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    Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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      Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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      NormDroid
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      Oh and lets not forget, the quality of articles has gone downhill, probably 3-4 a day are usually sh*t, majority come from india, Some with no code, no aricle body. Blogless

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        Oh and lets not forget, the quality of articles has gone downhill, probably 3-4 a day are usually sh*t, majority come from india, Some with no code, no aricle body. Blogless

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        Daniel Turini
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        Agreed. It has been a while since I last read some article that gave me that "wow!" feeling I had when I started using CP.

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        • realJSOPR realJSOP

          Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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          Marc Clifton
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          While I might have agreed a year ago, I now think you're over-reacting. Here's why:

          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen

          If I really think about it, the up-time is actually significantly higher than the down-time. And my primary concern with CP's down time is not whether I can access CP, but whether other's can access my articles. I solved the second issue with my own website. And no, I'm not trying to sound arrogant, like ooh, my articles are the cat's meow. But they are a way of getting work, and that's why I need the visibility.

          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7.

          Why would you want to? Is there something so bloody important in every single post that requires your constant attention? Hardly.

          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          Until a real forum system is installed

          I actually like CP's forum a LOT better than any other forum I've ever seen. The classic forum format sucks, IMHO.

          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          General forum abuse is rampant.

          Over-exaggeration. And again, so what?

          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          The voting system is at least three shades past stupid,

          Ignore the voting system. It's not that CP's voting system is stupid, it's that any voting system exhibits stupidity. It's the nature of the animal. But the voting system does weed out the truly stupid articles.

          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

          then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything.

          I wouldn't be so sure. Certainly my rants and raves haven't been listened to. Why should yours? I took a more 12-step approach. Accept that I have no control over what Chris does. My blood pressure is a lot better now that I really don't give a damn whether CP has ads or not, etc. However, part of that attitude is the result of my taking control of something that I am capable of controlling--again, having my own website, with

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            Oh and lets not forget, the quality of articles has gone downhill, probably 3-4 a day are usually sh*t, majority come from india, Some with no code, no aricle body. Blogless

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            norm.net wrote:

            probably 3-4 a day are usually sh*t, majority come from india, Some with no code, no aricle body.

            Then they will end up in purgatory or be removed completely in a fairly short time. When I search for an article I check the rating. If it is a 2 or higher* then I know it contains something useful. The closer to a 5 the better the quality. Perhaps it would be better if there were enough volunteer editors to help vet the articles on the way in so that the cruft would get rejected before making it to the live site. * If you think my quality bar is a bit low that is because I've read some genuinely useful articles with a poor rating. Perhaps because someone came across it and it didn't answer their specific question exactly as they'd have liked it or just didn't like the author.


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              Oh and lets not forget, the quality of articles has gone downhill, probably 3-4 a day are usually sh*t, majority come from india, Some with no code, no aricle body. Blogless

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              What does the country of origin have to do with it? CP is international. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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                What does the country of origin have to do with it? CP is international. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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                NormDroid
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                Merely state a fact, no racial prejudice intended :rose: Blogless

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                  Oh and lets not forget, the quality of articles has gone downhill, probably 3-4 a day are usually sh*t, majority come from india, Some with no code, no aricle body. Blogless

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                  Giles
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                  Yep, very true. The amount of dorky articles is unbelivable. Whats needed is something like slashdot, so that you don;t have to view stuff below a certain rating. Sadly, the current rating system is not up to it, as tiny minded trolls go though voting stuff down or up depending on their feeble thoughts. Frankly, you should not be able to vote unless you are at a certain level, e.g. gold. There are enough of us now. Troll accounts should be deleted, so they never make it to being able to vote.

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                    Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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                    Eytukan
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                    here explodes another nuclear fission reaction(s)! *duck* He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition. -Novjot Sidhu --[v]--

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                    • realJSOPR realJSOP

                      Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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                      SimonS
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                      I hear you and partly agree, but all things change. CP now isn't the same CP before the membership spiked, but it's just the nature of things ... isn't it? The user groups I have either started or been involved in have invariably gone through the same (de-)evolution. Sometimes the best thing is to just move on a start something new. Having said that, I still get great value out of Code Project and intend sticking around for at least the foreseeable future. Cheers, Simon > latest article :: animation mechanics in SVG > blog:: brokenkeyboards > another site of mine :: JeanPant.com > CV :: PDF

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                      • N NormDroid

                        Oh and lets not forget, the quality of articles has gone downhill, probably 3-4 a day are usually sh*t, majority come from india, Some with no code, no aricle body. Blogless

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                        Nemanja Trifunovic
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                        norm.net wrote:

                        Oh and lets not forget, the quality of articles has gone downhill

                        I filter articles to see only the C++ ones, and they are still great :)


                        My programming blahblahblah blog. If you ever find anything useful here, please let me know to remove it.

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                        • realJSOPR realJSOP

                          Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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                          Nemanja Trifunovic
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                          1. true 2) true 3) true 4) true 5) true

                          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                          the quality of users has SEVERELY degraded over the last few years

                          Very true. But again, what else? I still want to read good articles and occasionally rant about programming topics. Where else to go? Code Guru? :~


                          My programming blahblahblah blog. If you ever find anything useful here, please let me know to remove it.

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                            Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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                            Max Santos
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                            Maybe one way to solve the forum problem would be to colapse the initial message. This way all we would see when entering the forum would be the threads, but we could expand them like we do this any message. After expand the first message, we would see the same we see here. Now a question is Codeproject running on IIS 6? ASP is slower in IIS6 than in IIS 5 , right?

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                              Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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                              Michael P Butler
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                              John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                              1. The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge.

                              The 500s don't bother me. The fact that it took 1 minute to render the lounge so I could click on your message does annoy me. It is more noticeable in FireFox than it was in IE.

                              John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                              1. The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site.

                              I was always against the latest-updated-thread at the top of the forum idea, but having spent some time at other forums I kind of like having all the recently posted to threads at the top,

                              John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                              1. The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable.

                              Chris has been IP banning the trolls recently... but with all things there are always ways around this. I've reduced my amount of time spent at CP, mainly because the noise ratio had increased by so much. I know Chris is working to address the problems you've brought up but only so much can be done with limited time and resources. I hope you reconsider your decision to leave as you are one of the posters who make things interesting around here :-D Michael CP Blog [

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                                Until these most/all of these issues are addressed: 1) The site simply cannot support the number of users it has attracted. There seems to be anywhere from 6,500 to 9,000 users online at any given time, and this is crushing the site's ability to exist. If I'm not greeted with a 500 error, the pages takes its sweet bloody time scratching itself onto the screen. It takes even longer to display the front page of the lounge. 2) The message boards are completely inadequate because of the sheer number of posts that are submitted. Posts scroll out of freakin site after only a few hours because of the way the forums work. Despite what people think, many of us have freakin jobs and need sleep every once in a while, and we simply can't monitor the site 24/7. Until a real forum system is installed, I won't be posting any more. If you're not using one because you can't find one written with ASP.NET, that's a piss-poor excuse to ignore an obvious problem on the site. 3) The fact that people can post anonymously has been a thorn in the site's side since the forums were created. There's apparently no way to IP ban people from posting, or there's no desire to do it. Whichever is the case, it's unacceptable. 4) General forum abuse is rampant. Despite obvious instructions to not post programming questions in the Lounge, people do it, and then at least 30 people point out to the offender that they screwed up. The net effect is that more desireable posts fall off the edge of the world never to be seen by people who might be interested in reading or responding to them. 5) The voting system is at least three shades past stupid, and is obviously being abused, especially where the programming articles are concerned. I know I'm not the only person here that's been a victim of this problem. Now, some of you (people that don't know me) may say "so what, this guys is a dick and he rarely contributes anything anyway", but if the problem is large enough for me to post this message, then you can bet there are plenty of other users that feel the same way but are trying to be more tolerant and simply haven't been pushed quite hard enough to say anything. I've been here 5 years (in December), have posted over 5000 messages in these "forums", and have submitted 12 articles, thinking contributing to the site would do somebody some good. I respect Chris and his team, and honestly appreciate what he's trying to do on CodeProject, but I've simply had enough. The site is crumbling under the weight of the user base, the qualit

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                                I really share your feelings, although i'm pained to criticise, because I, like others are very grateful for the hard work chris & the team put into this site. But it really needs a new coat of paint. You can get some understanding of why the site can be slow, and falls over, when you consider a few things:- The main c# general articles page (which I won't link to, because people will click it), currently stands at a whopping 772 Kb. And that's not including images, stylesheets or anything. 772 Kb is riduculous. The page needs splitting, urgently. And most of that 772 Kb is presumably dynamic, so some poor sql server is getting a pounding every time the page is loaded. As I write this, the first page of the lounge is at 145 Kb. The text of every message is inside the page; and displayed with some Javascript and DHTML. Again this is unneccessary data to be pulled from the DB, and sent to the client. It seems CP site code was written for when the site was a lot smaller, and hasn't scaled well at all. Chris, Is there anything we can do to help you make some improvements? And to make it worse, the little nipple type mouse pointing stick thing on my laptop keypad has fallen off.

                                using System.Beer;

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                                  Maybe one way to solve the forum problem would be to colapse the initial message. This way all we would see when entering the forum would be the threads, but we could expand them like we do this any message. After expand the first message, we would see the same we see here. Now a question is Codeproject running on IIS 6? ASP is slower in IIS6 than in IIS 5 , right?

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                                  Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                  Max Santos wrote:

                                  Maybe one way to solve the forum problem would be to colapse the initial message. This way all we would see when entering the forum would be the threads, but we could expand them like we do this any message. After expand the first message, we would see the same we see here.

                                  You already have that option. Just select "Thread View" in your message preferences. Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                                    What does the country of origin have to do with it? CP is international. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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                                    Trollslayer wrote:

                                    What does the country of origin have to do with it? CP is international.

                                    The sad truth is, that I can pretty much pinpoint plagarized articles by the author's name (and therefore assumed nationality) and the content of the article (as in, the content does not match what I would expect from the author). Here's[^] a perfect example. Yes, I do typecasting. So sue me. It works, and it works for a reason. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface

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                                      Trollslayer wrote:

                                      What does the country of origin have to do with it? CP is international.

                                      The sad truth is, that I can pretty much pinpoint plagarized articles by the author's name (and therefore assumed nationality) and the content of the article (as in, the content does not match what I would expect from the author). Here's[^] a perfect example. Yes, I do typecasting. So sue me. It works, and it works for a reason. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface

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                                      :omg: This has just come in to CodeProject, I'm sorry but this is the kind of noise CP now attracts, this article almosts begs believe. How to Convert a String to Byte and Vice-Versa[^] Stuff you can lookup in MSDN :wtf: Blogless

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                                        Max Santos wrote:

                                        Maybe one way to solve the forum problem would be to colapse the initial message. This way all we would see when entering the forum would be the threads, but we could expand them like we do this any message. After expand the first message, we would see the same we see here.

                                        You already have that option. Just select "Thread View" in your message preferences. Anna :rose: Riverblade Ltd - Software Consultancy Services Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.

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                                        But it's soooo slow Anna ... even slower than normal! Unusably slow. :(

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                                          Trollslayer wrote:

                                          What does the country of origin have to do with it? CP is international.

                                          The sad truth is, that I can pretty much pinpoint plagarized articles by the author's name (and therefore assumed nationality) and the content of the article (as in, the content does not match what I would expect from the author). Here's[^] a perfect example. Yes, I do typecasting. So sue me. It works, and it works for a reason. Marc My website Traceract Understanding Simple Data Binding Diary Of A CEO - Preface

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                                          Marc Clifton wrote:

                                          Here's[^] a perfect example.

                                          Hello Marc, That specific article is from a Pakistani member (according to his profile) - so it's not really Indian. But you are right, statistically, authors from India and Pakistan have lead the plagiarizing author list. I've discussed this with Smitha and Chris a few times in the past, but somehow I haven't figured out why this is so. Nish :-(

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