AtariAge

Hi Daniel, Thank you for that, looks like that would work great for the forum posts -- presumably that would work on blog posts, blog comments, and status replies as well? I'm not familiar with the Club database structure to know what would be involved with that are of the forum. Unfortunately, as I am now using Invision's cloud hosting service, I am unable to run queries myself (at least as far as I can tell). I'd be greatly appreciative if Invision could run these queries against my database. This is just a one-time thing, just trying to gather some statistics about the forum for a project we're working on. Yeah, that is fine for my needs, this doesn't need to be any more complicated. Thank you again!

What would be the best way to get a total word count for all posts on the forum? I'd also like this to include Blog posts and comments, Status Updates, and Clubs, but not anything in the personal messenger system. Thank you!

Given it was hours before anything was posted at all (I was looking at that page quite frequently), it wasn't particularly helpful in this case. And I don't need that status page to see that my forum was down, but it was useful to see that it wasn't just my site that was affected. When did Invision actually start working on this issue? Again, better communication would have been useful, rather than being left in the dark for hours.

That wasn't my point, my point is that if someone was aware of this as soon as Invision's site was down (especially given the nature of it where it took down their entire cloud service), they could have started investigating immediately. Since Invision is using a third-party monitoring service, I assume it's possible to send notifications via several different means (SMS, emails, etc.) when an event like this occurs. And if the service they are using now doesn't support that type of functionality, there are plenty of alternatives that do.

Yeah, that sucked, I was using my forum when it went down yesterday evening, and I quickly noticed that Invision's entire site was also down, so I figure all cloud hosting customers were affected. What concerns me is that there was no communication about this for a long time. Hours went by before I started seeing some changes in what was displayed, as if someone was (finally) investigating what was going on. At one point I saw an Invision 4 Installation page, as well as a page that just said "It works!" That concerned me even more, and again, this was before there was any communication at all. It seems that an event of this magnitude would result in alarms going off that would get the attention of those who could work on rectifying the problem.

I am also someone who attempts to search before starting a new topic, but unfortunately the search here is not very good. It would be immensely helpful if you defaulted to AND'ing search terms, but even then I often have to use google's "site:invisioncommunity.com" feature to find relevant topics here.