Thread Clean-Up

So I was told to clean up the old threads on SpleafNet today because there were shit loads of them. So I made an archive board and put all of the threads in it that haven’t had replies since the year 2008. While going through all almost five thousand threads, I found all of the threads from the AvidGamers and AcornRack war. I remember when the AcornRack software came out, the people that stayed on AvidGamers were absolutely furious because they felt as if AcornRack was nothing more than a rip off of the AvidGamers software. Personally, I think a little competition is healthy.

Even so, it’s funny how a couple years after the AcornRack software was created AvidGamers shut down in it’s entirety, and all of the people flaming, bitching at, and bad-mouthing AcornRack were forced to either figure out something else to do for their websites, or came over to AcornRack because there wasn’t anywhere else to go for that kind of software. And it’s funny how ever since that war, occasionally there are people popping up with “What is AG” threads that immediately receive the “Oh boy, here it comes again” reply. I just hope moving those threads into an archive don’t spark some kind of a riot. I also added little A’s and M’s next to administrator and/or moderator usernames on the online list depending on if you’re an admin or a mod. I agree with whoever mentioned it (I forgot, sorry) that it was a lot easier to figure out who was an admin, mod, or regular member and thus who to contact about assorted topics. Another suggestion that came in to cut down on random chatty spam is to implement the “Bump” button that was on AR1.

That’s something I was already thinking of before, but never mentioned the idea to anyone. I’m thinking maybe that would be a good idea. I’ll have to have a chat with Chris about how to go about implementing it; if I could just copy and paste or what else would have to happen.

Lots o’ Ranting

Well, I got my priest up to level 77 last night. I also managed to blow almost all her gold on Cold Weather Flying, but I’m back up to over 100 gold (over 130 actually I think) so no big deal, and roughly a quarter of the way to level 78. SpleafNet’s email issue has been fixed again. The server didn’t want to save the cron job that sends out email, which is weird because it was added to crontab by Mr. Culverhouse, and then I added it to crontab, and it just… didn’t save. So Martin was able to put it back in and it stayed there the way he did it, and voila email is good to go again.

This means that all of the issues on SpleafNet are now resolved, and the only thing left to do is some optimization. The server is somewhat laggy and we need to stop that. It’s not bad until you go to the main forums and then it’s like a dog. Well, to my standards anyway, but it could also be my internet connection because it’s been really slow lately. That doesn’t surprise me though, considering how many problems we normally have with comcast.

I lent one of my domains, Deutelle, to Jennifer so she can have a personal site, blog, poetry and stories section, and whatever else she wants. I’m tempted to put my new site on SpleafNet, thinking about that. The only thing that really holds me back anymore from making any kind of website is the layout. I’m just lazy and would rather not have to spend the time building a layout anymore. It’s just boring to me.

Designing websites doesn’t hold my attention like it used to. I also need to figure out what to do about all of these spambots on Silver Mountain. Not that it’s really that big of a deal, but they’re really becoming a pain in the butt. I have over 200 validating accounts and I have no idea if they’re spambots or real people that just haven’t validated their account yet. I may end up being forced to upgrade the invision power board version, but I hope not because the other invision power board versions are one account per email address and I personally can’t stand invalid email addresses being used. It’s always been a huge pet peeve of mine.

I can’t wait until September so I can get that new phone and call my friends and family without some post-menopausal wretch informing me that I’m not allowed to. Really sometimes I feel like a prisoner here. You know what’s funny? I caught the person I’ve commonly referred to as X and will refer to as X again lying through her teeth to my face today. That was interesting, and she gave me this ugly, disgusting snort that says “I’m better than you” when I confronted her, and she acted as if nothing was wrong and I was just some insignificant peon that didn’t have a single brain cell.

Man I hate that lady. In as much as I’m told to ignore her antics, it’s really difficult to and I hope she’s happy in succeeding in making my life a living Hell. Once I’m finally working enough to be able to afford my own place and whatnot, there’s no way I’m paying her a single dime beyond what I feel I owe her, and for the pure and simple fact that my life has been a living Hell since she stepped into it, and quite frankly I’m sick and tired of the bull I have to deal with on a daily basis. The sickening part is I’m the only one who sees what she’s doing, just like I’m the only person who saw what someone else was doing on a site I’m on that will remain unnamed and quite honestly I’m glad not to have to deal with that chick anymore. That girl, who I’ll call C, had this massive God complex and treated me like something to piss on.

Of course she treated everyone else the same way, who didn’t bow down to her. I haven’t spoken with her since I told her where the bear shit in the woods, thank God. Anyway that’s all I think I have to rant about right now so I’m gonna sign off and get my kid to bed.

SpleafNet-y Stuffs

Ok so Mr. Hill is working on the user databases which apparently should also fix a couple other issues. I was working on trying to get the forum drag and drop reorder thing fixed and somehow in the middle of all of this I managed to reset the posts page code back to default. Boy that was genius of me. I told Mr. Hill I had no idea how it happened but got thinking, and I know exactly how it happened. I was trying to fix yet another small error and clicked the ‘reset page code to default’ button, didn’t think it would change anything since I didn’t check it and hit submit.

I unchecked it, changed the code manually and then hit the submit button. The posts page now looks like crap and I get to spend the next few hours reuploading the sql file into another database so I can retrieve the backup posts page code. Endless hours only for one piece of code. Oh well, like I told Mr. Hill what needs to be done needs to be done. I hope I didn’t mess up what he was doing while I messed up the posts page.

You know what I realized the other day? I will never be able to do anything else again (online) without being stalked and judged. I’m used to being judged, but I’m not used to not being able to do anything without it reflecting upon whatever company I’m working for, and being judged as such. I don’t have anything to hide, really, so that’s not the issue. I guess I’m going to have to learn to be a lot more tactful of what I say and do online, which is another thing I’m not used to doing.

I’m used to feeling a certain way, or thinking something and just blurting it out without a second care about it or who reads it. That leads me into wondering how many people from SpleafNet have found my little personal site here. I know of two for sure, but I wonder who else has.

It’s Lost

What I really want to know is, why now? Now that it’s all done and everything is irretrievable, why now? Everyone has known for well over a month. WTF?

Death in the Near Future

Me and Kira went out with my grandmother today. I got a text message last night stating that my great-grandmother decided not to go through with the dialysis, which means she’s basically doomed herself to die pretty soon. My great-grandmother’s kidneys are shutting down, and once that happens that’s pretty much it. I’m really upset about that. I’m not upset because of the decision, I’m upset because of the outcome.

I understand she’s nearing 90 years old and it’s her time, I get that and I get how much pain she’s in and really if I were in her shoes I’d probably have offed myself already. It’s a fight not to cry though because I know what’s going to happen and I have a rough timeframe as to when. I want to get Kira up there to see her once she’s out of the hospital in a few weeks, and I may end up going up there to help my grandmother. Once my great-grandmother is out of the hospital, my grandmother is going up there until my great-grandmother finally passes away. Otherwise there’s going to be no one there to help her, and she’s far too independent to want to live with one of us.

The problem is, with us having to go up there, it’s kind of a burden, for how much I don’t really want to say that, but it is. Anyway I may end up going up there again to help my grandmother near the end. So yeah as I started out saying, we went out with my grandmother today. Kira got some new shoes and a toothbrush (one of those spin brushes), and Aqua Sand and some Curious George game. We were out almost the entire day.

It was really humid and sticky but it was really fun to get out for a while. Oh and I got my Tokio Hotel: Humanoid City Live DVD yesterday. That was really exciting to watch. Whoever did the stage did a really good job at setting it up. Anyway that’s really all I have to babble about right now.