Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:52 pm by elbowmacaroni
Well, here's the scoop... the jackholes who made the "mod" for the pm search, gave very lousy instructions. As following them breaks a TON of stuff. Fortunately for the users, 99.9999% of these issues were not experienced by anyone on the site as I use a second copy of the site AND A SECOND COPY OF THE DATABASE to test new things on before putting them onto the live site. Just this small inconvenience.
Sorry that it took a couple hours after being reported to me, but I had to run some errands, (pick up and feed the kid, etc...) and as soon as I had a chance it was fixed quickly. Rather than reload the altered files from the backup thereby removing the new feature, I chose to let this matter wait a couple hours as it wasn't something that really prevented the site from being used. It only prevented moving, marking and deleting PMs which honestly is something that isn't going to hurt anyone to have to wait an hour or two.
Rest assured that we now have nightly backups (to an off-server location and stored on mirrored drives) of the site, images, and the database, so that in the event of anything catastrophic we can return the board to the previous day's state. Since taking over as site admin, I have put many many MANY hours into improving the site functionality, performance, adding the full system backups, extensive search engine optimization changes, and more... Most of the changes I've made to the function of the site have not been mentioned publicly as a large amount of what has been done does not directly impact end user utility. Others, were not mentioned as they were just minor tweaks or repositioning of items, etc... just not worth mentioning.
And really Lew, do you think we're that stupid to not know that "test" you? UK IP address, email address for the account being your email address...
I don't deny that you have done alot for the site over the years. Hell, if it weren't for you starting it up, the site wouldn't even exist in the first place. But dude, it would have been nice if you had not flown off the handle and burned your bridges.
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