Good afternoon.
A few of you have already noticed that Falcon's Eye is missing.
Accipiter and I have been prepping for moving this site onto a new server. As part of that preparation, we're trying to clean up here.
The Falcon's Eye feature seemed to be a target for web bots looking for vulnerabilities. Since the Falcon's Eye features are incorporated into The Navigator, we thought it would be more efficient (and improve performance) to just keep The Navigator.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Chip
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Regards,
Ted
And I will have to continue to delete youtube videos in discussions that I need to see to provide technical help, or else I can not be providing technical help effectively (since youtube slows down my ability to read discussions).
So please refrain from adding youtube videos to technical related discussions.
However @Ted feel free to repost your off-topic video in the off-topics category. And continue to ask technical questions in the technical questions category, but I will have to ignore discussions in technical questions category with youtube videos in them.
since you guys insist on posting unrelated youtube in technical site related questions and discussions.
too hard for to deal with my slow internet connection and browser.
Good-bye I am leaving the site and will not be fielding any more technical questions.
I wish all of you the best, except for @Ted who has driven me from the site.
@chip - i can help you with the one last database migration, since everything else appears to be working, after that. I have to say goodbye.
Thank you for all the hard work and best of luck. You will be missed.
I deleted the two recently attached videos, and I'm modestly surprised that they appeared in the first place. It seems to me that Accipiter made an entirely reasonable request, that folks not attach videos to technical threads. His argument struck me as reasonable - he's been our chief programmer and the fact that he works with a dial-up modem makes it near impossible for him to open threads with video clips, so folks should avoid attaching such recreational videos.
I'm saddened that folks thought the appropriate response was to attach two more videos. We're in the midst of a major project - trying to transition the site to a virtual private server to help address serious stability and reliability concerns. I'll note that Ted himself has been pressing us to make such a change for more than a year. It's costly, complicated and frequently frustrating. The transition requires a fair amount of reprogramming and a lot of hours contributed by two highly skilled volunteers.
And now it stops.
I'm not sure quite what to do next. I'm modestly reluctant to try to find and educate a commercial programmer who might reasonably charge $40-60 an hour, especially since much of the programming needs to center on the discussion board software which was recently updated. We'll need to use the newer version on the new server, but it does not easily support much of the functionality that Accipiter (with Chip's support) managed to build into the current version. The two of them, on a sub-forum invisible to most folks, exchanged more than 100 notes as they inched things forward. There's much left to do.
David
Regards,
Ted
I trust you all will try to keep technical announcements and technical discussions free of youtube and videos and unnecessary images. The easier it is to view the discussion, the easier it is to solve the issue, and respond to feedback.
Sometimes we just have to think about what's good for our community, and put our own feelings in second place. Not all the time ... just sometimes. Thanks for taking that option.
OJ