NationStates Jolt Archive

have we finally killed it? when we moved I remember having bets about how long it would take.:p

You killed it enough to have a double thread.



*swish*

well a quick look says that NS holds a total of approx 4.3 million posts :D

the rest of jolt must bow down to our spammy awesomeness :p
go us!

You killed it enough to have a double thread.



*swish*
:eek: :p
oh irony

well a quick look says that NS holds a total of approx 4.3 million posts :D

the rest of jolt must bow down to our spammy awesomeness :p
go us!
no server can contain us

Some one must have angered Chuck Norris and he delivered a roundhouse kick to them through the forum, but the forum was not equipped to handle such awesome power, so it died.

What the hell does Chuck Norris have to do with the fact that we're going to need an advanced alien species to build us a server powerful enough to hold NS? :confused:

Jolt is dead. We have killed him, you and I :D

What the hell does Chuck Norris have to do with the fact that we're going to need an advanced alien species to build us a server powerful enough to hold NS? :confused:
I got one here that would take the load easy ... too bad it is busy with other things lol

So what server should we infest next?

Damn, how long till those quantum computers are ready for production anyway?

So what server should we infest next?
Why just one? Let's try to bring down two servers at once with NS! ;)

Damn, how long till those quantum computers are reasy for production anyway?

Not nearly soon enough...

Why just one? Let's try to bring down two servers at once with NS! ;)

I wonder if we could somehow get NS onto Microsofts main server.......

I wonder if we could somehow get NS onto Microsofts main server.......
That would be 1337.

I wonder if we could somehow get NS onto Microsofts main server.......
pfft we dont use a fraction of that ... hell we are probably hosted off a quad or worse

pfft we dont use a fraction of that ... hell we are probably hosted off a quad or worse

Somebody's a bundle of fun...

pfft we dont use a fraction of that ... hell we are probably hosted off a quad or worse

Ya, but if we found out we were on a massive server we'd let loose with the spam.
We'd pwn microsoft

Why don't we petition Max to make use of the proceeds from book sales and buy a dedicated server?
;)

Ya, but if we found out we were on a massive server we'd let loose with the spam.
We'd pwn microsoft
That would be hilarious...
Imagine the story in the Financial Times:
MICROSOFT SHARE PRICE PLUMMETS
"Microsoft's shares fell over 50% today, when it emerged their server had been taken out by colossal amounts of 'spam' on their newly acquired forum for online nation simulation game NationStates. Max Barry, creator of NationStates, is quoted as saying 'WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Kick ass!'

That would be hilarious...
Imagine the story in the Financial Times:
MICROSOFT SHARE PRICE PLUMMETS
"Microsoft's shares fell over 50% today, when it emerged their server had been taken out by colossal amounts of 'spam' on their newly acquired forum for online nation simulation game NationStates. Max Barry, creator of NationStates, is quoted as saying 'WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Kick ass!'

Imagine what the internet news sites would say
OMGWTF MIRCOSOFT WAS TEH PWNZORED
Lol, evil Microsofts sever of DOOM was n00ked by teh 1337 spammerz on NS, W00T, J00 ROCKZORZ MAX BARRY

pfft we dont use a fraction of that ... hell we are probably hosted off a quad or worse
NS's servers:

http://www.sanko-wild.com/sirent/ham712.jpg

NS's servers:
http://www.sanko-wild.com/sirent/ham712.jpg
These were our old servers. So inconsistent they might not even start up:
http://www.cornerstonemission.org/images/firewood.JPG

Why just one? Let's try to bring down two servers at once with NS! ;)
now we're thinking

What the hell does Chuck Norris have to do with the fact that we're going to need an advanced alien species to build us a server powerful enough to hold NS? :confused:

[imagines an NS community that fills an entire star system's mass converted into computronium...]

Jolt is being shit! ...Don't ban me.

Why don't we petition Max to make use of the proceeds from book sales and buy a dedicated server?

Somehow I doubt that an author would spend what little money he makes on a failed book ad that grew into the biggest headache in the history of the world, which DOESN'T make him any money.

a failed book ad.

Nationstates.net floats between the 18,000th and 22,000th most visited website on the internet. I bought Nationstates and Syrup because of this. So did many others. I will be buying Company. Max's publisher begged him to create a website for Company. It's hardly a failure.

Nationstates.net is the floats between the 18,000th and 22,000th most visited website on the internet.
I bought Nationstates and Syrup because of this. I will be buying Company. Max's publisher begged him to create a website for company. Hardly a failure.

The name of the book is Jennifer Government. And I read it before I even heard of the website. It was listed as one of the "worst books of the year" by the Libertarian Party because of it's negative take on a totally free market, so I just HAD to read it. I found it funny, and think it drew a visible like between a libertarian market, and a corporate anarchy. Then I bought Syrup (which was better), and plan to buy Company. I consider the game a failure because JG and Syrup have never been on any top seller lists that I have ever seen. And, running this game and the forum (for free) must have been nothing but a nightmare.

The name of the book is Jennifer Government.

Whoops, now there's a mistake.

Nationstates.net floats between the 18,000th and 22,000th most visited website on the internet. I bought Nationstates and Syrup because of this. So did many others. I will be buying Company. Max's publisher begged him to create a website for Company. It's hardly a failure.
Actually, from this site: http://www.trafficranking.com/mainframe.htm

I get 38,440 most visited for nationstates.net

Actually, from this site: http://www.trafficranking.com/mainframe.htm

I get 38,440 most visited for nationstates.net

I used alexa.com. (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=www.nationstates.net) 21,919.

I'm starting to get annoyed with Jolt though. They had this "update", and the quote-buttons still don't load since then. Some people can't seem to use the thread tools, there are these ghosts around without post-count and when I click on a poster's name, nothing happens.

Then you constantly get these huge waits as pages take ages to load, sometimes not loading at all, you risk losing your post or double-posting.

Then you keep getting "database problems" that never get fixed, and times like yesterday when the whole thing just doesn't work period.

Surely if Jolt can't get its act together we need to move somewhere else?

These were our old servers.

Whatever did happen to that hamster anyway? Was it just 'disappeared' during the Great Changeover?

Whatever did happen to that hamster anyway? Was it just 'disappeared' during the Great Changeover?
he's safe in the great hampster afterlife

I'm starting to get annoyed with Jolt though. They had this "update", and the quote-buttons still don't load since then. Some people can't seem to use the thread tools, there are these ghosts around without post-count and when I click on a poster's name, nothing happens.

Then you constantly get these huge waits as pages take ages to load, sometimes not loading at all, you risk losing your post or double-posting.

Then you keep getting "database problems" that never get fixed, and times like yesterday when the whole thing just doesn't work period.

Surely if Jolt can't get its act together we need to move somewhere else?

Jolt is crap - but where-else could we go?

I'm starting to get annoyed with Jolt though. They had this "update", and the quote-buttons still don't load since then. Some people can't seem to use the thread tools, there are these ghosts around without post-count and when I click on a poster's name, nothing happens.

Then you constantly get these huge waits as pages take ages to load, sometimes not loading at all, you risk losing your post or double-posting.

Then you keep getting "database problems" that never get fixed, and times like yesterday when the whole thing just doesn't work period.

Surely if Jolt can't get its act together we need to move somewhere else?
i at least like the colour scheme here :)

jolt has been fairly reliable (ok not really, but considering the size of us i think its fair) since the move. i never posted on the old forums, but i understand jolt is better - these last couple of days, perhaps not, but they have done a gonerally good job for many months.
what i'd really like though is some acknowledgement of these problems from jolt and an assurance that they're doing something about it - something on their website or an announcement on the forums... anything. for all we know they might not even realise there's a problem and things could just keep getting worse :headbang:

i used to post a lot on the old iron maiden forums until one weekend the servers totally crashed and the backups were lost, and, basically, it was irreparable: we all lost our profiles, our postcounts, old threads... everything. it took a couple of weeks to get at least some forums back up in place, by which time many, many regulars didn't bother returning. including myself :(
apart from anything else the cool red-and-grey colour scheme i seem to remember them having was replaced by standard shitty PHPbb blue skin, and it just didn't feel like the same forum anymore.
thats what i fear happening here :eek:

God is dead, and so is Jolt.
- F.N.

what i'd really like though is some acknowledgement of these problems from jolt and an assurance that they're doing something about it - something on their website or an announcement on the forums... anything. for all we know they might not even realise there's a problem and things could just keep getting worse :headbang:

What - you mean you do NOT believe the whole "an email has been sent blabla" one can see so often :( ?

What - you mean you do NOT believe the whole "an email has been sent blabla" one can see so often :( ?
That doesn't mean they're doing anything about it. These e-mails could just sit in someones inbox and never get read.
Does anyone know off another forum with a similar amount of traffic to ours? And if they have any problems?

That doesn't mean they're doing anything about it. These e-mails could just sit in someones inbox and never get read.
Does anyone know off another forum with a similar amount of traffic to ours? And if they have any problems?

Hah! If a email was sent every time, they'd get a couple of thousand after every crash. The crashes take out all of the forums on jolt, not just nationstates.

Hah! If a email was sent every time, they'd get a couple of thousand after every crash. The crashes take out all of the forums on jolt, not just nationstates.
but who cares about the other forums?

but who cares about the other forums?
we pwn all the other forums :D

a quick calculation says our posts make up 51.23% of the total number of posts on jolt... mwuhahahaha

4,317,065 NS
8,427,363 total

51.22675978 %

we pwn all the other forums :D

a quick calculation says our posts make up 51.23% of the total number of posts on jolt... mwuhahahaha

4,317,065 NS
8,427,363 total

51.22675978 %
Hah! Spam cannot hold a candle to our awesomeness!

we pwn all the other forums :D

a quick calculation says our posts make up 51.23% of the total number of posts on jolt... mwuhahahaha

4,317,065 NS
8,427,363 total

51.22675978 %
Hell yeah!! :D

Hah! Spam cannot hold a candle to our awesomeness!
half of spam is from us anyway :p

he's safe in the great hampster afterlife

AKA dumpster.

That doesn't mean they're doing anything about it. These e-mails could just sit in someones inbox and never get read.
If you do a "View Source" on that error page, you'll notice an absence of anything actually sending an email. They have started to include a live link to a mailbox, but if it were on my personal server, I'd have ignored that mass-spam mailbox since day 2.

Jolt isn't some monolithic organization with a 24 hour service desk. Near as I can tell, it's a lot like NS: a handful of people who work a 40 hour week and go home on the weekends. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see them log in on a Sunday morning to resolve whatever issue broke this time.

we pwn all the other forums :D

a quick calculation says our posts make up 51.23% of the total number of posts on jolt... mwuhahahaha

4,317,065 NS
8,427,363 total

51.22675978 %
And we've been ehre for less time!

And we've been ehre for less time!
I've come to the conclusion that we are either more bored, or have less of a life than the rest of jolt :p . Spam forum excluded.

I've come to the conclusion that we are either more bored, or have less of a life than the rest of jolt :p . Spam forum excluded.
WE ARE SPAM!

we pwn all the other forums :D

a quick calculation says our posts make up 51.23% of the total number of posts on jolt... mwuhahahaha

4,317,065 NS
8,427,363 total

51.22675978 %
We probably make up more than 50% of their membership, though...

We probably make up more than 50% of their membership, though...

we still kick their arse, period.

we still kick their arse, period.
Aye!

and we're back... again.



How long this time?

....Some people can't seem to use the thread tools,.... Ah, I thought that was because I'd changed to Firefox and done some anti-popup configuration that blocked it...

If you do a "View Source" on that error page, you'll notice an absence of anything actually sending an email.Mailing/etc could have been done serverside, based on the original HTTP-request... Or even just logged (or less) and the text is a milksop to those who get the notification, but I'm not too bothered...

So it is good to know I am not the only one who is mysteriously missing NS forums on some days......

Mailing/etc could have been done serverside, based on the original HTTP-request... Or even just logged (or less) and the text is a milksop to those who get the notification, but I'm not too bothered...
In fact I cant think of a single instance that I would want to put an auto-mailer on the frontside for normal published websites

In fact I cant think of a single instance that I would want to put an auto-mailer on the frontside for normal published websites
You know what? Fuck this.

UT, you are now hired to provide us with some new servers. Your check is in the mail.

You know what? Fuck this.

UT, you are now hired to provide us with some new servers. Your check is in the mail.
Frigg if I could afford the bandwidth I have a few machines that could take the load ...

But geting that sort of bandwidth out here would be a pain in the arse

So it is good to know I am not the only one who is mysteriously missing NS forums on some days......
II kno0w, iw as egtting worried!