Titanium and goTitans.com make the papers!

I haven't been able to get on this site during the game, or 90% of the time after the game because SERVER IS TOO BUSY...TRY LATER,
so by all means let's add lot's new members...

 

I was a long time member over at Clutchfans.net, which I believe is the biggest sports fan site on the web, primarily because it was born at the time the www took off, and now because yao ming attracts a lot, and I mean a lot of Asian fans, but they ran into similar server problems on a much larger scale. Their solution has been two fold. They started a tip jar where people could donate funds. In their case, that really helped, but after the influx from China, it became really difficult on the server, and so during games they appear to have resorted to only allowing members to enter the forum, and they don't let non members go in. You could also limit it to only paid members to streamline it even more. I know they struggled with this ethical issue for a long time, but they became so big they had no choice but to start some more restrictive policies. Go Titans definately has some server issues to resolve during games.

Now, here is the really odd thing about Clutchfans. I am not even making this up. But there is a long time and credible poster on there called Jeff, who is an administrator, and is a very fair minded person. No kidding. And you want to know what is even weirder. There is an Austrailian dude named Smeggy who is also a monster poster over there, like Gunny is here. It's really kinda freaky.

 

I like that idea..

Congrats Titanium :notworth:

 

The chat room definitely cripples the server on game days.

 

It seems like people using the forums as a chat room would hurt the server more than people in the chat. Could be wrong, but one is dedicated to 100 messages in a short span while the other isn't. The game day threads fill with more 1 liners than the chat room.