Dolphin 7.0.4 Development Status
Andrew Boon
posted 27th of October 2010
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As you may guess we're now preparing Dolphin 7.0.4 and hope to run beta next week. 7.0.4 includes some additional optimisation of slow queries and bug-fixes. Not only that, though...
SPAM Control Tool
The major new addition in 7.0.4 is SPAM CONTROL TOOL. We're adding 3 methods of automatic SPAM control - DNS Blocklists, URI DNS Blocklists and Akismet. Early testing shows great results and we hope to provide an effective way to keep your sites clean of trash. We can't wait for this release, since even our own Boonex.us is severely infected with regular SPAM posts (which comes handy for our testing).
Stay tuned!
Below is the legacy version of the Boonex site, maintained for Dolphin.Pro 7.x support.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
adding admin modules like Auto-profile validation is good to.
after 100s of profiles joining, validating those email ids which are expired, duplicate etc is aggressively insane job
Thank u Andrew!
As all the images are dumped in ONE folder, site/modules/boonex/photos/data/files/ isn't this going to create problems once numbers of files become quite large? EG, I can not view more than 10K files in this folder as my host (Arvixe) limits the number of file views via Cpanel or FTP for security on their shared servers. This means I can only view and edit a truncated amount which used to be only 2K until I see more
D7 is an incredible software and I do not understand why you do not correct this problem
it's really unnecessary and annoying to see all private
is of no interest to our members - it devalues your software
all ads - has no private photo - why not do the same for :
all photos - Photo albums- videos home - all videos - recent groups.........
http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/topic/7-0-3-really-horrible-all-photos-all-videos.htm
Dolphin 7 (Hookie) Final!
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Second, I've raised the same issue as Danielmarseille's since D7 starting development that all private blue lock should not be display to the current user because they are nosecone to current user.
Hope these issues will get improving from D 7.0.4 and above.
Old structure was even worse because there is 31998 limit sub-directories per one directory in ext2,3 filesystem and there is no limit (or it is very high) for number of files per directory. Now you are talking about limits of the software you are using for browsing, but not system limit.
In the future we will consider structure like this /a/b/c/d/abcd4543564.jpg, it will solve both problems, yours (with software you are using) and filesystem limits.
Thanks so much for explaining it to me and others who will read this thread. I look forward to the new structure being implemented and a patch to upgrade.
I would definitely put more emphasis on security in D7.0.4. Dolphin has been improved a great deal no doubts about that. But imagine driving a Porche with a Toyota engine. In other words, Dolphin is such a sophisticated application, but when my site gets bombarded with SPAM, all of sudden it becomes a hub for advertisements & SPAM and it becomes irrelevant as result. At times, I just want to shut it down because the SPAM I get is so overwhelming.
One security hole I see more
If you have an problem with the number of emails allowed or get marked as spam than most likely it would be an issue with your host or hosting plan, not dolphin specific. You need a higher profile plan that can handle all of that.
ddos is on your end or hosts end too. Nothing to do with dolphin. Shared hosting will block it to some extent, but if it happens regularly or becomes a habit they will not tollerate it for too long. You need more control, perhaps vps or dedicated, and then see more
in reference to emails allowed, that is correct, that is a hosting package setting. however, email being marked as spam, and i have been battling this from Dolphin v5, the email templates are deemed as 'spam-like' by MSN Hotmail, live.com. based on their spam filtering algorithm, the format of the templated emails are a problem.
Case in Study:
site launched on new VPS
dedicated IP assigned
IP entered into Microsofts JMRP (junk mail reporting program)
one week later after admin see more
In the future we will consider structure like this /a/b/c/d/abcd4543564.jpg, it will solve both problems, yours (with software you are using) and filesystem limits.
the sub-directory structure was/is relevant see more
I tried it again (same VM) but this time in the "real" filesystem.
I created /tmp/a/ and /tmp/b/ and /tmp/c/ and ran this command in all three dirs:
echo {1..32000} | xargs mkdirThis time it only came up with an error on 31999 and 32000 (seems correct, see #1: "There is a limit of 31998 sub-directories per one directory, stemming from its limit of 32000 links per inode.")
My best guess is that 20MB just is not enough to store that amount of directories.
Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1445914.html
ext3 see more
Does this version have a "Delete" button to delete pages? I can find out how to delete a page I created.
Jim
I have been testing the current D703 file system. I was able to create and dump over 35k files in the images folder and it is still working, although I must admit things have slowed down a lot when creating the image files. so if there is a 32k file limit, it has been surpassed and things are still chugging along. But only a demo site for testing is being used, so no load on it and the files have only been small, under 300k, most 50k, and no 2Mb photos like some members will see more
I haven't been on this site in a while and just stopped in to say hi to Boonex.
Couple of comments.
Very happy with Dolphin.
- I noticed a big change moving from Dolphin 7.0.2 to 7.0.3. Im still running my site on a shared service. Over all upgrading from .2. to .3 helped out a lot, enough to see the difference in my case anyways.
- my site loads faster and I defiantly noticed LESS database query Errors, big difference here. If im not mistaken, ever since the upgrade i only received see more
I love to find out if sql queries with LEFT JOIN, INNER JOIN or RIGHT JOIN are replace with more faster sql queries.
but I wish you add other pay ways for boonex.com as like moneybookers.com ..
thanks
Yes, and it is a proven option, as mentioned in a related forum thread.
We do this now on several sites... one of them with ~1,000,000 users and ~8,500,000 images... and it works great.
-Smoge
its not a 32k file limitation, its a limitation on the number of subdirectories in a directory
Thanks for clarification, I am sure many members are like me and don't know the inner workings of servers and file systems, having easy to understand education is great from you guys, and also the many others who input into development of this software. I am learning all the time :-) Thanks heaps :-)
we work on several sites optimizing sql queries since dolphin earlier version, its costly if you optimize all of the queries, what we do first we apply the known slow-queries fixed then fix on-demand what ever slow-queries there are.
Someone else mentioned having 35.000 images see more
I am inclined to agree with the idea of everything in that 'owners' ID folder, everything for that owner is in one place then, makes sense looking from the outside in, but I know nothing of coding. Would probably need a major recode by Boonex. There would still need to be some sort of folder system where the ID folders are 2K max in a group, due to the common file view restrictions placed on many of us shared server users by the hosting companies. I certainly don't like not being see more
A few that I think, if were provided with the script, or at least a simple install module for Free, could make a big difference in how this script
stacks up to others on the market. Members/programmers , Hint Hint, U already programmed these, offer
them with the script/or free download and help the project go beyond what others see more