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I know the site has had some issues lately. The main thing being that the site sometimes times out during peak times. I have identified what has happened, and to fix it, I am going to need to rebuild all of the webservers. This may take me a week or two to complete. I am going to continue doing what I can to keep things running (rebooting the servers every few days seems to keep it under control).

As far as the other issues, here is the list of known site issues. I will work on them as time permits.

* directory.bml hangs searching
* Comments still seem to be disappearing.
* Edit userpics page loading slowly for users with lots of userpics (Firefox is still slow but won't timeout and give an error as a temporary workaround)
* Adding friends via the admin console causes custom groups to get emptied
* Joining a closed membership asylum
* Timezones on update page not reflecting change in DST in United Stats
* align= and border= options in image tags being striped by the HTML cleaner
* lynx sitescheme warning
* blank preview page
* Sometimes not able to change custom colors
* stats/stats.txt not updating
* cannot log in with blackberry

Now as far as some of the criticism that has been posted here. I have simply not had the time to dedicate to the big issue of comment rot on the site. I know it is a huge problem, and I have done some tracing, and am getting close to pinpointing the problem, and once that is done, I am sure it will be something simple to fix.

Please don't feel that I have been ignoring these issues to work on other things like the sitescheme. The work on these has been done by our volunteers and takes only a few minutes of my time to implement them.

Also, do not feel that I have been ignoring all the comments, I have read them all but I just have not had the time recently to respond to comments. I will try to do better to make the time to do this.
  • Re: data point for you

    I wanted to jump in here and say that, while that may not hurt, it definitely isn't the entire issue. In celebrity roleplay games, people often playfully "spam" each other's friends-only posts, resulting in hundreds of comments that were all posted with "post a new comment." Some of these posts get into the thousands comment-count wise and are then suddenly deleted.
    • Re: data point for you

      Could the issue be related to having too many comments on a post?

      The game I'm in only had 130 comments in its biggest post, and that was back in January. It's all still there, too.
      • Re: data point for you

        Again, I don't want to speculate too much because it could be multiple issues, but I've personally seen it happen on 30 comments. :\
        • Re: data point for you

          It's sporadic, that's for sure. =/

          I've never seen it happen the past seven months I've been here, yet I keep hearing it's there. I've been wondering myself if there are any correlating factors that's causing it, or if it really is just random.
          • Re: data point for you

            It really feels random. My best friend runs an RPG and she's lost all of the comments on her "holds" post three or four times, on the same exact post, but I didn't personally have it happen to me until a month ago.
            • Re: data point for you

              Yep, and we've had individual journals lose comments, threaded and unthreaded, new and old, few and many. I am dying to know what's causing it.

              (PS WISH YOU WERE ONLINE)
        • Re: data point for you

          I know its related to site load more than anything.
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