Help Stress Test The New Slashdot

Here's you chance to generate wasteful http traffic without even having to run unpatched IIS! We're ready to test Banjo, our new fancy setup w/ new code and new hardware. We plan to keep testing until we think the system is ready. You are also welcome to submit Bug Reports, although it would be helpful if you skimmed the list of bugs before submitting new ones so we don't have 300 of you tell us that your user info page has other people's comments listed on it again. The new hardware is mostly in place, but the code hasn't been fully optimized yet, so run your wgets... write your bots... whatever makes you happy, but please don't be malicious: just try to load and submit web pages. And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and down like a yo yo as we fix things.

Suggestion for E2 linkage

[mr100percent]

Perhaps, since E2 links have been popping up in the stories, and they're related, could the next Slashcode have the ability to [link] the [bracketed text] to [E2] sites?

That would be a little more [goatse.cx|efficient].

Re:I don't know if this is exactly on subject, but

[prs]

Yeah, it was in a comment. Here it is:

[ from `slashd' in slash-0.90.tar.gz ]

# I suppose I'll let the secret out: for a few months, before the moderation
# system came into being, this little function faked "First Posts" and then
# deleted them when a real comment came along. Worked pretty well, and nobody
# figured it out. I disabled it when the moderation came online feeling that
# it was a cleaner solution. -CT

Re:Hope for Banjo

[zsazsa]

Correction:

I realize that for stories and comments we can look up in the URL for the (non-Y2K compliant) year, but it's just annoying.

Ian

Web servers off: DB server acting up

[Kurt Gray]

We turned off the banjo web servers for a few minutes to see why the DB server is spitting out bizarre errors.

Banjo Video clip

[cosmol]

If you're wondering where the name Banjo came from Cartoon Networks's site has a funny clip. [cartoonnetwork.com]

Journal comments (somewhat OT)

[memfree]

Anyone consider what the new Journals' comments should look like? It occurs to me that a user might get fed up with Trolls and the like. I think it would be nice to be able to delete a comment without deleting your Journal Entry. A similar effect could be achieved by modding garbage posts down -- but wouldn't this (unlike articles) be a special case where the original poster would be the *best* person to determine a comment's value -- regardless of whether they've posted comments to their owm entry? If nothing else, who other than a Journal's owner can be expected to care about comments to personal Journal entries?