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  1. StrangeWill

    So.... How Long Until The Hiring Market Recovers?

    This is a bit of a two-fer question -- one we just passed December, the worst month for hiring in IT sectors it seems, and of course the general hiring slowdown/hemorrhaging of employees of some places. Does hiring pick up again in January? I haven't kept my finger on the pulse quite close...
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    Serious Your Favorite Story-Driven Games

    First and foremost, game spoilers must be spoilered! So this is your thread to post games that have a strong narrative impact on you, consider this a thread where we continue to scream this basically non-stop: These games are probably going to require a deep level of immersion to really get...
  3. StrangeWill

    More Aggressive Anti-Spam

    I've upped some anti-spam stuff and deleted all the spam accounts that were banned here, this generally shouldn't matter other than admins aren't going to have a constant spam queue every day to kick -- but I think we had one user that needed manual approval so it may be a problem for someone at...
  4. StrangeWill

    MOAR SMILIES

    :hmmm:Hmm.... Guess I finally got around to getting those Devanooga smilies into here. Because the forums have been basically impossible to use without them. :teehee: Process was kind of ridiculous: Export all of the emoji from Slack Have to do it in a real bullshit way because it takes too...
  5. StrangeWill

    Black Friday/Cyber Monday Horror Stories

    So a thread to tell your woes of BFCM -- the day all of our e-commerce sites (and related services) get kicked in the teeth day after day. So mine started actually on the 27th, we get a massive traffic spike after noon system is holding fine, some events are backing up in RabbitMQ, but that's...
  6. StrangeWill

    GMRS Repeater Linking

    So I figured I'd drag some of the discussion I was having over in a Discord channel of local Hams (and my opinion), little bit of primer here: https://talkpodonline.com/blogs/blog/understanding-the-controversy-surrounding-gmrs-repeater-linking The FCC updated their website to make this...
  7. StrangeWill

    Move Politics To The Forums

    So a pretty simple thing that has been discussed off and on, do we move politics to the forums? I'd lock it down to member-only, a few thoughts: Pros: Threaded (yay) Moderation tools (very yay for mods) We can ban you from it (I swear no channel moderation in Slack sucks) No more 3 day...
  8. StrangeWill

    Upgraded to XenForo v2.3 and PHP 8.3

    Just minor updates for the forums -- we're off of release candidate so... well we were on RC 5 so it was already pretty stable, but should be even more stablier Also took advantage of upgrading to PHP 8.3 since that's recommended for XenForo v2.3.
  9. StrangeWill

    Less-Painful MongoDB Migration

    So I'm looking to replace some old MongoDB servers, these are VMs that are manually managed, and they need a fresh ground-up rebuild. They're in multi-node clusters (3 nodes) -- I've never tried to do a per-node replacement/replication on them before. Is there an easy way to basically just...
  10. StrangeWill

    W3DEV Field Day 2024 Results!

    Our results are in 1107 QSOs for a total score of 1,741 Contest: FD Band Mode QSOs Pts Pt/Q 3.5 CW 19 38 2.0 3.5 LSB 2 2 1.0 7 CW 243 486 2.0 7 FT4 62 124 2.0 7 FT8 1 2 2.0 7 LSB 142 142...
  11. StrangeWill

    Forum Slack Cross-post

    Alright this is our first test/feedback for our forum cross-post feature, this only notifies on new threads, not replies.
  12. StrangeWill

    Upgraded to Xenforo v2.3 RC 5

    So we deployed the new Forum software version 2.3 Release Candidate 5, this technically is still in-development software, but we wanted two major features: Dark theme (aww yiss, check your "variations" configuration under your user profile) Web hooks (we want to tie the Slack channels into the...
  13. StrangeWill

    Post Your Ride

    A thread to post your various rides and talk about them, share pics, etc https://ridewithgps.com/trips/194964948 A ride with @PatriotBob -- 95+ degree weather, we decided this is probably the limit of how hot we want it to be -- plus the ride to St Elmo is uncovered so we decided to turn back...
  14. StrangeWill

    v2.3 XenForo Beta Upgrade?

    So v2.3 is killing me here, we get webhooks (very much needed for our sync stuff with Slack, I'd like to cross-post threads), and a dark theme (I agree with @Galaxy Littlepaws, that's a must). Thoughts on deploying the beta?
  15. StrangeWill

    Rant Azure (and Their Support) is Garbage

    Twice, twice this week I've had a primary PostgresSQL database just blip offline for hours on Azure. Connections: CPU/RAM: Database shows online though (this is a massive lie): Under both circumstances, our entire app goes down, it takes hours to come back up, we immediately contact...
  16. StrangeWill

    Electric Car Infrastructure UX Difficulties Are Ruining Electric Cars

    A really excellent point that has been brought up before -- these proprietary apps, charger types, complication, large number of broken chargers -- they're killing the EV experience. Aging wheels brought this to light in this video:
  17. StrangeWill

    Leaked DNDOne Weapon Functionality

    Somewhat of a rumor at this point, but I was tossed this: Ohhh, a cool new weapon ability This is pretty normal, moved from a feat to a weapon ability, but I'm not a fan only two weapons can Cleave now... This is honestly an interesting improvement, I like it. Honestly hate this --...
  18. StrangeWill

    Forum Suggestions

    I'm not just going to pull over Slack 1:1 wholesale, so throw suggestions in here for new forums, they're easy to set up but I just want to make sure they make sense/are going to get some use.
  19. StrangeWill

    Bikeventure - Making a mobile VHF/UHF bicycle setup

    Been slowly getting together a bike setup (also an excuse to test file uploads). Basically: Rear rack uses a bracket I got from Tower Electronics, just a normal SO-239 bracket Light nestles up against the bracket (Funny enough holding it in place until I can drill a second hole) HT is mounted...
  20. StrangeWill

    So we're going to try this out...

    There's been a lot of requests off and on in the past few years for a Devanooga Forum, so here it finally is! There's some benefits of a forum over Slack: Way more async - this allows people to not miss a thing while not being online 24/7 Actual threads - Slack and Discord thread support is...
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