Block Guests or no avatars

H Tower · December 4, 2001, 19:28

This is ridiculus, the forums are so slow right now, either we need to block the guests browsing the boards or get rid of avatars. Right now their are more guests than members!

i vote to block the guests, if they really want to see whats happening, let them register.

Dauphin · December 4, 2001, 19:43

Lose the avatars until they can be fully supported by an upgraded server.

Else just block anyone under Prince.

Zopperoni · December 4, 2001, 19:51

Make avatars only available for King and up

DarkCloud · December 4, 2001, 20:37

I would rather lose the avatars- the guests may not contribute much, but they do visit the site and may buy tshirts...

d_dudy · December 4, 2001, 23:03

Quote:

Originally posted by Zopper
Make avatars only available for King and up

the spamming would be rampant....

and.....i'm.......so......close.......

keep the avatars, siro made a cool one for me

ColdWizard · December 4, 2001, 23:32

neither, i detect no slowdown in page loading

Jaguar · December 5, 2001, 00:27

I'd say avatars should go if necessary. But right now its ok, just annoying

DanQ · December 5, 2001, 00:34

We are actively monitoring the situation. For those of you experiencing a slowdown, we apologize for the inconvenience. However, it is still a little early to be certain that the slowdowns you are experiencing are directly related in whole or in part to the restoration of avatars in the forums especially given the said slowdown is apparently not affecting all users. It may simply be a coincidence and it may also only be temporary.

To determine where the slowdown is if you are experiencing one, run several traceroutes at different times of the day where possible by typing "tracert apolyton.net" at an MS-DOS prompt (I am not certain what the equivalent is on machines running Mac/Linux etc.) and feel free to email them to both Markos and myself should you feel that your hypothesis was correct.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

H Tower · December 5, 2001, 01:05

its not slow for me anymore, but i was having 2 minute load times earlier today. and judging by how many were posting in the OT earlier today, so was everyone else.

ColdWizard · December 5, 2001, 01:38

i also didn't notice any abnormal slowness during the day either

aaglo · December 5, 2001, 03:09

I vote for banana

I have not noticed any slowdowns - I don't think that either of the options should be disabled.

DISABLE THE POST COUNTERS TO REDUCE SPAMMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

klesh · December 5, 2001, 16:38

Today has been absolutely horrible! I have been trying to get on Apolyton for about an hour now... I managed to get to the forums page :

But then every attempt to get into an actual forum was futile. Of interest here is that when I cued up IE to see if that was better.... VIOLA! No slowdown whatsoever, quite fast actually...
No need to flame, but yes, I am on aol.

I had thought it could have been things like this:

But I guess that isn't the case. I was going to suggest banning guests on the forums, and then even perhaps a post count minimum to be able to view the CivIII forum. The slowdown that I have been experiencing has been so great that these were viable options to be thinking about. But if this is not the case, I wonder what can be done? Oh well, IE for viewing Apolyton is okay by me for the time being.

-FMK.

H Tower · December 5, 2001, 16:54

looks like the majority vote ruled, avatars are gone again

ColdWizard · December 5, 2001, 17:16

majority rule

MarkDanGQ aren't going to block guests

Dauphin · December 5, 2001, 17:25

Quote:

Originally posted by ColdWizard
majority rule

MarkDanGQ aren't going to block guests

But they do ban members. Perhaps a large scale blocking policy should be instigated.

H Tower · December 5, 2001, 17:35

Quote:

Originally posted by ColdWizard
majority rule

MarkDanGQ aren't going to block guests

they did earlier, just after the release of civ3

Gramphos · December 5, 2001, 17:40

What they did was to limit the number of guests, and I think that cap is still there.

I don't know what is best to do, but it seems to me that Mark should get the hack to save custom Avatars as files to favor cashing.

MarkG · December 5, 2001, 18:04

there is currently no limit on the number of guests

Jaguar · December 5, 2001, 21:12

I don't think that civ-3 newbie whining should be more important than the OT. Closing down the OT should be done after banning guests, if still necessary.

Natan · December 5, 2001, 21:42

If it comes to it, take down the avatars. We can do without pretty pictures, but without guests the number of new members will decline drastically and the site will slowly die.

Caligastia · December 6, 2001, 11:54

I dont think banning guests is the answer, Apolyton needs the exposure. How about buying a new server?

drake · December 6, 2001, 16:06

wheres the "both" option??

The Mad Monk · December 7, 2001, 04:44

It looks like the choice has been made to shut down avatars for a little while longer--I think that's the right one.

Footie Mad · December 7, 2001, 08:42

Avatars aren't that important, start a thread where you show them off if they are disabled.

jlc9539 · December 7, 2001, 10:24

Quote:

Originally posted by MarkG
there is currently no limit on the number of guests

Maybe a limit of 300 guests would be good. That would reduce traffic but still allow access to non-registered civ fans.

Urban Ranger · December 8, 2001, 03:38

When push comes to shove, disabling avatars seem the correct way.

Who knows, some guests might just click on ad banners or buy ACS merchandise.

Case · December 8, 2001, 05:53

I'd say that people are a lot more important then pictures