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[–]panel30[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Ah ok. Thanks.

/u/Vulptex? If you want to answer and have information, do you know why the saidit source was archived?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

The owner of the repository quit helping saidit. The owner of saidit itself won't use git at all for some reason. In fact the last few commits have not been applied yet because he insists on copying & pasting everything manually. He seems paranoid about breaking changes, but I doubt any new code would lead to anything super serious that can't be reverted (but that's why you have backups on the VERY off chance it does), and copying and pasting leads to inconsistencies and is actually more error-prone.

[–]panel30[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Oh. Thanks for the reply. Interesting. So it's at least a little more active than it looks.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Not at the moment. The owner of saidit hasn't been on at all in months. I don't know why, he said he's been traveling a lot so maybe he got a new job or something. But he does still use reddit occasionally.

[–]panel30[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh. Well nevermind more active. I guess I was being hopeful.

We could always fork to a new repos if we wanted to develop it more actively right and work with a repos that isn't archived? Since whoever it belonged to has archived it?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, but I don't know when we'll be able to actually get the site updated.

Also, my last batch of commits is faulty, and I warned them not to use it. I added more advanced IP tracking, but the only method I could figure out was logging the user's IP on EVERY request. That's going to fill up the database real quick and slow everything down. What I need is a way to only update the IP's last-accessed time instead of adding a whole new entry every time. But with the way it's set up I know of no way to read the logs, only write to them. Another thing that would be good is to drop the IPs after a certain amount of time, but I don't know of a way to do that either.

[–]panel30[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, but I don't know when we'll be able to actually get the site updated.

Hm, ok.

You all do a lot of IP tracking huh? Gee. It would be nice to find a way to make things more workable with less of that, just for everyone's safety. I guess you do that for DDOS protection? It does sound hard to be able to read or edit the logs without being able to read or edit the logs.

It sounds like things are under development then? People might like to know how the development is going. Maybe people would even want to help.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

IP tracking is disabled. I don't think it would be enabled until the addresses are hashed. But the functionality is there.

The owner might be able to see them but others cannot.