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Code Monkey
Quote by sprite
we have a home page? *looks confused*
Maybe you spend too much time on your profile page, its granted you access to a pretty exclusive club
Code Monkey
Hi
I will be migrating the database to a new server, during which time the site will be down. I'll need a couple of hours, I'll leave the mobile site up so you can still read.
Cheers, gav
I will be migrating the database to a new server, during which time the site will be down. I'll need a couple of hours, I'll leave the mobile site up so you can still read.
Cheers, gav
Code Monkey
Quote by naughtyannie
I don't know if other people would find this useful, but how about a text box on the "story submission" template for the writer to add a short note to the Mods about it?
Once or twice I've taken a story offline to make corrections, and it would have been nice when I resubmitted it to be able to add a little note like "Story taken offline to correct punctuation" or whatever, so the Mods knew why they were having to verify it again.
I suppose it could be open to abuse by people saying things like "Put this online quickly or else", but hopefully not!
Doneski!
Code Monkey
Quote by Poppet
I've thought about this a time or two and thought I'd finally throw it out here. I think we should have a number to show how many under the "following us". Kind of like the friends one, but for followers. It would be nice to know in total, without trying to count them all.
http://www.lushstories.com/poppet/following
Doneski!
Code Monkey
Think its about time I chimed in on the server/performance issues. At present we have 3 servers, a web, database and media server. All three handle requests for Lush Stories, Stories Space and Historias Lush. On top of this we have traffic coming in from our mobile site and android app (which is probably comparable to our full sites traffic).
Like a four lane motorway (freeway?) when everything is running normally traffic runs smoothly. Every so often you end up behind a Skoda so the traffic backs up behind.
In Lush terms a Skoda would be a slow running query. Over the past few weeks my code changes have been targetting these rouge queries (hopefully you have noticed some improvement). There is still work to do in this area.
I believe we can squeeze more performance from our current infrastructure. Adding more web/db servers gets complicated. I would rather defer this, one for future gav to worry about
Please be patient, this is an ongoing task of mine.
Like a four lane motorway (freeway?) when everything is running normally traffic runs smoothly. Every so often you end up behind a Skoda so the traffic backs up behind.
In Lush terms a Skoda would be a slow running query. Over the past few weeks my code changes have been targetting these rouge queries (hopefully you have noticed some improvement). There is still work to do in this area.
I believe we can squeeze more performance from our current infrastructure. Adding more web/db servers gets complicated. I would rather defer this, one for future gav to worry about
Please be patient, this is an ongoing task of mine.
Code Monkey
Quote by overmykneenow
Not sure if this has anything to do with your current tinkering but the archived friends activity seems to be behaving strangely.
Going to lushstories.com/username/activity shows the recent activity as usual, but when I click "Load More Activity" it adds activity from other friends of mine.
It has everyting to do with it! Well spotted, I shall have a patch up today to resolve this issue.
Code Monkey
The next release will use a different mechanism to retrieve your friends activity to improve performance. These activity streams are being built now, but there is not much historical data with them.
Therefore when I push this version live you will be missing a chunk of friends activity.
Thanks
gav
Therefore when I push this version live you will be missing a chunk of friends activity.
Thanks
gav
Code Monkey
Quote by overmykneenow
Out of interest, just have far have you jumped into NoSQL?
Apart from the forum which still runs an RDBMS (Sql Server) we are fully NoSql (we have been for a few years now). It comes with its own challenges, but I think its been the right decision.
The RDBMS crew (MS SQL & Oracle) scale with cash, which we dont have.
Code Monkey
Trying to retro fit these kind of limits is always going to be hard *sigh*
Reducing the amount of activity displayed isn’t going to help. In order to show the most recent activity we need to aggregate the activity of ALL friends then slice the top records.
Perhaps 200 was a little optimistic Maybe a cap that would not affect any of our current users but would at least give an upper bounds and deterministic performance. I think 1000 is reasonable.
I bet there isn’t a social site out there that has unlimited friends. Facebook has 5,000 but they have 180k servers and thousands of programmers
Reducing the amount of activity displayed isn’t going to help. In order to show the most recent activity we need to aggregate the activity of ALL friends then slice the top records.
Perhaps 200 was a little optimistic Maybe a cap that would not affect any of our current users but would at least give an upper bounds and deterministic performance. I think 1000 is reasonable.
I bet there isn’t a social site out there that has unlimited friends. Facebook has 5,000 but they have 180k servers and thousands of programmers
Code Monkey
Another performance tweak I'm working on is capping the number of friends you can add. At the moments its unlimited, which can open up a world of pain trying to aggregate your activity feeds. All the cool sites are doing it, FB and Twitter have limits (although they have got better at it).
So I'm thinking of 200 is a good number, this will impact ~800 of you extreme socialites.
So I'm thinking of 200 is a good number, this will impact ~800 of you extreme socialites.
Code Monkey
I've added a few new features to the chat rooms you may find useful:
- Block images from the chat room (
)
- Report an image to Lush Admin (a red box should appear at the bottom right corner of the image). This will send the details to a moderator to investigate. The image will be removed from your chat window.
- Report a member to Lush Admin. You can right click on the persons name and choose Report Member, or choose the Report Member from the action drop down list. This will copy the chat log and send this to a moderator for investigation.
- The The Lush Gallery is our dedicated picture and video room. You can also insert video players from the most popular porn tube sites simply by pasting on the link from the page. Supported sites are:
pornhub.com
xhamster.com
youporn.com
redtube.com
xvideos
youjizz.com
pornotube.com
xtube.com
keezmovies.com
tube8.com
spankwire.com
Please do not abuse the reporting options, we don't want moderators having to put on their angry eyes @_@
gav
- Block images from the chat room (
)- Report an image to Lush Admin (a red box should appear at the bottom right corner of the image). This will send the details to a moderator to investigate. The image will be removed from your chat window.
- Report a member to Lush Admin. You can right click on the persons name and choose Report Member, or choose the Report Member from the action drop down list. This will copy the chat log and send this to a moderator for investigation.
- The The Lush Gallery is our dedicated picture and video room. You can also insert video players from the most popular porn tube sites simply by pasting on the link from the page. Supported sites are:
pornhub.com
xhamster.com
youporn.com
redtube.com
xvideos
youjizz.com
pornotube.com
xtube.com
keezmovies.com
tube8.com
spankwire.com
Please do not abuse the reporting options, we don't want moderators having to put on their angry eyes @_@
gav
Code Monkey
Ah you guys….. you’re the best
I’m escaping from work this morning to watch World War Z (one of the benefits of working from home) with the missus, then she has planned a surprise dinner at our favourite Mexican restaurant.
Unfortunately I still have my cold/flu, so probably not many drinks tonight. This is a good thing, we don’t want clone #6 happening now do we
Cheers!
I’m escaping from work this morning to watch World War Z (one of the benefits of working from home) with the missus, then she has planned a surprise dinner at our favourite Mexican restaurant.
Unfortunately I still have my cold/flu, so probably not many drinks tonight. This is a good thing, we don’t want clone #6 happening now do we
Cheers!
Code Monkey
I get lots of people asking for the requirements for this badge, here it is:
* A non default avatar
* Country
* First/Last name
* Location
* Region
* Marital status
* Star sign
* Bio
* Favorite books
* Favorite authors
* Favorite movies
* Favorite music
* Interests
* Sexual orientation
* Posted at least one thought (blog)
* Posted at least one image to your gallery
* Added at least one you tube video
* A non default avatar
* Country
* First/Last name
* Location
* Region
* Marital status
* Star sign
* Bio
* Favorite books
* Favorite authors
* Favorite movies
* Favorite music
* Interests
* Sexual orientation
* Posted at least one thought (blog)
* Posted at least one image to your gallery
* Added at least one you tube video
Code Monkey
Quote by Nikki703
I would like it if the "Add a Comment" section of Friends Comments was at the top of the page instead of at the end of it. Sometimes it gets annoying waiting to scroll through all the pics to get to end to add a comment
I think it should be close to the comments, doesnt make sense having it at the top all by its own, no?
If I was to ever post on someones profile, I would press CTRL END to get to the bottom of the page then bam.