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Lord Thief · **Posted:** September 29th, 2014, 2:58 pm

I was reminded of RV today, decided to pop back in. I suppose it was time to let it go, it really is nothing compared to what it once was. A mighty shame to see the frontpage go though, after all the work the village staff members put into it. But I suppose it was horribly outdated.

Happy you kept RV alive in one way or another though, so many shared memories between us.

Shando · **Posted:** November 5th, 2014, 5:42 pm

Just out of curiosity - what has the monthly post count been over the past few months?

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** November 5th, 2014, 6:10 pm

Shando wrote:

Just out of curiosity - what has the monthly post count been over the past few months?

I have no idea! Let's find out.

The forum's search function isn't being overly helpful when you tell it to find everything, so I'll delve into the database.

Since May 15, 2014, when we jumped servers: 1554 posts

June 2014: 388
July 2014: 243
August 2014: 192
September 2014: 154
October 2014: 181
So far in 5 days of November: 40

Market Man6 · **Posted:** November 5th, 2014, 7:10 pm

Jaron wrote:

I'll delve into the database.

We're glad you've returned.
http://www.wallpaperspictures.net/image ... 626-15.jpg

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** November 5th, 2014, 11:20 pm

Market Man6 wrote:

Jaron wrote:

I'll delve into the database.

We're glad you've returned.
http://www.wallpaperspictures.net/image ... 626-15.jpg

I can't view that because it doesn't allow hotlinking.

But in return, here is one of my favorite Nedroid comics:
http://nedroid.com/2012/05/honk-the-databus/
(To this day I use "Honk the databus" (which is the title of that comic) for more or less anything. Sometimes when I'm playing Ingress on my iPhone and I hack some portals I go "honk honk *click*".)

[Mom] Are we done here?
[Me] One sec, I want to honk some databuses.
[Mom] ...what?
[Sparky] He's playing Ingress.
[Mom] Oh.

Market Man6 · **Posted:** November 6th, 2014, 8:39 am

haha. That was amusing

here's that image:

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Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** November 8th, 2014, 2:12 am

Oh, that image.

...

RUN DUDE YOU ARE DOOMED

gummieshark · **Posted:** May 13th, 2015, 1:37 pm

WOW and I just joined lol

H K · **Posted:** December 20th, 2015, 5:14 pm

This was sad to read.

I miss the old days

Arnaud · **Posted:** November 17th, 2019, 9:51 am

.... what do the stats look like now? And how in the world is this website *still* running?

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** November 19th, 2019, 10:26 pm

Arnaud wrote:

.... what do the stats look like now? And how in the world is this website *still* running?

We go whole months without a post now so a lot of the data points are zero. You probably just made more posts than most of 2019 combined, hahaha.

The site's still running because I took over hosting, and I keep it up so that people that want to look back on the memories are able to do so. As you can probably tell from all the error messages after making a post, the place is pretty fragile now, but there's not enough activity that it's worth spending time trying to figure out (and potentially break worse, heh).

Glodenox · **Posted:** November 20th, 2019, 2:23 am

The forum probably desperately needs an update of phpBB that can actually work well with the version of PHP it is running. But as you said: that's quite a bit of work.

We do risk having some sort of vulnerability open this way though, which may allow people to hack into the forum.

EDIT: the error message seems like a relatively simple thing to fix in the overall_header template file.
EDIT2: never mind, it seems to be nested a lot deeper than I expected it to. Oh well...

Arnaud · **Posted:** November 23rd, 2019, 11:12 am

Saten Ruiko wrote:

Arnaud wrote:

.... what do the stats look like now? And how in the world is this website *still* running?

We go whole months without a post now so a lot of the data points are zero. You probably just made more posts than most of 2019 combined, hahaha.

The site's still running because I took over hosting, and I keep it up so that people that want to look back on the memories are able to do so. As you can probably tell from all the error messages after making a post, the place is pretty fragile now, but there's not enough activity that it's worth spending time trying to figure out (and potentially break worse, heh).

Huh, well, I appreciate it! There's a lot of nostalgia in this place.

Saten Ruiko · **Posted:** December 1st, 2019, 10:12 pm

Arnaud wrote:

Huh, well, I appreciate it! There's a lot of nostalgia in this place.

You're welcome!

Glodenox wrote:

The forum probably desperately needs an update of phpBB that can actually work well with the version of PHP it is running. But as you said: that's quite a bit of work.

We do risk having some sort of vulnerability open this way though, which may allow people to hack into the forum.

EDIT: the error message seems like a relatively simple thing to fix in the overall_header template file.
EDIT2: never mind, it seems to be nested a lot deeper than I expected it to. Oh well...

Yeah, when we first started getting these errors I fixed a few of them, but they did end up going a lot deeper than I expected, as well. The ones that show up now seem harmless so really I just haven't invested the time because I don't think the payoff is worth it.

I did look into updating phpBB a couple times, but I don't have root access on the server, so if something were to go horribly wrong or an auto-updater failed it would end up being a tricky situation. I disabled new signups and that seems to have solved most of the problems for the time being, haha.

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