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(...) Well actually it's 272 but I'll forgive that one :) (...) Thanks for your (and Dans) work on that! The result is great! Mmmmmmmm Dark Blue.... [LDrawPart 3298:272] ROSCO (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Updated, enhanced LDraw shortcut images in FTX (Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX)
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Can you see them now? Good. Thanks to Dan Boger for setting up a feed between the Peeron and LUGNET servers, allowing the live LDraw parts images to be shared by both sites. So now the LDrawPart tag can not display all the current LDraw parts, it (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, FTX) !
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(...) I believe this isn't an issue of bandwidth limits, but of server load. When the server gets too busy, the CPU just doesn't keep up with all the requests, and the load goes up. And once the load hits a magic number (20, I think?) the server (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm one but this is just me talking, not an official answer. I think the guesses are good though. (...) I have noticed it too... when Todd does, he looks into it. Lately, it usually has been spiders (webcrawlers, bots, whatever) hammering the (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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LUGNET Administrators, It seems to me that LUGNET is becoming increasingly not available due to traffic load. Is this perception wrong? If there is some truth to my perception, is there action that can be taken to reduce the dreaded unavailability (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
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(...) oh Bink I thought I left a hint for you there. Hit me up on AIM when you get a chance - I will let you know there. M *punches this back to plain textt* (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
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(...) Not sure I see exactly what you're getting at, Mark... could you elaborate where you think there's a specific problem? Thanks, Kelly (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Looks to me as they have a chance to prove you right -- right at this very moment. Did not take long in this 'new year' did it? Shall we sit back and see what, if anything happens? M (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Maybe. But then abuse of the system would lead to time-outs, would it not? If the admins start to see the page leading to too much abuse, I guess maybe then would be a good time to look at removing it. (...) I don't think this is a question of (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) My entrie (first) post was about weighting and spotlighting. Nothing in the post was outside of that context, so there was no need to assume there was any more, or different, meaning to it. And no, I did not mean I wanted to see more of any (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
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(...) I would think that making the weightings available to the public would lead to temptation to abuse the system. IMO. For all I know, though, the entire LUGNET community is 100% Grade A honest. Anyway, my 2. -Vince (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
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(...) I don't know. Good question. I think you could argue that both ways, but probably it's a good idea. (...) Putting some regularization into the process seems a good idea to me, so ya, there should be. Up till now it has been ad hoc though, I (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) A couple of questions: Will these weightings be made available on a page somewhere so everyone can see them anytime? Is there a policy in place to regularly look at these weightings and make adjustments if deemed necessary? Thanks ROSCO (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) Mark, I wish you (and others) wouldn't go deleting quotes included for context. I've re-inserted the sentence you removed above, with I assumed to mean you wanted to see posts in .lego and .color, which is the context in which I posted my (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well ya, thats kinda easy to figure out ;) I never said anything about how this was stopping that process. I know its not, I also know that is not what my post was about in any way. (...) This is kinda more on my point - but still not 100%. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Mark (and everyone), if you have specific groups you want to see please go to those groups and read them. The spotlight feature is ONLY to choose what gets put on the front page and other "top stories" pages. It is NOT intended to replace your (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Where you said yourself "what we believe" - that tells me you do not know, but are guessing on what you believe to be true. And I know full well the spotlight weighting has been going on for some time and gets changed. I do pay attention (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Although I admittedly would still rather see the weights go down to just +2 for .announce.*, and leave off .announce.moc, .lego, and .color from the list all together, I just had another code-change-necessary thought for weighting... How about (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Why do you think we're guessing? The spotlight function has had weighting for some time. Periodically, that weighting gets adjusted. This was one of those times. (...) We consider and evaluate everyone's opinions, and will include that one, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | NYCLUG group -- Can it be created?
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Dear Admins: We're relatively new, small but significant, like set 6011. We've done a build event at Enfield. We've held several meetings. Any chance we could get our own group? Thanks much, onedaycnn (sid) (URL) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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