request for admin

[~admin]

Originally posted by djstargazerX
is there any way you could make it so that when you view new posts to make it so when click on that it goes to the first new post instead of the first post in the thread? it does that on the main egn page when you scroll down and see the newest messages...

Yes, but not sure if/when we can get to it.


also, why is there the 30 second time limit on searches?

Internet sites are constantly threatened by hacks and Denial of Service (DOS) attacks. The small timeout limitation restricts the ability of a DOS attacker to bring the site down by bombarding the site with SEARCH requests, whichhappen to be resource intensive and can bring the site down to a halt if not limited in this way. By introducing a temporal delay in the availability of this functionality, we in effect, segment the attack frequency down to a more manageable level. This is not some guy clicking SEARCH over and over, these attacks are systemic and are pushed from software that opens hundreds of connections to the site and repeatedly engages functions like SEARCH in an effort to overload/stomp the site into submission, rendering it useless for all of the valid users....

In other words, "Need delay, good for site, help site not break from bad man"

[~KissTheStar]

Originally posted by Admin
In other words, "Need delay, good for site, help site not break from bad man"



hahahahahaha


Word .....


~Craig

[~admin]

Yes, EGN has been attacked already. This site seems to be reaching the popularity level where that becomes a serious threat. We do our best to try and stop it, but the nature of technology, such as it is means that if someone good enough wants to take us down, they can. The only question beyond that is "How fast can we come back up after the attack and how much data is unrecoverable..." Fun ,huh?

About the Post Archive: We will see...As the posts grow the system will begin to slow and at some point we will have to either archive or prune permanantly. Since some of the threads here have really good info, we will try and archive the contents.

Your Feature Ask: Will try and get to that feature for you StarGazer. Just really busy now designing/building the Artists Interface, and as you can imagine: adding the functionality that is currently found on mp3.com/ampcast to EGN is not going to be easy.

[~admin]

Originally posted by djstargazerX
you guys should consider doing some testing on a Mac.. this site is wacky when i use a Mac...

if i turn images off so no images load.. everything overlaps and its hard to read anything...

for some reason the flash error messages come up all the time and the computer freezes up...

some of these could be the individual computer..but every other site works just fine

any Mac users on Electrogarden??



Yes, the MAC and Netscape in general are going to have problems. There is no way to make a site that works well the same for all of the configurations and we simply do not have the resources to do so thisfor<2% of our visitors. And it is a major effort.

As for your ask for th View New Posts search to allow you to go the last post that you have not seen, it should already be working. When the thread list comes up click on the last colum little arrow which will take you to the last post you have not seen in that thread. Seems to work fine.

[~spi]

The site works fine for me in Mozilla 1.0. I have had no problems aside from not having all the "cool" features you get if you browse the site using IE.

-steve