Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · April 16, 2011, 3:03 am

With Portal 2's release literally imminent, and with the return of a large increase in traffic (which as since started to cripple my poor, old server), I have moved the ThinkingWithPortals.com websites to their own dedicated hardware. Previously the TWP sites were running on the same server as my personal site and a few other things. I'm certain this will help (and hopefully resolve!) any load problems we have been having.

Secondly, I went ahead and updated the forum software to the latest version. In theory this should help us stop the spam bot problem (which has, if you've noticed, actually decreased the past month or so). With any major upgrades to a heavily modified site like this one, there are bound to be some bugs cropping up. Please report any issues with the forum - and especially with the Download Database - to this thread! Thanks.

And lastly, I'd like to congratulate our newest staff member, WinstonSmith! As the site will no doubt grow in the coming days and week, we will definitely appreciate his help keeping ThinkingWithPortals.com at the top of the Portal 2 custom map community sites.

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#2 · April 16, 2011, 3:49 am

msleeper wrote:

And lastly, I'd like to congratulate our newest staff member, WinstonSmith! As the site will no doubt grow in the coming days and week, we will definitely appreciate his help keeping ThinkingWithPortals.com at the top of the Portal 2 custom map community sites.

Now Blue Portals: UP is never seeing a release.

Trivia: this is the very second account I registered with the nickname ASBusinessMagnet, after my YouTube channel.

#3 · April 16, 2011, 3:57 am

Yeah right, like anyone around here does anything.

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#4 · April 16, 2011, 2:29 pm

Congratulations Winston. Should we leave Winston the job of doing the contest results for us?

Currently working on Darksiders 3.

#5 · April 17, 2011, 11:14 pm

Oh, I guess I'm a moderator now. Cool!

ASBusinessMagnet wrote:

msleeper wrote:

And lastly, I'd like to congratulate our newest staff member, WinstonSmith! As the site will no doubt grow in the coming days and week, we will definitely appreciate his help keeping ThinkingWithPortals.com at the top of the Portal 2 custom map community sites.

Now Blue Portals: UP is never seeing a release.

Yeah, I was pretty sad to stop working on it. I've been busy as heck lately, but since it's a lot easier to check forums than map on an iPod I should be around fairly regularly. However, I think reep and Colossal have future plans for it.

MrTwoVideoCards wrote:

Congratulations Winston. Should we leave Winston the job of doing the contest results for us?

Thanks!

I guess the contest is somewhat taken care of now.

Now with 100% more inline comments!

Server Move, Forum Upgrade, New Moderator