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SIDEBAR ISSUE -- BEWARE

Posted on 05/19/2017 8:05:07 AM PDT by John Robinson

Achtung! Don't mess with sidebars ("Configure Sidebar") for a few days. Some of the queries you may end up configuring will prevent you from accessing the site. As a work around I have reset the sidebars for everybody -- to be restored once the erroneous queries can be rewritten -- when I have the brains to do so (zzz) --- zzz (as a consequence, any changes you end up making will be obliterated once the great restoration of the glorious sidebar preferences is undertaken.)


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To: Mamzelle
"What's a sidebar?"

It's a place to get a bit of liquid refreshment, and perhaps a bite to eat, when your tank gauges say "thirsty" and "hungry".

   

21 posted on 05/19/2017 8:41:49 AM PDT by Clearly Right (#NeverWrong...except occasionally on days named for pagan deities...)
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To: John Robinson

Take your time! Don’t burn out. We want you and FR around for a long time.


22 posted on 05/19/2017 8:43:33 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: John Robinson

Hey John, after your well-deserved “zzz’s”, could you enlighten me as to why going to the cloud wouldn’t help with the hardware issues and make your life easier? I’m not any kind of s/w guru by any means. Maybe there are drawbacks to the cloud I don’t know.

Thanks for your efforts.


23 posted on 05/19/2017 8:52:31 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: John Robinson

Thanks John


24 posted on 05/19/2017 8:54:16 AM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: John Robinson

NOW GO GET SOME SLEEP JOHN


25 posted on 05/19/2017 8:58:05 AM PDT by tubebender
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To: John Robinson

BRW I wish I had counted how many times I clicked on a dead link


26 posted on 05/19/2017 9:00:50 AM PDT by tubebender
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To: John Robinson; jimrob
Many thanks to you and Jim for your yeoman work to keep FR running.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

27 posted on 05/19/2017 9:07:41 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: John Robinson
I salute you! Sleep. Then estimate for our "Redundancy Backup Fundraiser" just how much cash would you need to build some redundancy into the hardware, please. You've been too busy to read the posts on FB. We are extra motivated right this minute to shell out big bucks.
Maybe a short-term plan and a long-term plan. Also, several old timers in the biz offered to assist you gratis. We love this platform and do not want a "redesign" of esthetics or functionality, really not necessary for this audience. Thank you, John, for your dedication to a bunch of complainers, naggers and loudmouth know-it-alls.
28 posted on 05/19/2017 9:08:27 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
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To: John Robinson

Does that mean I shouldn’t reconfigure my sidebar, which I already did? Oooops!


29 posted on 05/19/2017 9:14:15 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: John Robinson

Thanks John. Go catch some Z’s, you look like $#!t.


30 posted on 05/19/2017 9:17:08 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Clearly Right

Come on, really, what does it mean to configure a sidebar here? What am I missing?


31 posted on 05/19/2017 9:36:40 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: Home of the Free because of the Brave)
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To: John Robinson; Jim Robinson
Glad to see FR back up and running! We appreciate all that both of you do for us.

I have one request, once things are worked out: Can you somehow make FR load *faster* regardless of what browser we use? That's been an ongoing issue here for quite awhile now, and some FReepers I know of have given up on the site because of the slowness.

Thanks. :-)

32 posted on 05/19/2017 9:50:54 AM PDT by nutmeg (CNN has *always* been FAKE NEWS)
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To: John Robinson

Thanks for getting things working!

Have you considered storing the accounts and each of the forums in different db instances? That would complicate the “everything” queries, but at least you’d have separation of possibly corrupt data. You could also keep each forum db instance in a separate VM. Just a thought...


33 posted on 05/19/2017 9:51:48 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: John Robinson

Thanks for all your hard work. We all missed FR bigly.


34 posted on 05/19/2017 10:16:41 AM PDT by tumblindice ("Fight for your country." Hector)
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To: John Robinson

I always kill the sidebars, as I understand it increases server load. I’m sure some folk like it. Was wondering why it came back today. Figured you were fiddling with things. :-)


35 posted on 05/19/2017 10:27:09 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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To: John Robinson
the great restoration of the glorious sidebar preferences

LOLs!

36 posted on 05/19/2017 10:29:45 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: John Robinson

A minister, a rabbi and a priest walk into a sidebar...


37 posted on 05/19/2017 10:32:22 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: New Jersey Realist

Never mind. Saw the button after all these years!


38 posted on 05/19/2017 10:44:20 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: Home of the Free because of the Brave)
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To: John Robinson

Great. Now I’m locked out of the site.

On a serious note, you guys aren’t running RAID-5? A disk failure should not bring us down.


39 posted on 05/19/2017 10:45:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: goodnesswins

Sounds like a personal problem.


40 posted on 05/19/2017 10:48:34 AM PDT by BlueDragon
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