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Ads definitively lag and that's fine since they are served from a separate service and don't impact site content (though don't let that stop you supporting our sponsors ).
Rep history: yes, this is a known issue.
Overall site speed is something we're always working on. One issue is that the more rep you have the more systems are made available to you and the slower the page may become. Some of these like the moderation list are being worked on today.
We're also upgrading servers this week, with another jump in 6 weeks. Hopefully that injects some adrenaline into things.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I have big fingers.
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I would like to delete my account, registered with the address andreabioli@hotmail.com.
Thanks.
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It is even stranger that so many people cannot find their way to Your Settings[^] , and then scroll down to the checkbox on the right of the page titled "Close my account", and you can close it yourself.
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On the home page the recent discussions are shown. Among them are a few spam messages which had been deleted earlier, but still appear in the list. And below each entry:
Quote: null on The Lounge
Ok, null, come down and leave now. Otherwise the CP goon squad will come and show you the door.
[Ed. moved to Bugs and Suggestions]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Thanks for the report. I've moved your message to Bugs and Sugs. This issue, while not a security issues, has been reported here[^] and we're on it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I would have done that today. On a sunday afternoon I did not expect someone to work on it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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It happens sometimes to me too...
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On the home page there's the discussion area on the right hand side which shows latest messages from lounge. It seems that the area shows also messages that are moderated on in moderation.
At the moment the list contains four messages, all spam but when navigating to lounge, the messages are not there.
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Hi,
While looking at this question[^] in the C++ forum I remember answering similar questions many years ago.
Back on March 15, 2008 I answered a similar question by Jeffery Walton[^]. The question was how to determine if a variable/object address was created or being used in the current thread stack.
I am unable to access any part of that conversation...
Re: Determine Location of a Variable[^]
You are sitting on a literal goldmine of advanced C++ and Windows information. There is some *very* high quality information in many of those old posts. And much of it is still relevant. How difficult can it be to serve up old forum conversations? Also; does this mean in 2024 that everything posted this 2018 year will be missing?
Is there a technical reason why these old forum conversations are unavailable?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: Is there a technical reason why these old forum conversations are unavailable?
I suspect it is because of pagination.
Note that whenever you search for a message and click on the one you want, you're always served a whole page with 25 messages (default setting, I've opted for 50).
But since they are sorted by thread/message, where the messages are also shown as a tree, the database would need to sort all the messages until you reach the page it's on before you can select that page.
You would run out of memory for sorting quite quickly.
There are of course ways to lower the impact. The best one is to use PostGreSql, since it supports composite filtering. Which means you can use a sorted index. And serve any page at the same time
But I suspect CP is using SQL Server, where a clustering key sort could do quite a lot for performance. But not enough I'm afraid.
But until I'm told how the database is actually organised, I can only speculate.
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We had a slow database query. Fixed up an index and presto, you can see the 'missing' messages.
Make sure you scroll down to the message.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Thanks Matthew.
Matthew Dennis wrote: We had a slow database query.
I appreciate you looking into this. Everything seems to be working as expected.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
P.S.
I'd suggest writing some quick and dirty automated tests that run on the weekends. The SQL Server Profiler[^] can be used to detect those timeouts.
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Yep, This one[^] posted 448+ posts spams so far with in 1st day.
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In order to prevent spammers from flooding the message boards, should there be a time limit between messages. For example 1 message per minute until 1000 points reached or something similar?
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Any post repeated 5 times with less then 3 sentences and a URL should be suspect too.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have a feeling that the last update removed some of the rules in place.
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Wendelius wrote: For example 1 message per minute until 1000 points reached or something similar? FTFY
I can live with 1 message / minute and I have more than 1000 points
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Strongly agree. Mine was 8th report on this[^]. And that spammer was posting massive posts after my report.
One more suggestion:
If 5(or more) Protectors report a spammer, we should restrict the spammer to post & remove account.
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This has been on the TODO forever. I'll bump it
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The beta tester forum seems to be completely empty. Despite of the group membership the only text is
-- The discussion board is restricted and cannot be viewed by the general public --
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It's fine for me:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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