Forum outage resolved

[SalusaSecondus]

We ran out of numbers on our server and had to import some more. Thank you very much to Blaat and Ballotonia who helped fix things!

[Frisbeeteria]

We ran out of post oil, and had to get a refill from the hosts. Sorry for the incovenience.

[SalusaSecondus]

We ran out of numbers on our server and had to import some more. Thank you very much to Blaat and Ballotonia who helped fix things!

[Frisbeeteria]

Yes, we had a forum outage, and yes, it's been resolved. Apparently our Post Oil reservoir ran dry, and we had to ship in a refill.

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Seriously, we ran out of posts. We really did. Via a triumph of tri-continental cooperation within our admin team, our forum post potential has been increased from the miserly 16 million to our current 4 billion. So yeah, you get to share all that vital information about whose military rifle is the most badass, or which pony is shinier again. Have at it.

[The Republic of Lanos]

How...did...we...break the forum with 16 million posts?

[Bezombia]

Sum Ting Wong
Post To Low
Ho Lee Fuk
Thread Braek Now


but really
wut?

[Jolthig]

Wow...

[The Corparation]

I have a feeling that we are going to break that 4 billion post count within a few years or so.

[Reploid Productions]

.... Huh. So that explains why I woke up to a slew of panicked telegrams and Facebook messages about the forum.

[The Cosmos]

This is amazing.
Did it have anything to do with that mass-TG that was sent out to roughly 110,000 nations?

[Bezombia]

Wait only three continents?

And why didn't I get that mass telegram?

[Grenartia]

So this has nothing to do with the mass TG everybody got earlier?

[Coffee Cakes]

16 million posts?

And now 4 billion?

I can't even begin to think about that.

[Jolthig]

So this has nothing to do with the mass TG everybody got earlier?

I never got a mass TG. :/

[Sanctaria]

So this has nothing to do with the mass TG everybody got earlier?

The game and the forum are on separate servers, iirc, so yeah, it probably didn't.

[The Blaatschapen]

Wait only three continents?

And why didn't I get that mass telegram?

There is no mass telegram from our side. That is a different thing, for a different thread.

And yes, only three continents. If the server had run on penguins rather than on hamsters, it would have been four continents.

[The Cosmos]

So this has nothing to do with the mass TG everybody got earlier?

I never got a mass TG. :/

Do you have recruitment TGs blocked?

[Luziyca]

Christ. I didn't know we killed that forum. And to think, for NS++ users, I was doing an exclusive on an obituary of the forums... Eh, thankfully, it was fixed, and I am also thankful that the shutdown gave me ample opportunity to compose that premature obituary.

[The Corparation]

This is amazing.
Did it have anything to do with that mass-TG that was sent out to roughly 110,000 nations?

. The Admins can corect me if I'm wrong but iirc TGS are gameside only, which is handled entirely separately from the Forums

[Reploid Productions]

This is amazing.
Did it have anything to do with that mass-TG that was sent out to roughly 110,000 nations?

It wouldn't- the TG system and the forums are entirely separate systems. It was apparently the forum that ran out of posts. Mass-TGs wouldn't affect the forum post totals.

[Bezombia]

Wait only three continents?

And why didn't I get that mass telegram?

There is no mass telegram from our side. That is a different thing, for a different thread.

And yes, only three continents. If the server had run on penguins rather than on hamsters, it would have been four continents.

Are you seriously saying that hamsters don't grow in North America?

Blaat, I am disappoint!

[Jolthig]

I never got a mass TG. :/

Do you have recruitment TGs blocked?

Yep. Probably why I never got the TG. :I

[Frisbeeteria]

How...did...we...break the forum with 16 million posts?

After somebody posted #16777215, the forum database didn't have any more post IDs to assign. We had to move up to the next larger size, which is 4294967295.

[The Blaatschapen]

I have a feeling that we are going to break that 4 billion post count within a few years or so.

Hardly.

It took us 4 years to get to 16 million. So let's say ~4 million a year. Going to 4 billion will take us.... quite some time.

[Ballotonia]

The Telegram system is entirely separate from the forum. Separate servers even. There's no relation whatsoever.

No, this is entirely due to the high-volume of posts. When the forum was set up years ago (name redacted to protect the guilty) someone thought "oh, come on, 16 million should be enough for anybody! Surely our userbase will never post that much!" and then promptly forgot about that limit. And ever since then, post after post, year after year, we moved towards that upper limit.

Today we reached it. And we got reminded the limit was there.

Ballotonia