Kory: i will need to do some more testing to see if the 500KB should be lowered even more but either way everyone can relax because the database will not crash or implode in anyway due to page size so splitting pages isn't a huge priority and is just more of a suggestion. For pages that actually load slow, splitting the pages will help slower internet users navigate these pages better.
It looks like pages over 500,000 characters (html formatted, that is) are crashing the server when someone tries to edit them. programmer's whine
They need to be fixed, anyway. Way too big for one page. They need to be broken up into subpages of a reasonable size.
I'm trying to get better about communicating before big changes, so we'll let this one run for a while before taking the action. The server crashes do come under the heading of 'urgent', though.
another programmer's thing
Explanation of what triggers the too-long page warning
Edited by kory on Dec 18th 2023 at 2:36:21 AM
And Completed Fic is back to being too long.
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576I think the descriptions on Completed Fic can probably be removed, the other Fanfic indexes don't have them and they don't really add anything. (Also I think some of the longest ones are copy-pasted from the fics)
I also wonder if changing the layout of the page to be more like One-Shot Fic would reduce the size in any significant way. I'm not sure having a folder for each individual fandom is really necessary.
Well, we have a long time to decide on that.
Characters.Spider Man Insomniac Villains just came up.
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The iDOLM@STER and non-Persona Shin Megami Tensei both take up more than a screen when I'm viewing the source on mobile (impressive considering how many lines it takes to fill up the screen in view-source mode), with the former taking up slightly more space.
The last two folders might be better fits on other pages, with "video game developers" in particular potentially being a better fit on Companies with some of them on People. The last folder could go on a separate page for... whatever we decided to do with those pages.
I'm adding MohsRockMetal.Levels 8 And 9 to the list, just noticed the red banner while wick cleaning.
When you're alone I'm reaching out to let you know that you're far from strangers, like the saviorI could do that but I'm unsure of what to write for the introductory paragraphy/sentence for each page. Here's the current one, to clarify what I'm referring to.
That'd be nice. Then we could turn Re-merge talks
into a general sub-page talk or something, maybe.
I went to the edit page on Summary.Video Games and I got a warning before going back. I think this may have to do with the Video Games folder being too long, so I suggest we split that into individual pages, here's my suggestions:
- Summary.Video Games Nine To E
- Summary Video Games G To K
- Summary.Video Games L To Q
- Summary.Video Games R To Z
I'm already onboard with moving the Companies, Creators, and Hardware folders to the other Summary pages, and while I was considering sorting the Video Game folder by genre like in Summary.Live Action Films, some games fall under multiple or are hard to categorize that way. I can roll with alphabetization, too.
Since it's been a few days, I've done the offloading from ShoutOut.Video Games and Summary.Video Games. Figured that they should be done before the database maintenance begins.
Still waiting for someone to break him free...Recap.SCP Foundation SC Ps 3000 To 3999 is now displaying the warning.
Hmm... ShoutOut.Video Games is, for now, not too-long, but if we re-merge these really short pages, we'll need to split something else out? If so, what?
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- Clark Wing
- Beck Wing
- Other students
- Staff, families, and Galasso's

ShoutOut.Akibas Trip seems as long as ShoutOut.Video Games's ANNO: Mutationem entry, so split that out if it's not too short?
Edited by Malady on Nov 27th 2023 at 5:54:02 AM
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