Wolfie Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Do you people not understand that I have important procrastinating to be doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Expect another one later today or tomorrow.I'll try to explain in simple terms.When we moved from the old server to the new the charset was altered in the upload process, this screwed up the forum. I didn't realise it.Software developers noticed it and what they did was duplicate the database in the same database which sent it well over 1GB (max database size allowed is 1GB)Yesterday when I took the forum offline for a bit I removed the duplicates and destroyed all old images for Google.This reduced the database down to 600mb.Since this a lot of people have noticed a vast improvement, I'm not surprised. Not enough for me tho I want to take it down further and make it quicker.Theres an option to archive topics over X amount of days, they will still be on the site, you can still find them but they are moved to a separate database, so when we have X amount users online opening topics it won't have to open a table of 700k posts.Now the problem is I've ran this archive took before and unarchived them when I had tried to fix the image problem (I can't edit archived posts), I need to reset this status so the forum thinks they have never been archived before. To do this I need to take a backup and that means take the forum offline whilst I do this, I noticed a couple of more things in the database that may need to be reset so I'm playing it safe and contacting the software developers to double check before I steam ahead.Confused? tl;dr? Trying to speed the forum up, might be offline again later for 10 minutes or tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwram1973 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I know what yer on about Daveo................Honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcidaho Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Charset encoding sucks ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaverRam Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hmm can't move through posts on the same thread....just returns a 'loading page' in case it's useful to useful info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R@M Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I think I have a fix ( until Daveo can sort it out properly) ....for iPads at least. Switch off the Java script enabling button. Seems to work after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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