Natter 9 is ready to go, I just have to put it on the Archives page, but I can have that done this afternoon. Natter 10 is a mess because everyone was posting poetry with PRE tag, and it's taking awhile, so I think next I'll do some of the early Bitch threads instead. Okay?

Order's not important, really. I just want to pare the tables down as small as possible.

Just gimme a shout as each one is done, and I'll sweep up after.

Is there anything we can do to automate your cleanup, so it's not a trial?

Nah. It's mostly automated, but PRE tags mess things up a lot, because they allow long lines that would normally be wrapped to extend too far out. Plus even the ones that don't extend the window look terrible in Mozilla, so I'm trying to fix them, so it's basically going through it 50 posts at a time until it's right.

I don't know about everyone else, but I usually only use the pre tag, because single line breaks don't register with this board, and if I'm copying something in verse, for instance, I'm too lazy to put
at the end of each line.

I don't know if it's a project to change the board, so that it takes a single line break, and if so, if that would screw up quick-edit, but I just thought I'd mention.

I'll try not to use "pre" though, because, well, because I like DX. That's why.

Cindy, the problem with PRE for me is that between the way the Phoenix and Mozilla handle the tag, every blank line in PRE formatted text becomes three or four blank lines, which really looks awful on the screen. It looks fine in IE.

The problem with Natter 10 was that we went through a poetry posting phase.

Ah, the poetry posting. t /natter

Okay, didn't actually stop in here to chat, but to point out that the board seems to be loading horribly slow for me this morning.

Howdy all!

There's a proposition on the table that I wanted to run by you. IH would like to move all the current Mercedes inhabitants to a brand spanking new server. Here's what the boys have to say:

These replacement servers will all be dual xeon servers with 2gb ram compared to a single p3 (mercedes) with 1gb ram. We would handle all the moving of the sites, databases, etc. Clients would not have to do anything, as we would do everything on the backend. Nothing will change on your end, as all paths will be the same as they are now, the same modules will be installed, etc.

There would not be any downtime associated with these potential moves. We would keep these older servers up for a while after the moves are done, in order to be on the safe side.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Personally, I'm leaning towards shiny new server since Mercedes has gotten a wee bit tempermental of late. But I wanted to throw it out there to you before I respond.

So you're saying nothing changes but our performance improves and I don't have to do any work?

I kinda pro it, myself.

Yeah, I'm looking hard to find a downside.