Heads up: GD:P will be temporarily unavailable this afternoon

[Elad]

Due to the excessive size of the archives of this forum, we're going to be swapping this one out for a new forum, and transferring it to the Archives, where all threads will be searchable and readable.

The new forum will be called General Discussion: Presidency, and will be listed in the same place. Essentially there will be no difference with the new one other than the minor name change, and the forum id. We will also move the first page or two of threads from this forum into the new one so that live discussions aren't being stopped prematurely.

While this maintenance is going on, both this forum and the new forum will be unavailable. We don't expect this work to take more than a couple hours, and could go much quicker.

Thanks for your patience!

[Hutzpa]

1. Damn!

need the break anyways, thanks for the heads up...:thumbsup:

[hileeopnyn8d]

2. You know

we're going to keep clicking on it until it's gone, and then until it comes back again. :)

[defendandprotect]

3. Since I've never figured out how to use the archives, I'm not one of the "excessive" users!!!

Ever time I've hit "archives" I get a message saying, "not operating" -- ????

[Elad]

6. You can't browse the archives, which is what that link does

You have to search them.

[madfloridian]

10. When I tried a GDP archive search just now....it showed nothing.

[Elad]

12. That will continue through the weekend

while we work to repair the extremely large table containing most of the archives from that forum. That's why we had to do this.

[madfloridian]

13. Thanks for posting about it.

I had noticed it for a few days.

[madfloridian]

14. Also getting this message on a video forum search.

Home » Discuss » Political Videos My JournalDonate to DU

Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in /home/httpd/html/discuss/include/dclib.php on line 3795

I was searching for a video near the end of 2007 and into 2008....some showed but many gave this message.

I was wondering if they were connected

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Another good reason get s*itfaced later today.

Like I needed a reason anyway.

[HopeOverFear]

5. I noticed that threads from 2008 don't work when I click them in the archives

I hope that's temporary.

[Elad]

7. That's why we're doing this

The archives are just too big and the table keeps crashing.

[defendandprotect]

15. Okay . . so maybe it wasn't me????

[Elad]

8. test

x

[boppers]

9. I give you an A-.

More creativity next time, please.

:evilgrin:

[proud patriot]

11. cool

[Speck Tater]

16. Stand by for 47 threads asking "Where did GD:P go?!?!" nt

[Clio the Leo]

17. Thanks to everyone for all of your hard work! NT

[ellie]

18. Noooooooooo!

Did I miss the outage?

[eppur_se_muova]

19. Hmmmmmm ... hate to be nitpicky, but ...

couldn't the archive be GD:President_1, or something like that? No need to change the name of the active forum, and names of later archives would follow an obvious pattern. :shrug: