After some talk with lighttpd guru at irc, we together optimized its configuration. I also removed some ugly SQL querries, some of them are cached in memcache, thumbnails should be loaded faster, sphinx is doing its job… I can say, now opensubtitles is prepared for five thousands of visitors at same time, we will see, [...]
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Today, I decided I will code something, so I remembered to one topic in our forum, where user MisterHarbies asked for help to deaf people. Actually, it is better use trac for suggestions, but I accept this too, ofcourse. Now, when searching, you can select, if you want subtitles for Hearing Impaired in advanced settings. [...]
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MySQL fulltext searching is not good. Webmasters know this - it is too slow for webs, which have more than 10 people on site So I decided to bring online new fulltext search engine - sphinx. After some days of work, debugging and so on, we can say - it works. I hope now [...]
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Time to time I’m thinking what to add to opensubtitles.org statistics page. Last time, chatting with Majky, he asked, if he should see some stats about using his Oscar - I said no problem. So I created some more stats:
Source of movie hashes
Source of movie hashes for last 30 days
Top movie hash submitters
Top movie hash [...]
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Time to time I check trac for new tickets, and I found interesting one (actually, it was send by user and I put it in trac), where was suggestion about creating favourite subtitles for user. This means, you can mark any subtitles and add it to you favourites. I have this idea already in my [...]
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We needed better subtitles reporting system, so user should change info like release name, uploader comment or even uploader. I coded it and this is all now possible with new reporting system, so you can try that. Also “editing” subtitles was deleted and now is only available through “report” page.
In short this means, if you [...]
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Don’t be scared, when you will see in URL OpenSubtitles.com - we are testing something, don’t update bookmarks, OpenSubtitles.org is still correct URL. If you will find some errors caused by this change, let us know.
Thank you.
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Hello people,
some of you might have already noticed that opensubtitles.org didn’t work for past couple of days correctly. This was due to the move to a new hardware and new operating system version of our servers at collocation, as the old hardware was already pretty much loaded and site was a bit slow. Also a [...]
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MPC means Media Player Classic (download), it is a little old - latest release is dated to 2006-03-20, but that means nothing. It is still one of the best software players floating around. I will show you in this guide how to download perfectly matched subtitles without opening any website using OpenSubtitles.org ISDb protocol.
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We decided use unique bug reporting system called Trac - an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac is available for 2 applications - opensubtitles.org website and Oscar. Feel free to post bug reports or make suggestions for new features.
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