the site has gone bananas, and for no reason at all. i have done nothing to the sources or the database structure in like 1.5 years, and all of a sudden it throws query errors all over the place. methinks the priovider has done an update to mysql or some such. i'd rather not believe such a great open source project would suddenly spawn a release that isn't backwards compatible with one of its precedents, but i have no other explanation for the trauma my precious website is currently sustaining.

anyway, i'll try to figure something out and fix it for the approximately 2 people a day that visit. mainly because one of those people is usually me... i've already looked into it briefly, but found no quick and easy way to get around this. i may have to partially destroy the core page's ultra-neat search functions. which is a shame.

at least the forum still works, eh? :)

(but on the other hand, comments do not.)

at least the forum still works, eh? :)

...partially... :/ though it's only the send-back-to-what-you-just-posted bit (for lack of a better term), so the posting process itself is intact. ok, i'm gonna stop talking to myself now.

Good luck fixing it, I just found this website and I hope you can get it back up and running.

(lot of cursing going on)

...

throwing elegance to the wind pays off, it would seem: the goto-post (and, in a minute, goto-comment) bits are back to their functional self, albeit in 2 stept instead of 1.

the real deal is the "core". even if i'd choose to go the easy way and destroy the search-code as it is, it's going to take time. ugh.

boom. part of the "core" is now broken. you can't see the tracks, comments or poster from the main view. i killed all the subqueries, because for some reason mysql5 treats those differently from earlier versions and refuses to eat my code, being written for 3.23...

sad fact is that i don't care enough to fix it properly; besides, i'm working on a new and even more spartan site. (which may still take years to complete, after all i'm not in school anymore.)

The site seems fixed, thanks for your hard work. I'm not sure how many people visit this site but I hope I haven't inconvenienced you in anyway. I look forward to listening to the tracks of this label, too bad I'm pretty busy with school.

well, it wasn't that hard... it turns out the new mysql (to which my hosting company upgraded without informing me -- i didn't get so much as an email) is pickier about left join syntax, which this site uses a lot. they did this to be more compatible with other sql packages. the only problem is, my (apparently sloppy) queries stopped working because of this. i haven't taken the time to figure out how i should be doing it yet, and i'm in cambodia right now, so i can't really sit down with my code and a cup of coffee -- but i'll be back 8 days from now, and sometime after that i'll get to it eventually.

eh, enough tech-talk. i'm on vacation for crying out loud.