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23 July, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 28 July, 2004 - 1000hrs BST
Wiro Posted Jul 24, 2004
Places like hootoo are made up of 2 parts, front-end and back-end.
front-end is what you see
the back-end is the bit where all the magic happens that is beyond our comprehension and is to do with what is running on the servers.
if it is a backend fix you won't notice anything
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Katiecat Posted Jul 24, 2004
If we won't notice *anything* then why are they bothering to do it?
Not faster or anything?
What *sort* of things can be in backend fixes then?
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Wiro Posted Jul 24, 2004
There are *lots* of reasons as to why they are bothering.
However im not comment on them as i don't know what it is that they are chagning, and i don't want to give an example that could lead you into thinking they are changing something they are not.
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Wiro Posted Jul 24, 2004
Reading back it does, but im still not going to say.
Im not bothered how it appears, i know myself how far my knowledge extends.
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Katiecat Posted Jul 24, 2004
Oh go on, give me an example of what its not and I'll promise that I'll know its definitely not that now that youve defainitely said that that it wont be that.
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Jul 24, 2004
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Katiecat Posted Jul 24, 2004
But if you were then right I'd think you were very clever and probably kind of half guessed it might do that and were just keeping it quiet because you weren t sure - so what would be the harm in telling me just a bit? Either way you win.
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Wiro Posted Jul 24, 2004
better not say anthing then, wouldn't want you thinking i am smarter than i am, and winning would just draw attention to me.
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Katiecat Posted Jul 24, 2004
But in a good way, you'd be a prophet, a guru, someone we'd all look up too!
Gotta go - if you change your mind let me know!
23 July, 2004: Downtime Advance Warning - 28 July, 2004 - 1000hrs BST
Wiro Posted Jul 24, 2004
already got that in RL, the guru part not the propeht part.
and hootoo already has enough religion created from within itself.
prefer just to lurk and interject where nessecary.
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SEF Posted Jul 24, 2004
Well there's no shortage of things needing fixing. There are also some things which already exist but aren't in all the various skins. I wouldn't have thought the skins really counted as back-end or behind-the-scenes fixes though.
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Jul 24, 2004
*steps over queued post to avoid loss of subject line.*
Who is it I wonder? Place your bets...
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 24, 2004
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Wiro Posted Jul 24, 2004
less than half an hour to get modded not bad ...
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Jul 24, 2004
Core, this is a reply to the post before I posted, does this count as time travel?
*Waves* and this time the subject line has not been left as "Hidden." Or does this only happen if people reply to the queued post? SEF, I'll ask you later!
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moxonthemoon Posted Jul 24, 2004
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Jul 24, 2004
Oddly, it is the line that contains the subject.
Start a thread, it ask for a subject, but in reply a user may alter the subject line. Other times a post that is hidden (queued until looked at by the site moderators) or removed by them. There are time when the subject line itself is the problem, or post 1 of a thread a problem. You may see subject lines as "" from time to time.
Look at the top of the post, you will see Subject: {subject content}
There are times when an editor will change the subject, this happen's often when these anoucement appear, the BBC budject does not stretch to a calender, or a clock with hand on.
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