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  1. squarepusher
    Yeah, we're doing at least twice as better, traffic wise, as this time last year. Post-wise, it seems to be even higher than that. The more we're established, the more fans are going to find us. It certainly doesn't hurt that Melvin is making some moves to definately better this club in the near-term, generating a little more excitement.
  2. squarepusher
    Oakland's an anomally, since their whole organization is built off losing players via FA and using the compensation system to continuously retool. [ When is the last time teams like Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, or Tampa Bay has ever gotten a compensation pick? ] The Royals had 3 compensation picks last year. But you're right, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and TB are light on compensation picks. This isn't the "system's" fault though, it's the GM's decision on trading players for prospects instead of allowing them to walk.
  3. squarepusher
    It's actually built to help a team like the Brewers that can't afford to re-sign their free agents. Yeah, this year is screwy because the Red Sox lost some guys, and the Brewers decided to be buyers. I'm all for allowing the trading of draft picks, as I think it would bring some more excitement to the draft, but I think the FA compensation system is fair, despite it being rough on the Crew this year.
  4. squarepusher
    Not an inconvenience.... Thanks for the update.
  5. squarepusher
    Can somone let me know who "#1" is by?... And is the "On Fire" referred to Lloyd Banks's "On Fire"? I'm not as "hip" and "with it" as I used to be. I left Jenkins's song alone, as Calfiornia Love is an alternate at-bat song, and I currently have the system set up to only track one song.
  6. squarepusher
    Yeah, the main site was down for a couple of hours today which serves up the stylesheet that controls the fonts.
  7. squarepusher
    Sorry I haven't gotten around to updating this sooner..... I'll do it sometime this weekend.
  8. squarepusher
    Actually, when you vote, the page that shows up shows an archive of poll questions (which consists of one right now)... and when you click on the question, you can view the results: www.brewerfan.net/ViewPol...estionId=1
  9. squarepusher
    Well, it happens more than i'd like (arguments and namecalling), but it's shangri-la compared to some of the things that goes on at some of the other venues. We try to attract the more "mature" Brewers fan. I mean, it's cool that there's a place for trash talking and stuff, but we all originally came here (from the ESPN message boards) because a lot of the nonsense.
  10. squarepusher
    Increased traffic, less images. That's the plan. The sidebar's still available on all other site pages.
  11. squarepusher
    The stats I posted above are for unique visitors, meaning once your computer (which has IP address) hits the site in a given day, it will stop tracking you as "unique". As far as the home page, I cached the hell out of the content, so the load on the server is pretty minimal when you hit it. There are a fair amount of image requests for each page at Brewerfan, but your browser should cache those as well, and i'm in the process of offloading Brewerfan's images to a third party site to decrease the load and cost on the server. So, in a nutshell, you're cool.
  12. squarepusher
    "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue... aay!" http://www.grannygear.com/Assets/Images/Races/Snowshoe/2003/Disco_Stu_and_the_P_Funk_Allstars.jpg
  13. squarepusher
    December daily average visits (unique users, or at least, unique IP addresses) to Brewerfan: 2002 - 567 2003 - 1220 2004 - 2468
  14. squarepusher
    Well, this sort of had to be expected.... The user base here is growing pretty heavily over the past month or so. I have faith though, given the type of community this is, that it'll all work itself out.
  15. squarepusher
    In the FAQ: p082.ezboard.com/fbrewers...=576.topic
  16. squarepusher
    The problem is that the server keeps running out of memory, and when it does, it restarts, and users see that error screen while it restarts. I made a major tweak this afternoon that hopefully will stop the memory from leaking... we'll see how it goes.
  17. squarepusher
    Yeah, I think you've done a decent job when you can land a guy with MLB experience who isn't 99 years old to a minor league deal.... especially when his numbers indicate he didn't get SHELLED in Florida. Looking at his splits ( http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/splits3?statsId=7111&type=pitching ) the difference beetwen him as a starter and reliever seems to be night and day (in a smaller sample size of 97 IP, of course. He's a guy I could almost see on the 25-man roster coming out of spring training, or shortly after.
  18. squarepusher
    It's in the FAQ here: p082.ezboard.com/fbrewers...=576.topic
  19. squarepusher
    Tommy Phelps inked to a minor league deal. tsf.waymoresports.thestar...r.cgi?3701 Nashville site notes: Phelps, who will be 31 on Opening Day, spent the bulk of the past two seasons with the Florida Marlins, posting a 4-3 record and 4.27 ERA in 46 appearances (11 starts) over that span. Originally selected by the Montreal Expos in the eighth round of the 1992 June Free Agent Draft, Phelps made his Major League debut with the Marlins in 2003. He has been invited to Brewers spring training as a non-roster player and will compete for a bullpen spot. In 2002 with Calgary, Phelps logged a 3.15 ERA in 51 relief appearances to rank among PCL leaders.
  20. squarepusher
    Can you cut and paste the error message for me? And which option are you picking out of the dropdown?
  21. squarepusher
    Is it not working for you now?
  22. squarepusher
    fixed...
  23. squarepusher
    The forums are doing OK, but they're housed on some monster servers at EZBoard that are meant to handle large traffic. The "main" site died a few times yesterday. I'm trying to figure out what the bottleneck is that kills it when traffic is high. EDIT: I'm thinking the bottleneck has to do with the images contained in the forums. Each time an image is requested (usually if someone hits a page for the first time or a user hits refresh), a hit is made at the "main" site. Each image on this page (all of the team names and their corresponding reollover images, the header image, the advertisement image, the support and fansite alliance images) count as a hit. If you get enough people refreshing on a busy day, KABOOM. I'm using an image hosting service's trial membership to host just the top brewerfan.net image (the image with miller park, and the mascot in it). In less than a month, it has been request some 50,000 times, for about 698MB of bandwidth. I cap out there at 1000MB of bandwidth for free, so i'm thinking about paying for an upgrade. The less requests that get made from the "main" site, the snappier performance will be all around.
  24. squarepusher
    fixed..... good catch, bork.
  25. squarepusher
    All the bugs in this thread should be now fixed.
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