# SDMB bandwidth is STILL lacking and should be sued

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bandwidth-is-still-lacking-and-should-be-sued/407821>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 13, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bandwidth-is-still-lacking-and-should-be-sued/407821 "2007-06-13T07:34:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bandwidth-is-still-lacking-and-should-be-sued/407821/101 "2007-06-14T17:34:19Z")

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[QUOTE=Dead Badger]  
…I mean, fine; you’re in an MSE program, but you say you don’t know SQL. How can you be so confident you’d make a dent in our problems, when they’re considerably more subtle than a “bug in MySQL”? I’m doing a PhD in AI, and have done a moderate amount of PHP when messing with my own website, but I wouldn’t want to touch this with a stick. Optimising database apps like this is not really a job for enthusiastic, anonymous amateurs.  
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Good thing then, that since I am a former DBA who knows SQL quite well, that I never claimed to be an enthusiastic amateur and never said I did not know SQL… 😕

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**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bandwidth-is-still-lacking-and-should-be-sued/407821/102 "2007-06-14T18:11:26Z")

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[QUOTE=scotandrsn]  
Good thing then, that since I am a former DBA who knows SQL quite well, that I never claimed to be an enthusiastic amateur and never said I did not know SQL… 😕  
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Sorry, my bad; I was mixing up your post with **RJKUgly** ’s directly beneath it.

I nonetheless stand by my point that re-engineering a fairly major bit of live software with minimal knowledge of the code itself, and with little or no development and test resources, is not something to be thrown to the community. Yet another reason is that thereafter, the admins become dependent on their volunteers for support. Admins for an unmodified board (or one using common vB mods) can go to the vB community for help, or even Jelsoft. A custom hack becomes dependent on the people who created it, who a year or so hence might not still be at the boards, might not respond to email, etc. and so forth. I’m sure all of us who’ve worked at software companies are aware of the nightmare of dealing with bespoke code written by someone who’s since departed.

The Reader just wants to host a board. It doesn’t (and shouldn’t) want to get involved in running a software engineering project, no matter how keen or qualified the volunteers involved may be.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bandwidth-is-still-lacking-and-should-be-sued/407821/103 "2007-06-17T22:57:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Merkwurdigliebe]

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SSC times out a lot more than the SDMB, and it’s often down for hours at a time. Search wasn’t enabled until a few months ago.

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