New Database + Misc. New Features

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March 15th, 2002, 07:36 PM
JP

New Database + Misc. New Features

Greetings All:

* You may have noticed that the site was down from late last night, until around 1pm (est) today. I converted all of our databases from MyISAM to GEMINI. You should notice a HUGE difference in speed because of this. MyISAM type tables only supported table-level locking, while GEMINI ones support row-level locking. Very cool. (more details at NuSphere if you're interested)

* I've added a "print" icon to each post, so instead of having just being able to get a print-friendly version of the entire thread, you can get it for any particular post. I think this will be especially helpful for things like tutorials posted by users, etc.

* I've increased the number of PMs that each user can have in their boxes to 500. (I added another scsci drive last night, so I thought I'd pass the extra space on to you!)

Enjoy!
March 15th, 2002, 07:41 PM
jared_c

Thanks JP,

You Da Man! :)
March 15th, 2002, 07:43 PM
SarinMage

thanks a lot :) Great job!!!!!
March 15th, 2002, 07:45 PM
MrLinus

Excellent. I will have to try it on the mac browsers to see how the speed increases work there (I saw most of my slowdowns on that machine not on my intel type machines). =)
March 15th, 2002, 08:02 PM
VictorKaum

The site is faster... SCSI rulez
March 15th, 2002, 08:03 PM
VictorKaum

nice but...

However... I noticed that we are unable to delete our own posts???
Some actions still are very slow...
March 15th, 2002, 09:01 PM
KorpDeath

Nice. JP. Keep the good stuff coming.
March 15th, 2002, 09:05 PM
ac1dsp3ctrum

Weeeeee! Good job JP :) Keep up the good work :D
March 15th, 2002, 09:10 PM
Ennis

Wah hah!

;)
March 15th, 2002, 09:11 PM
VictorKaum

It's probably 10 times faster...
March 15th, 2002, 09:45 PM
jcmcb

It seems much faster on my machine (Mac OS 9.2.2 with Opera 5.0), but it was pretty damn fast to begin with...

Thanks JP
March 15th, 2002, 09:52 PM
VanEck

go speed racer go! thanks for updating jp. the increase in speed is noticable and much more enjoyable.
March 15th, 2002, 10:10 PM
TechieChick

It's been very slow for me and this is a huge difference, thank you!
March 16th, 2002, 01:24 PM
ZeroOne

Very very good, excellent! :)
Yesterday I was disappointed since I noticed this only getting very slow but I guess it was only because of everyone trying to access AO at the same time after the downtime... which reminds me, the only info about the downtime was that it would last some 10 hours: no info about when it started!
March 16th, 2002, 05:21 PM
preacherman481

Thanks for the new features. It'll be great to be able to selectively print posts. :)
March 16th, 2002, 06:33 PM
Cyberlord

Thanx JP.
About the speed, i haven't noticed it yet, and another thing, some links are broken, just to let you know.
But, it's cool what you did.
Good job man!
March 16th, 2002, 09:19 PM
Shangrila

Sweet keep the good work coming!
March 16th, 2002, 11:56 PM
krycek051

Definite speed improvement. Thanks man!!