Then I realized that I couldn’t even leave a comment myself. I received an email from a buddy saying he had a similar issue.

So I checked the logs:

WordPress database error Table './{db_name}/wp_comments'
is marked as crashed and should be repaired for query SELECT * FROM
wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY
comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 15 made by require, require_once,
include, get_sidebar, locate_template, load_template, require_once,
dynamic_sidebar, call_user_func_array, WP_Widget->display_callback,
WP_Widget_Recent_Comments->widget

Went to the mysql database physical location and did the following to fix it:

# myisamchk wp_comments.MYI
Checking MyISAM file: wp_comments.MYI
Data records:    3914   Deleted blocks:     347
myisamchk: warning: Table is marked as crashed
- check file-size
- check record delete-chain
- check key delete-chain
- check index reference
- check data record references index: 1
myisamchk: error: Found 3913 keys of 3914
- check record links
myisamchk: error: Keypointers and record positions doesn't match
MyISAM-table 'wp_comments.MYI' is corrupted
Fix it using switch "-r" or "-o"

# myisamchk wp_comments.MYI -r
- recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table 'wp_comments.MYI'
Data records: 3914
- Fixing index 1
- Fixing index 2
- Fixing index 3
- Fixing index 4
- Fixing index 5
- Fixing index 6

Also, I got sick of the monthly updates to Wordpress, so I finally switched over to using the subversion method. Now an upgrade is as simple as an svn update and click the Upgrade button.

Currently it supports [H]ard|Forum’s For Sale / Trade, ArsTechnica’s Agora Classifieds (new!), and AnandTech’s FS/FT Forum (recently fixed). These are the only three forums I’ve used, but perhaps later to include some of the other popular online sale forums…

It’s not perfect, nor complete, but it’s at least fully functional and usable. If you use it, please provide some feedback and let me know what you think.

Check it out in the left tab.
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The main functionality of the thread notifier isn’t as important for HardForum or ArsTechnica, because those forums allow replies as a search criterion. However, for consistency, and so I don’t have to look multiple places, I thought I would add them.

If you use this app, please leave a comment! I appreciate your feedback.

So I looked for a way to be notified of new threads somehow from their software. There is a somewhat functional RSS feed of the posts in that forum, but that does little to help notify of new deals or threads. Moreover, that feed doesn’t even list how many views or replies any given thread has.

So, I developed a simple web application with PHP that reads the main page of the FS/FT forum, parses out the threads, along with links, views and replies for each, then stores them in a MySQL database. It checks the forum once every five minutes, and updates as necessary. I built a frontend for easy viewing, and made an RSS feed for automating the retrieval process. I consider it “finished” for a 1.0 release, all of my original goals were met. A “1.5″ release might include e-mail notifications, time intervals spanning 1/2 hour, 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours. We’ll see if it takes off before I spend more time developing it.

So without further adeiu, I present the unofficial AnandTech FS/FT Thread Notifier.

#1016 - Can't open file: 'wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI' (errno: 145) 

# myisamchk wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI
Checking MyISAM file: wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI
Data records:     109   Deleted blocks:     270
myisamchk: warning: Table is marked as crashed
myisamchk: warning: 4 clients are using or haven't closed the table properly
- check file-size
- check record delete-chain
myisamchk: error: Record at pos: 203284 is not remove-marked
myisamchk: error: record delete-link-chain corrupted
- check key delete-chain
- check index reference
- check data record references index: 1
myisamchk: warning: Auto-increment value: 19908 is smaller than max used value: 19909
- check record links
myisamchk: error: Record-count is not ok; is 113          Should be: 109
myisamchk: warning: Found 235456 deleted space.   Should be 236988
myisamchk: warning: Found        419 parts                Should be: 414 parts
MyISAM-table 'wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI' is corrupted
Fix it using switch "-r" or "-o"

# myisamchk -r wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI
- recovering (with sort) MyISAM-table 'wp_bad_behavior_log.MYI'
Data records: 109
- Fixing index 1
Data records: 113

I wonder what causes the data to be corrupted…