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However, I saw more moments when the Board couldn't be accessed. It lasted for a short time, so we cannot really talk about shutdowns in these occasions. It still occured several times, and the frequency of these incidents was slowly increasing. Guess it's performance issues, like Des said, but it was still irritating.

"We've been getting quite a lot shutdowns lately". Yourwebapps' performance plummeted in the last half-ish year, and I'm not only talking about downtime — ads, anyone?

After all, hosting sites come and go. (And I know it very well, as I had to migrate the whole of my spinoff). Having our own Board makes it more "portable" in case Webapps goes down permanently.

What they've had is three or four shutdowns since about August - but that's also three or four shutdowns since 2008. I don't know what's going on over there, but it's not 'gradually getting worse'.

hS

I was going to go even further: why don't we use T-Board in place of the Other Board all the time? It would be an excellent long-term stress test, and if it goes down or shows problems, it'd be good to know what they are.

hS

If the T-Board works, I propose for it to replace the Other Board as a contingency plan.

(The Other Board is still good for RPing, though. When it's not down.)

Even if the problem comes from WebApps as a whole, and not only from the Boards, fact is they've suffered more and more shutdowns since August. I really hope this new Board will do.

It seems prudent to me that we should, at the very least, have a backup that isn't hosted in the same place as the main Board. (If T-Board works, then great. If not, we need something else.)

This seems like a reasonable time to check whether T-Board is even mildly functional under normal load.

hS

I agree that the lines ought to work, but don't. A full cycle of bullet-point types could do something (the Board unfortunately only has three, with everything after the first two levels just being a square); in fact, even without that, the bullet would mark the beginning of the subject line nicely - so you'd read the tags as part of the subject, not as empty space.

Or you could move the tags to after the subject, but that would make them less prominent... I don't know how prominent they need to be, though.

Obviously the one that's going to come up most is New, followed by Edited. Locked and Poofed are less critical, because we're not going to be using admin tools very often.

hS

I figured that the little lines of the left would do it, but I can see how that'd be confusing.

Have you got any design suggestions? How do you think it should look?

Look at the thread we're in now. The 'Edited' tag on your post makes it look as though 'Does this appear as New too?' has three replies: 'It shouldn't', 'Ooh, does it really', and 'Well, I'm watching.'

Which obviously isn't the case. Now imagine the thread was a controversial discussion, and the shifted title was 'I totally agree!'.

hS

Check the post under the one where I said that - the four pre-tags make it look like that post is in a sub-thread off to the right.

hS

Let's try that out since hS said he did the thing, by me replying to you.

You mentioned something about the pre-subject tags disrupting the layout of replies? I didn't see a post about that.

You should get an email about this

I guess I'll find out what that does.

hS

A new post is a reply created less than 24 hours ago to a post created more than 24 hours ago.

Actually, these guys should eventually show up as "New", but we'll have to wait a bit.

EDIT: I thought I'd mention that "watch thread" does in fact watch the entire thread, not just immediate replies. That's why it's off by default.

The caching of the "subject line" displays doesn't mess up new post indication too much.

-al length limit. Good.

hS

Hat-wearing swine! For this, you shall be called a hat-wearing swine!

hS