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Subject: Un-Official Wishlist for Bungie.net

Tom Achronos
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Posted by: XSith_Lord
UBB and Invision would both suck under the kind of load we have. I don't think you understand the sheer amount of posts we have - since April 12th, we've had almost 70000 posts. Think about that for a little while.

Hmm, well I visit a site (a gaming network to be precise) that uses a modified version of UBB, and at the time of writing, the main forums and 2 of the most popular gaming forums have roughly 3 million posts. Given that it's been around for about 5 years, this averages at about 600 000 posts per year. Extrapolating from your figure of 70 000 in about 5 months gives a figure of aprox 170 000, about 3/10s of that of the forums mentioned above.

So, I'd say that this suggests that UBB, or rather it is possible to modify UBB to handle the large number of posts.

We are working to improve the performance of the forums, but it takes time.
Ok, good to hear, and it's nice to know that Bungie does care :-)


That was a typo. I meant "nearly 700,000". In 5 months. That is 1.68 million posts a year. In ten forums. And that's without adding in the group system we're adding next week, which adds about 1500-2000 group forums. Sure, they are smaller (most of them), but that's still 2000 forums we didn't have to deal with hitting the database before.

So, no, UBB couldn't handle this without extensive modification. The reason things are a little shaky now is because a few caching/indexing systems aren't working correctly. This will slowly get better. We're doing things slowly and methodically, because come November 9th, you guys are getting about half a million new people to call noobs. And that's a conservative estimate.

  • 09.13.2004 7:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: Achronos
because come November 9th, you guys are getting about half a million new people to call noobs.


Any variation of the word noob is not allowed on bungie! How could you break that rule? j/k
Anyway a Half a million... i will be taking a break that month on these forums!

  • 09.13.2004 7:58 PM PDT
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That is crazy. Guess I won't be playing halo 2 until about week after it's release. Got to keep these forums clean. Hmm...November 16th will be a sweet day. Damn.

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Posted by: stosh
Hmm...November 16th will be a sweet day. Damn.

Especially if that's the day you get your copy of Halo 2, like me. But remember, the more people, the merrier, or maybe that only works for food...

[Edited on 9/13/2004 8:15:04 PM]

  • 09.13.2004 8:14 PM PDT

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Posted By: stosh
That is crazy. Guess I won't be playing halo 2 until about week after it's release. Got to keep these forums clean. Hmm...November 16th will be a sweet day. Damn.

I feel sorry for you! I really do...

[Edited on 9/13/2004 8:20:06 PM]

  • 09.13.2004 8:18 PM PDT

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Forum Tutorials --- WATCH THEM AND LEARN

How about personal avatars, sig pictures on chapter forums?

[Edited on 9/13/2004 10:38:45 PM]

  • 09.13.2004 10:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: littlerat
How about personal avatars, sig pictures on chapter forums?

Theres an idea!

  • 09.13.2004 10:50 PM PDT

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Can't believe noones thought of that

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Half a million, I would say that is a lot of people. I wish I could say the N word Achronos but Yoozel won't let me. I've been calling these people new, but they are just the first wave. This means we'll have more idiots like davestar in the coming months. Hopefully, they all won't post in the forums. If they do, I will be crushed for being overloaded with stupid information, lol.



[Edited on 9/14/2004 3:15:37 PM]

  • 09.14.2004 4:16 AM PDT

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Posted by: antiherosk8er
Posted by: Achronos
because come November 9th, you guys are getting about half a million new people to call noobs.


Any variation of the word noob is not allowed on bungie! How could you break that rule? j/k
Anyway a Half a million... i will be taking a break that month on these forums!

Take a break. Thats called Playing H@L0 2 2 D3TH

  • 09.14.2004 8:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: stosh
That is crazy. Guess I won't be playing halo 2 until about week after it's release. Got to keep these forums clean. Hmm...November 16th will be a sweet day. Damn.

I can help.

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Posted by: marinealver
I can help.


You and about 100,000 users, lol.

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Posted by: antiherosk8er
Posted by: littlerat
How about personal avatars, sig pictures on chapter forums?

Theres an idea!


That would be nice, but abused.

  • 09.15.2004 5:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: marinealver
I can help.


You and about 100,000 users, lol.

Help by staying off B.net and Play HAL0 2.
Thats It!!!!

[color=yellow]Give the Mods a break....PLAY HALO 2!!![/color]

[Edited on 9/17/2004 8:38:03 PM]

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Posted by: marinealver


Help by staying off B.net and Play HAL0 2.
Thats It!!!!

[color=yellow]Give the Mods a break....PLAY HALO 2!!![/color]


Nice comeback, lol. Wasn't expecting an answer like that.

  • 09.17.2004 9:08 PM PDT
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Are there any plans to make the forums a little more informative from the top level? When I first go to the forums I see descriptions and icons about what the various forum categories contain, but very little of any use after the first visit. Sure, I'll know to post stuff about the website in 'The Septagon', but I won't be able to see who last posted, what the most popular current topic is, or which forum is relatively most active. This sort of information would be useful, dontchathink?

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so the mods are supposed to be getting new powers soon, right? i actually have a suggestion for what one of those powers should be. if you've read the "Wheel of Time" series, you're familiar with Balefire. it's a power that causes your very existence to be erased. the thread of your life is wiped from the minds of everyone who has ever known/heard of you, so it's like you were never even conceived. i suggest that the mods here have this power. when used not only does it perma-ban the target, but it systematically deletes any threads/posts made by said target, along with any other traces that may have been left behind.
no, before you ask, i don't know how it would be made to work. but by god, imagine it...

  • 09.20.2004 8:04 AM PDT

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Posted by: kapowaz
Are there any plans to make the forums a little more informative from the top level? When I first go to the forums I see descriptions and icons about what the various forum categories contain, but very little of any use after the first visit. Sure, I'll know to post stuff about the website in 'The Septagon', but I won't be able to see who last posted, what the most popular current topic is, or which forum is relatively most active. This sort of information would be useful, dontchathink?

[color=cyan]That is called the Bungie's weekly updates by Frankie. You will find thoes in the news That is where you will find the best and most detailed information about bungie and their games.[/color]

  • 09.22.2004 7:49 AM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Posted by: BadKarma
so the mods are supposed to be getting new powers soon, right? i actually have a suggestion for what one of those powers should be. if you've read the "Wheel of Time" series, you're familiar with Balefire. it's a power that causes your very existence to be erased. the thread of your life is wiped from the minds of everyone who has ever known/heard of you, so it's like you were never even conceived. i suggest that the mods here have this power. when used not only does it perma-ban the target, but it systematically deletes any threads/posts made by said target, along with any other traces that may have been left behind.
no, before you ask, i don't know how it would be made to work. but by god, imagine it...


Waaaaaaayyyyyyy ahead of you there. And that's all your evil Bungie.net Overlord has to say about that. ;)

  • 09.23.2004 1:23 AM PDT

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I sense Alot of evil power coming from our overlord...the mods will have fun banning spammers/flammers with a tool like that!

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Posted by: Achronos
Waaaaaaayyyyyyy ahead of you there. And that's all your evil Bungie.net Overlord has to say about that. ;)

sweet. i wonder if wiping out half of b.net would be considered genocide somehow?

  • 09.23.2004 6:20 AM PDT

Posted by: BadKarma
Posted by: Achronos
Waaaaaaayyyyyyy ahead of you there. And that's all your evil Bungie.net Overlord has to say about that. ;)

sweet. i wonder if wiping out half of b.net would be considered genocide somehow?


I'm fine with that. ;-)

  • 09.23.2004 9:06 AM PDT

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Posted by: Achronos
Posted by: BadKarma
so the mods are supposed to be getting new powers soon, right? i actually have a suggestion for what one of those powers should be. if you've read the "Wheel of Time" series, you're familiar with Balefire. it's a power that causes your very existence to be erased. the thread of your life is wiped from the minds of everyone who has ever known/heard of you, so it's like you were never even conceived. i suggest that the mods here have this power. when used not only does it perma-ban the target, but it systematically deletes any threads/posts made by said target, along with any other traces that may have been left behind.
no, before you ask, i don't know how it would be made to work. but by god, imagine it...


Waaaaaaayyyyyyy ahead of you there. And that's all your evil Bungie.net Overlord has to say about that. ;)

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[Edited on 9/23/2004 12:17:38 PM]

  • 09.23.2004 12:04 PM PDT

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[color=red]Ok now to post some serious sugestions not the usual jokeing replies.(MarineSecurityGuard stress relief).[/color]
[color=cyan] But to help the gallery and mabey the voteing booth. Why don't you give the Mods the ability to start threads there. I've submitted one picture and I don't think it made it in the midst of all the mess of PM's. But something to help put life back into thoes practically dead forums.[/color]

  • 09.23.2004 12:16 PM PDT

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