Just curious, when does the window reset? This doesn't include images linked from outside websites, does it?
I just checked my image-heavy development rundown thread and found only three images hosted here, I'll get those switched over to Flickr. Lmk if any of my threads need changes.
It resets on the 2nd, so we should be good for this month but it really started to tick up a couple months ago. I spent a couple hours looking through the forum this morning to see if there was any recent posts that might have been the cause but couldn't find anything definitive. I think it's a mix of a poorly engineered web crawler/scraper, spam accounts, and some image heavy posts. Images hosted on other sites don't count towards bandwidth.
@Jared@MichMatters (and anyone else interested) Any objections to sticky-ing all (or at least some) of the following threads? We're already in a spot where the second page has threads last commented on three years ago so I don't think we'd be losing out on a lot. I'm not sure if making this many threads stickied will clutter things up too much but I think having these long running catch-all threads more easily accessible would be good.
MSU Development
Okemos & Haslett
General Westside/Delta Township/Eaton County Development
Delhi/Holt/Mason Development
Lansing Area News & Discussion
Off Topic
That'd take up just 9 of the 21 spots on the first page with sticky's.
Yeah, your guess is as good as mine as to why they might not be acting like normal stickies. I think the approach to unsticky and then re-stickying sounds good. I'm fine with making them stickied to see how it feels.
I just unstickied and restickied the EL and Lansing threads.
Maybe doing a stickied table of contents-style thread linking to all the suburban development and neighborhood threads would be a better option? Possibly still leave the Off Topic or News threads stickied individually? I'll have some time to mess with it later today or tomorrow evening.
I switched things around a little and created a table of contents thread. Let me know if there's anything that anyone doesn't like or if anyone has any suggestions to add threads/local links
I'm not sure what you mean by marked as read, like even threads with new posts show them as all read? Everything is working fine for me, nothing has changed.
I've got no other ideas. I do need to update the site but it's a large change and I'm worried about something breaking. The platform we're using isn't putting out updates as often anymore either :'-(
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I just checked my image-heavy development rundown thread and found only three images hosted here, I'll get those switched over to Flickr. Lmk if any of my threads need changes.
As always, thanks a ton for keeping this place running
MSU Development
Okemos & Haslett
General Westside/Delta Township/Eaton County Development
Delhi/Holt/Mason Development
Lansing Area News & Discussion
Off Topic
That'd take up just 9 of the 21 spots on the first page with sticky's.
I'm going to go ahead and sticky the aforementioned threads.
EDIT: I don't know if I like it but I don't like those threads getting buried either. I'll keep it this way for awhile and see how it works.
Maybe doing a stickied table of contents-style thread linking to all the suburban development and neighborhood threads would be a better option? Possibly still leave the Off Topic or News threads stickied individually? I'll have some time to mess with it later today or tomorrow evening.
You use Chrome? Are you using this address: https://develop.metrolansing.com/discussions/ ?? @Jared Any other ideas?