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The deletion of orphaned files has started up again. Let me know if you see any problems. It will take a few hours to complete. 🤞
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Yes, my screw up affected profile avatar pics and profile header pics. If you uploaded yours between January 2018 and October 2019 it will be missing, but will come back as soon as my restore is complete. Tomorrow I'll try my delete again. I'm pretty sure I won't be deleting things that are needed, but if I do, I've got the backup…
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I'm already seeing problems (my profile avatar seems to have been deleted, so I'll restore what I've deleted and try again.
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FYI - I'm about to run a script that will delete a bunch of (mostly) image files off the server. I believe they're all "orphaned" and aren't being used, but I may be wrong. I've made a copy of the files and can restore them if you find instances of missing files. There seem to be a few ways the files were orphaned… At one point in 2014 there must have been a site upgrade or migration where the files were renamed and the old ones weren't deleted. Then there was a period where there were three image sizes. Now there's only two so that means there's a redundant 3rd file. And now it seems images that are used in certain ways aren't being deleted when the thing using them is deleted. Anyway, please post below if you start seeing problems. I'm hoping you won't see any.
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What @BareLover666 said is almost verbatim what the CDC says… https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep/on-demand-prep.html On-demand PrEP is highly effective when your risk is receptive anal sex. As BareLover666 and CDC say - "talk to your doctor to see if it's right for you".
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Copy the URL from the link, before you click on it (right click to get the option to copy).
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Actually, "on-demand" PrEP works well for bottoms. You're basically protected after 2 hours. (If you then take it again every 24 hours until ~48 hours after your last sexual encounter.) This is because the primary risk for bottoms is in your GI tract, and that's where the medicine is immediately after you take it. But a longer period is needed if you are a top or have a vagina and have vaginal sex. But tops are substantially less likely to get HIV (about 6.5x less risk). -
If I understand you correctly it's not happening to all images, just a few. So if you click on "Gallery" in the main nav, there's a "User Galleries" link at the top and then a bunch of recent images below. Some of those are in galleries created by users (if you go to the person's profile page those galleries will show up on their galleries tab), but then there are images that just say "in User Galleries" - those images aren't actually in a user gallery (otherwise it would state the name of the gallery). If I understand you correctly those are the images you're having problems with. Correct? Honestly, I've never liked the fact that the software allows images to not be in galleries. And I have no clue how to fix it. They work for me - both on my admin account and a "regular" account I have. Either way, please right click and get the URL of a problem image, and then post it here, so I can see what's happening.
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It's long gone. It was an old add-on that had questionable value, so I nixed it.
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Do you think this site is hard to navigate?
rawTOP replied to rawTOP's topic in Tips, Tricks, Rules & Help
That's is completely disrespectful of our VOLUNTEER moderation team. There is no maid service here. Grow up and be an adult and stop being a spoiled little kid who thinks his mommy will always be there to tell him he's wonderful and to clean up his messes. -
Problems using the site with Chrome
rawTOP replied to kiwiguyuk's topic in Tips, Tricks, Rules & Help
Your post had nothing to do with not being able to send messages, so I've split it into it's own thread. Please don't create messes like that which moderators have to fix. You caught me in a mood where I didn't feel like giving an infraction, but you should have gotten one. To answer your question - Chrome is the #2 browser accessing the site (just slightly lower usage than Safari - which is high because of iPhone/iPad use). If it were a general problem with Chrome a lot of people would be complaining. The fact that it's just you means there's something screwy on your end. If you have extensions/plug-ins installed in Chrome, try turning them off and seeing if the problem persists. Then enabled them in small batches until you figure out the one that's causing the problem. -
Yes, that thread is hidden. I'm not sure why. Perhaps @drscorpio can explain.
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I need two URLs to figure out what's going on… The URL of the page where you saw the link (copy the URL at the top of the page in the URL/search bar) The URL where you saw the error message (right click and copy URL from page #1 - it's better than getting the URL from the page with the error since there may be a redirect going on).
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HaHa is also +1. So there are 5 that give a point, 2 neutral, 1 that subtracts a point.
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Just a follow up the names of the statuses that didn't really make sense in the context of BZ, got renamed. The new list of levels is: Newbie Rookie Apprentice Explorer Contributor -> PARTICIPANT Enthusiast Collaborator -> INSIDER Community Regular Rising Star -> DEVOTEE Proficient -> FANATIC Experienced -> EXPERT Mentor -> SPECIALIST Veteran Grand Master
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Without checking the admin area for the exact settings I'm 95% certain sad and confused are both neutral on points value since they can be used in both positive and negative contexts.
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I'm the first to say if the kid is legal in your jurisdiction and wants to have sex with you - go for it! But just don't discuss it here. The laws in many ways are stupid, BUT they're stupid because simple rules work best. It's not like we want navigate something with the complexity of the IRS tax code just to have sex.
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Thread got off topic and no one responded to the feedback I was requesting, so it's now locked.
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Once again, these are the ranks the ones with <- next to them could use a re-think. Basically put "bareback" before each one and see if it makes sense. The ones with <- don't really make sense. Newbie Rookie Apprentice Explorer Contributor <- Enthusiast Collaborator <- Community Regular Rising Star <-? Proficient <-? Experienced Mentor <- Veteran Grand Master The ones with <-? kinda almost make sense. Suggestions on terms that are more appropriate for this particular site?
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It has no meaning. On the first page of this thread I showed all the ranks and asked if people wanted me to rename them to something more appropriate for the site and no one gave any suggestions. It's a long list, so would require a little work/imagination.
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Here's the list of possible ranks. I'm pretty sure I can rename them. Just let me know what you think better names would be…
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We can't have illegal content on the site. It simply can't be left in place. It's not about being a Nazi. It's about keeping the site legal. Illegal sites get shut down. This site has been up for 11 years now because members, moderators and I have worked hard to keep it legal.
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I did a version upgrade of the software that runs the site this morning. The original ranking system - the one that gave you a title like "virgin" or "sex addict" - is now gone and replaced by one that ranks you based on a variety of things. You'll see little badges next to your avatar, and a big version in the sidebar of your profile page - those are the new achievement system. The question is whether the achievement system is even necessary. It's redundant with "reputation" and "member level". I enabled it just to try it out, but I'm thinking of just shutting it off. If you like it (or dislike it), comment below.
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The short(ish) version of a long story is that a week or so ago Wordpress alerted me that the version of the scripting language that's used on the server was no longer secure. (It was past its "end of life" - hosts like using old software because more of the problems have been worked out.) So I had my host upgrade the scripting language as well as the database software. Everything seemed to be OK, but then a few days ago @puphawaii let me know that the leaderboard wasn't updating. I went into the admin area and saw that the upgrades my host had done messed up the background processes for the site - things that send out notifications or figure out who was the leader for the day after the day is over. Well, they were taking forever to diagnose the problem and getting nowhere and then last night around 11:30 ET, while working on the problem, one of the techs did something that stopped the scripting language from connecting to the database server - at which point all the database-driven sites on my server went down. I was fast asleep at the time and didn't learn of the problem until I woke up just before 5am - at which point I saw a text from @drscorpio (though, giving credit where credit is due @SIReast was the first to report the problem - via Twitter). I got out of bed and escalated the problem with my host and a senior tech fixed it. I also got the host's "BDSM" person (Business Development, Sales & Marketing) involved (she lives in Europe, so it wasn't a holiday for her). She's going to escalate it to senior management when they get back from holiday tomorrow - given that they basically crashed my server for 5-6 hours after failing to resolve the original problem in a timely manner. Generally my host has a really great reputation, but they messed up this time.
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I've locked this thread for now. There won't be any tweaks to chat until I restructure a few things, so no point in listing problems. Right now it looks like I'll be able to the work on chat this summer. (I'm guessing July).
