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Posted by OctobrX on from the pretty-desktops-for-you dept.

Techn0ir writes: E.themes.org has added a whole bunch of new goodies for you to play with. We've updated the screenshot gallery, as well as adding a "User Database". There is also a new message board, Themes ratings and new polling system. Enjoy! There are also a good bit of other changes over @Themes.org so swing over there and check em' out.

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  1. Argh. Themes.org has been /.ed by TechNoir · · Score: 2

    It appears that the SQL server can't quite keep up with all of you. Please forgive us :)
    --
    David Coulson (TechNoir)
    technoir@themes.org

  2. A more constructive comment by daviddennis · · Score: 2

    Let's first bear in mind that themes.org is, as far as I can tell, a highly popular site run by a small number of people who have other things to do. In other words, it's a hobby effort, not a major business. It's not fair to judge such an effort against the uptime standards we have for sites with full-time management, heavy advertising revenue, etc, etc.

    For all I know, the hardware might be a 386 sitting on someone's borrowed T1 someplace, in which case it's not performing any worse than we might expect.

    However, I think it would help a lot of us - especially those who run small sites using mySQL (as I do) - if we could hear back from them to find out why this is happening. How many hits are we talking about here? What's failing? Are we running out of memory? Disk space? Something else? Are contributions of memory needed? More bandwith? A faster CPU? Let's find out.

    If they could share the results, we can all work together to build better systems - which I think is exactly the point. Not putting each other down; making sure things like this don't happen again, or are far less common.

    D