A "Big Board" list for us little people

[MikeMpls]

http://www.bigboards.org/​

Resides in a database to minimize the updating. I prefer to leave manual updating to the big people as much as possible; I'd rather drink beer.

It might be a bit unstable/unreliable as I add some bells and whistles over the next few weeks ... between beers, of course.​

 

[DRE]

How did you get our messages count?

Why aren't the boards clickable links?

 

[Matthew Hawley]

How did you get our messages count?

Why aren't the boards clickable links?

Hmm...maybe, JUST maybe they went to your site and looked at the statistics!

 

[TheBigK]

... A little correction: Change the url from http://www.crazyengineers.com/community/ to http://www.crazyengineers.com

 

[MikeMpls]

... A little correction: Change the url from http://www.crazyengineers.com/community/ to http://www.crazyengineers.com

I might change it if the message count can be successfully retrieved from that page in the standard XenForo format. The URL's in the list are all the main forum indices where the message counts reside. Most "home" pages don't provide that info; yours might be the only exception among the "big" boards.

 

[MikeMpls]

How did you get our messages count?

cURL is my friend.

Why aren't the boards clickable links?

Next weekend, perhaps. I also grabbed the <title>...</title> info out of the headers but quit displaying it because it took over the tables. I plan to put it back with a mouseover.

 

[Chris D]

List is impossible to read. Formatting the numbers appropriately would be a good start.

Also your category headers are all wrong:

50000000 - 10000000 Posts

50 million - 10 million posts?

I presume it should be 2,500,000 posts - 10,000,000 posts.

Good start though

 

[MikeMpls]

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Also your category headers are all wrong

Only the first two -- the 2nd one shouldn't be there.

Good start though

It's a work in progress, should be farther along next weekend.

There are a small number (<3%) of sites that have removed the message counts or presented them without using XF's standard CSS class for it, which is what I search for. They're excluded for now.

There are ~3 other sites that I'm having issues with (cURL fails on one, can't get the right message counts on the others). They appear in the DB with < 100K posts so are just dropped from the display.

 

[Vincent]

There are some closing tags appearing at the bottom of your site

And I find the layout a bit boring :O

But good work though, me gusta!

 

[Mike Edge]

What do the boards in red mean? Please put commas in the post counts, all those zero's in a line hurt my eyes.

 

[RobParker]

If you're adding ones to the list, please add http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk.

• Discussions:73,802

• Messages:2,711,776

• Members:21,720

• User Record:3,841

 

[MikeMpls]

There are some closing tags appearing at the bottom of your site

And I find the layout a bit boring :O

But good work though, me gusta!

Boards in red are XenForo originals as opposed to converts. They've achieved their stature the old-fashioned way in the short time that XenForo has been around.

I should probably note that on the display, along w/ the requisite XenForo trademark notice.

 

[Mike Edge]

the requisite XenForo trademark notice.

That might be hard to do, as you have no way to know who purchased branding free.

 

[MikeMpls]

If you're adding ones to the list, please add http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk.

• Discussions:73,802

• Messages:2,711,776

• Members:21,720

• User Record:3,841

Will add it in the next week. You might also wish to mention this in the thread for the not-so-little people's big boards.

 

[MikeMpls]

That might be hard to do, as you have no way to know who purchased branding free.

It has nothing to with branding removal..

I am using a registered trademark (XenForo) in the title of the page. I need to add the ™ after "XenForo" and note at the bottom of the display that "XenForo™ is a registered trandemark of ...".

Just on of these little details left to attend to.

 

[EQnoble]

You should add a doctype and check out the stray chars at the end of the doc.

 

[fattony69]

My site can be added to this list! My site is on the list!

 

[Russ]

Can't get to the site yet stuck on loading.

 

[Shelley]

Can't get to the site yet stuck on loading.

Same here.

 

[MikeMpls]

I reduced what it tries to update each time. I was able to do 10-30 updates/visit when I tested it but it was hanging at 10 tonight. I reduced it to 2.

Over 4,000 (!) people have hit this thread since I posted it. I don't know now many went on to actually look at my page but with those numbers they don't need to update 10 sites per visit.

I also changed it so it won't keep retrying problem sites, the 3 or 4 in the DB w/ "issues". Previously they were always hit because once everything else had been updated for the day, only those were left, each time, every time. Now it will try to update each site no more than once per calendar day.