Reactions Reputation Epilog

[Steve Herschbach]

Many of you know the reaction (likes) and reputation system crashed. In database terms these were files I have allowed to build for 11 years without touching them. The main benefit as far as I was concerned was seeing what posts were the most popular over the years, helping point people to high quality content. However, this post popularity thing was also tied to a member reputation system. As non-active members and spammers were purged from the system, the lack of reindexing eventually caused problems. The forums have had periodic meltdowns the last couple years, and I suspect now it was tied to this.

The data was unrecoverable without going to extremes not worth the time and effort I would have to invest with doubtful results. In a bid to get the sytem back to a higher level of stability I dropped the member reputation system and leaderboard entirely, and reset/reindexed the post reactions/likes system.

In general I have been paring the system back deleting less used areas in favor of focusing on the main activity here, the forums themselves. So far the result seems to be a more stable and snappier responding forum. That was the goal and hopefully this remains the case going forward.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

[RickUK]

Steve,many thanks for all the hard work you put in behind the scenes to keep the forum going,i rarely post on forums these days but this one is the best for sure.....many thanks.

 

[Airtemisa]

The key of this forum is the Quality of the content and the users itself. 

[UT Dave]

The site does seem snappier.  Much appreciated!

- Dave

[rvpopeye]

 

Navigation through that speed bump and creating more speed in the process ! WTG 👍

You're making me appreciate my IT Wiz even more . 

[geof_junk]

All I can say is I am a lot closer to some members totals than before the hiccup. 😂