Week 6 Update: Life Finds A Way

To fuck everything up and generally be annoying as shit.

In the immortal words of Men At Work  "I Come From A Land Down Under", as such this time of year is "Back to School" time, for both the beginner, semi-pro and professional leagues, also known as primary (elementary) school , high school and university (college).

I happen to have players in all leagues, including a rookie making his debut in the pros. As such I've been a little pre-occupied with helping him get set up to smash his rookie year.

So "life" has been getting in the way of all the fun things like ensuring people have their favourite flavour of perversity.

As such, things have been a little slower on the site that I would like and I've been a bit more behind on keeping up with LFAS threads etc.

However it hasn't been a complete loss. Early on after posting the new LFAS thread someone was loking for a particular story and couple things happened.

Firstly, I found out some of my search scripts had broken. It had been a while since I had been searching for stuff actively through things like the LFAS threads, so some of the scripts that I used to use hadn't reacted well to some of the changes in how I stored things. So the good news is the scripts got updated (even though it took longer than I'd like cause I'm an idiot who can't read apparently) and I found the story the person was looking for.

Secondly, the story turned out to be comprised of almost 120 images (it was a one-shot sequel to another story). I figured this would be a good test of the new site so I threw it at the site to see what would stick...

Nothing...

Nothing would stick apparently.

Everything broke.

It was an older story so the images weren't as large as some of the high quality stuff being uploaded more recently, but there were still 120 of them and that's kinda what the site choked on (not choked like that you perverts). After looking at how I did things and also looking at how I did things on the old site. I realised there was a problem. The old site essentially just uploaded the files, stored them made a note of where they were stored and that was it.

The new site, well lets just say it does quite a bit more (and there are still more things planned). And processing various things was taking too long and timing out various parts of the site.

This required some re-architecting of things.

It's going well, albeit slowly.

There are plenty of options that "should work" in theory, however the proof is in the pudding as they say. So there has been lots of testing of a number of different options. I have certain features that HAVE to be present as find a solution that will work whilst keeping ALL of these requirements has taken time. A lot more time than I'd like as the work on it has been far more sporadic than it should have been, see above for life shit.

The plus side is, the site will be much better for it in the long run. Additionally, in my travels I've been almost forced to go over some other sections as I've come across them while dealing with things that did and didn't work and they've hopefully been improved as well.

So that's where we stand at the end of this week.

Prior warning there's still likely to be some slight disruption next week but hopefully it'll be kept to a minimum and progress will be made and I'll actually get to the point of uploading stuff from the ever lengthening queue.

Until Next Time,

Kosh