by lolz on Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:10 am
Hi Adum,
That's really a pity!
In my opinion, this was the most important feature of www.goproblems.com. Other features like "See attempt path" for example are far less important. Remembering the number of attempts was nice too, but if it can save space I can live without it: a boolean for 'tried' and 'solved' would be enough.
I have almost exclusively used goproblems.com doing search on 'unsolved' problems and it has been too long now since the last time I could squeeze my brain with an appropriate problem. I am starting too feel the withdrawal symptoms!!!
In any case, I would gladly pay to have this feature back and I am more than willing to help to solve this situation. If you want and if you can provide some information on the current database schema, size, number of users, etc. I (and maybe other people) could try to come up a more efficient way to store the information or to encode it in order to save space.
Anyway, I am really curious to know what is the database size...
Also, if this is something that you would consider I can grant you access to one of my account (free.fr), with currently 10Gb of unused storage (not sure if this applies to the database though, I would have to check). Outsourcing part of the database may result in slow down/unavailability but it would be minor inconvenience compared to the lack of search by problem status.
Please let us know if there is anything that we (as goproblems.com users) can do to help.
{Posted by lolz}