Bug Thousands of .txt files in vbshout/aop

[Timothy James]

What on earth is the dbtech/vbshout/aop good for?

I have files in there dating all the way back to June of 2013. That seems a little much.

The vbshout archive cutoff is 12 hours so why is all this other info being saved into .txt files.

Screenshot by Lightshot

Is it safe to clear that folder out? ^^

 

[Fillip H.]

You can clear the folder out, but this is 100% intended functionality, not a bug.

It keeps track of when the last time a particular user ID read new shouts, as a far more efficient method than a database query for large forums.

 

[Timothy James]

Is there no setting to have this done automatically? Or at least a date cutoff.

Not sure why I would want to keep track of those ids when shouts are pruned after 12 hours.

 

[Timothy James]

Now that I've "hopefully" got you here:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="vbshoutcss.php" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="dbtech/vbshout/clientscript/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="dbtech/vbshout/clientscript/vbshout.js?v=621"></script>

How could I go about pointing that jquery to a version on my own server? I feel that it would save on query time.

 

[Fillip H.]

Is there no setting to have this done automatically? Or at least a date cutoff.

Not sure why I would want to keep track of those ids when shouts are pruned after 12 hours.

No, as that would be extremely bad for performance. It would have to open up each and every file, compare the date stamp to the cut-off date, and then decide if the file should be deleted.

Leaving the files in place has absolutely no negative bearing on your server whatsoever, so there's literally no reason to remove those files

Now that I've "hopefully" got you here:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbshoutcss.php" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/dbtech/vbshout/clientscript/jquery.tmpl.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/dbtech/vbshout/clientscript/vbshout.js?v=621"></script>

How could I go about pointing that jquery to a version on my own server? I feel that it would save on query time.

It wouldn't. Not only are Google's servers faster than yours, but if it was loaded from your site then the loading of that library would block loading other scripts that have to be locally hosted until the jQuery library has loaded.

The way it loads right now, jQuery and the jQuery.tmpl.min files load side-by-side. The way it would load with local hosting, the files would load one-by-one.
If the files were of equal size, it would be twice as fast* to load one file remotely.


* Not a scientific measurement. Assumes both files load at an identical speed from both servers, and that this speed does not max out the user's internet connection.