I have been doing some fixes in the data base, so I believe most of these errors you have seen Today and Yesterday was ME.

So no worries, I just have to take the Data base off line for a second and that is what creates the error, because it does not see a Data Base.

Wait a minute and give it a try and it should come back up.

Tommy, a while back you said we were going to have games on the forum. just wondering if that was coming?

Yep I just finished the Search Indexing of the site today over 100.000 posts "I know it says 96,000 but there are more that are not counted" it took the last three weeks to do, I did only work on it 1 to 3 hours a day and thats why it took time, but its done now .

So searches should be better now

Tonight or tomorrow I will upgrade the forum to 3.02

Once that is done I will put some stuff on, I just needed to get the updates and get them done because once I do the Mod changes some of them will have to be done everytime we update because they do not update with the forum and I did not want to have to do it twice in a short period.
I do not believe there will be another upgrade for the forum for a bit, so everything so be good for a while.

These Mods "as in Arcade, Portal Page, Blog" are still not guaranteed to work on the server so it will be trial and error and if one does not work I will try another.

It will be a slow process because this is a up and running Forum with a lot of Data so to prevent disaster we are going slow slow slow, piece by piece.

But what ever anyone wants to know ask away and I will let you know what is happening.

Also when we have the Forum Wobbles as in " Issues that require my attention and moderation" my attention has to go there it takes the time away from me doing the behind the scene stuff.

Figured I would include this

These are the fixes that the update will correct, most of this is of no value to you but I have seen some of these issues since the upgrade so it should smooth somethings out.

* [Fix] Ability to set permissions on non-mysql dbms (Bug #24955)
* [Fix] Fixed blank style on setups having no username defined within config.php (Bug #25065)
* [Fix] Made the compress_tar class tolerate archives that do not properly have their archived contents listed (Bug #14429 / thanks to JRSweets for his patch)
* [Fix] Moved topics should not count towards the number of topics in a forum (Bug #14648 / thanks to Schumi for his patch)
* [Fix] Properly check for invalid characters in MySQL DB prefixes during install (Bug #18775)
* [Fix] Bring the PostgreSQL backup system back to working order (Bug #22385)
* [Fix] Update correct theme for cached styles in style.php (Bug #25805)
* [Fix] Correctly determine safe mode for temp file creation in functions_upload.php (Bug #23525)
* [Fix] Correctly sort by rank in memberlist (Bug #24435)
* [Fix] Purge cache after database restore (Bug #24245)
* [Fix] Correctly display subforum read/unread icons from RTL in FF3, Konqueror and Safari3+. (thanks arod-1 for the fix, related to Bug #14830)
* [Fix] Added missing form token in acp (thanks NBBN).
* [Fix] Do not remove whitespace in front of url containing the boards url and no relative path appended (Bug #27355)
* [Fix] reset forum notifications in viewtopic (Bug #28025)
* [Fix] corrected link for searching post author's other posts (Bug #26455)
* [Fix] HTTP Authentication supports UTF-8 usernames now (Bug #21135)
* [Fix] Topic searches by author no longer return invalid results (Bug #11777)
* [Fix] Delete drafts and bookmarks when deleting an user. (#27585, thanks Schumi for the fix)
* [Fix] Set last_post_subject for new topics. (#23945)
* [Fix] Allow moving posts to invisible forums. (#27325)
* [Fix] Don't allow promoting unapproved group members (#16124)
* [Fix] Correctly fetch server name if using non-standard port (#27395)
* [Fix] Regular expression for email matching in posts will no longer die on long words.
* [Fix] Do not display ban message if direct call to cron. (thanks Dog Cow for reporting)
* [Fix] Correctly display double-colon on special conditions within highlighted php source (Bug #26795)
* [Fix] Increase storage capacity of titles/subjects due to specialchared content (Bug #25235)
* [Fix] Catch invalid username wildcard ban (we do not support these) (Bug #29305)
* [Fix] Fix (email)-domain checks for those having DNS prefixes set (Bug #29635)
* [Change] Adjust truncate_string() to be able to adjust the maximum storage length.
* [Change] Sort the tables at the database table backup screen
* [Change] For determining the maximum number of private messages in one box, use the biggest value from all groups the user is a member of (Bug #24665)
* [Change] Show email ban reason on registration. Additionally allow custom errors properly returned if using validate_data(). (Bug #26885)
* [Change] Don't allow redirects to different domains. (thanks nookieman)
* [Feature] Added optional referer validation of POST requests as additional CSRF protection.
* [Feature] Added optional stricter upload validation to avoid mime sniffing in addition to the safeguards provided by file.php. (thanks to Nicolas Grekas for compiling the list).
* [Feature] Streamlined banning via the MCP by adding a ban link to the user profile. Also pre-fills ban fields as far as possible.
* [Feature] Added ACP logout to reset an admin session.
* [Sec] Only allow urls gone through redirect() being used within login_box(). (thanks nookieman)

now i am confused thanks for the updates, and for being on top of things
Tommy

Ok upgrade is done,
If you see any thing weird let me KNow

So far, so good....fingers staying crossed

I did it today and will be doing maintenance for the next two days

Is there a way to stop or at least make it harder for the porn spammers to post?

Yes but it also makes it harder for the average person to become a member

Errors "No worries" Most are planned.