Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.

'Touched'


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Cindy - Aug 25, 2003 12:47:30 am PDT #4780 of 10000
Nobody

For me, read new taking me to the message centre keeps me in the subscription metaphor. If I don't want to know how many posts are rapidly increasing in the Firefly Spoiler thread (which I really don't), as a subscription person, I never have to. The main page doesn't exist unless I go there on purpose.

I guess I just wanted it, because I pared my subscriptions way down. There are a lot of threads I'm still subscribed to in my heart, if not in my profile. t /goober

It was the thought behind the design, anyway, that subscriptions would be a world in itself (easily exitable, but still).

I guess that makes more sense. And really, I'm only adding one click to a new (for me) procedure that's eliminated a bunch of clicks, so there's still a net decrease. Read New is just a whole new world to me. I prefer message center living, but can't get the hang of Read New unless I only have a handful of subscriptions.


Jesse - Aug 25, 2003 3:39:21 am PDT #4781 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The admins mailbox just received a piece of spam. I noticed that the E-mail Admins page includes the admins@buff... address at the bottom of the page, and you don't need to be logged in to access the page. I wonder if that's how it was harvested?

I've gotten a couple of spam messages to donations@, as well. FYI.


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 4:01:08 am PDT #4782 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How do you block harvesting but still make it accessible to people that browse without Javascript, Jon?


Jon B. - Aug 25, 2003 4:46:31 am PDT #4783 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

That was the "downside." One solution: if they can't use the form, and they don't have javascript, we can have a gif with the email address in it. They would have to type out the email address by reading the gif. Yes, I realize this isn't particularly user-friendly.


Kristen - Aug 25, 2003 11:20:02 am PDT #4784 of 10000

So here's our update, people. They have been monitoring the server and the number of concurrent connections is WAY down. Seriously down. Want to know how down?

30.

Yes, that's right. For the past few days, we've been using around 30 connections. Sometimes even lower. A few minutes ago, we were at 5.

So I don't think we have to do anything drastic now. We can breathe easy for a while and see what happens in October. Now that doesn't mean let's add 20 new threads. But we are out of the danger zone.

I'm a happy girl.


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 11:21:27 am PDT #4785 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Whoohoo!

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE!!!


Lee - Aug 25, 2003 11:22:18 am PDT #4786 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

WooHoo. Thanks for all the work, Kristen, and for keeping us so well informed.

eta: and Thanks to ita and everyone else as well.


Tom Scola - Aug 25, 2003 11:22:26 am PDT #4787 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Kristen, do you know what fixed the problem? Was it getting rid of the random quotes, or adjusting the timeout values?


Jesse - Aug 25, 2003 11:23:36 am PDT #4788 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

HOORAY FOR EVERYONE!!

Thanks you guys!!!

WOO HOOO!!!

off to make meaningless posts EVERYWHERE

just kidding


deborah grabien - Aug 25, 2003 11:23:53 am PDT #4789 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Kristen, will this go even lower once the voting on the archiving, combining of of threads etc thing is done, and some of that (presumably) happens?