The Pirate-Community Documentary

[The Jonster]

There's more, but you'll have to find out by yourselves.

Ooh there's more?!
I can't wait to see!

[Hunchman801]

Have you, now?

[PluMGMK]

I've made a few updates. There's been so little, that I added stuff that may not really be newsworthy.

[The Jonster]

Would it be noteworthy to state Rubber's promotion and his wish to steer the club towards more peaceful means, by chance?

But otherwise yeah there's not too much to speak of with the forum activity so quiet lately. But I admit that it really is much better this way, rather than chaotic and full of nonsense.

Have you, now?

I didn't think of it at the time that day, but I should have been slightly more suspicious of this statement. I blame [you].

[Steo]

Not sure the promotion needs to be mentioned, the documentary mainly just states when someone joins or leaves. Also I'm not too sure what you mean by quiet because there has been activity, just maybe not news worthy activity.

[The Jonster]

Man, I gotta stop using the wrong words when I type.

I meant the forum hasn't had much eventful activity lately like ^ said.

[PluMGMK]

By quiet, I mean we've reached the end of the "bump" towards the right of this figure (posts per day on a logarithmic scale):

[Fifo]

That X axis on the bottom looks rather cluttered.

[Steo]

Oh wow that really was a crazy bump, I'd like that but with interesting conversations instead of people being dead set on posting more often over quality.

[PluMGMK]

That X axis on the bottom looks rather cluttered.

Yeah, I should have done something about that, but I didn't notice until I had it posted.

Oh wow that really was a crazy bump, I'd like that but with interesting conversations instead of people being dead set on posting more often over quality.

Pretty much…

[Steo]

What happened in 2012 where it spiked so low actually?

[PluMGMK]

I presume it was a server outage of some kind, but I wasn't here so I can't say for sure.

[Steo]

That's most likely what happened since it was a very sudden low spike.

[Reese Riverson]

What happened in 2012 where it spiked so low actually?

That was likely around the time when we were suffering from Romano's crappy servers. Numerous errors and access issues during a lengthy amount of time, it really made things difficult to post in. Especially when the site was running slowly from it.

[Lysol]

>Canard WC becomes the second member to reach one million Tings, thanks to a generous donation provided by Harpic fraîcheur.

Glory to Prophet Canard WC and the Great Flying Poo!

[Steo]

That was likely around the time when we were suffering from Romano's crappy servers. Numerous errors and access issues during a lengthy amount of time, it really made things difficult to post in. Especially when the site was running slowly from it.

I looked back over it and there is a mention of one of his servers getting corrupted in 2012, where 4 days of posts were lost. That really doesn't sound very reliable.

[Hunchman801]

Let's not be too hard on Romano though, he offered us to use his company's servers for free for many years, and we would still be using them if we hadn't chosen to leave. It's just that he had virtually no time to dedicate to maintenance, and therefore problems would accumulate without him finding time to solve them. It became increasingly frustrating and in the end, plainly infeasible, and that's why we left. But let's not forget he was still a great help!

[Fifo]

I second Humch’s statement.

[Steo]

Well yeah, I suppose anything can go wrong without proper maintenance, and I'd expect that you'd need to dedicate a lot of time into looking after them too.

[Hunchman801]

I can't remember what exactly happened that caused us to lose four days of posts, but it must've been really bad. It means that the backup system was affected too.