Shadrach Posted July 2, 2011 Report Posted July 2, 2011 Hello, Is there an active administrator for this sight? Community activity seems to be on the rise, but so are the bugs... I cannot quote other's messages, nor can I edit my own posts... Is there anything I/we can do to facilitate a fix? If it's a burden, let us know how we can help... Quote
mooniac58 Posted July 2, 2011 Report Posted July 2, 2011 Hi Ross, I am the admin of the site. However, since this is purely a non-profit venture time to work on things is hard to find. The major bug I want to squash next is people being auto-logged in as others. I am able to quote and edit posts - so this might be specific to your setup. What web browser/operating system are you using? Quote
mooniac58 Posted July 2, 2011 Report Posted July 2, 2011 Yikes, nevermind I see the error now that you are likely seeing. It looks like the guy who originally programmed this forum was more of an idiot than I thought. He limited the number capacity for userIDs to a small size which is causing an overflow. I will look into fixing this asap. More and more I wish I had just programmed this site from the ground up all by myself... Quote
mooniac58 Posted July 2, 2011 Report Posted July 2, 2011 Ok, I think this is fixed now. I doubt this is the only area with this problem but at least edit and quote features work again. Quote
Shadrach Posted July 2, 2011 Author Report Posted July 2, 2011 Quote: mooniac58 Ok, I think this is fixed now. I doubt this is the only area with this problem but at least edit and quote features work again. Quote
mooniac58 Posted July 2, 2011 Report Posted July 2, 2011 Yep, again the guy that originally programmed this forum was pretty short sighted. He used a "small integer" datatype to reference post and topic IDs. Small integers have a 2 byte data limit and once a number goes over ~32,000 it will blow up. Apparently the original programmer thought that no forum using this system would ever have more than 32,000 posts So it worked fine until our post count went over this limit. This was not specific to you - everyone was seeing it. Quote
Shadrach Posted July 2, 2011 Author Report Posted July 2, 2011 I was thinking my user ID (as in # of characters) was the issue. 32,000 posts...really? I have see post numbers close to that from individual posters other forums... Quote
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