This website forum sucks

[NickFitz]

Is it possible to revert to an earlier version, or is the "upgrade" irrevocable?

No going back - they don't really support the older version any more, and it would involve reverting all the changes made to the DB to shovel everything into the new schema

Switching to Xenforo, there's a conversion script, but it would need some additional work to account for things that are done by plugins (nice URLs, Thanks/Likes, various things I did to make it behave more like the old forum). Not a huge task TBH, and the processes involved are either well-documented or relate to bits that I understand because I wrote them

Not going to happen tomorrow though, unfortunately - there's a bit more to it than just installing the new software and running an import script

[woody1]

And the database's Nodes table has millions of rows in it: a row for every subforum, and a row every thread, and one for every post, and every PM, and loads of other things, all in one table.

Presumably that table was already enormous from day 1 of the new version going live? And I'm guessing it must have taken a fair few hours for the upgrade to create it.

The table's not missing any indexes is it?

I suppose deleting very old stuff might be one way to improve matters.

[NickFitz]

Presumably that table was already enormous from day 1 of the new version going live? And I'm guessing it must have taken a fair few hours for the upgrade to create it.

The table's not missing any indexes is it?

I suppose deleting very old stuff might be one way to improve matters.

Can't remember exactly how long it took, but it was getting on for an hour, I think.

Lots of indexes, but it's simply too big. There's no efficient way of handling it for this use case; things need to be in their own tables.

If you go way back, you can still see the posts that were copied across from the pre-vBulletin forum, down in the low thousands IIRC. No old stuff gets deleted round here

And TBH deleting old stuff wouldn't be any more than a stopgap. Eventually it would grow again and the same problem would reappear. And given the quality of the software, I wouldn't trust it to cope well with things vanishing from underneath it.

[SueEllen]

Seems Microsoft is sucking this morning as well.

Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to start a thread about it.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/...bsod_incident/

An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows.

The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10 PCs crashing, displaying the Blue Screen of Death, then being unable to reboot.

“We're seeing BSOD Org wide that are being caused by csagent.sys, and it's taking down critical services. I'll open a ticket, but this is a big deal,” wrote one user.

Forums report that Crowdstrike has issued an advisory with a URL that includes the text "Tech-Alert-Windows-crashes-related-to-Falcon-Sensor-2024-07-19" – but it's behind a regwall that only customers can access.

An apparent screenshot of that article reads "CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor. Symptoms include hosts experiencing a bugcheck\blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor."

CrowdStrike's engineers are working on the issue.

Falcon Sensor is an agent that CrowdStrike claims "blocks attacks on your systems while capturing and recording activity as it happens to detect threats fast."

Right now, however, the sensor appears to be the threat.

[Uncle Albert]

Seems Microsoft is sucking this morning as well.

Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to start a thread about it.

Annoyingly Client Co's systems are up and running.