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something weird's going on...

Tom Coates

15:48 / 21.11.01

Bandwidth on the site suddenly doubled yesterday from 400-500Mb a day to nearly 1000Mb.

Was yesterday a particularly busy day or is there something screwy going on?

deja_vroom

15:51 / 21.11.01

er... wouldn't the "Barbefeuds!" thread have something to do with it, would?

Cherry Bomb

16:08 / 21.11.01

Surely you saw this thread, which went to I think 13 pages in about 24 hours. Impressive, non?

For what it's worth, surely plenty of the Americans will be off cavorting with family and friends for the next several days, and maybe that will then LOWER the bandwidth.

Just a thought.

Sorry, Tom!

Tom Coates

17:59 / 21.11.01

I honestly don't know what to say.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

18:15 / 21.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Cherry Bomb:
For what it's worth, surely plenty of the Americans will be off cavorting with family and friends for the next several days, and maybe that will then LOWER the bandwidth!

Not if the Americans here are anything like me...being home with my parents = internet time tripling for me...

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:18 / 21.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
I honestly don't know what to say.

How about "I forgive you, don't do it again"?

I should never have mentioned that end-of-term analogy... It's like the headmaster just walked in and caught us all trashing the classroom...

Hush

18:32 / 21.11.01

I regard this as a premature discordian celebration of 23/11.

Turn it back on in for Friday. Pleeeeeeaaase.

bitchiekittie

22:01 / 21.11.01

perhaps you should explain to the techno-tards amongst us (*raises hand*) what dramatically increases bandwidth so we can keep that sort of behavior to a minimum?

and flux - Im exactly the same, hiding out somewhere, anywhere to escape the endless bickering and bitchery (as well as the orgy comments, this has got to stop)

Cherry Bomb

01:48 / 22.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
I honestly don't know what to say.

Tom, don't kill us! I don't know how it happened! I'll help cover the bill! I swear!! I'm an addict, barbelith, it's like crack, but for infofreaks!

/guilty rambling

Cherry Bomb

01:54 / 22.11.01

I do kinda feel like my parents just walked in and saw all the beer bottles, the full ashtrays, the bong AND Rebecca DeMornay passed out on the couch.

Oh and Flux and Bitchie - Why do you think I'm here tonight? It was my Dad's b-day yesterday so I came home early for a dinner and while all my friends are off in Chicago tonight going to Latin Clubs and on dates with hot French boys and smoking pot and watching "South Park" and dancing at the most rockin' rock n' roll club Club Foot, I am here. For tonight, anyway.

Bitchie - a thread that balloons to 15 pages in one day is the sort of thing that eats up bandwidth. Or doubleposting and such. Dont' feel alone though- it took me forever to get the hang of basic UBB code, and I still can't get it together to do any decent HTML coding that may make my blog halfway interesting.

[ 22-11-2001: Message edited by: Cherry Bomb ]

Tom Coates

07:05 / 22.11.01

Can I just ask people to remember that just because enough people are donating to (nearly) cover the normal bandwidth bills, this is not an excuse to relax and just post left-right and centre. Otherwise the bills will explode even more and I'll need MORE donations.

Basically a 15 page thread in one day is great - it's wonderful even - IF IT'S RELEVANT. Please don't ask me to pay for people to bicker!

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:05 / 22.11.01

I would say in defence of the "Barbefeuds" thread that it did in fact have some very productive results - Pin and Flyboy discovered that they in fact loved each other after all, and that Pin was Zoey Passmore, Cameron and I made up, and possibly more and nastier feuding further down the line may have been averted.

Oh God, I feel guilty now. My paypal thing shoudl now be working - would it help if I sent some extra dinero for this infraction?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:23 / 22.11.01

I agree with Haus.

(I can't believe I said that.)

I think it was important. Kinda like 'potlatch' way back when.

I know it got out of hand and then a bit silly, but...

Pin

15:30 / 22.11.01

I agree. The bit with the ego fellation was cool.

That doesn't actually justify the money though. Sorry.

Mordant Carnival

16:24 / 22.11.01

Lucky I was too busy to go online that night, or it'd've been more like 2000 Mb.

Fist Fun

08:48 / 23.11.01

I get the impression that barbelith has taken on a life of its own that has surpassed original intentions. I suspect that it was set up as a debating site and that as membership has grown it has taken on more of a role as a real time chat site. Hence the thread rot, flirting, bitching in the conversation. Hence the increased bandwidth loads and associated costs.

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:52 / 23.11.01

Does it make a difference if it's on long thread or several smaller ones, if you see what I mean?

Tom Coates

08:52 / 23.11.01

Only if people read through the whole thread rather than just skipping through it to the relevant pages. And of course three hundred people reading and posting everything that goes on in one thread is going to result in substantially more traffic than the same number split between very different threads (because they will only read it when it's been updated!)

higuita

14:09 / 23.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Buk:
I get the impression that barbelith has taken on a life of its own that has surpassed original intentions. I suspect that it was set up as a debating site and that as membership has grown it has taken on more of a role as a real time chat site.

How strange - that must be why I've been posting a lot less recently.

Tom Coates

19:11 / 23.11.01

At times I very much feel the same way.

Jack The Bodiless

11:12 / 25.11.01

Tom doesn't love us anymore.

grant

13:01 / 26.11.01

It is not for Tom to love us, it is for US to love TOM.

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