#64486
03/11/2003 9:12 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
In this thread I'll be highlighting some of the larger ubb's I find around the internet, if you see one in this range, feel free to post.  http://boards.wizards.com/community-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_daily Almost 400 active topics, more than 131,000 members, >630,000 posts 
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#64487
03/11/2003 9:23 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
This one's not as big, but is busier http://www.ls1tech.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php ~11,000 members, ~440,000 posts, and almost 600 active topics 
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#64488
03/12/2003 5:56 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
Admin Emeritus
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Admin Emeritus
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Posts: 5,073 |
Feh, when I saw this topic, I was gonna post the WOTC URL... 
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#64489
03/12/2003 6:14 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
hehe... and that would be? 
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#64490
03/12/2003 8:31 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
Admin Emeritus
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Admin Emeritus
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Posts: 5,073 |
WOTC -> Wizards of the Coast.
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#64491
03/12/2003 9:51 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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Isn't that the company that makes "Magic: The Gathering" ?
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#64492
03/13/2003 12:06 AM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
Admin Emeritus
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Admin Emeritus
Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073 |
And D&D, among other things.
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#64493
03/13/2003 1:02 AM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2
Master Hacker
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Master Hacker
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Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 |
I'm sorry if I seem stupid by saying this, but I heard somewhere that if you hit 30,000 members or so, UBB classic would be horribly inefficient and you should go to UBB threads. I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but I heard it somewhere 
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#64494
03/13/2003 1:32 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
It's not a stupid question, Charles was the one probably UBB is written well, but your number of members and posts can slow it down significantly if your server isn't setup correctly - throw enough hardware at it and you can just about run any size forum. In other words, hardware is the limiting factor more than anything. Most people run on shared servers, >30k members would significantly slow your forums down. Put your site on a fast server with scsi disks, xeon processors, and loads of ram and you can run it way higher than that. I've seen ubb's with 600+ people on at the same time, it mostly depends on hardware
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#64496
03/14/2003 1:50 PM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 1,271
Kahuna
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Kahuna
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the board i admin, the DC Message Boards , are purdy big, too! 25,000 members (should be 35,000 -- lost a "few" last year) and tens of thousands of threads (even tho everything older than 60 days gets deleted every month) most impressively, 450 active topics... already! its not even 1pm! average is in the ball park of 1500
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#64497
03/14/2003 5:14 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
Admin Emeritus
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Admin Emeritus
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25k members? That must be one hell of a server.
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#64498
03/14/2003 6:20 PM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 729
Coder
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Coder
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Posts: 729 |
I am sure Hostboard.com could be considered one of the largest. Although admitedly more of a hybrid system.
Catagories - 104
Forums - 2,134
Moderators - 2,654
Posts - 755,118
Threads - 86,480
Users - 82,902
Due to the nature of Hostboard these numbers only represent today and fluctuate daily.
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#64499
03/14/2003 7:11 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
Admin Emeritus
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Admin Emeritus
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You don't count, man.
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#64500
03/17/2003 4:29 PM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 1,271
Kahuna
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Kahuna
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quote:
Originally posted by Charles Capps:
25k members? That must be one hell of a server. its one hell of an exploding server! 23,290 as of 3 pm today (with 520 active topics already!) we've had... "problems" ... from time to time, due to the size and various bandwith issues. granted, the forum is supported by time warner, so the costs aren't a problem. but everything else is -- especially because its a old-school 5.45 ubb, which as you know, doesn't really like that "excess usage." one such problem was the afore mentioned loss of just a few member profiles (in the ball park of 8,000!) a big help in keeping it running smoothely is to prune all posts in all forums older than 60 days on a monthly basis. how or why that helps, i dunno, but it works so far, so i aint stoppin!
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#64501
03/17/2003 5:50 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,073
Admin Emeritus
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Admin Emeritus
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Posts: 5,073 |
The more files in a directory, the slower things get - the OS has to search them all to open one single file. That's why pruning helps so much, and that's why we don't advise more than 20,000 members...
You should just move right up to Threads...
UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.
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#64502
03/17/2003 9:41 PM
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Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 2,223
Veteran
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Veteran
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Posts: 2,223 |
Picture perfect penmanship here.
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#64503
03/18/2003 12:18 PM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 1,271
Kahuna
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Kahuna
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quote:
Originally posted by Charles Capps:
You should just move right up to Threads... if it were my choice, we would have moved up to threads (or at least upgraded to v6) months/years ago. however, despite my protests, wb looks to be heading in the direction of converting all their forums to wb-created boards. hopefully, thats preventable (i can only imagine receiving 25,000 emails from people asking me why they have to reregister)
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#64504
05/04/2003 4:33 PM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 22
Junior Member
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Junior Member
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Posts: 22 |
Wow, I better start advertising my board soon!
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#64505
05/08/2003 8:32 AM
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Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 441
Member
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Member
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Posts: 441 |
http://technoforum.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi i guess my board is also some sort of 'huge' *g* about 7oo.ooo single postings (yeah, i already kicked out 2oo.ooo old and chitchat-stuff) and nearly 1ok users so far, still growing. so, i have to upgrade really soon to 6.5 because of some lil bugs appearing on my board and nowadays i'm still waiting for a sql-backend because of the really huge database but even ubb7.0 or ubb8.0 will be released i guess i'll be missing still that sort of backend :-/ the most interesting thing about my board is maybe the unique layout: no portal, no chat, no instantmessages and quite unique background-gfx as well as NO moderators as well as NO subcategories, no advertising, no banner and no unnecessary modules/hacks *g*
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#64506
05/08/2003 10:04 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
Nice one Chris Yep, it's time to upgrade, there's been many improvements in the code since then...
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#64507
05/09/2003 8:39 AM
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Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 441
Member
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Member
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Posts: 441 |
2allen, i'm just afraid to kick over the truly nice look&feel with an upgrade: main thing would probably be including the background-gfx again but maybe this should be easy to do. also including dpks smiley-hack is really important, so, well, i just wait to get in touch with our sysadmin to start the upgrade *g* - he's too lazy but the only guy who's able to .tar/.zip the complete bbs for safety reasons before upgrading... any ideas how to improve the look&feel of my site with 6.5? no, i do not like to include a chat, but .. any suggestions *G* ?
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#64508
05/11/2003 2:15 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
hmmmm.... there's already many of the modifications you've added in the base code already The look and feel has been refined quite a bit since your version. Adding your graphics back, maybe the quick reply and calendar, and you'd be set... at least for now
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#64509
09/17/2003 1:30 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
Here's a nice one: http://www.miataforum.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php >20,000 members, ~1 million posts, and 300+ daily active topics
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#64510
09/17/2003 9:41 AM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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Heh infopop should make ubb.classic with an integer to use sql or flat files, then they can work for everyone  ... becides, with SQL you can just do so much more concerning integration...
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#64511
09/17/2003 11:07 AM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,849
Spotlight Winner
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Spotlight Winner
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quote: Originally posted by Gizzy: Heh infopop should make ubb.classic with an integer to use sql or flat files, then they can work for everyone ... becides, with SQL you can just do so much more concerning integration...I've been saying this for 2 and a half years but the official word is that it will never happen. UBB Threads is not a valid option for me since it IS NOT UBB! I guess I'll have to keep UBB since my wife loves Netwerkin but my second UBB license is sitting idle.
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#64512
09/17/2003 3:58 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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heh, i'd love to see it so that there were 2 db options, it'd change so much, and make everything easier to use.
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#64513
09/17/2003 8:12 PM
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,849
Spotlight Winner
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Spotlight Winner
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#64514
09/20/2003 8:55 PM
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Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 221
Member
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Member
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Posts: 221 |
Mine is pretty big, not huge though. Probably the smallest of those listed on this thread, actually. http://www.nightly.net around 14,000 members, around half million posts, and 200+ daily active topics Now if you want to see a HUGE message board...well then look here: http://boards.theforce.net/ It isn't a UBB, but it's ginormous. 12 million posts, 115,000 members, 5000 active daily topics, 250 forums.
This is the designed behavior.
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#64515
10/26/2003 10:59 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
nice one bryan http://forums.fanforum.com/ultimatebb.php Members: 93,331 | Posts: 1,072,046
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#64516
10/27/2003 12:58 PM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 1,271
Kahuna
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Kahuna
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 1,271 |
quote:
Originally posted by drkknght: quote:
[qb]Originally posted by Charles Capps:
You should just move right up to Threads...[/qb] if it were my choice, we would have moved up to threads (or at least upgraded to v6) months/years ago. however, despite my protests, wb looks to be heading in the direction of converting all their forums to wb-created boards. hopefully, thats preventable (i can only imagine receiving 25,000 emails from people asking me why they have to reregister)
it was not preventable
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#64517
12/30/2003 5:36 AM
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Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 14
Junior Member
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Junior Member
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#64518
12/30/2003 2:56 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20 |
I thought mine was fairly large lol... We now have 2000 members (1000 in 2 months due to the spider mod)! It should go up more due to spidering being default in the UBB now ...
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#64519
01/18/2004 10:57 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
the spider mod was a huge help for me as well
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#64521
05/17/2004 10:39 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20 |
Hey allen, we recoded boards.php
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#64522
05/18/2004 1:11 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
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#64523
05/18/2004 1:27 AM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20 |
It now works with 6.6+ lol... Reads most URL types; not half bad. Since not a piece of it is Micah's code we didn't put his copyright back on, but the url's are basically the same as the original... Check ugn's lol... http://www.undergroundnews.com/boards/ although we can't figure out how to make the cookies work right for the post indicators, but the rest is all good :x
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#64525
05/18/2004 11:14 AM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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Couldn't get mine to work at all; always just spit out errors... We recoded it a bit, even changed the .htaccess lines to get it all working nicely with eachother lol... Definatly good, especially without having to advertise it
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#64526
06/04/2004 1:51 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 4
Junior Member
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Junior Member
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We're getting to be in the rather large category now at StripersOnline - SurfTalk We diligently keep registrations to 1 per person and remove any "fluff" from our member list But we're now nearing 5,600 members - and gotta be over 800,000 posts - without including the 3 or 4 forums we've shut down over the years Charles once gave me what-fer about keeping a few hundred thousands posts in the Main Forum on the UBB "official" forums I gotta say, though, between Charles and Gizmo, these guys have never steered me wrong with their answers Now if someone could direct me to a script I could use to strip all the links outta a couple hundred thousand old pages in a few UBB5 style /Forum__/HTML/ directories, I'd really be smiling TimS
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#64527
06/04/2004 4:16 PM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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YEY, I do good! And custom script job's, Brett is your best bet
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#64528
03/14/2006 11:07 AM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3
I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 |
checked out Tim's site, they're up to more than 1.4 millyun posts now
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#64529
03/28/2006 12:50 PM
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Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 14
Junior Member
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Junior Member
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Originally posted by TimS: We're getting to be in the rather large category now at StripersOnline - SurfTalk We diligently keep registrations to 1 per person and remove any "fluff" from our member list But we're now nearing 5,600 members - and gotta be over 800,000 posts - without including the 3 or 4 forums we've shut down over the years Charles once gave me what-fer about keeping a few hundred thousands posts in the Main Forum on the UBB "official" forums I gotta say, though, between Charles and Gizmo, these guys have never steered me wrong with their answers Now if someone could direct me to a script I could use to strip all the links outta a couple hundred thousand old pages in a few UBB5 style /Forum__/HTML/ directories, I'd really be smiling TimS Darn...I thought it said Strippers Online!
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#64530
03/28/2006 1:49 PM
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Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 745
Admin Emeritus
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Admin Emeritus
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StripersOnline has moved to another product now
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#64531
03/29/2006 12:42 AM
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20 |
Originally posted by Sub Zero:
StripersOnline has moved to another product now
A lot of others have as well, several others are considering it too ...
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I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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I just imported a classic forum into threads this weekend that had >131k members
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Veteran
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Veteran
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We passed a million posts last month www.fansfocus.com
Fans Focus - Focusing on Fans of Sport (Okay - mainly football (the British variety at the moment - but expanding all the time....)
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I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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Congrats! 
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Veteran
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Veteran
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thanks. Why can't I see this thread in the postlist of topics? it only seems to appear in the postlist at the level above as the last post in the sub-fourm?
Fans Focus - Focusing on Fans of Sport (Okay - mainly football (the British variety at the moment - but expanding all the time....)
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I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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Good question, might be a bug, or just a caching issue
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Master Hacker
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Master Hacker
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it was a sticky that didn't show up. unstuck it then restuck it and it reappeared
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I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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Here's a decent-sized one: 2 + 2 ForumsMore than 77k members with as many as 4k online at once, and several million posts, it's one of the largest forums out there
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Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20
UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
Joined: Jan 2000
Posts: 5,833 Likes: 20 |
77594 Registered User(s)
There are 535 registered and 757 anonymous users online.
Max users online was 4070 @ 10/02/06 02:30 PM
omg...
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Veteran
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busy site
Fans Focus - Focusing on Fans of Sport (Okay - mainly football (the British variety at the moment - but expanding all the time....)
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I type Like navaho
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I type Like navaho
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A little - there's also nearly 10million posts
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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I think i wet myself slightly...
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Veteran
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Picture perfect penmanship here.
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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A little - there's also nearly 10million posts LOL makes my 1.1 million look tiny
Fans Focus - Focusing on Fans of Sport (Okay - mainly football (the British variety at the moment - but expanding all the time....)
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Journeyman
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Journeyman
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Makes mine look like a baby: http://www.riddledindarkness.com/hprpg/ubbthreads.phpI'd have more but I refreshed my board twice and trimmed members/posts. 360 Characters 70 Forums 10896 Topics 181115 Posts We're working on it <3
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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UBBDev / UBBWiki Owner
Time Lord
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Yeh I try to weed down my members (who register and post very little (or not at all), then I've also refreshed several times . I'm really hoping for a UBB.T to UBB.T importer so I can import in my old forum data
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