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Maffia
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posted 04-14-10 02:17 PM EDT (US) 1 / 52

So the mods can be mean and laugh at us.

Have the archives been archived yet?

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posted 04-14-10 02:30 PM EDT (US) 2 / 52

Probably just to stop newer forumers bumping a four year old thread cos they wanted to make one but studiously searched for any previous on the same subject so they don't get shouted at for replicating threads

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LordKivlov
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posted 04-14-10 02:50 PM EDT (US) 3 / 52

:shrink:

/thread

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jds2012
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posted 04-14-10 04:25 PM EDT (US) 4 / 52

Kiv, why did you say "/thread" if you didn't close the thread?

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Yorick the Jester
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posted 04-14-10 04:58 PM EDT (US) 5 / 52

Yeah, /thread doesn't work so well when you actually have the power to close threads.

Also, maybe there should be a posting limit like after 100 posts or whatever you can necro threads. That would solve the problem but still allow for hilarious bumping when absolutely nessesary.

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Cheesewiz
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posted 04-14-10 06:49 PM EDT (US) 6 / 52

I think it somehow helps with storage space. Our servers have been practically full for years now.

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Meteora
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posted 04-14-10 07:48 PM EDT (US) 7 / 52

well see sometimes i would like to bump a thread that needs to be bumped because the discussion is relevant again, and other times it would be hilarious to bump a bunch of old topics, so basically i don't like that threads are archived.

especially b/c it only takes like one month for it to happen

Probably just to stop newer forumers bumping a four year old thread cos they wanted to make one but studiously searched for any previous on the same subject so they don't get shouted at for replicating threads

that makes complete sense according to hg logic

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GoForGoldenJarls
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posted 04-14-10 08:09 PM EDT (US) 8 / 52

Because they didn't want me to bump Can Someone Pass The Cheese anymore.

General_II
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posted 04-14-10 08:36 PM EDT (US) 9 / 52

power

Myll_Erik
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posted 04-14-10 11:14 PM EDT (US) 10 / 52

All active forums/threads take up quite a bit of space, and when they are archived they are compressed - kind of like zipping a file.

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Yorick the Jester
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posted 04-14-10 11:51 PM EDT (US) 11 / 52

FYI storage space is almost as cheap as bandwidth nowadays.

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Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
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Pulse_of_Shift
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posted 04-15-10 00:00 AM EDT (US) 12 / 52

Which is almost as cheap as your mom.

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Meteora
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posted 04-16-10 02:26 PM EDT (US) 13 / 52

FYI storage space is almost as cheap as bandwidth nowadays.

true but i can't really whine about that as long as i use adblock.

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oliver
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posted 04-16-10 04:04 PM EDT (US) 14 / 52

HG can have a terabyte off my hard drive to lift the archivalizitation, or whatever. How much space can a thread in plain text possibly occupy?

Oohh, perfect topic for forum drama: HG's supposedly dreadful financial situation.

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Yorick the Jester
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posted 04-16-10 05:47 PM EDT (US) 15 / 52

How much space can a thread in plain text possibly occupy?

This.

Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs?
Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Not one now, to mock your own grinning?

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posted 04-16-10 05:47 PM EDT (US) 16 / 52

This belongs in another thread but whatevs it always makes me giggle when people talk about the CEO of heavengames as if it's a proper business and soccy goes to his CEO office where he does CEO things and has meetings with his COO and MDs etc

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As_Saffah
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posted 04-16-10 05:49 PM EDT (US) 17 / 52

Some of the ads are truly annoying, but the other day I had this window open and a completely different window, and the ad space for HG showed a cool ad for 3D object imaging/reconstruction software using lasers. I clicked on it and didn't get computer AIDS. Google Ads cross-pollinating?

I think a more important and expensive upgrade would be better forum software, not server space. And apparently they are working on this already. No dates or details, but it's supposedly on the radar.

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posted 04-16-10 05:51 PM EDT (US) 18 / 52

Yeah and it was on the radar 7 years ago so ...

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Yorick the Jester
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posted 04-16-10 05:51 PM EDT (US) 19 / 52

Honestly, I would be surprised if every post ever made on any heavengames site took up more than 1 gb.

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Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Not one now, to mock your own grinning?

jds2012
Skirmisher

posted 04-16-10 06:52 PM EDT (US) 20 / 52

umm, I would be surprised if they took up nearly that much.

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posted 04-16-10 06:54 PM EDT (US) 21 / 52

Every archived thread is actually archived as a bitmap so it's probably more than 1 gb

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LordKivlov
Royal Guard

posted 04-16-10 07:05 PM EDT (US) 22 / 52

We archive threads because we hate you

That's not true.

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jds2012
Skirmisher

posted 04-16-10 10:25 PM EDT (US) 23 / 52

i <3 u 2 Kiv

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Yorick the Jester
Skirmisher
(id: DrNick)

posted 04-16-10 11:32 PM EDT (US) 24 / 52

Every archived thread is actually archived as a bitmap so it's probably more than 1 gb

I thought it was archived as a wave file of spineman reading the thread in a falsetto. The forum software then has to use Dragon Naturally Speaking (tm) to transcribe the thread when you click on it.

Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs?
Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Not one now, to mock your own grinning?

Meteora
Skirmisher

posted 04-17-10 00:27 AM EDT (US) 25 / 52

you'd think they could at least convert them to flac then.

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