The Official Spurstalk Servers Need To Improve Thread

[Dex]

We also used to have cool arcade games and a forum for the Pistons and...a bunch of stuff that honestly would not help this forum function better tbh.

Shoutout to whoever the old Arcade winners were

Seriously though, the owners of this site are doing all of this out of their own time and mostly out of their own pocket, so maybe y'all should calm down a bit during the dog days of summer

[Dejounte]

We also used to have cool arcade games and a forum for the Pistons and...a bunch of stuff that honestly would not help this forum function better tbh.

Shoutout to whoever the old Arcade winners were

Seriously though, the owners of this site are doing all of this out of their own time and mostly out of their own pocket, so maybe y'all should calm down a bit during the dog days of summer

that last paragraph of glazing is why nothing gets done. This isnt just a summer thing, it’s gradually getting worse. This website was literally down for nine hours. There is no telling that months from now the website could be down for longer than that because there is no communication. That’s a sign of no appreciation for the people who use it. The community makes spurstalk, not the other way around. If spurstalk doesn’t respect its community enough to improve its environment, it will leave.

[tonight...you]

that last paragraph of glazing is why nothing gets done. This isnt just a summer thing, it’s gradually getting worse. This website was literally down for nine hours. There is no telling that months from now the website could be down for longer than that because there is no communication. That’s a sign of no appreciation for the people who use it. The community makes spurstalk, not the other way around. If spurstalk doesn’t respect its community enough to improve its environment, it will leave.

hear, hear

[exstatic]

Probably unpopular, but I used the Contact link on the forum selection bar, and suggested that they turn off search again. In a 22 year old forum with likely millions of posts running 22 year old software, search will bog you down in a major way. Other suggestions were to limit functionality of guests, or possibly archive off more older posts.

[lefty]

Time for a Private Subreddit? Discord Server?

[Ice009]

We also used to have cool arcade games and a forum for the Pistons and...a bunch of stuff that honestly would not help this forum function better tbh.

Shoutout to whoever the old Arcade winners were

Seriously though, the owners of this site are doing all of this out of their own time and mostly out of their own pocket, so maybe y'all should calm down a bit during the dog days of summer

Didn't realize there was arcade games. Wasn't there also a Kings forum (if so, what was the reason for the Kings forum?)?

[Guru of Nothing]

usenet is good enough for me.

[Robz4000]

Over 12k users and rising currently, and the most ever was around 17k a week ago. Site is/has definitely been getting ddos'd tbh.

[tonight...you]

I'm cool with Discord. It's a nice app.

[Ice009]

Over 12k users and rising currently, and the most ever was around 17k a week ago. Site is/has definitely been getting ddos'd tbh.

Darn, that is a ton of users. Where do you see how many there are?

[Robz4000]

Darn, that is a ton of users. Where do you see how many there are?

Bottom of the Forums page.

[RC_Drunkford]

TimVP is the Gregg Popovich of online forums. Let‘s just keep doing everything the way we did it in 2005

[NASpurs]

TimVP is the Gregg Popovich of online forums. Let‘s just keep doing everything the way we did it in 2005

Reminds me when the Spurs were still playing "Y'all Ready for This" still in 2003. This forum is still on version 4 of vBulletin which hasn't been supported for almost ten years now.

"In late 2017, a post by Technical Support Lead, Wayne Luke, confirmed that vBulletin 3 and vBulletin 4 were now considered to be "End of Life" software, with no further development of the series planned."

vBulletin 4 is "Y'all Ready for This".

[tonight...you]

Reminds me when the Spurs were still playing "Y'all Ready for This" still in 2003. This forum is still on version 4 of vBulletin which hasn't been supported for almost ten years now.

"In late 2017, a post by Technical Support Lead, Wayne Luke, confirmed that vBulletin 3 and vBulletin 4 were now considered to be "End of Life" software, with no further development of the series planned."

vBulletin 4 is "Y'all Ready for This".

Thanks. Now that stupid ass song is stuck in my head.

[LeBowen]

Probably unpopular, but I used the Contact link on the forum selection bar, and suggested that they turn off search again. In a 22 year old forum with likely millions of posts running 22 year old software, search will bog you down in a major way. Other suggestions were to limit functionality of guests, or possibly archive off more older posts.

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

This is how I open Spurstalk these days. I don't ever go outside this subforum, no need to.
Everything else should be archived and as you said search should be disabled.

I think botting/ddos is the issue because how else to explain the site working perfectly at some hours and then going down randomly.
It was fine during the draft when the number of actual humans browsing it was the highest.

[Ice009]

Bottom of the Forums page.

OK, thanks. I just went there. I never go to that page. Usually just open the forum with the page Lebowen mentioned in his post below.

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

This is how I open Spurstalk these days. I don't ever go outside this subforum, no need to.
Everything else should be archived and as you said search should be disabled.

I think botting/ddos is the issue because how else to explain the site working perfectly at some hours and then going down randomly.
It was fine during the draft when the number of actual humans browsing it was the highest.

Interesting. I just looked at the forums page, so you might be right about what is going on. I can't see there being 13K active users currently.

[Dex]

that last paragraph of glazing is why nothing gets done. This isnt just a summer thing, it’s gradually getting worse. This website was literally down for nine hours. There is no telling that months from now the website could be down for longer than that because there is no communication. That’s a sign of no appreciation for the people who use it. The community makes spurstalk, not the other way around. If spurstalk doesn’t respect its community enough to improve its environment, it will leave.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you spend your time and hard-earned money creating this forum? Are you paying for this ?

Not saying everything is perfect. The servers have been whack lately. But have some respect for the people who made this place available in the first place and are basically doing it as a favor to the Spurs community. They don't owe you anything.

[Dex]

Didn't realize there was arcade games. Wasn't there also a Kings forum (if so, what was the reason for the Kings forum?)?

SpursTalk adopted a lot of Pistons fans after 2005 Finals because they didn't have a great forum of their own.

Same thing kinda happened with the Kings fans in the 2006 Playoffs, but didn't last as long.

[NASpurs]

Those full table sessions need some clearing every hour or two.

[scott]

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

This is how I open Spurstalk these days. I don't ever go outside this subforum, no need to.
Everything else should be archived and as you said search should be disabled.

I think botting/ddos is the issue because how else to explain the site working perfectly at some hours and then going down randomly.
It was fine during the draft when the number of actual humans browsing it was the highest.

And the ddos is likely due to the nonsense in the Political forum. I doubt there are internet troll/bot farms who give a about shutting down discourse about the Spurs - but the Political forum (for whatever reason) draws attention from s bags across the nation who don't GAF about the Spurs or the NBA at all. It should be jettisoned into the dark web.

[scott]

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you spend your time and hard-earned money creating this forum? Are you paying for this ?

Not saying everything is perfect. The servers have been whack lately. But have some respect for the people who made this place available in the first place and are basically doing it as a favor to the Spurs community. They don't owe you anything.

tbh, people in here are literally volunteering to pay for this , but we can't even get the owners of this site to engage in a discussion about it.

[Guru of Nothing]

Can we at least kick around .com domain name suggestions if it comes down to someone (NOT ME) standing up a new message board. houston.com is already taken.

[NASpurs]

Can we at least kick around .com domain name suggestions if it comes down to someone (NOT ME) standing up a new message board. houston.com is already taken.

The good news is that fiverings got.com is still available.

https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch...m_03_buydomain

[Dejounte]

tbh, people in here are literally volunteering to pay for this , but we can't even get the owners of this site to engage in a discussion about it.

Exactly. I was going to mention this in my post, but I didn’t. Simping for people who don’t care about you is idiotic. They did spend time and money once upon a time but that was forever ago. All that good will should be gone. They’ve moved on and soon people here will too.

[vy65]

And the ddos is likely due to the nonsense in the Political forum. I doubt there are internet troll/bot farms who give a about shutting down discourse about the Spurs - but the Political forum (for whatever reason) draws attention from s bags across the nation who don't GAF about the Spurs or the NBA at all. It should be jettisoned into the dark web.

As a recovering user, I can vouch. It’s a cancer that needs to be removed.