Greg

New VPS first, then there are few other things I can do to improve the speed of the DB. I'll keep everyone updated. Thanks

The site needs to be move to a larger VPS - there is no hosting company, I manage the site via a VPS in a large datacenter in the United States. We use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy, for security and performance. However, over the past 2 decades the site has picked up 1.6M posts, and that means the MySQL db is quite large. Coupled with a fair amount of concurrent/active users, that can put strain on the underpowered VPS. However, the server migration is on my long list of things to do in Dec.

Man, I must sound like a broken record...

Weekends are slower, I apologize. @Fluffypants, you are now a full member, you're free to post at will. Thanks for your patience!

@theMadArtist All posts must have some copy, not just links or images. If you make another post without copy, it will be deleted.

Active moderation has not ceased and insults have always been present in some shape or form since the forums inception. My new policy is that members will not be censored or removed for the use of insults. Feel free to use them - but also know that your ideas will likely be tarnished and ignored. The forum is free of porn, spammers, etc - believe me, that takes active moderation on my part...

What makes you think the board even falls under the jurisdiction of the BC Human Rights code? It's been moved to the Support forum!

Here are a few from my old stomping grounds: Onefour - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onefour,_Alberta My father run Onefour substation for years, its remote as one can get in SE AB. Special Areas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Area_No._2 As a child l lived reasonably close to Special Areas, and outside of northern Alberta you're not going to find a place more empty. I've actually driven between Onefour and the northern part of Special Areas multiple times, and it's basically lonely gravel and crown lease land for as far as the eye can see. Gargantuan and Cleft caves in the Crowsnest Range - Google Map We used to hike up, camp and then go spelunking in the various caves in the region. It's about a 8 hour hike in, and it's moderately hard, so there isn't many people up there and it's definitely isolate. Don't get hurt up there, it'd be expensive to extract you!

You're not imagining it. A member requested account deletion, including removal of their content. What that happens, their posts and threads are removed, which unfortunately removes other postings ON those affected threads. I'm sorry this happened, but if I'm going to respect people's contributions, it means I have to abide by removal requests. Please start up another thread on the same topic, other members will certainly continue where they left off.

There are a number of features that can be tied into the warning points. We've never used them before (other than letting them stack up over the years), but I'm open to the idea, and exploring the use to auto-moderate specific forums/posts.

This thread is locked. Poor attempt at creating a topic. @MagaWillRise, you can try again.

The old content will be removed, likely reverted back to it's original domain, mapleleafweb.com. I have to deal with the migration issues first, once that is ironed out, I'll move the forum to the domain root.

Slight issue with the migration... The new server has been purchased, but there were multiple issues with the migration, so I had to bail and revert everything back to the old server. However, I've modified the caching again, and will attempt the server migration at a later time. Sorry for inconvenience. I'll update this thread when I have more info on the next migration window.

In order to upgrade the server the forum is running on, we're going to need to migrate the server. This is going to require some downtime. Thanks!

Unusable?... and you wonder why I don't take your reports seriously.

Just so everyone understands, the cache has to be built, before it can actually serve any data. I suspect that the slow downs are the result of the cache being slowly built. Which is why I want to give it a few days, so that should provide enough traffic that the redis cache can cache what it needs to, and then we should have a speed increase in database requests. However, redis isn't really my specialty, so it might not be the best choice. We were using it before, but I've increased its usage to include sessions and topic view counters.

I've activated some database caching today... lets give it a day or two, and if the unresponsiveness continues, I'll remove the caching (which is supposed to help, not hinder). Thanks

@OftenWrong... I just realized, can't you just use the "Follow" feature to follow those topics/members that you want to enjoy? In the above screenshot, I followed two topics, and then I visited the Activity section, selected My Activity Streams, and selected Content I Follow. You can then use the dropdowns to filter the results even more... Would this not accomplish what you want? You can even save the newly created activity stream, and make it your default view.

I'll look into it. But one hack would be to create a club, that only contains yourself. Then in the club, post the links to the thread you like most. But I will look into a plugin that provides a bookmarking feature you describe.

I'm genuinely interested in making this place a better forum. But by and large, most of the suggestions are "we need more censorship", "we need more moderation of ideas I don't like", "we need [insert feature] that will solve all the problems I feel are important." I'm not going to discourage people from making these types suggestions, but I'm also not going to waste time addressing them. The VAST majority of forum members have no problem with each other, they contribute their arguments/thoughts and often do it with little emotion or abuse. The troublemakers are the same people, engaging with themselves, engaging in the same troublesome behaviors over and over again. They're also the same people who continually submit reports accusing each other of being mean, trolling, etc - those reports are largely ignored, because I won't moderate someone because someone's feelings were hurt. But, back to the point on suggestions... I've posted a number of suggestions on things I'd like to do in the Steering Committee forum, and while a few people contributed or offered to help, the vast majority choose not to contribute. That's fine, I'm not upset about that. I'm perfectly happy to let the forums limp forward, it's doing fine regardless of some members feelings. It's been here for 23 years, and it's quite possible it'll be here for another 23 years.

I'm listening, and will attempt to implement suggestions that are workable, and are a good idea.

I think you've earned it. Congrats on the anniversary and welcome to the 0 points club

Neither I, nor the forum, is physically in Canada anymore. While the site does attract more Canadians, the ratio of Canadians to Americans is narrowing everyday. I also disagree with the premise that Canada is a more civilized county. I've lived in both, and they both contain elements of uncivilized behavior.

where is "this"?

The rule has since been revised... Accounts can now be deleted, all that you need to do is request an account deletion using the same email as you registered with. Send requests to [email protected] If you delete your account, all postings, etc will be deleted, along with any account related information (profile photos, personal messages, etc). There is no reversing this decision, so please be certain this is what you want. Thanks!