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Jan-18-18
 | | Stonehenge: CG is again very slow. Please fix this once and for all, I cannot work like this. |
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Jan-18-18
| | Stonehenge: Of course, immediately after my post everything is back to normal, but it has been slow for hours. |
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Jan-20-18
 | | chessgames.com: From time to time we are attacked by this very tenacious bot that scrapes our pages at a breakneck speed. It claims to observe robots.txt but when I blocked it there it doesn't care, it just keeps coming. (In fact it doesn't ever bother to download robots.txt) I don't know if that's what you were experiencing but we're always on our guard for it until we can figure out a more robust way to keep the damn thing off our machines. |
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Jan-20-18
 | | Annie K.: As long as it's not Wayback's or Wiki's bot... ;s |
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Jan-20-18
| | chessgames.com: No, it's a well documented nuisance, a so-called "rogue spider." I don't want to name it here because then its operators will find this page by Google. |
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| Jan-20-18 | | zanzibar: "Rogue spiders" is it?
Any light poles get hurt?
https://wtfflorida.com/news-article... (Does wiki really ever use spider bots for crawling the web?) |
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Jan-21-18
 | | saffuna: I think I saw the Rogue Spiders play at Fillmore West in 1970. They opened for Jethro Tull. |
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| Jan-21-18 | | john barleycorn: why did my last two posts on Stumpers get deleted? |
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Jan-21-18
| | chessgames.com: Believe it or not we've had a few complaints recently about the content of the Stumpers page. The posts in question were taunts. We're trying to tone down the antagonism between you, morfishine, and some other members. Yours were not the only posts removed. The whole page is being used for off-topic fun, so just play nice; that's all that needs to be said about it. |
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Jan-21-18
| | chessgames.com: The press release for Gibraltar was in my inbox: <<WE ARE BACK!
Hello everyone!
Another year has gone by and we are back for more. The sun is shining and we can look forward to the best of days over the next 10 days and to the highest quality of play in Gibraltar at this year's festival. This is our 16th edition.
Chess is well and truly back at the home of chess on the Rock at the Caleta Hotel and we are ready for our latest challenge. The participation numbers in tournaments – the Open, the Amateurs and the Challengers are greater than ever – with over 60 federations represented. The Grand Masters, the technical team, and everyone involved have been arriving this weekend ready for the Gibraltar Masters on Tuesday and the two weeks of competition. The Tradewise organisers, tournament director Stuart Conquest and his team, and of course Franco Ostuni, Hotel General Manager and his staff, have been welcoming everyone and getting everyone settled in at the Caleta Hotel. At the Press Office we are back in action and the office will be fully manned as from Tuesday 23 January from early morning ahead of the first move of the Gibraltar Masters at 3pm, Gibraltar time, and for the whole tournament. Just to remind you that we are at your disposal should you need any information, photographs, interviews etc. If you would like specific information on any of the chess players and require photographs etc. these will be available on our main website or by getting in touch with us. Our team of course includes myself, John Saunders and Leontxo García, both personalities well known to all of you, and our photographer Sophie Triay. Please do not hesitate to contact us on this email at any time as from now. No doubt this will prove to be another great chess festival! Kind regards to all and good to be back!
Alice Mascarenhas
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We'll put up a forum page shortly. |
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Jan-21-18
 | | OhioChessFan: Whew. I hope the forum page has better grammar than the press release. |
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Jan-22-18
 | | Tabanus: I hope CG will call it Gibraltar Masters, and all the others since 2008 too. And someone tell Alice that their Archive now only includes 2017. |
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Jan-22-18
| | OhioChessFan: I'll go ask Alice at any time as from now. |
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Jan-22-18
 | | WannaBe: <CG.com> Even with no live game today, got some connection issues, got least two Cannot Reach this page error. |
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| Jan-22-18 | | WinKing: Back to running slow here again too! If 'bots' are causing this slow down then it's time to assassinate the 'bots'. |
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| Jan-22-18 | | zanzibar: Was the archiving of posts just a red herring chase in that case? The new-style does have some downsides for referencing. |
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Jan-23-18
| | chessgames.com: <Was the archiving of posts just a red herring chase in that case?> Certainly not, the database is doing only 50-60% of the work it did just a few weeks ago. <The new-style does have some downsides for referencing.> What do you mean? It shouldn't be disadvantageous as long as you use the proper URL technique (click on date, copy link) like so chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #28970). |
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Jan-23-18
| | saffuna: Yesterday a poster on the Rogoff page said that anybody can write to the administrators and have one of his/her posts deleted. Is this true? I thought the only way is to delete a post within an hour after posting. I still think that when a post is deleted the page should show a "Post deleted by <saffuna>" message. |
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Jan-23-18
| | chessgames.com: <Yesterday a poster on the Rogoff page said that anybody can write to the administrators and have one of his/her posts deleted.> It's not official policy but on the rare occasions when somebody asks me to do that, I almost always oblige. |
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Jan-23-18
| | saffuna: Thanks. I ask because it has been strongly implied that I have done that numerous times. I never have. |
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| Jan-23-18 | | zanzibar: <<chessgames> <Was the archiving of posts just a red herring chase in that case?> Certainly not, the database is doing only 50-60% of the work it did just a few weeks ago.> Well, I'm not sure how your metric maps into user's final experience. I was prompted to comment by the various user posts suggesting the site is still slow at times. Personally, I haven't seen a consistent speed-up, e.g. when visiting the Rogoff page, but this is a subjective feeling and not quantitated. <<The new-style does have some downsides for referencing.> What do you mean? It shouldn't be disadvantageous as long as you use the proper URL technique ...> Yes, I know the technique, being one of people who suggested it, and more importantly, pointing out to <CG> how to implement it so that it finally did get done. But that technique is fairly recent, and many old links don't use it. And I think at the time yesterday, I was using Google to find a bunch of <CG> items - none of which got me anywhere close to the now-archived targets. In other words, all the old links using page count are almost useless (or are they?). |
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Jan-23-18
| | Tabanus: CG, are you on the beach? The front page says
<Our members have voted on the best of chess for <2016>! See our <2016> Caissars page for results.> |
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Jan-24-18
| | chessgames.com: <Tabanus: CG, are you on the beach? The front page says...> That was actually left over from last year. We really need to go through the "what's new" and take out the things that are years old. <zanzibar> <Well, I'm not sure how your metric maps into user's final experience. I was prompted to comment by the various user posts suggesting the site is still slow at times.> I know for a fact that the database is doing millions of operations daily fewer than before (all others things being equal) ... I can also see the raw number of pages served per second, which is higher. There are so many things that can affect speed, and not all of them are within our control. Sometimes when CG seems slow to a user, they would find that Google (or anything) seems slow as well, because their phone just doesn't work very well in their location. Other times it's another cause. <But that technique [of linking to posts] is fairly recent, and many old links don't use it. And I think at the time yesterday, I was using Google to find a bunch of CG items - none of which got me anywhere close to the now-archived targets. ... In other words, all the old links using page count are almost useless (or are they?).> OK, I see your point. Those links are not entirely useless: there is a way to reformat those URLs to meet the new specifications. Perhaps when I have time I'll investigate how to fix old links like that. |
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Jan-24-18
| | chessgames.com: <saffuna: Thanks. I ask because it has been strongly implied that I have done that numerous times. I never have.> That is correct, you never have. Usually the request comes from somebody who realizes they posted something nasty that they regret, or they go through old posts of theirs and are embarrassed by their errors/nativity from days past. I've never seen anybody make the request in order to achieve deniability over recent posts. |
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Jan-24-18
| | Stonehenge: Slow again for the last few hours. I'm *this* close of leaving CG altogether :( |
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