WC3search busts its britches- again

Donate money. I'll send $200.

i rly think purging is better, over 75% of this site is 15 or younger, the most of us dont even Have money at least i dont, i must pay my damn study

A purge is the most immediate -and needed- solution. Now, I *could* contribute, but I'm not going to for sure. Why? This site has been left to rot since too much time. Errors everywere, slow code, bugs old YEARS. I don't see why me, or everyone that can, should support a site if the admin himself obviously don't care enough.

No offence intended for the few people that still try to keep this site in one piece.

I agree with the purge. Purge every section and order members to help searching since i guess doing it all alone is pretty hard.
Maybe removing hunderd of useless accounts by sending a mail. Simple -> no response = bye account. so also if that account has uploaded an avatar it shall be removed. It may sound stupid, but it might help a little bit.

And if i could donate, i did. But since i'm 17 and got some parents that won't allow it i'm pwned .

(Sorry for my sucky english)

AztraL-

Yes, purge is the best solution by the moment, well Im responsible with this site and each time I upload a new version of my maps I delete the old version, not like others that have like 10 versions of the same map I say purge until a better solution can be found, also I cant donate im only 14 soon to 15

Alot of people want the purge. If this was a vote, then purging definately won.

Purging sounds good, especially to all those maps that are copies of each other.... But leave the maps and spells in the directors choice...

I would be donating, but hey, how much money can a Preschooler make?

Purging will only help to a certain extent, everyone knows that and they just want to avoid donating.

People really are just lazy to make the effort to donate. I'm 14 years old, I have no posts here, my mom is a house keeper and I live in Brazil. You think you're in a tough situation? That's bullsh*t. If you actually think that just using age/financial state as an excuse to not help the site, then whatever. If it makes you feel better then tell yourself what you need, but don't waste the server's space, it's cluttered as it is. -.-

I just donated 10 dollars, and I know that doesn't seem like much, but if 10 people did the same as I have, you could have yourself another dedicated server altogether. Guys, even if it's just 5 bucks, come on, just donate, the I don't have money excuse doesn't exist... If you can afford actually being on the internet, you can afford to send like 5 or heck, 10 dollars. Just consider what it's for...



All that aside, I'm just curious, is the site still slugish as hell for the same reason as on January? Cause damn, it takes more than a minute for me to load a page... The SQL query shows around 110+ secs always >.<

Oh and, how much do you guys pay per month on hosting? And have you seen GoDaddy.com's servers? Cheap as hell ^^, check it out if you guys think it'll be cheaper than what you have now.

Anyways, good luck, I really hope this site pulls through, eh?

-CodeMaster2

Purging will only help to a certain extent, everyone knows that and they just want to avoid donating.

expand webspace will only help to a certain extent to. or u could pay money for a larger limit, or u dont pay anything and lower the amount of maps. both the same except that u dont need money, and that u will remove useless maps with puirging

Purge!!!

Definitely purge. Who actually looks at three months old crap maps?

An annoyingly unfair way to fix this is to have someone test the map and say if it goes or stays but the problem is they would need alot of time...

yes that would Rly take to much time (although i test every finished map) we should just do the same as wc3campaigns, no alphas and betas allowed

Like mentioned purging is the only way to reduce space but do not just do it in the maps section.

Maps
All badly made maps that leak or crash after x time should be purged.
All demos or alphas (not betas) should be purged.
All LoaPs that are not slightly balenced should be purged.
Old betas that have not been updated should be purged.
All maps that are not worth playing twice should be purged.

Spells
All spell clones and easily made gui spells should be purged.
Spells that leak too much should be purged.
Spells that have a realy easily created effect should be purged.

Fourms
Since few people look in more than the last 500 post (probably only last 250) all posts that have more than 250 posts above them should be purged.

If theses are folowed then it should buy enough time to solve server spece troubles for a year or so.

If the admin team are needing help purging maps or spells ill be willing to helpout.

Purge

I keep examining this site. I can only think of a solution. And it is to sweep the maps section.

Facts
-5000 maps sounds impressive to some, but for me sounds as "useless" Nobody needs 5000 maps on a site.
- I seriously doubt people would need the maps after page 6, and if some of the authors still wants to have his map in the section he can upload again. None of the new users actually browse the whole maps section, they just use the first pages.
- It is just a bunch of maps. Nobody cares.

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These are the options: Beg for more money, depend even more on anvil, close the site or SWEEP THE MAPS SECTION.

Sweeping seems to be the only logical step left.

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Just do this: remove every map that matches these conditions:
- It is not in page 1,2,3,4 or 5
- It is not a director's pick
- It is not a campaign.

You should save a lot of bandwidth with this.

I think that the same happens with the spells section, also notice that most of those spells are outdated anyways. I would say remove every spell that is not in 50 first, is not in director's choice and is not one of Darky's