and see the list of what everyone is doing, I highlighed some unusual or obvious occurences, note Joe Dirt constantly checking his tourney, one Guest checking an ancient RNI thread about Ground Ball Attribute, and 3 different guests checking the Favorite Beer thread:

ultimate7  04:47:22 PM Viewing Who's Online.
malnuboy  04:46:55 PM Posting a new topic in Anything Goes.
Guest  04:45:25 PM Viewing the topic Bad Guys vs. Good Guys.
Guest  04:44:19 PM Viewing the board index of Dee-Nee Forums.
Guest  04:42:40 PM Viewing the board RBI Baseball.
Guest  04:41:39 PM Viewing the topic All you liberals, quit your fucking crying.
  defen  04:41:25 PM Viewing the board index of Dee-Nee Forums.
Guest  04:41:07 PM Viewing the board index of Dee-Nee Forums.
Guest  04:40:58 PM Viewing the topic Wade Boggs: WATN.
DANIEL LARUSSO  04:40:31 PM Viewing the board Anything Goes.
Lips  04:39:55 PM Viewing Lips's profile.
Gantry  04:39:52 PM Viewing the board Anything Goes.
Guest  04:38:38 PM Viewing the topic Willie Hernandez.
Guest  04:37:57 PM Viewing the topic All you liberals, quit your fucking crying.
Guest  04:37:08 PM Viewing the board index of Dee-Nee Forums.
JerryD  04:36:30 PM Viewing the board index of Dee-Nee Forums.
Guest  04:35:30 PM Unknown Action
Guest  04:34:56 PM Viewing the topic Existence of the "groundball" attribute ?.
Guest  04:34:55 PM Viewing the topic How does one play online.
Guest  04:34:18 PM Viewing the topic What's your favorite beer?.
Guest  04:33:50 PM Printing the topic "All you liberals, quit your fucking crying".
Guest  04:33:44 PM Viewing the board index of Dee-Nee Forums.
   JoeDirt  04:33:25 PM Viewing the topic 2005 National RBI Tournament!!.
Guest  04:33:00 PM Viewing the topic What's your favorite beer?.
Guest  04:32:29 PM Viewing the topic What's your favorite beer?.
Guest  04:32:25 PM Viewing the topic What's your favorite beer?.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: JoeDirt on 01/11/05, 05:04:22 PM
Damn, even on the Internet, ultimate7 is stalking me.  :(
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: defen on 01/11/05, 05:05:20 PM
cheater
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/12/05, 08:32:23 AM
Quote from: JoeDirt on 01/11/05, 05:04:22 PM
Damn, even on the Internet, ultimate7 is stalking me. :(
I know you have that thread open all day, just hoping someone will post :)
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: BeefMaster on 01/12/05, 09:27:44 AM
QuoteGuest  04:35:30 PM Unknown Action

What do you suppose this is?
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/12/05, 09:36:55 AM
Maybe the guest was not in the forums, but looking at other parts of the Dee-Nee site, does it track that?
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Nails on 01/12/05, 10:07:34 AM
Quick reply is sweet.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/12/05, 11:35:54 AM
Here's another strange one, I've never printed anything from the forums before

Guest  11:23:38 AM Printing the topic "dee-nee.com updates for 8/16/2004".
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/12/05, 01:31:24 PM
Guest  01:23:45 PM Requesting a password reminder.

These new features have me wasting time at record levels.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: BeeJay on 01/12/05, 04:49:21 PM
Guest     05:53:39 PM     Printing the topic "BOOYA!(NSFW)"

Ha ha, these new stats crack me up.  If someone prints out my mecha Blyleven picture, I'm suing for copyright infringement.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: malnuboy on 01/12/05, 10:33:22 PM
its already my wallpaper
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Gantry on 01/13/05, 12:47:31 AM
Wow, very cool feature!   

Note that a lot of the guest shit is crazy because they are search engines poking around the site.  They are computers looking at all the pages & links, google & msn are a decent percentage of my hits on dee-nee proper...
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/13/05, 03:34:26 PM
Quote from: Gantry on 01/13/05, 12:47:31 AM
Wow, very cool feature!

Note that a lot of the guest shit is crazy because they are search engines poking around the site. They are computers looking at all the pages & links, google & msn are a decent percentage of my hits on dee-nee proper...

This doesn't really explain the printing of topics by Guests which I am finding to be fairly common, what are they doing printing to screen, is this how they archive it somehow?

Example added:

Guest  03:28:47 PM Printing the topic "Computer Play!".
Guest  03:28:18 PM Viewing the topic Computer Play!.
Guest  03:27:53 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:27:45 PM Printing the topic "Fantasy RBI Baseball - OFFICIAL DRAFT THREAD".
Guest  03:27:44 PM Viewing the topic Fantasy RBI Baseball - OFFICIAL DRAFT THREAD.
Guest  03:27:35 PM Viewing the topic Computer Play!.
Guest  03:27:27 PM Viewing the topic Computer Play!.
Guest  03:26:57 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:26:36 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:25:57 PM Printing the topic "RBI's All-Time Team - C". Guest  03:25:08 PM Viewing the topic RBI's All-Time Team - C.
Guest  03:24:32 PM Printing the topic "RBI Variations".
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: nightwulf on 01/13/05, 06:02:49 PM
Quote from: ultimate7 on 01/13/05, 03:34:26 PM
This doesn't really explain the printing of topics by Guests which I am finding to be fairly common, what are they doing printing to screen, is this how they archive it somehow?

It's possible, as the page generated by clicking "print" is much cleaner and more suitable for search engines. That said, I doubt any of the various webcrawlers used by search engines make that kind of distinction. They'd have to be able to identify when they're viewing pages generated by SMF software. This seems trivial, and it probably is, but remember that they'd need to make similar distinctions for every application commonly found that generates web content.

What's more likely is that they're simply following links. The main function of a webcrawler is to open and parse every link it ever finds. A "print" link is included on every topic page, and thus will be opened by any webcrawler looking for more information.

Nightwulf
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Gantry on 01/13/05, 06:07:56 PM
Exactly what nightwulf said, the crawlers typically follow every link on a page (unless excluded by a robots.txt file on the webserver, which I don't use).   One of those links is the print link, hence the "print" activity when you look.  No actual printing is done, mind you, just a computer going to the print link and recording the info that is sent back...
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: BeefMaster on 01/18/05, 03:53:08 PM
Spotted just now:

Guest      03:43:53 PM     Printing the topic "Offical Hot Chicks Thread and Liquor Thread (NSFW!!!)".

Must need some, um, bathroom reading.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Flood on 01/18/05, 05:49:49 PM
Beefmaster      03:43:53 PM     Printing the topic "Offical Hot Chicks Thread and Liquor Thread (NSFW!!!)".

Fucking explain yourself Beef...pervert.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/27/06, 02:05:15 PM
So it's officially been over a year since the new time stats have been kept, about 371 days now and BDawk has spent over 51 full days out of the 371 on Dee-Nee, over 13% of all of his time.  Impressive.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Bonny on 01/27/06, 02:25:07 PM
I think the time online thing started sometime in Nov '04.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: BDawk on 01/27/06, 03:32:56 PM
Quote from: ultimate7 on 01/27/06, 02:05:15 PM
So it's officially been over a year since the new time stats have been kept, about 371 days now and BDawk has spent over 51 full days out of the 371 on Dee-Nee, over 13% of all of his time.  Impressive.

I'm nor really here all the time. I'm just on the internet all the time and I never log out. I'm pretty sure that keeps my tally counting. I wish I had time to just sit and stare at dee-nee all day, but sadly no.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Attezz on 01/27/06, 03:43:11 PM
If I hadn't deleted my account like a vagina, I'd be right there with you, I think that everytime you hit a forum link it counts as at least fifteen minutes whether you log in or out, whenever I'm on the internet I check out dee-nee, so my timer's always counting.
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: ultimate7 on 01/28/06, 07:11:10 AM
Quote from: Attezz on 01/27/06, 03:43:11 PM
I think that everytime you hit a forum link it counts as at least fifteen minutes whether you log in or out, whenever I'm on the internet I check out dee-nee, so my timer's always counting.

I don't think this is true because I'm in and out all the time for just a minute or 2, and I don't rack up much time
Title: Re: Shutting down forums at 5pm
Post by: Attezz on 01/28/06, 10:15:39 AM
My bad, I know that sometimes at work I get logged out and when I check in as a guest it still shows my name as active, which kinda freaks me out.