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We don't have any reason to request an NDA, it's a typical business thing though, nothing unusual about it. Silverion has the final say although admins deal with the day to day running.

Mainly because that wasn't the *only* choice on the table. Legally I can't actually explain anything further. We didn't deliberately hang about and let the time run out.

Actually, no they weren't blacklisted for that. While I can't go into details, you do not have all of the information about that, and making statements like that when you don't have the evidence to back it up is quite silly. I believe the first post is sufficient evidence. Because the post from ONE of the involved parties is compelling, unbiased evidence.

Actually, no they weren't blacklisted for that. While I can't go into details, you do not have all of the information about that, and making statements like that when you don't have the evidence to back it up is quite silly.

It's almost like you're just out to cause trouble. It's interesting you've removed your stat signature and all mentions of your RSN from your profile in the last 5 minutes, presumably because you knew you were going to try and stir something up? I don't think Jagex are going to ban you, lol.

The main point was that in the long run we felt it was better for our community to get ourselves ranked at the highest level in order to receive the most new material for you guys.

All this Jagex bashing is a bit too much. While some of you are making some valid points, things are the way they are, and Tip.It is partially at fault. Let me explain. When Jagex first brought our fansite support, Tip.It was at the highest tier (let's say Platinum even though the "medal" tiers weren't out then). Jagex have never liked the fact that we had competitor gaming adverts, and they told us this within a few months of fansite support beginning. They gave us a grace period to sort our adverts, we took too long deciding what to do and this means that Jagex dropped us down to Silver level of support. This of course involved removal of Tip.It from the safe sites list, I don't think we realised that dropping our level of support also meant removal from the safe site list at the time. And then we come to this announcement, which after contacting Jagex a few days ago, is an attempt to get back up to Platinum status and on the safe site list again. Without us making the effort over the past few days to remove adverts, we would have been on the Silver level of support when this system launched. Jagex said that because of our good will to remove the adverts they will put us back up to Gold status, with a review in less than a month's time to see if we can go up to Platinum.

FYI to everyone who is asking, we will be Platinum soon enough. We WERE Silver before we started removing gaming adverts. :)

Jagex do not have an issue with users discussing other games. What they have an issue with is us wanting support/approval from them in one way or another while making money from advertising other games. This change will not affect Tip.It's revenue. Our revenue is based on advert impressions, which are adverts appearing on the page, they do not need to be clicked for us to make money from them. All that will happen is that an advert will still be shown, it just won't be a gaming one, our revenue will be unchanged. Also, Jagex have explicitly stated they do not wish to control the content on the forum. They have told us they have no interest in trying to censor us in any way, and so there's not much point discussing "what ifs" when they probably aren't ever going to happen. Safe to say, *if* it did happen, I can't see the administration team compromising the integrity of Tip.It. Also, we don't need to make changes to our advertising partners. That's why we ask you guys to report the ads, we can then just blacklist them from the networks we use. :) That's why we'd really like everyone's help with this, there's a few big offenders and once they're gone, the adverts should be few and far between, but the admins can't check from every country, which is why we've reached out to our user base.

You can discuss here.

http://community.invisionpower.com/tracker/issue-21610-zero-font-size/

While I would be prepared to try it if the user base supported it, I'm seeing a lot of valid points made against the use of reputation. Some of the suggested stuff to help stop abuse would require large modification of the reputation system/forum software, and I don't mean to sound negative, but it's just not worth doing. The time could be better spent elsewhere. We've coped just fine without reputation for years and we seem to be doing just fine :) these new forums do have that feature built-in but it's been turned off since installation and I can't really see that changing. While we're on the topic of forums, there's some nice new features coming out in the next release of IP Board including large improvements to search functionality, profile updates, etc.. It looks quite exciting. [hide][/hide]

What are the files you're trying to compress? Stuff like MP3s, AVIs, etc. simply will not compress any more usually.

If it's a 5-series ATi card and a Gigabyte motherboard, then yes it's the BIOS. Go update it, should take 5 mins. http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_DownloadFile.aspx?FileType=BIOS&FileID=15636

YouTube changed the tokens on their URLs to be IP-based so a website I made a while ago to grab YouTube videos stopped working. So just for fun I decided to code a small app in Java to do the same thing. First time using Swing and really doing anything serious in Java. Has the ability to download the video, convert it to MP3 if the user wants. It also has "Fast MP3 Mode", which when checked, downloads the video, converts it and puts the MP3 in the same folder, and then deletes the video, leaving just the MP3. Uses FFMpeg for conversion to MP3, works on Windows/Mac/Linux.

We're waiting for the upgrade, that way old posts will not be broken any more.

Discovered this way back when we first made the switch. I've had it reported as a bug since October and it looks like they're marking it fixed for IPB 3.1.0, but the release date of that is not set yet. http://community.invisionpower.com/index.php?app=tracker&showissue=18951

Users can now edit their AIM field.

It's not a backup cron job and our method for backing up the database doesn't lock anyway. :)

There's something up with our monthly cron jobs that causes some issue with the server when they happen. We're still trying to debug these, the "Driver Error" basically means our MySQL server is offline, nothing to be worried about.

As Racheya says, it will be because they don't know how to interpret the JavaScript. A normal proxy (non-web based) would work fine. We do not intend to adjust any of our coding to cater for proxies.

I wrote the functions gp_convert() and ge_item() (the latter of which he's modified) and he's using them with my permission. I'd also like to point out that although I know you're new to PHP that: This isn't the most efficient way to retrieve lots of items as curl_close() is called every time and then it has to be initiated again for the next item. Caching could be used to greatly improve page load times since you won't be pulling from Jagex on every load. Your issue should be sorted by including session_start(); like dsavi said. Ensure you're calling it in the page with the ge_item() calls as well. The session needs to be started for you to be able to assign session variables.

Already knew about this bug - it's hardly a massive issue and it's been reported to the mod author. The glitch isn't with watched content, it's with the mod that colours the names.

The countdown timer is correct to finish at 31st January 11:59:59 GMT.

1. Stats are retrieved via php cURL and the runescape hiscores "lite" version. There is mySQL table setup containing all of the skills and their respective runescape Skill ID. Lining these too up it runs a loop through all of thats and sets them up properly. 2. The stats are cached in the signatures database entry. 3. The images shouldn't be cached at all because of an .htaccess file restricting browsers from caching any file with a .png extension. 4. No, images are not compressed (that may be a good option to have for users though). Bandwith is not gonna be an issue once I switch the server to my companies network (AT&T Fiber optic running 50mbps up and down) Also, it will be a dedicated server. No other apache services will be running on it. Also, mySQL databases will be split between the processes cores, depending on whether I have a quad of duel core processor. This is done with mySQL master and slave settings. Apache already splits processes up. The reason mySQL will have separate processes running is because currently mySQL cannot split up onto different cores. (someday... :( ) By bandwidth I didn't mean the current in use bandwidth, I meant the monthly quota you're racking up. Why are you not caching images? It seems silly to *NOT* be caching images if you're caching stats. Why would you cache stats (presumably for an amount fo time, say X hours), and have the signatures regenerate on every load when they need only regenerate every X hours too? Why not pull the time the stats were gathered from the database, and set your images to be cached until the original time they were retrieved plus the cache length? That's a much more efficient use of resources. Put it this way - the Tip.It web server is already serving millions of requests, and the stat signatures I wrote run successfully on the same server, because of smart caching of data and images, and we have thousands of active signatures. The note about your signature being over 100kb was a subtle hint to change/compress it before it gets noticed by a moderator. ;)