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WTF
1/26/2025 1:42 am GMT

Where Are All The Old Threads?

Where are all the old threads? We can't be expected to re-start threads over and over and over agian.

Elaine
1/27/2025 2:52 am GMT

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RE: Where Are All The Old Threads?

I lost the old threads. Sorry.

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for smugness
1/27/2025 9:23 am GMT

RE: Where Are All The Old Threads?

I was wondering where the new smug thread went?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckrzvx0aweY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckrzvx0aweY

Elaine
1/27/2025 7:47 pm GMT

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RE: Where Are All The Old Threads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nN7La9yE-c

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Anonymous Coward
1/30/2025 10:37 pm GMT

RE: Where Are All The Old Threads?

I would have thought that a formerly paid coder would have had an external hard drive back up of important stuff and not have left it on a PC like a n00b?

Pretty sure you claimed to have done this with the really old site that had Curm's posts on it?

Anyway, can't post using a VPN or using duck duck go browser. What happened? You finally sell out to Google or something?

How did you manage to keep all the old smilies intact and in the old custom order BTW?

Seems suss, as the kids these days say.

Valued Guest
1/30/2025 11:30 pm GMT

RE: Where Are All The Old Threads?

Who cares? They were all crap!
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Elaine
1/31/2025 12:48 am GMT

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RE: Where Are All The Old Threads?

I would have thought that a formerly paid coder would have had an external hard drive back up of important stuff and not have left it on a PC like a n00b?

Well, I do have pneumonia for months now and my brain just ain't what it used to be. I did back it up on zip drives and lost them in the move. Plus my old computer just went to shit at a crucial moment.

Anyways, I'm re-writing the code from scratch, now that we have a dedicated server, I can put back lots of stuff that we couldn't use because it was on a shared host. At least, when my brain comes back. Maybe.

Anyway, can't post using a VPN or using duck duck go browser. What happened? You finally sell out to Google or something?

No idea, but I'll check it out. The nice young men who "built" the server kept asking me to have my "developer" call them.

How did you manage to keep all the old smilies intact and in the old custom order BTW?

Smileys are easy... just one directory of image files. The forum was something else. Since the old host restricted my database access, I had to make flat files to store the text in the posts. Other flat files kept arrays of threads and replies. It ended up being hundreds of thousands of files. Plus, the database-update-array files ended up being too large to download. I could only do 2 or 3 at a time, and that was just too fucking much.

It was easy to download the code, and I still have that. But it was for generating flat files, which is damned slow. Now that we have full access to the database again, I am trying to remember the code I wrote 25 years ago. Now that is the REAL pain in the ass.

I had given up coffee, but had to re-acquire the caffein addiction so I could code at pre-old-woman levels.

Still working on bringing back stuff. But I spent a few days in the hospital with a family member and had to sleep for about 48 hours just to be able to get up and walk around.
Well medicated for your protection. ॐ ♡

Elaine
1/31/2025 1:20 am GMT

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RE: Where Are All The Old Threads?

coder would have had an external hard drive

Couldn't afford it.
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