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Hey all!
Just a few things..
Change your username
The system is now enabled to allow you to automatically change your username once every 90 days. The system will keep a history of all your username changes. No more waiting on the mod team to help and make sure everything is in sync. Click on the donations tab in your User Control Panel for more info.
Basement preview
We are also letting you know that we are working on a basement preview - it will be live shortly. Folks with more than 30 posts will be able to preview, but not be able to participate in the basement quite yet. They can see all the craziness going on down there in "The Dungeon". For folks that have at least 50 post counts, if they donate, they too can enjoy the full benefit of the entire basement. No worries. Folks with at least 250 posts still have instant access to all its ...ah glory.
Edit: The basement preview is live
Stubborn server
We are still working on the "hicups" every few minutes and are painfully aware of them. The issue is with the search indexing. Today, we tweaked several variables and upgraded the sphinx engine. That made it a bit better performance wise, but not great when it spins. We asked for a quote for 2G extra memory for the server. Looks like they want $175 for one time fee. Not entirely convinced that will fix it. We are closely monitoring.
Donations
Very close to end of month - about 50% shy of our donation levels. I really hate to ask, but I need to - we are at risk of not paying for our server for next month. I know this is direct.
When the bar turns green on the front page - consider waiting until next month. It means we have reached our goal.
I believe we will pull through this.
Thanks for making this place the most amazing political forum on the internet.
Just a few things..
Change your username
The system is now enabled to allow you to automatically change your username once every 90 days. The system will keep a history of all your username changes. No more waiting on the mod team to help and make sure everything is in sync. Click on the donations tab in your User Control Panel for more info.
Basement preview
We are also letting you know that we are working on a basement preview - it will be live shortly. Folks with more than 30 posts will be able to preview, but not be able to participate in the basement quite yet. They can see all the craziness going on down there in "The Dungeon". For folks that have at least 50 post counts, if they donate, they too can enjoy the full benefit of the entire basement. No worries. Folks with at least 250 posts still have instant access to all its ...ah glory.
Edit: The basement preview is live
Stubborn server
We are still working on the "hicups" every few minutes and are painfully aware of them. The issue is with the search indexing. Today, we tweaked several variables and upgraded the sphinx engine. That made it a bit better performance wise, but not great when it spins. We asked for a quote for 2G extra memory for the server. Looks like they want $175 for one time fee. Not entirely convinced that will fix it. We are closely monitoring.
Donations
Very close to end of month - about 50% shy of our donation levels. I really hate to ask, but I need to - we are at risk of not paying for our server for next month. I know this is direct.
When the bar turns green on the front page - consider waiting until next month. It means we have reached our goal.
I believe we will pull through this.
Thanks for making this place the most amazing political forum on the internet.
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