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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Does it have something to do with my registration or login? Because I'll gladly change both to get rid of that stupid fucking quote.
Nothing to do with you, Meredith -- it's a known issue (with an as-yet-unknown solution) with the randomization feature of the database.
It's a known problem, Meredith. It's the first quote on the database and for some reason the randomizer chooses that one more than any of the others. It'll get fixed at some point, but it's not high on the priority list.
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And what is high on the priority list?
t strike
CVS
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t blink
MARCIE
t /blink
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brenda m
Meredith, that's the first quote in the database, and for some reason the program really likes quote No. 1, so it comes up more often than others.
Ahh. So it's not me. Cool.
Many thanks, brenda (and amych and Jon B.). Paranoia's not my style lately, but it was seriously pursuing me, and my back was out, and it had me down on the tile floor in the bathroom, and...
So, um, have the Powers-That-Board considered using a less obnoxious quote as Quote Number One And Most Likely To Be Repeated?
Lots of us like that quote...
We've switched it once. It was the "all about the coat" quote for a while.
(By We, of course, I mean ita, after we whined at her a lot.)
I would move that the Number One Quote be changed to something about monkeys.
I think it should be something about the Chosen One.
How 'bout
Buffy: I'm sorry. Am I repeat-o-girl?
for some reason the program really likes quote No. 1
Just for the record, if you're interested, we use the built-in RANDOM feature of the SQL database, and it seems to be broken in some way in this version.
That random feature is very database-intensive, because it does something like assign a different number to every row in the db, then sort them by that number. Somewhere in that process something goes wrong, and it's not just us, there are other people in newsgroups whinging about it.
It's been proposed before that we generate a random number in the PHP and fetch just that one record instead, but ita doesn't think it's worth the effort for something that's not an essential feature.
It's been proposed that you just hack it so it tries again if it comes up with that quote. Somebody second me so I'm not allowed to bring this up again for six months.