Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Above all I'm glad to have the forum back online as said elsewhere. Not about being ungreatful either!
My problem are those incoherent respectively incomplete posts from the past here after the forum is back.
I think a forum isn't only about being up to date but also serves as an archive, especially regarding travelogues and stuff(seems to be the spirit of time if I look at superficial Facebook and other stuff though I don't use personally). Much more important than having a chat here me thinks.
I'm not that much into computers so please excuse my stupidness in advance but isn't it possible to restart the forum again with the old content from the back-up considered, even if it would take some time? There went something wrong with the conversion of the old content to the new forum software version. I saw other forums not having this problem after an 'update'. Or is it about browers(I tried a couple)? The forum is a bit half-assed now in my humble opinion.
Another thing I still ponder about is that thing with the costs of running a server for this forum. What about donating something yearly for that? Crowd funding? Any ideas? Shouldn't be that expensive for all I assume.
All the best and keep up the good work !
My problem are those incoherent respectively incomplete posts from the past here after the forum is back.
I think a forum isn't only about being up to date but also serves as an archive, especially regarding travelogues and stuff(seems to be the spirit of time if I look at superficial Facebook and other stuff though I don't use personally). Much more important than having a chat here me thinks.
I'm not that much into computers so please excuse my stupidness in advance but isn't it possible to restart the forum again with the old content from the back-up considered, even if it would take some time? There went something wrong with the conversion of the old content to the new forum software version. I saw other forums not having this problem after an 'update'. Or is it about browers(I tried a couple)? The forum is a bit half-assed now in my humble opinion.
Another thing I still ponder about is that thing with the costs of running a server for this forum. What about donating something yearly for that? Crowd funding? Any ideas? Shouldn't be that expensive for all I assume.
All the best and keep up the good work !
Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
I am seeing posts back to 2005 in Coffeeshop Reviews. How far back to you want to go?
Enjoy
FlyByNite
Enjoy
FlyByNite
Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Am I really the only one having this problem? Could be but doubt it.FlyByNite wrote:I am seeing posts back to 2005 in Coffeeshop Reviews. How far back to you want to go?
Enjoy
FlyByNite
Well, just look at the first post here: http://www.coffeeshopmenus.org/00-ACD/f ... 10&t=30928
Or this thread: http://www.coffeeshopmenus.org/00-ACD/f ... 10&t=30664
Or this one: http://www.coffeeshopmenus.org/00-ACD/f ... 10&t=30710
Just the first page of travelogues...and not only this section.
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Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Its not just you - those posts look wrong from Incognitoland too.
Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Same here jesscass
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Also wrong here at Casa Notsofasteddie! One example: ACD Four Twenty 2015 is truncated!!
Here's the complete post for Lemming's Amsterdam 04/20/2015 trip, although I may have missed one image at the end.
Day 1 - Thursday 16th April 2015
Early morning and I still have to do half a day of work before the fun starts.
Before starting work I have a quick look at my non-work emails and check the Forum.
I see Occasional Bowl has already started a 420 Live thread and posted that he's setting off from Adge Cutler International.
Lunch time and I'm free.
OB is already there and we can finally head off ourselves.
We also fly out of Adge Cutler (Bristol) International.
Our Amsterdam Stay apartment is near the Elandsgracht bus station so I decide to take the 197 bus rather than the train.
It's quite strange not to experience that homecoming feeling of emerging from Centraal Station.
We're staying at apartment Cosy.
I know that Amsterdam Escape/Stay have a Volcano so I requested borrowing it.
The apartment looks lovely, our landlady is delightful and, best of all, the Volcano is sitting on a glass table by the door.
Essentials (large carton of Chocomel) duly purchased from Elandsgracht Albert Heijn and dinner at Billy Thais eaten, it's off to Sound Garden.
Approaching the front door we hear music.
The door is shut and a sign directs us to the side entrance.
Peering through the window we see a band playing.
In through the garden and up to the bar.
Buy a cider for J and a beer for me.
After a few slurps I leave J at the bar while I pop into 1e Hulp for a quick buy and fly.
Outrageously I've been in Amsterdam for a couple of hours and not had a joint yet.
First Aid
Back at Sound Garden I drag J out into the garden so I can skin up.
Singelgracht from back of Sound garden
Sitting looking over the canal is delightful but there is a chilly breeze tonight so we retreat back inside.
The band is good and have drawn quite a crowd.
Suddenly out of the crowd a guy says "Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory?"
He introduces himself as 'fraidofspiders'.
I tell him I'm Lemming and he says that he recognised me from my picture here.
Over more spliffs in the garden and interludes watching the band we chat about our lives until it's time for fraidofspiders to catch the last tram to where he's staying.
With the band now finished, J and I take up the table by the door with a view of Funky Munkey across the street.
Table in Sound Garden and Funky Munkey through the window
Back at the apartment it's time to get the Volcano out.
I pick up the box and realise there are actually two boxes.
One is labelled Volcano Classic and the other Solid Valve.
Inside I find that the Volcano is in a plastic bag and the balloon looks unused.
This isn't the old Escape Volcano, it’s a brand new one!
I spend the following hour or so working my way through some of my purchases from Eerste Hulp.
J has a few lungfulls but most goes into me.
My home Volcano is 10 years old.
Back then there was only one design and it came in a single box with a roll of roasting bags.
The one in the apartment is almost identical except that all of the parts are branded, including the balloons.
It seems to be faster and more efficient than mine.
I'm enjoying using this new machine.
Amsterdam Escape's new Volcano
OK, OK, I'm avoiding the obvious question.
My colleagues on this adventure somehow manage to remember everything they smoked and what it did to them.
I'm rubbish at this.
After a couple of joints I've forgotten everything and adopt a stupid grin.
I rarely remember what I bought and often, when there are joints, bongs and vaporizers flying around all over the place, I don't even know what I'm smoking in the first place.
Basically I was blitzed after the first joint at Sound Garden and kept that state topped up for a week.
I know I had some fantastic weed and hash in all of its forms but I can name very little of it.
Having said that, I do remember that my first few purchases from 1st Hulp included Strawberry Sour Diesel.
Even at night the view over Passeerdersgracht from the apartment is lovely.
Sucking on Volcano bags and looking out of the window.
Good night.
Image
Passeerdersgracht and Eerste Passeerdersdwarsstraat
Here's the complete post for Lemming's Amsterdam 04/20/2015 trip, although I may have missed one image at the end.
Day 1 - Thursday 16th April 2015
Early morning and I still have to do half a day of work before the fun starts.
Before starting work I have a quick look at my non-work emails and check the Forum.
I see Occasional Bowl has already started a 420 Live thread and posted that he's setting off from Adge Cutler International.
Lunch time and I'm free.
OB is already there and we can finally head off ourselves.
We also fly out of Adge Cutler (Bristol) International.
Our Amsterdam Stay apartment is near the Elandsgracht bus station so I decide to take the 197 bus rather than the train.
It's quite strange not to experience that homecoming feeling of emerging from Centraal Station.
We're staying at apartment Cosy.
I know that Amsterdam Escape/Stay have a Volcano so I requested borrowing it.
The apartment looks lovely, our landlady is delightful and, best of all, the Volcano is sitting on a glass table by the door.
Essentials (large carton of Chocomel) duly purchased from Elandsgracht Albert Heijn and dinner at Billy Thais eaten, it's off to Sound Garden.
Approaching the front door we hear music.
The door is shut and a sign directs us to the side entrance.
Peering through the window we see a band playing.
In through the garden and up to the bar.
Buy a cider for J and a beer for me.
After a few slurps I leave J at the bar while I pop into 1e Hulp for a quick buy and fly.
Outrageously I've been in Amsterdam for a couple of hours and not had a joint yet.
First Aid
Back at Sound Garden I drag J out into the garden so I can skin up.
Singelgracht from back of Sound garden
Sitting looking over the canal is delightful but there is a chilly breeze tonight so we retreat back inside.
The band is good and have drawn quite a crowd.
Suddenly out of the crowd a guy says "Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory?"
He introduces himself as 'fraidofspiders'.
I tell him I'm Lemming and he says that he recognised me from my picture here.
Over more spliffs in the garden and interludes watching the band we chat about our lives until it's time for fraidofspiders to catch the last tram to where he's staying.
With the band now finished, J and I take up the table by the door with a view of Funky Munkey across the street.
Table in Sound Garden and Funky Munkey through the window
Back at the apartment it's time to get the Volcano out.
I pick up the box and realise there are actually two boxes.
One is labelled Volcano Classic and the other Solid Valve.
Inside I find that the Volcano is in a plastic bag and the balloon looks unused.
This isn't the old Escape Volcano, it’s a brand new one!
I spend the following hour or so working my way through some of my purchases from Eerste Hulp.
J has a few lungfulls but most goes into me.
My home Volcano is 10 years old.
Back then there was only one design and it came in a single box with a roll of roasting bags.
The one in the apartment is almost identical except that all of the parts are branded, including the balloons.
It seems to be faster and more efficient than mine.
I'm enjoying using this new machine.
Amsterdam Escape's new Volcano
OK, OK, I'm avoiding the obvious question.
My colleagues on this adventure somehow manage to remember everything they smoked and what it did to them.
I'm rubbish at this.
After a couple of joints I've forgotten everything and adopt a stupid grin.
I rarely remember what I bought and often, when there are joints, bongs and vaporizers flying around all over the place, I don't even know what I'm smoking in the first place.
Basically I was blitzed after the first joint at Sound Garden and kept that state topped up for a week.
I know I had some fantastic weed and hash in all of its forms but I can name very little of it.
Having said that, I do remember that my first few purchases from 1st Hulp included Strawberry Sour Diesel.
Even at night the view over Passeerdersgracht from the apartment is lovely.
Sucking on Volcano bags and looking out of the window.
Good night.
Image
Passeerdersgracht and Eerste Passeerdersdwarsstraat
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Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Another example of missing post parts. ACD member Pengaldinho'sQuest for Amsterdam's Diamonds Feb 2015 Smoke Report
Here is the complete day 1 with pot porn!!
Day 1
After a delayed flight and a broken bag I was back in Dam!
Voyagers- smelt strawberry banana(looked nice) and nycd from pheono finders – but neither had much smell! 1g 24 Karat (kosher x tangie) E15 – Not worth the price at all for me, mediocre taste, not that strong
1g Lemon Bubble E12 – smoked one and walked in the sun enjoying the stone, second spliff wasn’t as enjoyable.
Greenplace – no Rolex, new dealer.
1g Shoreline E15 – SUPER YUM!
0.5g Wardeeken OG E8- bit overly dry, nothing great
Kadinsky- no Royal Cream or Brown Sugar. Malana cream E16 Moroccan was sold out
1g King Hassan E13- nice piney, flowery and floaty original Moroccan Hash. Over priced but YUM!
0.5g NYCD E7.75 – smelt nice in the tub but was more like nycd x haze when smoked, nice but still nothing on some of the Red Diesel I have been getting in London.
Tweede Kamer - No Moroccan Waterwork
1g Noor 2000 E16- spicy strong smell, nice taste and stoney buzz. Nothing super and also it was was grainy when rolling between your fingers which was weird. The only other hasj that I have had with this texture was one of the E20+ Marrocs from Bushdoc.
0.5g La sour con E7.50 – earthy kushy flavor, slightly sleepy stone, decent
0.5g Pineapple haze E6.50 – smelt nice in the tub, tasted like SSH
To be continued
Here is the complete day 1 with pot porn!!
Day 1
After a delayed flight and a broken bag I was back in Dam!
Voyagers- smelt strawberry banana(looked nice) and nycd from pheono finders – but neither had much smell! 1g 24 Karat (kosher x tangie) E15 – Not worth the price at all for me, mediocre taste, not that strong
1g Lemon Bubble E12 – smoked one and walked in the sun enjoying the stone, second spliff wasn’t as enjoyable.
Greenplace – no Rolex, new dealer.
1g Shoreline E15 – SUPER YUM!
0.5g Wardeeken OG E8- bit overly dry, nothing great
Kadinsky- no Royal Cream or Brown Sugar. Malana cream E16 Moroccan was sold out
1g King Hassan E13- nice piney, flowery and floaty original Moroccan Hash. Over priced but YUM!
0.5g NYCD E7.75 – smelt nice in the tub but was more like nycd x haze when smoked, nice but still nothing on some of the Red Diesel I have been getting in London.
Tweede Kamer - No Moroccan Waterwork
1g Noor 2000 E16- spicy strong smell, nice taste and stoney buzz. Nothing super and also it was was grainy when rolling between your fingers which was weird. The only other hasj that I have had with this texture was one of the E20+ Marrocs from Bushdoc.
0.5g La sour con E7.50 – earthy kushy flavor, slightly sleepy stone, decent
0.5g Pineapple haze E6.50 – smelt nice in the tub, tasted like SSH
To be continued
Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Hmm, I see what you mean. I had an email pointing this out too.
I agree that the archive is important but I'm not sure why this is happening. It might be the restore of the backup or the upgrade to the latest phpbb.
I still have the backup so if anyone knows why this is happening and how to cure it, please get in touch.
I agree that the archive is important but I'm not sure why this is happening. It might be the restore of the backup or the upgrade to the latest phpbb.
I still have the backup so if anyone knows why this is happening and how to cure it, please get in touch.
Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
I found a setting for
Maximum characters per post/message:
The number of characters allowed within a post/private message. Set to 0 for unlimited characters.
and changed it to 0 (zero) but sadly that doesn't seem to have fixed it.
Maximum characters per post/message:
The number of characters allowed within a post/private message. Set to 0 for unlimited characters.
and changed it to 0 (zero) but sadly that doesn't seem to have fixed it.
Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Thanks for trying, Lemming!
As said unfortunately I don't have a clue much about computers(and in general too of course )but what about emailing developers of this forum software about it if you haven't already of course?!
By the way how got NotSoFastEddie those posts back completely?
Keep on fighting !
As said unfortunately I don't have a clue much about computers(and in general too of course )but what about emailing developers of this forum software about it if you haven't already of course?!
By the way how got NotSoFastEddie those posts back completely?
Keep on fighting !
Re: Incomplete posts / restarting forum
Maybe he has a private archive.
There are some posts of mine I'm quite happy to see truncated...
There are some posts of mine I'm quite happy to see truncated...
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If that is in fact the setting to fix this, I would believe that it is now too late. I would assume that post would be shortened according to the setting at the time of importing the backed up data.
Not sure if it's feasible to re-import now that new content has been added but then I know next to noting about the forum databases.
Not sure if it's feasible to re-import now that new content has been added but then I know next to noting about the forum databases.
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Yes, I think it might be something like that.
I don't think it can be the initial restore because that would have restored the existing settings too. I'm not sure that setting existed in the old version. If it did then, presumably, it must have been set large enough to allow those posts in the first place.
My guess is that the setting was introduced in 3.1 and given a default value. The truncation could then have happened during the upgrade process.
If we'd spotted the problem straight away then I could have repeated the process and tried to spot when the truncation occurred but, now we've been back on air for a while, it's a lot more complicated.
I don't think it can be the initial restore because that would have restored the existing settings too. I'm not sure that setting existed in the old version. If it did then, presumably, it must have been set large enough to allow those posts in the first place.
My guess is that the setting was introduced in 3.1 and given a default value. The truncation could then have happened during the upgrade process.
If we'd spotted the problem straight away then I could have repeated the process and tried to spot when the truncation occurred but, now we've been back on air for a while, it's a lot more complicated.
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Eddie has been posting many of the travelogues in the Tokin Travelers Forum on the Cannabis Culture website.Jesscass wrote:Thanks for trying, Lemming!
As said unfortunately I don't have a clue much about computers(and in general too of course )but what about emailing developers of this forum software about it if you haven't already of course?!
By the way how got NotSoFastEddie those posts back completely?
Keep on fighting !
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@NotSoFastEddie
Thanks, now I understand as well, wasn't aware of that forum I'll take a look for sure!
Thanks, now I understand as well, wasn't aware of that forum I'll take a look for sure!
Not much new content has been added in the meantime in my humble opinion. If those get lost during a restart it's annoying but in opposite to the huge content of about ten years it fades away and is dispensable, don't you think?dude65 wrote:If that is in fact the setting to fix this, I would believe that it is now too late. I would assume that post would be shortened according to the setting at the time of importing the backed up data.
Not sure if it's feasible to re-import now that new content has been added but then I know next to noting about the forum databases.
I can really understand it's probably quite a pile of work but please go for it when you find time. Others - not only me I'm convinced - would a hell of a lot appreciate it(even though the forum probably would have to take a break for a while) !Lemming wrote:[...]
If we'd spotted the problem straight away then I could have repeated the process and tried to spot when the truncation occurred but, now we've been back on air for a while, it's a lot more complicated.