Greg

cool it everyone, or I'll lock this thread.

It can be slow on the weekends, but post a few more times and you'll be a full member in no time.

Sorry, didn't read the title of the thread before answering above. You can post an avatar AFTER you become a full member. So just keep going, you'll be a full member shortly.

@Americana Antifa, all new members need to make a few postings before they are elevated to full member status. This is a anti-spam measure, and we hope that you understand. Your most recent posts have been approved, just keep posting and you will be elevated to full member status shortly. Thanks!

To stop spammers, I have to manually approve the first five postings of each new member of the forums. To reduce the workload, and to improve the speed at which these new members are approved, I'm looking for a few volunteers to help out. The work load is ridiculously simple. You just have to review the moderation log, from time to time, and approve any new members who are not obviously spammers. And if a spammer does managed to "fool" me (or any of the new spam catchers), then all you have to do is mark them as a spammer. If you're interested, send me an email here: [email protected] Any questions, please post them below. Thanks!

Sorry about that Deluge, busy work. You should be good to go!

You’re correct, my mistake. It was @Rebound that claimed August was a “Russian Plant” I’m sorry about that.

I’ve known August for over eighteen years… he registered in these forums back in 2004. he’s the same guy now, as he was then. I’ll be honest, if there was ever a “plant” that was solely here to parrot a specific viewpoint, I’d say it was more likely to be you @robosmith.

Is that a joke? August has been around here nearly as long as me. @Rebound lets cut that type of talk out.

Ok, thanks looks like I’m gonna have to resize the VPS. thanks!

OK, I made some serious changes to the database this afternoon (which caused some downtime, sorry about that), and these changes should solve most of the problems we were having before. @Michael Hardner, @Contrarian can you revisit the Unread Content page, you should not be getting any 504 errors anymore. If anyone else wants to try, please visit this page: https://repolitics.com/forums/discover/unread/ And report back success or failure. Thanks!

OK, I'll be booking some downtime sometime this week. I'll be resizing the VPS, which shouldn't take longer than 30 min. I'll post a notice shortly before I begin the process.

Ok, thanks for keeping me in the loop. I may need to resize the VPS that the site is running on, it looks like we're getting more traffic, and that's impacting server load.