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MrBen
10-13-2005, 08:14 PM
I remember when it was 1,000 members. 6,000 members in 3 years is a lot!
A20A1
10-13-2005, 09:10 PM
I thought we had 10,000 at one time... oh well 7,000 is just as good. :)
88accordhb
10-13-2005, 09:18 PM
dude, that's so gay! haha love the site, it's the cuu, cuu, cuuulest.
Pro_Mod_Accord
10-13-2005, 09:44 PM
Yah, love this site...Nice to see all the hard work put into research, mods, experiments, etcc...and sharing them with others..Excellent work guys!
3gn86lxi
10-13-2005, 09:52 PM
Wow......how many are active though??? Just curious.
2drSE-i
10-17-2005, 06:32 PM
7011 at this very moment........welcome to firemedic
3G Jester
10-17-2005, 06:55 PM
*distainfull sniff* i dont like it. cause there are literaly a thousand people who registard a user name and never post. there are people that registered in 02 and never posted. something tells me they dont sit on here using search all day and not commenting...finding all the info there already.

i propose that the mods send a mass email out to everyone that hasnt posted in a while to reply back or there account will be erased. say the last 6 months..or even a year...or even two years!!! that would still clean out the system a whole bunch.
88eyeguy
10-17-2005, 07:10 PM
Why?
3G Jester
10-17-2005, 07:12 PM
bandwith killa.
halxi
10-18-2005, 08:40 PM
i agree with 3gjester

those members who havent posted in the last year should have accounts deleted. I preferr quality over quantity anyway :bowrofl:
3gn86lxi
10-18-2005, 09:01 PM
i agree with 3gjester
those members who havent posted in the last year should have accounts deleted. I preferr quality over quantity anyway :bowrofl:
I agree.....good idea.
3G Jester
10-19-2005, 05:11 AM
tell your friendly neighborhood mod that
smufguy
10-19-2005, 05:39 AM
7016 members as of 9:36am on 10-19-2005. This is a nice forum. We had our ups and down, we have members who are cheap like me who do not wanna contribute to the foundation. but we are still alive, lurkers and active members make this a pretty eventful and yet homely online community.
87accordlxi
10-21-2005, 06:12 PM
bandwith killa.

I assume you're referring to disk space being used to store members instead of actual bandwidth being used. The 3geez database is roughly 395mb in size. Of that amount, the amount of space being used to store 7,032 users is 1.6mb (less than one half of 1 percent of database usage). Regardless of how much they use the board, keeping a user registered on the board requires a miniscule amount of disk space. The largest chunk of the database is being used to store posts. Of the 143.6mb being used to store posts, your 2,939 posts average out to a total of 1.02mb - quite nearly as much as the disk space required to store the members, and possibly as much as the space required to store the ones who haven't visited in more than a year.

If the members joined and no longer visit the board, they are not adding to the disk space by posting, nor are they using our bandwidth at all. You have added far more to our disk usage and bandwidth than some member who joined in '02 and hasn't visited the site in 3 years. If a member joins, doesn't post, but does continue to visit the site, then that member may use as much bandwidth as you, but will still not use the disk space. Members registering, posting, and regularly visiting the site do in fact "kill our bandwidth" (and disk space) more than the wallflowers and no-shows.

I didn't single you out to make you look bad, as I could have singled out anyone else who posts and visits regularly and made the same point. There are constants that cannot be changed when running the forum, and one of those is the fact that the people you rely on to make the forum active are the ones who cost the most as well. Space and bandwidth needs have been taken into consideration and we have plenty of both for a long time. When I talk about saving bandwidth, I talk about making our current system more efficient, not about making unnecessary cuts.
3G Jester
10-21-2005, 06:18 PM
damn joe. i think im gonna cry........*sniff*
A20A1
10-23-2005, 06:41 PM
I wonder if we could conver some of our how-to's into PDF... would that help?
Although I dunno If I have the program to do so.
3G Jester
10-23-2005, 07:17 PM
why'd you offer then mike :P

what about jim(hostile)? hes a computer tech...im sure he has something at his disposal
A20A1
10-24-2005, 01:27 AM
Well I can use my schools computers which probably has the program I need... they buy a lot of Adobe Progam Packages, so I'm sure PDF is stuck in there somewhere. Maybe Indesign has it?
MrBen
10-24-2005, 09:38 AM
You can covert things to PDF using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. I think all of adobe's programs allow you to.
A20A1
10-24-2005, 10:09 AM
Cool, how should I do it though? Copy the Screen in segments, paste them together and convert the image file to PDF? Or does PS let you import HTML or .DOC type documents. It would be nice to trim off the boards excess images and boarders and make it straight text and pictures.
MrBen
10-24-2005, 10:15 AM
I'm not sure about the HTML or .DOC documents. If it were me I'd probably copy each how-to's text and paste it in InDesign. That's the simplest (and best, I think) way to do it. Text in photoshop is a pain but it can be done. I think the drawback is the photoshop PDF doesn't have editable text, but I could be wrong. FreeHand should be able to convert to PDF also. Only way to know for sure is to try it though!
3G Jester
10-24-2005, 12:15 PM
i would say copy and paste :) less chance of screwing up important things like..flipping your lid how to.... heh....