Temporarily Disabled Message Notifications

But I just had a new reply, I don't know wher it came from! D:

I vote for message notification being an option.

So is the two problem's I've been having, related to this? Any page loading is a bit slow and I can barely enter giveaways. After 20 tries or so I can do it, but other times it's just stuck on trying to enter.

Can I piggyback my questionto this thread....do messages disappear after a while? I had over 100 in there and now theres only a couple dozen and I know I didn't delete any.
TIA.

Darn. Hope it comes back soon.

sounds like it is time to purge all the old giveaway pages lol. i would love that, i have like 20000 entries in my "entered" page and it takes eons to load...

please purge lol

Site loads slow still…

If you can fix it in some hours I think it's better to close the site for maintenance and/or freeze giveaways.

why the change at the entered giveaways?it was way better the way it was.now it's harder to check a ga you entered 3-4 weeks before and way harder to check all your courent entered giveaway,for example i tend to leave a giveaway if the entries are way too many and now i have to check too many pages to view them.

Kick all of them... Every single one of them...

Then invite them back because I love them all <3

Its not easy being CG :(

just a suggestion, but wouldn't it help to delete old threads/messages form discussions?

there are 82k uncategorized threads that are clogging up the database and are mostly useless.
it's just a matter of weighting options. what's more important, having 82k threads older than 1 year or a more responsive db?

Sir, may I recommend some suggestions.

There are currently 104,761. I am betting over 95,000 of which probably hasn't been active in over a week, the majority of which probably months.

I would say that after a thread has gone 7 days without any input, have it automatically removed from the data base as it is old and ran it's course. That would probably recover a great deal of space.

Also, the same could be said for users records of previous wins and losses except have them go back and remove anything over a year old from the database. Keep the exact number of games accurate but you don't need to have a record of every auction they ever won, created or even lost.

So, just to sum it up.

1) Remove all threads inactive for more than 7 days.
2) Remove the actual lists of auctions won or created after 1 year while preserving the actual numbers.
3) Even though I did not mention this, but delete the records of all auctions over a year old as well as they are no longer needed.

Numbers 2 & 3, you could honestly move up to 6 months pretty safely. That would really cut the cruft off the database with little to no inconvenience to users unless they really like to look up on others to see every single individual giveaway they ever made or won since their account creation, which seems a little stalker-ish to me.

Edit: The threads hit 1 week old after only 5 pages. Everything older than that could very easily be deleted.

I have gone back up to 200 pages and still only at up to 20,000 threads of the over 100,000 posted. This is where the majority of your database has gone.

So... when you will turn them on again, will they work backwards, showing replies that were create during this temporary situation?

Just a bug report- There are giveaways for games I already own showing up for me.

You should keep only the notifications from SteamTrades.

More RAM, More concurrent processing, Faster storage, <sigh> more money.

Thanks for the update keep up the good work

Bump so more people will know about this.

Oh dear God, it just came back with 85 notifications. :P

Oh, god, no... they are back XD
EDIT: gone again, phew...

You can keep the notifications turned off forever, I kinda like it that way, but just give us the blacklist/whitelist feature you were talking about! Can't wait to see the numbers :D

I don't know if something extra was made, but for past few weeks "entered GA" page for my entries was generated for more than 45s. Now it generates for 0,4s.

I'd like to keep it that way :D