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		<title><![CDATA[Dolly Market Forum - Announcements]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dal House Forum]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7264202</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2022 15:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167673">TrueFan</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey, all! The Dal House Forum welcomes all dolls and is still moderated, active and kicking. Please come join us!<br />
thedalhouse.forumactif.org]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hey, all! The Dal House Forum welcomes all dolls and is still moderated, active and kicking. Please come join us!<br />
thedalhouse.forumactif.org]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Signature Sizes!]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7254795</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167672">Hina Ichigo</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Due to an increasing number of complaints, it's time for a crackdown on signature sizes as they have growing more and more of control. The rules on signatures can be seen here <a href="http://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=539650" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=539650</a><br />
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Text Signatures <br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pullip_junk/8428287013/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8224/8428287013_bae8d125f2_b.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: 8428287013_bae8d125f2_b.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></a><br />
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Picture Signatures<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pullip_junk/8428287045/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8075/8428287045_5393e93fc6_b.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: 8428287045_5393e93fc6_b.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></a><br />
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Mixed Signatures<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pullip_junk/8429377578/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8474/8429377578_b50c8d4693_b.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: 8429377578_b50c8d4693_b.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></a><br />
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There will be a one week grace period to give everyone time to adjust their signatures sizes but after that oversized signatures will be removed. If anyone continues to ignore the rules after having their signature removed due to violation of the rules then they will no longer have the ability to have a signature. If anyone needs help resizing their signatures please contact me. <br />
<br />
Thank you so much for your understanding <img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_happy.gif" alt="Happy" title="Happy" class="smilie smilie_22" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Due to an increasing number of complaints, it's time for a crackdown on signature sizes as they have growing more and more of control. The rules on signatures can be seen here <a href="http://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=539650" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=539650</a><br />
<br />
Text Signatures <br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pullip_junk/8428287013/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8224/8428287013_bae8d125f2_b.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: 8428287013_bae8d125f2_b.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></a><br />
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Picture Signatures<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pullip_junk/8428287045/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8075/8428287045_5393e93fc6_b.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: 8428287045_5393e93fc6_b.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></a><br />
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_______________<br />
Mixed Signatures<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pullip_junk/8429377578/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8474/8429377578_b50c8d4693_b.jpg" loading="lazy"  alt="[Image: 8429377578_b50c8d4693_b.jpg]" class="mycode_img" /></a><br />
<br />
There will be a one week grace period to give everyone time to adjust their signatures sizes but after that oversized signatures will be removed. If anyone continues to ignore the rules after having their signature removed due to violation of the rules then they will no longer have the ability to have a signature. If anyone needs help resizing their signatures please contact me. <br />
<br />
Thank you so much for your understanding <img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_happy.gif" alt="Happy" title="Happy" class="smilie smilie_22" />]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ningyou Magazine Re-launch]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7254177</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167658">Kanamai</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ningyou Magazine is a getting re-launched! <br />
<br />
Ningyou is going to be open to all dolls and figurines this time around, not just Groove Dolls and Pinky<img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_s.gif" alt=":S" title=":S" class="smilie smilie_42" />t figures.<br />
We are currently looking for new staff members to help out, so if you interested please PM Kanamai.<br />
<br />
Also all previous issues of Ningyou from volume 1 are available for free here - <a href="http://forums.dollymarket.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=33167" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://forums.dollymarket.net/forumdispl...?fid=33167</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ningyou Magazine is a getting re-launched! <br />
<br />
Ningyou is going to be open to all dolls and figurines this time around, not just Groove Dolls and Pinky<img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_s.gif" alt=":S" title=":S" class="smilie smilie_42" />t figures.<br />
We are currently looking for new staff members to help out, so if you interested please PM Kanamai.<br />
<br />
Also all previous issues of Ningyou from volume 1 are available for free here - <a href="http://forums.dollymarket.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=33167" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://forums.dollymarket.net/forumdispl...?fid=33167</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bringing Ningyou Magazine back?]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7253976</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167658">Kanamai</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Would anyone be interested if I brought Ningyou Magazine back? <br />
<br />
I of course would finish Issue 6 which never got published due to not enough content. <br />
<br />
For those who dont know for about a year I ran a doll and figurine magazine called Ningyou. It featured mostly dolls from JP/Groove and some Pinky St figurines. Though I am thinking we could possibly open it up to other types of dolls and figures.<br />
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The magazine would be published 4 times a year both in print and in pdf form.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Would anyone be interested if I brought Ningyou Magazine back? <br />
<br />
I of course would finish Issue 6 which never got published due to not enough content. <br />
<br />
For those who dont know for about a year I ran a doll and figurine magazine called Ningyou. It featured mostly dolls from JP/Groove and some Pinky St figurines. Though I am thinking we could possibly open it up to other types of dolls and figures.<br />
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The magazine would be published 4 times a year both in print and in pdf form.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[PM Issues and Planned Solution]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7252883</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 00:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=168358">Christopher Fritz</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">As I'm sure everyone knows, Dolly Market has been slow with Private Messages for many months now.</span>  Off and on I've tried many different things to try and get the forums to be stable, but recently they've become <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">very</span> unstable.  The result is that the web server uses too much memory and crashes.  This can take anywhere from an hour to as little as two minutes from my restarting the server to it crashing.<br />
<br />
I've done thorough investigating today.  In testing on a clone of the forums, I was able to reproduce the problem of the PM system being slow, using a lot of memory, and PMs taking forever to send.  I was also able to get the PM system to run very fast and efficient.<br />
<br />
At this time, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it looks like the problem is that the server cannot handle all the PMs we have.</span>  The system has 168,501 PMs from before January 1st, 2012.  To compare, Dolly Market only has 123,313 posts, across 14,253 threads.<br />
<br />
My solution in testing was to delete all PMs from before January 1st, 2012, and that fixed all speed the issues.  I don't think I need to prune quite that many to get results in the live environment.<br />
<br />
Last year we reached a PM limit where the server would slow down when many people would access their PMs.  As the number of PMs has increased, we've slowly reached a point where a couple of people sending PMs cause the server to literally commit digital suicide.<br />
<br />
We are now at a point where <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it will be a requirement to delete older PMs</span>.  My first and foremost priority is to ensure anyone who wants to retain their oldest PMs will have access to them.  The forum software does have a feature to download PMs, but using this feature might be difficult if the web server keeps going down under the weight of all the PMs, especially if many people try to save their PMs all at once, and act that will certainly take the server down in seconds.<br />
<br />
I'm e<img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_xp.gif" alt="xp" title="xp" class="smilie smilie_45" />loring options for handling this issue.  My current thought is to start by deleting the oldest year of PMs, and and see if the PM system is still slow.  If so, I can delete the next oldest, and check again.  <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Any deleted PMs will first be copied to a back-up location in case they need to be recovered again.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Update:</span> The server wasn't doing well with the PM slowness, so I've gone ahead and wiped out all PMs prior to January 1st, 2011.<br />
<br />
If you absolutely need any of your older PMs back, let me know, and I get send you an e<img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_xp.gif" alt="xp" title="xp" class="smilie smilie_45" />ort of your PMs.  Note that I may not be able to do so in a timely fashion, but I will be able to recover those older PMs if necessary.<br />
]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">As I'm sure everyone knows, Dolly Market has been slow with Private Messages for many months now.</span>  Off and on I've tried many different things to try and get the forums to be stable, but recently they've become <span style="font-style: italic;" class="mycode_i">very</span> unstable.  The result is that the web server uses too much memory and crashes.  This can take anywhere from an hour to as little as two minutes from my restarting the server to it crashing.<br />
<br />
I've done thorough investigating today.  In testing on a clone of the forums, I was able to reproduce the problem of the PM system being slow, using a lot of memory, and PMs taking forever to send.  I was also able to get the PM system to run very fast and efficient.<br />
<br />
At this time, <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it looks like the problem is that the server cannot handle all the PMs we have.</span>  The system has 168,501 PMs from before January 1st, 2012.  To compare, Dolly Market only has 123,313 posts, across 14,253 threads.<br />
<br />
My solution in testing was to delete all PMs from before January 1st, 2012, and that fixed all speed the issues.  I don't think I need to prune quite that many to get results in the live environment.<br />
<br />
Last year we reached a PM limit where the server would slow down when many people would access their PMs.  As the number of PMs has increased, we've slowly reached a point where a couple of people sending PMs cause the server to literally commit digital suicide.<br />
<br />
We are now at a point where <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">it will be a requirement to delete older PMs</span>.  My first and foremost priority is to ensure anyone who wants to retain their oldest PMs will have access to them.  The forum software does have a feature to download PMs, but using this feature might be difficult if the web server keeps going down under the weight of all the PMs, especially if many people try to save their PMs all at once, and act that will certainly take the server down in seconds.<br />
<br />
I'm e<img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_xp.gif" alt="xp" title="xp" class="smilie smilie_45" />loring options for handling this issue.  My current thought is to start by deleting the oldest year of PMs, and and see if the PM system is still slow.  If so, I can delete the next oldest, and check again.  <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Any deleted PMs will first be copied to a back-up location in case they need to be recovered again.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mycode_b">Update:</span> The server wasn't doing well with the PM slowness, so I've gone ahead and wiped out all PMs prior to January 1st, 2011.<br />
<br />
If you absolutely need any of your older PMs back, let me know, and I get send you an e<img src="https://forums.dollymarket.net/images/smilies/onigiri/rb_xp.gif" alt="xp" title="xp" class="smilie smilie_45" />ort of your PMs.  Note that I may not be able to do so in a timely fashion, but I will be able to recover those older PMs if necessary.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Spring cleaning!]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7252424</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167672">Hina Ichigo</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hello dolly enthusiasts, in an effort to keep the forum nice and neat I am going through and doing some spring cleaning. The mod team will be archiving out of date sales/commissions threads (ie. those who have not had any activity in approximately six months/pictures are broken etc). If anyone feels their thread has been archived in error, please contact me and I will be more than happy to dig your old threads out of the archive section.  ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello dolly enthusiasts, in an effort to keep the forum nice and neat I am going through and doing some spring cleaning. The mod team will be archiving out of date sales/commissions threads (ie. those who have not had any activity in approximately six months/pictures are broken etc). If anyone feels their thread has been archived in error, please contact me and I will be more than happy to dig your old threads out of the archive section.  ]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Banner Contest!]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7251535</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167658">Kanamai</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Design a banner for Dolly Market! <br />
<br />
The banner should have something to do with dolls or figures. Or it could feature out lovely mascots <a href="http://pita-parfait.dollymarket.net/cast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Pita & Parfait</a>. <br />
<br />
The banner needs to be 500x320 pixels. <br />
<br />
The deadline for entries is November 10th, 2011.<br />
<br />
Email your entries to Kanamai@dollymarket.net]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Design a banner for Dolly Market! <br />
<br />
The banner should have something to do with dolls or figures. Or it could feature out lovely mascots <a href="http://pita-parfait.dollymarket.net/cast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">Pita & Parfait</a>. <br />
<br />
The banner needs to be 500x320 pixels. <br />
<br />
The deadline for entries is November 10th, 2011.<br />
<br />
Email your entries to Kanamai@dollymarket.net]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[ATTENTION: Those who want BST]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7246387</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167658">Kanamai</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[I will be granting BST access one day a week. Every Wednesday I will grant access. <br />
If you have PM'd me recently please PM me again on Wednesday.<br />
<br />
I have been going through a lot of stuff in real life recently and do not have the time I used to have. I still have a lot of time to dedicate towards DM and Ningyou, just not as much as did. So please bare with me until I get some stuff in my life straightened out. <br />
<br />
<3]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I will be granting BST access one day a week. Every Wednesday I will grant access. <br />
If you have PM'd me recently please PM me again on Wednesday.<br />
<br />
I have been going through a lot of stuff in real life recently and do not have the time I used to have. I still have a lot of time to dedicate towards DM and Ningyou, just not as much as did. So please bare with me until I get some stuff in my life straightened out. <br />
<br />
<3]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[DM Chatroom!]]></title>
			<link>https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7242349</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://forums.dollymarket.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=167658">Kanamai</a>]]></dc:creator>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">https://forums.dollymarket.net/showthread.php?tid=7242349</guid>
			<description><![CDATA[We now have a chat room for the website and forums. So feel free to stop in and chat.<br />
<br />
You can find the chat at <a href="http://chat.dollymarket.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">chat.dollymarket.net</a> or by going to the link at the top of the main website.<br />
<br />
If you are unable to log into the chat, please clear your cookies and try again.  (This will only need to be done once!)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We now have a chat room for the website and forums. So feel free to stop in and chat.<br />
<br />
You can find the chat at <a href="http://chat.dollymarket.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">chat.dollymarket.net</a> or by going to the link at the top of the main website.<br />
<br />
If you are unable to log into the chat, please clear your cookies and try again.  (This will only need to be done once!)]]></content:encoded>
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