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GoggleFox rrrrrrrrr from Acadia, yo. Since: Jul, 2009
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#26: Nov 26th 2010 at 2:05:04 PM

I have the feeling that the old LB sets should be archived as-is if possible. Conversion from forum style to post-and-comment style would be nightmarishly complicated and not really worth doing, but simple archiving isn't impossible.

Sakamoto demands an explanation for this shit.
Ronnie Respect the Red Right Hand from Surrounded by Idiots Since: Jan, 2001
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#27: Nov 27th 2010 at 7:07:57 AM

Season 1 of the MMFRP was lost. Please, archive it.

MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#28: Nov 27th 2010 at 7:08:12 AM

Does anyone actually READ the old live blogs or old threads?

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Korodzik Since: Jan, 2001
#29: Nov 27th 2010 at 7:22:15 AM

No, because they're archived. :3

Seriously though, I (would) do, for one.

edited 27th Nov '10 8:46:42 AM by Korodzik

MetaFour AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN from A Place (Old Master)
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#30: Nov 27th 2010 at 8:23:34 AM

Considering that the person who started this thread was in the process of reading an old liveblog when it got deleted, yes.

EternalSeptember Since: Sep, 2010
#31: Nov 27th 2010 at 8:41:40 AM

[up][up] The trope you are looking for is Deadly Euphemism.

I actually don't read many liveblogs to begin with, I'm just not interested in them as a medium, but I can see why their readers would not want to make a distinction between old and new ones.

Korodzik Since: Jan, 2001
#32: Nov 27th 2010 at 8:47:12 AM

Thank you, September.

@Ronnie, I've sent Eddie a PM about this. Though I hope I didn't come across as too pushy.

If I had to point to a thread who nobody would miss, I'd probably pick the signature/avatar game threads from Forum Games. People change their avatars so often that posts from even a few pages back don't make sense.

edited 27th Nov '10 9:37:04 AM by Korodzik

Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#33: Nov 27th 2010 at 9:15:53 AM

Besides, they would make a new one.

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Meophist from Toronto, Canada Since: May, 2010
#34: Nov 27th 2010 at 10:43:26 AM

I think we should keep the old Repair Shop pages, at the very least the unlocked ones. I've talked about this before, but there was a lot of work that was done in them.

Helpful Scripts and Stylesheets here.
Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#35: Nov 27th 2010 at 12:13:09 PM

I don't think we should keep the locked ones though.

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#36: Nov 27th 2010 at 9:26:13 PM

The locked ones need to be kept as well. Those are the ones that have the information about why an action was taken.

Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#37: Nov 27th 2010 at 10:19:11 PM

Ah, okay.

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daltar (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#38: Nov 28th 2010 at 1:32:16 PM

Since we are talking about the Archiving and Role Playing was mentioned...

The To Aru Museigen No Crossover RP is still alive but the Signup thread where all the information on the characters, like as backstory, description and such, was one of the threads that was archived.

This is the only one RP in this situation that I know off but I'm guess there might be more like it.

Could something be done to recover it?

Demovere Since: Dec, 2009
#39: Nov 28th 2010 at 4:45:25 PM

I would also like to request that season one of The Massive Multi Fandom RPG be returned and locked, so that anyone can enjoy binging through it (either potential new players and/or people who'd like to read through it).

EnglishIvy Since: Aug, 2011
#40: Nov 29th 2010 at 3:07:51 AM

So.

When will the threads be restored?

Cidolfas Since: Jan, 2001
#41: Nov 29th 2010 at 6:22:41 AM

Whoa... so every single thread has its own table? That seems... pretty radical. I haven't done DB design in a long time but is that common practice?

FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
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#42: Nov 29th 2010 at 2:30:35 PM

If we could have access to the old LB's—especially considering that some of them are referenced on the Wiki itself—that would be good. As Eternal September said, given the nature of L Bs, I feel like they should have special consideration when archives happen. Rarely are they BF Ts (Big Fat Threads), with a few exceptions—see the FATAL thread—and there is material in them that is still enjoyable.

Also, I still wanted to get some milage out of my Lolstalgia thread.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
Ronka87 Since: Jun, 2009
#43: Dec 1st 2010 at 5:32:02 PM

I hate to pester, but are the old Liveblog threads returning anytime soon? Back on the 26th, Fast Eddie said he'd try to get them up the next day, and the next day come and gone a few times now. Has other stuff come up that's taking precedent, and Eddie just hasn't had time? If so, is there any estimated time for when they will be back, either in locked-archived or normal thread mode?

Korodzik Since: Jan, 2001
#44: Dec 1st 2010 at 10:32:06 PM

Also, um... no offense, but it would be nice to receive some sort of forewarning next time a mass deletion occurs. Or even a notification afterwards. Because, um, deleting lots of stuff without telling anyone and letting the forum users discover it only when a thread they're reading gets yanked from under them and tossed out of the window is kind of impolite.

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Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#46: Dec 2nd 2010 at 7:26:22 AM

Also I think because of ^^that Eddie gave us warning on ^this.

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RocketScience Not dead yet. from a dark place Since: Jan, 2001
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#47: Dec 2nd 2010 at 5:53:14 PM

@Cido: That's a good question. Threads are just a collection of posts, so you shouldn't need a table of threads (or a table for each thread). Rather, you would just store posts as: post id, thread id, post timestamp, thread position, post owner, post title, post message, privileges. For editing posts, you'd have a separate table for edit histories (post id, edit timestamp, user id, edit reason).

Unless there's a reason for all the tables I don't know about?

EDIT: Okay, I lied. You would need a table for threads, but all it would contain is: thread id, forum id.

edited 2nd Dec '10 6:33:39 PM by RocketScience

Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
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#48: Dec 2nd 2010 at 6:01:23 PM

Strange programming I think is the reason.

edited 2nd Dec '10 6:01:31 PM by Marioguy128

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RocketScience Not dead yet. from a dark place Since: Jan, 2001
Not dead yet.
#49: Dec 2nd 2010 at 6:05:31 PM

Another thing occurred to me, it could be so that if one table crashes, it doesn't completely destroy the forum. It's still a horrible design though, and kind of pointless if your tables are crashing in the first place (since it requires downtime to fix anyway).

Cidolfas Since: Jan, 2001
#50: Dec 3rd 2010 at 6:34:14 AM

Yeah, you might need a table for threads, but not a separate one for each thread...


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