Still with the same hosting company we've been using since 2006. Just recently upgraded the hardware from two boxes to one. The switch came with a shift from a 32 bit to 64 bit o/s. I should have just jumped straight to win2008 with iis7. I think that would have been smarter at this point. Lots of manually registering 32 bit dlls is a PITA.
My avatar is just gone, disappeared yesterday. Refreshed my cache and tried multiple browsers. I also deleted and reuploaded it. If I check the direct link I get a 404.
A few minutes ago, I had 100 topics in the "Your recent topics" section of my profile. Now, I have 99. Is that normal? I thought 100 was the max and the oldest ones were removed from this list as new ones were added.
Just checked out Drew's latest post that was posted on 6/1. He's been without internet since last week, that's why we haven't gotten a response or a remedy. Hopefully he sees this thread soon
Looks like the avatars are working for some and not for others. Just from this thread I can tell it's working for me and RandomPrecision but not for Harri Patel.
The main website is running on a different server than the forum. When you upload an avatar it's still going to the old server so you won't see it on the forum. I manually copied the avatars yesterday. Any that had been uploaded since 5/22 were copied to the forum server. Our internet service has been out for over a week. I am posting from a local cafe. When we get internet access again I will complete the server move and these avatar issues will go away.
I can look at the database query that generates that list. Is 95 a problem? How old is the 95th topic? I'm guessing that the list only goes back 1 year or something along those lines. So if topics 96 to 100 are older than a year they might not be on the list. It's just a guess. I forget the specifics of that page.
I looked at my 100th topic in that list. It's for a post back in 2009 so it's not limited to a year. Have you posted in 5 topics that have been locked? I'd guess I limit the threads to only open/active topics. It's possible that we're deleting your posts too depending on what you are posting. If you're posting inappropriate images, spam or affiliate links we'll delete them without seeking your approval.
I am able to connect to the database now so I looked at this problem. The query that runs was taking the 100 most recent topics you started, and the 300 most recent replies. It would combine these two lists to determine a unique set of topics. It turns out that you happen to post frequently in the same topics so when these two sets are joined the result ends up being fewer than 100 unique topics. I changed the routine so it starts with the 150 topics and 350 replies. Now your list is up over 100 (but limited to only the 100 most recent topics.)
If your 350 most recent posts were made in fewer than 100 unique topics you will see that number decrease. As an example, a new user signs up in the forum and only participates in 5 topics but has 500 posts in those 5 topics. They will only see 5 topics listed in the 100 most recent list. It's not a list of the most recent posts. It is a list of the 100 most recent topics that a user has participated in.
That's essentially what it does. If a person posts dozens of times in only a single topic, that's the only topic that should be listed not each of the individual posts. Edited to add: the page in question is not the active topics page. It's the page that shows the 100 most recent updated threads that a user has posted in. edited again to add: I'm talking about this page not this page Edited by - Drew Black on 6/8/2011 1:56:38 AM
Okay, so I was thinking about the correct page. Probably just misreading something from your other posts. They seemed a bit contradictory but I probably just have something wrong. This is the post that seems a bit contradictoryLet's say I have 351 posts spread between two topics, the oldest post is in one topic and the 350 newest is in another. In the topics list will I see two topics or one? Maybe I'm just overthinking this
Didn't expect that response, made me chuckle a little. Well that's what I meant in my first post about the posts and topic being independent of each other. I guess it's not really important because most people don't post that way anyway.
There's two database tables involved. The post that starts a topic is in a topics table. There's another table for replies. I think I grab 150 from topics and 350 from replies. These two sets get lumped together. The top 100 most recent topics are plucked from the list by sorting the group by descending post datestamp. So I'm not sure if one or both topics would be listed. I think there would only be one topic listed, the one with the replies but I'm not really 100% sure.