Upgraded the forum's underlying tech platform, so once again lemme know in roleplayerguild.com/chat if you have issues posting.
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STATUS: I'm working on experimental server changes. Email mahz@roleplayerguild.com if you're having problems. 1 yr ago
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I'm working on experimental server changes. Email mahz@roleplayerguild.com if you're having problems.
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Getting some more work done on the Guild today and tomorrow.
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Investigating the catastrophic performance issues.
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I'm back. I had some personal issues to take care of.
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You can change your username once every 3 months, and your old username will still link to you and won't be recycled. PM me if you want yours done.
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Deploying the initial version of the ratelimit. If you're having trouble, let me know on roleplayerguild.com/chat.
Things that need to be improved with it:
- The "Submit Post/Topic" form should be aware of how long you have to wait before you can submit the form. Right now you have to just submit it and see if you get the "Wait X seconds and try again" error.
- The ratelimit should be even more relaxed if you're posting from a residential IP address.
- Mods need a way to quick-approve users so that legitimate ones don't have a ratelimit at all.
- Mods should be able to tweak the ratelimit duration so that we can respond to the level of spam we're getting.
Now I'm going to work on a platform upgrade for the Guild that should improve performance.
Edit: Looks like there might be some database contention with the ratelimit that is timing out requests. I'll investigate. Might've just been a fluke. Update: It was just a fluke.
Things that need to be improved with it:
- The "Submit Post/Topic" form should be aware of how long you have to wait before you can submit the form. Right now you have to just submit it and see if you get the "Wait X seconds and try again" error.
- The ratelimit should be even more relaxed if you're posting from a residential IP address.
- Mods need a way to quick-approve users so that legitimate ones don't have a ratelimit at all.
- Mods should be able to tweak the ratelimit duration so that we can respond to the level of spam we're getting.
Now I'm going to work on a platform upgrade for the Guild that should improve performance.
Edit: Looks like there might be some database contention with the ratelimit that is timing out requests. I'll investigate. Might've just been a fluke. Update: It was just a fluke.
In a moment, I'm gonna roll out the most naive ratelimit implementation I can build:
New users start off with a 5 minute ratelimit. For every post they make, the ratelimit drops by 30 seconds, thus the ratelimit goes away after their 10th post.
It's not very polished yet, but I want to test it in its current state before polishing it. The polish is the hard part.
Also, the ratelimit is by IP address so that spammers can't just switch accounts without also switching IP address.
New users start off with a 5 minute ratelimit. For every post they make, the ratelimit drops by 30 seconds, thus the ratelimit goes away after their 10th post.
It's not very polished yet, but I want to test it in its current state before polishing it. The polish is the hard part.
Also, the ratelimit is by IP address so that spammers can't just switch accounts without also switching IP address.
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