Shoutbox closed

[Vekseid]

I just tried something I thought would work, re-enabled it, and within seconds MySQL was starting to choke.

The way the MyBB integration works is unfortunately rather broken, and I will either have to spend time looking into it specifically or things can wait until we've moved over to Elkarte. : /

 

[UltraMechaStalin]

Shoutbox noooo :C

 

[Vekseid]

Sorry : /

 

[UltraMechaStalin]

It's okay boss man, you do a rocking job keeping this place running. A little hiccup ain't no thang!

 

[PsionicCuttlefish]

If it's not too much of a bother to ask, I'm curious; is there any clue as to what changed that caused the shoutbox to suddenly break down and lag the whole site? Computers and programs can be glitchy, but if something is working just fine without issue for so long, then suddenly and abruptly goes haywire, it's usually gotta be for a reason...

 

[Vekseid]

Sure, things reached a point where the time to fulfill requests for shoutbox data became longer than the time between individual requests. It was serving 2-3 million of these requests a day and eventually that was too much for the size of it.

 

[PsionicCuttlefish]

Ah, so it really is simply that the volume of data outstripped the capabilities of the data-handling? Dang.

 

[Nekrosilisk88]

anything we can do to help improve that?

 

[UltraMechaStalin]

anything we can do to help improve that?

We can begin the purge.

Has a few axes to grind.

 

[Nekrosilisk88]

anything we can do to help improve that?

We can begin the purge.

Has a few axes to grind.

Begins marking key spots on Cheshire with red dashed lines.

 

[Vekseid]

anything we can do to help improve that?

Only thing to do at this point is to get Elkarte into a suitable state and to get us onto our own server.