Slowness

[BeefMaster]

Allowing us to update the page is a crazy wonderful idea.

[fightonusc]

Yeah, I'm happy to contribute. I use Dreamweaver pretty regularly, so I can do some basic Web work on that end.

[defen]

Once I get the wikis moved over, I'm seriously considering setting up some sort of shared access system where people can make "blogs" and update the front page of the site.  Anyone here work with a CMS like Drupal or Wordpress?  I figure if I can get guys like fighton, TBG, Beefmaster etc an account to make RBI updates we might be able to resurrect the dying front page. 

I've done a decent amount with Wordpress (our corporate site runs off it, unfortunately), if you need extra help, which it doesn't sound like you do.

[nightwulf]

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print "People who use anything but vi for web coding are sissies.\n";
exit(0);

[fknmclane]

A little bit of both.  Basically whenever a relevant RBI article/player tidbit comes up, basically any forum heavy hitter can update the front page.  Then people can leave comments (or link to a new thread on the RBI page to comment) and we'll get people who aren't heavy forum posters checking it out on a regular basis...

The beauty of it is that making a front page update involves software that isn't much more difficult than posting on the forums - right now it's a PITA to hand-edit the page to do updates and it's only me/Lips/nightwulf who have the ability to do so...

If we were updating the front page this would be absolutely perfect: Mike Schmidt's public service announcement against the dangers of cocaine.

[BDawk]

Dee-nee 2.0...will never happen

[nightwulf]

Dee-nee 2.0...will never happen

It's already happening.

[Gantry]

...and it's spectacular!

[BDawk]

what a letdown...

[nightwulf]

what a letdown...

It's not "gone live" yet ... it's still sitting on a floor somewhere in Gantry's house while I frantically re-write the main site.

The real fun will be shutting the forums down long enough to move the database between servers.

[Big Hath]

if they can refuel an airplane in mid-air, surely dee nee can do it

[moses]

why is dee nee being a unreasonable today? It has shut me down no less than 3 times in the last 30 minutes.

[nightwulf]

why is dee nee being a unreasonable today? It has shut me down no less than 3 times in the last 30 minutes.

I've been doing some hand-editing of the forum database in preparation for "Dee-Nee 2.0" that may have caused a bit of slowdown while queries ran, but I haven't done any of that for the last half hour or so. Are you sure this isn't on your end?

[Mike D.]

TECH SUPPORTED!!!!

[fightonusc]

what a letdown...

It's the "Double Secret Mystery Guest" of forum upgrades...

[nightwulf]

Front page updates by forum members is coming along nicely ...

[BDawk]

It looks so different

[moses]

why is dee nee being a unreasonable today? It has shut me down no less than 3 times in the last 30 minutes.

I've been doing some hand-editing of the forum database in preparation for "Dee-Nee 2.0" that may have caused a bit of slowdown while queries ran, but I haven't done any of that for the last half hour or so. Are you sure this isn't on your end?

These are all lies, it just kicked me off again

[nightwulf]

These are all lies, it just kicked me off again

What, exactly, is happening?

[moses]

It keeps giving me some kind of 409 error server is busy, but all my other internets are working