Delphy Public MTS2 changelog, so you can see all the stuff I do here :) 2018-10-20T18:50:24Z 2006-10-25T22:59:05Z 85643 49 345 https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=syndication&j=289&type=rss https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=syndication&j=289&type=rss2 https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=syndication&j=289&type=atom Full list of changes: - On member profile pages, moved avatar to left - On all profile pages, added background to all tabs - Renamed "Groups" tab to "Posts & Groups" - Renamed "..." tab to "Signature & More" on creators - Moved posts/threads to "Posts & Groups" tab - Changed "Fave Downloads" to... 2018-10-20T18:50:24Z 2018-10-20T18:50:24Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=7621 This is a test journal entry. 2018-10-19T14:24:07Z 2018-10-19T14:24:07Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=7620 * Changed backend to ignore views from the uploader when viewing their own threads (Saves 1 or 2 queries) * Switched the language query to use mtscache instead of memcache - mtscache allows me to also pull from APC/xcache which is much quicker local storage, but fallback to memcache if it doesn't... 2011-06-17T23:48:29Z 2011-06-17T23:48:29Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5548 The seperate "Filter" box has been removed, and incorporated into the box above that lists the forum description (and "Switch" box, ie the TS2/TS3 icons). The text for showing / hiding the filter section has been changed. The text for "To show the filters see the sidebar" has been removed along... 2011-06-13T11:41:16Z 2011-06-13T11:41:16Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5539 The scorecard graphs now display Views and Thanks as additional lines on the monthly (per user) and monthly (per thread) charts. No additional changes have been made to the daily (per thread) charts except to make the bars smoothly gradient down, and to make them sorted from highest to lowest. 2011-01-02T18:39:48Z 2011-01-02T18:39:48Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5265 The download view has been changed in the following ways: - The colorbox to show favourites has been changed to a (Who?) at the end of the sentence instead of a full link - The details of comments / replies, number of thanks and number of favourites at the top of the overview page now shows to... 2011-01-02T18:38:23Z 2011-01-02T18:38:23Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5264 The getimage.php script has been updated to: - Only get the specific attachment fields it needs, and not the whole row (which included the zipinfo and other description stuff not needed for serving the file) - Cache detection has been added, and cache times now sent back correctly - Send back a... 2011-01-02T16:56:47Z 2011-01-02T16:56:47Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5263 The "Who Posted?" page (how many people knew that even existed?) has been changed in the following ways: - A link has been added to the top of threads with the Views (moved up) and the Who?, along with number of replies - The Who? link opens a colorbox with the list of who posted and how much -... 2011-01-01T19:25:42Z 2011-01-01T19:25:42Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5262 The colorbox css and js have been modified to show the title in an overlay above the image, but only on hover (so you can move the mouse out of the image to see the full thing). Additionally, the 2 sets of "Screenshots" on download pages now are defined in their own groups (so 3 images now shows... 2010-12-28T15:00:16Z 2010-12-28T15:00:16Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5254 I've gone through and changed all of the old "lightbox" style image popups, as well as the PM "facebox" popup into the new style "colorbox" popup with a new style. I may, at some point in the next few days, switch to using Fancybox instead, since I like the look and feel of that a bit more (and it... 2010-12-26T21:26:40Z 2010-12-26T21:26:40Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5250 I've gone through and optimised the code on the Social Groups Home page to remove the big giant list of public groups, and make it into an AJAX call. I've also cached some objects and generally made the page load faster. 2010-12-12T21:52:54Z 2010-12-12T21:52:54Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5219 Note, this post is highly technical. If you aren't interested in server-level optimisations, click away now! So Membase came out very recently, and since looking at it at work I figured "what the heck" and installed it in place of memcached on static. It's a lot easier to track whats going on,... 2010-10-13T21:29:12Z 2010-10-13T21:29:12Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5124 I have updated the resetpassword and lostpw scripts to correctly clear the cache for user accounts that have passwords regenerated. Additionally, changing your password or email address should clear the cache, allowing you to login immediately with your credentials. Lastly, the password reset... 2010-08-08T12:35:53Z 2010-08-08T12:35:53Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=5032 I've upgraded the database server from mySQL 5.1.41 up to MariaDB 5.1.42. The extra speed and functionality in MariaDB should help us in the future, especially when 5.2 comes out. :) 2010-03-02T12:53:03Z 2010-03-02T12:53:03Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4692 Hi All, As part of my "job" here on MTS, I am basically the guy who looks after the servers, and who makes sure the performance is adequate, and running ok, and so on. One of the ways I do this is by looking at the mySQL slow query log. Here I can identify which queries are, well, basically slow.... 2010-02-25T10:54:00Z 2010-02-25T10:54:00Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4677 * I have added the jQuery Lazy Load Plugin (http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload) to help with long image threads * When opening/closing or stickying threads, they should now automatically get the information from the database, not the cache * The member profile pages now have the EP icons... 2010-02-21T13:11:07Z 2010-02-21T13:11:07Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4666 I have re-enabled the "Search for all posts by..." and "Search for all Threads by..." functionality of the Search system. 2010-02-11T22:28:23Z 2010-02-11T22:28:23Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4642 Hi All, I've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes on the general coding of the site, and figuring out ways of improving the speed of day to day usage. First off, how do we identify areas to speed? Well, I have a number of ways of doing that. Firstly, there is a script that I can run that... 2009-12-17T10:32:05Z 2009-12-17T10:32:05Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4523 This is a test entry. 2009-10-02T23:17:13Z 2009-10-02T23:17:13Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4352 - Member profile pages now have the "Show All" and the individual sections changed so they return all downloads across both games, not just using the default - The download browser has been modified to allow it to show all downloads for both games when applicable - The sidebar on the dowload... 2009-09-20T13:56:55Z 2009-09-20T13:56:55Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4309 - Moved most of the menu HTML into an external javascript. This decreases the HTML generated on every page by at least 15k, and since it's cached it should speed things up a lot - Added "x of y" counter to the news rotation ticker - Some minor PHP bug fixes - Resynced times on Nene, Linna and... 2009-09-20T00:27:19Z 2009-09-20T00:27:19Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4308 - The "resize images" script has been moved to it's own Javascript file on static2 - The script has been modified to detect the width of the window - If the width is 1280 or less, inline images get resized to 600 pixels - If the width is 1024 or less, inline images get resized to 500 pixels - Added... 2009-09-18T11:38:22Z 2009-09-18T11:38:22Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4301 - Removed "Location" from postbit - Added back post count to postbit - Added extra spacing above avatar when user has special icons - Changed wording of Thanks count in post bit to better flow with the rest - Moved "Report this Post" to top right next to the post number - Removed some extra... 2009-09-15T09:46:29Z 2009-09-15T09:46:29Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4289 I got myself an iPod Touch the other day and so far am enjoying it - but it makes me wonder if there wouldn't be an area to have an MTS app that basically gets the latest news, downloads and finds from the site, maybe with some kind of list you could view later on? I asked on Twitter and only got... 2009-09-11T08:56:44Z 2009-09-11T08:56:44Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=4274 Thanks to daysies picking the drives up and shipping them to me, I finally have the drives that where in Chii. I have already tried using SpinRite to see if it can access the drive, and that failed. Then I tried rebuilding the partition table using Parted Magic but that failed too. So, finally,... 2009-04-16T14:41:28Z 2009-04-16T14:41:28Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3760 Hi All, Changes today: - Recompiled Apache2 on Nene, Linna and Static, to include the mod_deflate module - Fixed the PHP ini file on Nene and Linna to disable automatic gzip compression as it can be done by vBulletin anyway - re-enabled it and disabled vBulletins instead - Added the lightbox... 2009-04-10T14:12:58Z 2009-04-10T14:12:58Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3736 Another small change for today, this time to Scorecards, mostly behind the scenes - basically I've tweaked the database queries so instead of (number of downloads x 2) queries, it just uses a set fixed amount on every page. This should substantially speed things up when viewing scorecards with... 2009-03-06T02:23:18Z 2009-03-06T02:23:18Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3580 A few things changed today, mostly behind the scenes: - Added and tweaked some of the database indexes used, to hopefully speed some things up and prevent more locking - Changed the way the pagereferer code inserts fields into the database thus speeding it up - Changed the front page Featured box... 2009-03-03T17:27:30Z 2009-03-03T17:27:30Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3570 Added quick jumps on the About page to jump to specific news entries Changed News menu to add "Latest News" at the top, which goes to the about page Added header in News menu "News Sections" Removed section in News Menu "Other" Added option to delete a Social Group (only when it has zero posts and... 2009-01-18T16:42:12Z 2009-01-18T16:42:12Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3395 Reports now have to be a minimum of 10 characters to submit. Threads in the Social Groups forum no longer appear in New Posts, unless you are a member of that group. The member profiles now have a fixed social group image The screenshots on download pages have been added into a collapsible area... 2009-01-14T23:22:06Z 2009-01-14T23:22:06Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3379 Adjusted the "Users who thanked this also thanked" code to only pick between 20 and 30 max users who thanked rather than all possible users as was happening in some circumstances Added Creator Links dropdown (as of a few days ago) Removed Upload Items from the User Tools dropdown Adjusted the cache... 2009-01-11T18:56:13Z 2009-01-11T18:56:13Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3366 Fixed bug with the takeover ad triggering all the time regardless of cookie state Fixed bug with invalid posthashes in Upload wizard Updated all base code to 3.0.14 vBulletin Added Multi-Part/Custom Install/Related boxes to Stage 9 of upload wizard Fixed bug with server redirects going to... 2009-01-06T22:48:42Z 2009-01-06T22:48:42Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3338 I've spent a couple hours working on some small but subtle changes to the site today: Swapped the vertical positioning of the news rotation box and the breadcrumbs in the navbar Moved the "Featured banner" from above the thread title to the top of the download details box Added number of... 2008-10-27T00:27:51Z 2008-10-27T00:27:51Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3085 I've spent the past couple of days bringing up to spec one of the new quad core servers that MTS2 will be running on. Today I also found the joys of memcached. After adding caching to a number of the scripts, I then brought the new server - called Nene - up and running. What I usually do with... 2008-09-24T22:57:10Z 2008-09-24T22:57:10Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=3012 Currently on my list are (not in any particular order): iMTS2 Creator Policies Journal comment editing Journal entry page revamp Clean up Chii/Thumbs Figure out why graph2 isn't working when embedded in another PHP script - Not going to use graph2 for the moment Optimise queries / throughput for... 2008-09-10T11:41:36Z 2008-09-10T11:41:36Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=2969 This is a test entry. Does anybody have a size 6 sprocket? 2008-09-07T13:24:36Z 2008-09-07T13:24:36Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=2941 Okay so short post. 4038 people on right now (1563 members and 2475 guests), and usually the site really slows down after about 2.5k ish. However, earlier today, I upgraded the mySQL to the latest 5.0.x branch, did some more tweaking on the my.cnf and then proceeded to sit down and figure out... 2008-06-13T23:19:16Z 2008-06-13T23:19:16Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=2693 Okay so I'm still working on bug fixing and adding new features, I just wont be as active in the day to day stuff. I'm still looking after the servers, optimising and tweaking things, so I guess this is only a semi-retirement. :) Expect more tweaks, fixes, and other fun stuff soon :) 2008-04-24T12:32:03Z 2008-04-24T12:32:03Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=2568 Hi All, As of, well, nowishly (but definately from Jan 2008) I will be officially retiring from this site, as well as the other sites I run. After this point there will be no more major coding updates, no more tools, and little in the way of bug fixing. I will still be around - just not really... 2007-12-10T08:57:16Z 2007-12-10T08:57:16Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=2181 Okay so it appears that the single query and index optimisation I did yesterday (see my previous entry) has had an absolutely massive effect on the site and sped it up immensely. We went from a previous high of ~3600 up to a high of ~4144, and with a lot of times around that figure. It's the... 2007-03-12T07:55:07Z 2007-03-12T07:55:07Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=1113 Hey All, Last Friday I upgraded the primary database server that MTS2 uses from mySQL 4.0 to mySQL 5. I had to fix a whole bunch of queries, but that was ok - I was expecting that. In the process, I found some really good mysql reporting scripts that have enabled me to determine which queries... 2007-03-11T12:04:57Z 2007-03-11T12:04:57Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=1110 Hi All, Todays changes to the site include: Addition of /creator/ shortcut, to go directly to a creators profile by name Addition of /member/ shortcut, which acts like the above Change to the download pages, whereby the Featured items now get shown in pages other than the download root, so you... 2006-12-10T14:44:43Z 2006-12-10T14:44:43Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=816 Hi All, Here is the changelog for today: Added a new IP address to the thumbnail server, and switched port 443 to port 80 on this new IP - should fix problems with people getting broken thumbnails Added thumbs2.modthesims2.com to point to new IP address Changed all scripts and templates to... 2006-12-06T14:37:17Z 2006-12-06T14:37:17Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=792 Hi All, Okay I keep forgetting to update this (like most of my blogs), but here is a couple of changes: Added automatic custom content viewer that looks inside zips/rar, extracts the Sims2Pack files, then looks into those to grab the custom content. This code has been in use in the moderation... 2006-11-10T19:26:14Z 2006-11-10T19:26:14Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=709 MTS2 has had 799,000 members registered at one point or other. We've purged a little over 203,000 members for inactivity. The highest members online was 3,476, set yesterday. 2006-10-30T20:14:35Z 2006-10-30T20:14:35Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=670 Okay, changes today: Created this journal :) Revamped Game Mods section as per Site News announcement, and deleted the 2 Archive sub-forums Fixed up the Creator Scorecard showing black/unreadable lines in some styles Added an Edit button on the Creator Scorecard that takes you directly to edit... 2006-10-25T23:17:27Z 2006-10-25T23:17:27Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=653 Hi All, Okay so I've decided to try and keep a journal for all the public changes I do on MTS2, both so I can track things, and also so you all can see the things that change here - I'm doing it as a journal so as not to clutter up the news with stuff most people wont be interested in anyway... 2006-10-25T22:59:05Z 2006-10-25T22:59:05Z https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showcomments&e=652