The warm tones of FFF.NET 2.0

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SIGMANUNKI

Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:06 AM

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:

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So, once nightly, all the oldest threads get moved into the archive where no new posts are allowed.

That would shut discussion down faster than full burn...

No it wouldn't. Perhaps I didn't explain properly. The top 100 threads in each category would stay active. It's the rest that would be moved daily. So, if you clicked on 'General Discussions' (or any other category), then you would see, and be able to post in, 100 threads. Throughout the day, as people create new threads, there would be over 100 in the list. But, after the move, that number would be trimmed back to 100.

Now, if we consider how long it takes for a thread to get bumped off the top 100 in any given category, it would hardly "hut discussion down faster than full burn".

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TUJIAOZUO

Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:17 AM

Love the new pallet

Your Indian Pirate Lord,
Ash

HAKEN

Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:08 AM

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Originally posted by two:
beta.fireflyfans.net ought to be using the picture of the more highly evolved 2.0 Serenity.

Yeah, looks great. The one I made was just something fast I came up with as a placeholder. I'm thinking that once the site is up and running, I'll just have several banners--possibly made by some of you--appear randomly.

HAKEN

Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:15 AM

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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
But, I have a suggestion about the new site. This site has run into performance problems before, mainly involving the DB. So, what I would suggest is to have two DBs. One being for active discussions defined as the top 100 threads in its category. The other DB is for the archive.

Not that it's not a good idea, but the current DB is on a SQL server. If I were to archive, it would simply be to another table in the same database, and there would be little or no downtime associated with performing the task. In terms of performance, it's not going to be too noticeable. We will see though, once we switch over to the new version.

COZEN

Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:01 PM

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Originally posted by Haken: We will see though, once we switch over to the new version.

Just wondering: it appears that much, if not all of the posts to this site from 2005 and back are gone. For those of us with the occasional inclination to the nostalgic, are you planning to resurrect the entirety of the DB on the new site? In other words, have you a plan for a complete FFFn archive?

It's not a deal-breaker or anything like that. Simply curious is all.

SAB39

Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:41 PM

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Originally posted by two:
I like this one with Serenity on the ground, with an outdoor bar on the right and freight on the left.
http://janjygiggins.deviantart.com/art/Serenity-Final-135787020

Those are really pretty. I wish someone would put together a Serenity persona for Firefox 3.6 that comes out today. There are a couple already up - one with the logo on a black background and one with the cast - but neither really work very well in practice, because too much of the image is below the point that it's hidden by the browser tabs.

I'd love to be able to show off my browncoatiness every time I have a browser window open :)

JAKE7

Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:52 PM

I'll miss the blue (but just because it's my favorite color)...however, I do like the look of the new site! Great job, Haken!

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TWO

Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:08 PM

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Originally posted by Haken:
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Originally posted by two:
beta.fireflyfans.net ought to be using the picture of the more highly evolved 2.0 Serenity.

Yeah, looks great. The one I made was just something fast I came up with as a placeholder. I'm thinking that once the site is up and running, I'll just have several banners--possibly made by some of you--appear randomly.

Four 1300×180 banners, same size as serenityback.jpg of beta.fireflyfans.net

Serenity 2.0
Right click the little box and "open image in a new tab" or "view image". You'll be redirected to a download page. I don't want to clutter this thread with a super wide image no one wants to see.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

HAKEN

Friday, January 22, 2010 4:23 PM

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Originally posted by cozen:
Just wondering: it appears that much, if not all of the posts to this site from 2005 and back are gone.

They are still there. All 750,000+ posts and 40,000+ threads. I have posts going as far back as 2002. It's just that there's no easy way to get to them other than to randomly punch in thread numbers in the query string. Hopefully with the new version I'll have archival links that will at least get you in the ballpark of within a month of where you want to be.

Here's a random thread from way back when: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=900

SIGMANUNKI

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:21 AM

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Originally posted by Haken:

Not that it's not a good idea, but the current DB is on a SQL server. If I were to archive, it would simply be to another table in the same database, and there would be little or no downtime associated with performing the task. In terms of performance, it's not going to be too noticeable. We will see though, once we switch over to the new version.

Ah. I have a MySQL mindset. So, with that, having something in a separate DB, even on the same server, would mean a great deal in terms of performance. Shame really.

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"We don't fear the reaper"

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