It's a big problem. My hunch is new thread can't handle links or quotes. Nasif bhai! Nasif bhai! Calling bc domkol bahini...hello hello mic tasting mic tasting!! Hello!!!
This will be happening for a little while. This is happening when the database is being backed up. When the backup is complete the database is again receptive and you should be able to start new threads.
With close to 2 million posts along with hundreds and thousands of multimedia attachments, this has started to stress our current server. If you recall, we had moved to a new home on the cloud after several years ago when we out grew our last server.
We are exploring a number of alternatives - options that are also being weighed in with available funds and any revenue stream we have.
Options include:
Purging old threads and posts. The bad? Lots of history lost.
Updating to the latest version of the bulletin board - this probably will have minimal impact
Upgrading to the next higher class of cloud server. This will be expensive and at some point our expenses will exceed our revenue and existing funds. Many of us have donated funds and time to BC to keep it running and I'm sure some of us will do so again if needed.
And the pace at which things get resolved is incumbent upon how much our day jobs constrain us.
Do we really need the Match Archive section? Not sure if anyone would bother to go through all the
omg nasir out... shabash gazi wkt paise etc etc posts
plus we could also delete half of the zee threads which are below 3 replies
Originally Posted by iDumb
shut down the site if your revenues can not cover the cost of running the site efficiently.....or sell it to someone who can.
It's a volunteer site. We put our money in and have done in the past. You have too. Once we are tired of this **** we might just shutter it (at least that's my inclination). It's just a matter of time no?
Originally Posted by iDumb
shut down the site if your revenues can not cover the cost of running the site efficiently.....or sell it to someone who can.
Stop suggesting every advice your kajer bua gives you. This site will live on for a long time
Originally Posted by iDumb
thats fine but sometimes a site can be better run by 1 dedicated person than 10 here and there volunteers. i am suggesting realistic stuff bro....
jadukar on a role here.
if it is cheaper can we run two different servers one archived and one live instead of going to a higher expensive server? to have a link to old thread should be easy as well.
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Nasif and I made some tweaks that might resolve the current issues with new thread creation at the expense of losing the related thread feature (which I do not believe was used much). Let us know here if you still experience issues. This is a stop gap measure and we are working on a long term solution.