[RESOLVED] 01.01.07 Birthdays - Brad or Joe

[RobDog888]

Just the usual annual reminder about January 1st birthdays disable.

[shakti5385]

Why

[RobDog888]

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

[Harsh Gupta]

Try it

How??

[JPnyc]

I'll endeavor to remember, thanks Rob

[NotLKH]

How??

Good Question!

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

[Harsh Gupta]

Good Question!

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

Thank you!!

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.

[RhinoBull]

Thank you!!

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.

[NotLKH]

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.

[jcis]

Good Question!
and here they are:
http://www.vbforums.com/calendar.php...y=2006-1-1&c=1

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

[RobDog888]

Thank you!!

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.

They dont get disabled until the first.

You can check 2007 like this - http://www.vbforums.com/calendar.php...y=2007-1-1&c=1

[JPnyc]

I disabled it now, just in case I forget. Better that than to have it crash the forum.

[RobDog888]

But if I follow my link it shows.

[jcis]

But if I follow my link it shows.

But it's been removed from vbf main page. No more Birthdays there.

[JPnyc]

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.

[RobDog888]

Ah I see.

Before we had the browsers crashing because they couldnt handle the amount of info or something like that?

[penagate]

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.

[RobDog888]

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.

[RobDog888]

Just a reminder tha the calendar can be re-enabled now.

[brad jones]

Just a reminder tha the calendar can be re-enabled now.

Thanks. I've already turned them back on

Brad!

[NotLKH]

Would making the "Todays Birthdays" windows default mode to collapsed remove the necessity of this yearly work around?

[penagate]

Nope, the contents still get sent as the collapsing/expanding is done through Javascript, so the query would still be executed.

[NotLKH]

Yes, I see. (View Source with Todays Birthdays collapsed, and the entrees still exist.)



That is unfortunate.