Oh -- I fixed the thread adding problem. Amazing what a couple apostrophes can do.
What was the problem? Did it have anything to do with Victor being in the middle of the process?
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Jon B. - Mar 15, 2003 1:00:37 am PST #3509 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2003 1:03:46 am PST #3510 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nah -- it was a coding memfault (needed to put quotes around the new fields 'closed' and 'archived') -- which reminds me,
DX, when you come through -- have you sucked and zipped?
Jon B. - Mar 15, 2003 1:16:38 am PST #3511 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
needed to put quotes around the new fields 'closed' and 'archived'
Cool. What exactly do those checkboxes do?
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2003 1:22:58 am PST #3512 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When closed is checked (and it's automatically checked when the postnum passes 10,000), that's when the word [closed] appears by the thread name (you'll notice it's no longer IN the thread name), and posting is severely discouraged. Well, the posting box disappears.
When archived is checked, the thread won't display on the main page at all. My thought it then, when it's been zipped and sucked to mark the thread archived and delete all the posts (but not the thread title). All auto urls to it would then be redirected by showthread to the zip listing page, to the appropriate target. That part's not coded yet.
Liese S. - Mar 15, 2003 1:26:50 am PST #3513 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
That sounds good. Do we have any way to store the database version of the archived threads offsite somewhere? Would there be any irreparable disadvantages if we didn't?
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2003 1:29:19 am PST #3514 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Problem with that is that you need to take the user information with you. Which gets all tangled and complex.
As for not saving the records -- I think that should be fine.
As a first stab, we could just move them to another table -- that should help.
Liese S. - Mar 15, 2003 1:35:01 am PST #3515 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ick. That's true. Better this way. And moving them to a new table first will serve as proof of concept. Nothing goes wonky, it's good. Plus, hopefully immediate benefit, anyway.
What needs to be done with search? Anything that can be parceled out? Not that I actually know, like, the code. But I could learn. Though not this week. Not actually helpful, I am.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2003 1:37:51 am PST #3516 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My suggestions for speccing it out here: ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Mar 2, 2003 4:08:27 pm EST were not commented on, so really, that's the task at hand which doesn't break down usefully.
Maybe Sunday, but I doubt it.
Liese S. - Mar 15, 2003 1:43:17 am PST #3517 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, okay. Oh well. I wasn't nagging, really, I promise, see above rant. Anyway, the specs look good. In addition to sorting by date, etc., will it also be possible to limit to ranges?
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2003 1:48:23 am PST #3518 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What do you mean by "limit to ranges"?