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2012-10-06, 06:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Forums are back, huzzah!
I'm not sure if it matters, but yesterday or the day before I began to receive a different error when I visited to see if the forums were back up. Instead of loading the website with the "forums are offline, etc" message it showed a white Cloudfare page that suggested the system was down (paraphrased).
Don't know if that's a helpful technical report but I'd thought I'd mention it.
Also, another technical report. While trying to use Google to read various threads I noticed that Google Cache wasn't very effective in getting what I wanted. Almost all of the Google Cache version of the pages pulled up showed the "forums are offline, etc" page instead of the Cached page. A few of them did load though, which only made the whole thing stranger."We have sent many to Hell, to smooth our way," said I, "and we are standing yet and holding blades. What more?"- Roger Zelazny, This Immortal
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2012-10-06, 07:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2010
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- UK
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2012-10-06, 08:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2009
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- Beyond the Wall
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2012-10-06, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2008
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Well that was interesting. And by interesting, I mean horrific.
Thanks for going through all that trouble for us, Rawhide. You're awesome.Anemoia: Nostalgia for a time you've never known.
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2012-10-06, 09:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
I can say this much. The forum is much, much faster and much less prone to errors and server busy signals.
In fact, I haven't had any of either so far!
That in itself deserves a round of applauds
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2012-10-06, 09:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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- The Imagination
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2012-10-07, 12:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2006
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Thanks for all your hard work, Rawhide!
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2012-10-07, 03:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- Australia
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
So, did anyone notice the backup?
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2012-10-07, 03:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2010
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2012-10-07, 03:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
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- San Francisco
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
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2012-10-07, 03:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- Australia
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Backup took place between 3:00am to 3:25am, CDT (it's now 3:40am, CDT).
"My Hobby: Replacing your soap with gravy" by rtg0922, Doll and Clint "Rawhide" Eastwood by Sneak
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2012-10-07, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2012
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- In the Final Frontier
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
I may have noticed it, had my phone decided to not go on the fritz.
But I would also like to add my thanks, Rawhide. The site loads way faster than it used to for me. And I haven't gotten a single 500 server error yet.
Now if only I could steam to act the same way...
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2012-10-07, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2009
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- Finland
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
I'll just be honest and admit that the sudden downtime was frustating, mostly because I hadn't noticed any warning prior to it, and that perhaps the first PBP game I've joined that didn't die within five pages is hosted here.
OI still do understand need for maintenance, and this will hopefully prove usefull. Hopefully future observation(something my current, sleep-deprived state is incapable of), will hopefully show the forum to be more reliable accesability-wise.
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2012-10-07, 05:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2008
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- Carlisle, Englund
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
I think if you want to search for threads you can use intitle to get threads with those words. For instance searching for this thread you can do site:giantitp.com intitle:"search disabled".
edit:Just thought of an improvement, add in "-intitle:page" if you want to get one result per thread instead of one for each page of the threadLast edited by Androgeus; 2012-10-07 at 05:34 PM.
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2012-10-08, 02:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
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- Lustria
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes. (W.Whitman)
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2012-10-08, 02:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- Australia
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Backup coming up in just over half an hour. Watch out for it.
"My Hobby: Replacing your soap with gravy" by rtg0922, Doll and Clint "Rawhide" Eastwood by Sneak
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2012-10-08, 03:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- Australia
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Can't actually check from here, but it should be in progress right now.
"My Hobby: Replacing your soap with gravy" by rtg0922, Doll and Clint "Rawhide" Eastwood by Sneak
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2012-10-08, 04:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Wait, we're getting backups without the forums going down now?
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2012-10-08, 04:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
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- UK
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2012-10-08, 05:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- Australia
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Well, the backup completed successfully.
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2012-10-08, 06:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2012
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- South Korea
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2012-10-08, 08:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Far East
Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
It's hardly "being a programmer". I should know - I did nothing maths-y or computer-y at uni!
Search strings are really really common and very useful overall. I use them all the time with my general searches. Putting things in quotes, using +term or -term to include or exclude a search term, and site:www.yyy.zzz are vital to getting Google to do what I actually want and not make too many (terrible) assumptions on its own.
Edit: Rawhide, is there a maintenance scheduling thread or something I can subscribe to, so that I don't need to remember to check in here every time I log in? Just like "Gonna be doing maintenance tomorrow, 2 hours or so, 6pm GMT+11".Last edited by --Lime--; 2012-10-08 at 08:38 AM.
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2012-10-08, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2006
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- Dinosaur Museum aw yisss.
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
But I can't use it to
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2012-10-08, 09:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
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- UK
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2012-10-08, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2009
Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
I'm not going totally nuts not being able to find search, that's good.
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2012-10-09, 09:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2007
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
Er, excuse me Mr. Rawhide sir, I don't seem to be able to find a list of my previous posts on the forum, is that due to the disabling of Search? Is there some other way of accessing my post record?
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2012-10-09, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- Australia
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2012-10-09, 09:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2004
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- Bensalem, PA
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
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2012-10-09, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2011
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Re: Search disabled, maintenance, and other changes
I recently got a new form of error message, for the first time, and I want to know if its a result of the changes.
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Its not that it presented problems, and it was fine after refreshing the page. I just noticed it was a different page and thought I should bring it up.
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2012-10-09, 06:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- Australia
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