Just the usual annual reminder about January 1st birthdays disable. ;)
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Just the usual annual reminder about January 1st birthdays disable. ;)
Why :confused:
Because anyone that doesnt fill in their BD on their profile will default to Jan 1. This makes for many members BDs on that day which when viewed takes a very long time if it doesnt crash your browser. Try it ;)
How??Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
I'll endeavor to remember, thanks Rob
Good Question!Quote:
Originally Posted by Harsh Gupta
I just tried going to the calander,
http://www.vbforums.com/calendar.php?
And found I can't enter next year.
Next year is non-existant.
But, jumping to January, 2006, we see that there are 3993 members born on the 1st of the year.
http://www.vbforums.com/calendar.php...th=1&year=2006
and here they are:
http://www.vbforums.com/calendar.php...y=2006-1-1&c=1
:wave:
Thank you!!Quote:
Originally Posted by NotLKH
And actually I am sorry for posting it. My question was aimed at RD that if BDs are disabled on 1st Jan, then how can we check if enabling BDs can crash browsers on that day.
If I am not mistaken the crash few years ago caused the "reminders" reoccur every year thereafter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harsh Gupta
We also had a major crash a while back, and when the database came back up, a ton of users were reset to "guest" status, and their birthdays were zeroed. When 1st Jan rolled around, there might have been > 10000 birthdays for that day.
Interesting, most of them joined in 2002 and will be 5 years old on Jan 1st/2007, it seems to be using the Join Date as Birth Date :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by NotLKH
They dont get disabled until the first. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Harsh Gupta
You can check 2007 like this - http://www.vbforums.com/calendar.php...y=2007-1-1&c=1
I disabled it now, just in case I forget. Better that than to have it crash the forum.
But if I follow my link it shows. :confused:
But it's been removed from vbf main page. No more Birthdays there.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
That's doesn't matter. What crashes the forum is the mass return on the query. In your case it's a single user so a single return on the query. When there are 4k returns on that query, that's what causes the crash.
Ah I see.
Before we had the browsers crashing because they couldnt handle the amount of info or something like that?
It would be a poor browser that crashed on that. It's just the server-side load that would be large.
Maybe IE crashes on that page. :afrog:
Nope, neither IE 6 nor IE 7 would crash. I would think if a browser did crash on it it would be more of the system's resources and not the sites server.
Just a reminder tha the calendar can be re-enabled now. :)
Thanks. I've already turned them back on :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
Brad!
Would making the "Todays Birthdays" windows default mode to collapsed remove the necessity of this yearly work around?
Nope, the contents still get sent as the collapsing/expanding is done through Javascript, so the query would still be executed.
Yes, I see. (View Source with Todays Birthdays collapsed, and the entrees still exist.)
That is unfortunate.