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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
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
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!
Quote by GingerKitty
It would be cool if we could have a counter for how many times an audio story has been listened to, much like the view count for non audio stories.


Doneski!
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!
Thanks everyone for your well wishes.

I sometimes wonder where the 12 years have gone, its flown by. Then I look around and see our 5 kids, then I remember smile

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 smile

Please be patient, this is an ongoing task of mine.

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.
Quote by Shylass


We can drag and drop them with the mouse on the pooter in the "My Stories" list. Or, we could the other day...

I just can't do that using my Shiny.



It's very hard to drag and droop with your finger, ask me how I know
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
Quote by sportsfan175
Just wondering if there is a progress report...I still cannot access my inbox messages. Thanks for any help!


There's been a few interruptions *cough*, only 400k more left to process.
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.
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
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.

Your timeline should be operational now.

Still another 2.2m PM's to process.

I'm sorry for the continued downtime on your PM's and Timeline. I never anticipated it would take this long to crunch the data.

We should be all good this time next week
Hola

I'm rolling out some changes to improve performance across the site. The changes are live, however the data migration is still in progress.

Probably best keep clear of your PM's for a few hours or so, unless your particularly fond of the error page silly

Thanks!
gav
Do you honestly think the site would be where it is today if I had a thrusting Picard as an avatar, NO.

Star Wars > Star Trek

The End.
Have you tried dragging the images into your preferred order?
Congratulations SJ, a well deserved win.

Summer, you did not need any help from me on this one, you won this competition on your own two feet (legs and boobies).

Thanks for your generous gift of the prize money, I shall put it to good use.

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
Quote by GreatDane
Thanks all! Had a chat with someone of a... questionable nature smile Didn't want any of that on my computer.


Technically its on our servers not your computer, your browser *may* hold a copy in its cache.
All chat history is deleted after 7 days. If you enable the profile option to not record you chat history, future ones will not be saved, however the old ones will remain until purged.

Hope this helps
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 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
Quote by Magical_felix


Only the top 1% of Internet users know shit like that my man.


What do the remaining 99% of users do? You can get some serious RSI using the mouse wheel on some of our profile pages.
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.
Thanks everyone.

Now, nobody touch a thing. No posting, no submissions, poking and chatting and the servers should cope just fine.

Nic says "What if we have 100k new installs from the Android play store".