I am not reporting any kind of problem. I'm just noting an oddity, to make sure it isn't a problem.

On my bookmarks page, there are a bunch of blank spaces, with check boxes to the left of them. I assume I had posts bookmarked, that lived in threads that have since been closed and/or archived.

Should I just check the boxes, so that they go away? Is anything going to blow up if I do or don't?

The blank bookmarks are most likely the result of the threads they pointed to getting archived and removed from the database.

You can check them off and delete. It shouldn't hurt anything.

I have a question about the board over use issue: How come we users don't have any problem, and we just find out later when we're using too many connections or whatever? Is there a way to put the breaks on the board or something? I mean, I'd rather not be able to connect for five minutes rather than end up getting booted from fangeek or whatever. Am I making any sense? I only have a vague idea what I'm trying to say.

I know we think we're OK for now, but assuming we have bumps in usage in the future....

Jesse, we (the coders) have no way to tell how many connections we're using at any given time, so we can't take the board down for a breather, or anything.

Lame. Not you, the system. If we only "have" 30 connections, they should stop us from using 80! Ah well.

If we only "have" 30 connections, they should stop us from using 80!

I dunno. I think it would suck for you guys if we suspended you every time you went over 50.

Any word on how we're doing this week, ma'am?

I think it would suck for you guys if we suspended you every time you went over 50.

I don't think suspended is what Jesse was thinking of. It wasn't what I was, anyway -- since we can and have been suspended for overuse. But if *our* code could check the connection level and just tell some people to wait, or something. Well, there'd be a riot, but you get the drift.

The problem with putting people in a queue to be connected is that people at the back would just keep hitting "Read New" (or hitting "Refresh" or whatever) because their computer would be unresponsive. I think it would ultimately create more connections, and make everything reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally slow.

think it would ultimately create more connections, and make everything reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally slow.

Not if checking redirected one to a "too busy" page without using any connections at all.

No, I don't like the thought of doing that -- I'd rather rein the code in. But I get the point.

Yeah, that's what I meant. If the person trying to make the 31st connection just had to wait until one freed up or something. I dunno.