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09 Sep 2011, 7:07 pm

Quite a few threads that I've been skimming have been looking distorted. I don't know if anyone here can see it, but this is a link to one of those threads that looks distorted, even when I refresh or go to the last page and click it again.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf160890-0-30.html


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09 Sep 2011, 9:34 pm

I see it too.


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10 Sep 2011, 12:27 am

I thought it was just my computer doing it.



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10 Sep 2011, 3:25 am

It is distorted for me too on Firefox. Must be badly created html page. Probably a bug in the site software.


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30 Sep 2011, 12:12 am

I also see the distortion on Google Chrome.


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04 Oct 2011, 7:29 am

I also see it on google chrome.


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23 Oct 2011, 12:43 pm

The forums are buggy and are hacked to death and broken in some places. I wish they could get an experienced moderator go about transfering the database to a new installation of the forum software? It would fix the existing website, whilst maintaing all historic data and also provide us with the latest build of forums (phpbb/vbulletin whichever it is).

All they'd have to do is test the entire process first to see if it works. Get the database and load it up on another server and test if the transfer will work. Then they can go about taking the site down for a day and do it for real. After that all bug reports will go away!



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23 Oct 2011, 1:01 pm

Adamantus wrote:
The forums are buggy and are hacked to death and broken in some places. I wish they could get an experienced moderator go about transfering the database to a new installation of the forum software? It would fix the existing website, whilst maintaing all historic data and also provide us with the latest build of forums (phpbb/vbulletin whichever it is).

All they'd have to do is test the entire process first to see if it works. Get the database and load it up on another server and test if the transfer will work. Then they can go about taking the site down for a day and do it for real. After that all bug reports will go away!


As someone who has seen and worked with the backend database, I can tell you that it no longer resembles anything even remotely close to a stock application. A migration of the site would take quite a lot of engineering time to do, which is why it hasn't been done as of yet.

You're not the only one that's come up with that idea, trust me.



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23 Oct 2011, 1:02 pm

It's a glitch in the matrix :D.



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23 Oct 2011, 1:06 pm

sliqua-jcooter wrote:
Adamantus wrote:
The forums are buggy and are hacked to death and broken in some places. I wish they could get an experienced moderator go about transfering the database to a new installation of the forum software? It would fix the existing website, whilst maintaing all historic data and also provide us with the latest build of forums (phpbb/vbulletin whichever it is).

All they'd have to do is test the entire process first to see if it works. Get the database and load it up on another server and test if the transfer will work. Then they can go about taking the site down for a day and do it for real. After that all bug reports will go away!


As someone who has seen and worked with the backend database, I can tell you that it no longer resembles anything even remotely close to a stock application. A migration of the site would take quite a lot of engineering time to do, which is why it hasn't been done as of yet.

You're not the only one that's come up with that idea, trust me.


I'm curious why are there a lot of customizations and what are they. In other words why was the stock database inadequate?



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23 Oct 2011, 1:10 pm

jackbus01 wrote:
I'm curious why are there a lot of customizations and what are they. In other words why was the stock database inadequate?


The details are irrelevant, even if I knew I wouldn't say anything here. The problem is that there are modifications, and the database has turned into a giant ball of mush, which makes migrating everything extremely challenging and labor-intensive.



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23 Oct 2011, 3:54 pm

Yer I've seen that too on that particular thread. I thought it was some sort of update, (because sometimes sites get altered when they're updated).

Then when I went onto another thread it was normal again, which made me feel glad because I wouldn't like all the thread pages to be skinny like that. It looked weird.


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23 Oct 2011, 4:03 pm

TallyMan wrote:
It is distorted for me too on Firefox. Must be badly created html page. Probably a bug in the site software.



oh, noes! not a bug in the pristine site software! It's a feature!


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23 Oct 2011, 4:30 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
It is distorted for me too on Firefox. Must be badly created html page. Probably a bug in the site software.



oh, noes! not a bug in the pristine site software! It's a feature!


An undocumented feature at that! How very special



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23 Oct 2011, 4:38 pm

Ahh, it's all small-like.



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23 Oct 2011, 6:04 pm

sliqua-jcooter wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
It is distorted for me too on Firefox. Must be badly created html page. Probably a bug in the site software.



oh, noes! not a bug in the pristine site software! It's a feature!


An undocumented feature at that! How very special


actually it's more of an Easter egg: there is documentation that such code exists in the program but does not necessarily provide obvious access to the undocumented feature .