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Liz Heard
Senior Member Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Location: South West Status: Offline Points: 1429 |
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during such crises, baby sues HILARIOUS emoticon reflects my frustration perfectly! eternally grateful to Gemma, Caleb et al for this premiere site though. no signs of inbreeding depression on RAUK. its as diverse as one could (presently) reasonably expect and all levels of interest/knowledge are catered for. theres plenty of fun too. love it. its good to connect. few tadpoles will become an adult frog and similarly, few of us herp lovers will ever have what it takes to become a herpetologist. i dont care. we are all on the same side arent we? ben |
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Your speech has made me all emotional Ben. |
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Iowarth
Admin Group Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Status: Offline Points: 743 |
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Hi Sue/Ben/Suzi ... and everyone else
I'm sorry about the error messages you and others (including me!) are getting. There are two causes. One is simply that the popularity and consequent volume that RAUK carries is really beyond what the software is designed for. A simple solution would be to upgrade to a much more powerful database and a more modern interface. This however, would create a cost which is many orders of magnitude beyond what I currently pay - and in the current economic climate I cannot look to ARC/ARG for a further contribution. I do plan to move to a new much more powerful solution but this is a huge job. The second reason is that over the as few months we have suffered at the hands of some of the relatively small group of sub-human morons who take delight in screwing up forums. In this case,our membership has shot up from about 2,500 to in excess of 20,000 in three months! All of these people are, basically spammers (and, of course, scum of the lowest order) At some point over the next few days I will be closing the forum to new posts for a few hours to exterminate these people from the database. Once again, my apologies. I will do my best to resolve. All the best Chris |
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Chris Davis, Site Administrator
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Iowarth
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Hi everyone
As a short term measure to try to improve things I have temporarily suspended new member registration and deleted every inactive member who has made no posts. My sincere apologies if I have inadvertently deleted anyone who I shouldn't have. This has knocked about 19,000 (non) members on the head which should help things along. Even with this done, the underlying database at around 53Mb, together with the heavy usage means that we are pushing the capability of the current software to its limits. As a longer term measure it is very likely that I will have to close this forum to new posts (although it will remain available to view history) and create a new forum. Unfortunately, this would need people to re-register. I would be very grateful for any views that anyone might care to offer. All the best Chris |
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Chris Davis, Site Administrator
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I have no suggestions only a comment: - I like this forum just the way it is, I donĘt want a new forum, I want this one, I wanna play here. |
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Iowarth
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Hi Sue
Believe you me, I don't want to go through the hassle either. But, new or old, I hope you will continue to play with us! In the meantime EVERYONE PLEASE NOTE. I AM CLOSING THE FORUM TO NEW POSTS FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. This is so that I can compact and repair the database. Things are so bad at the moment that I can't even perform some of the Administration tasks. All the best Chris |
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Robert V
Senior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1264 |
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Chris,
I tried to PM you this morning and it says your box is full to bursting so wont send!!
Rob
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Iowarth
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Whooooops!! Who shall police the policeman?? Have another go Rob Chris |
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AGILIS
Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1689 |
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Hi Chris any chance on a increase on the amount of photos that can be uploaded, as I have found it a bit restrictive ,and keep having to delete some of my past postings that were quite informative pics. keith
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Iowarth
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Hi Keith I'll look into this. The underlying problem is that we do have a restricted space on the server and I certainly can't afford to pay for more. Have you tried hosting your photos on one of the photo hosting websites and linking to them instead? All the best Chris |
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