by Dow Williams » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:34 am
by Dow Williams » Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:24 pm
by lcarreau » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:02 pm
by lcarreau » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:18 pm
Montana Matt wrote:The miscellaneous add-ons that have been added recently were things that people requested that didn't take a lot of time to implement, which is a key factor in determining what I work on since I have a full time job and a hobby business that require the majority of my time.
by MoapaPk » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:24 pm
by Dow Williams » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:33 pm
by Dow Williams » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:43 pm
MoapaPk wrote:Dow--
A LOT of sites have slowed down in the last year. It's partly a matter of finding inexpensive hosting services, and the way those services save money. They spread content among available servers in the cloud, and attempt to use multiplexing, to give the illusion of greater bandwidth. You end up competing with some guy making skype calls, downloading movies, and so on. The forums are just a drop in the bit bucket; people can't type fast enough to keep up with the modicum of throughput needed to maintain the forums.
On the other hand, constant connections to always-on services (like draggable google maps) may make a difference... and I'm sure Matt has and is exploiting tools to figure out what's happening.
And he's doing it for free.
by mrchad9 » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:46 pm
MoapaPk wrote:Dow--
A LOT of sites have slowed down in the last year. It's partly a matter of finding inexpensive hosting services, and the way those services save money. They spread content among available servers in the cloud, and attempt to use multiplexing, to give the illusion of greater bandwidth. You end up competing with some guy making skype calls, downloading movies, and so on. The forums are just a drop in the bit bucket; people can't type fast enough to keep up with the modicum of throughput needed to maintain the forums.
On the other hand, constant connections to always-on services (like draggable google maps) may make a difference... and I'm sure Matt has and is exploiting tools to figure out what's happening.
And he's doing it for free.
by lcarreau » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:34 pm
by isostatic » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:49 pm
by Chris » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:51 pm
by Chris » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:20 pm
Montana Matt wrote:Ouch! I certainly don't miss that weather though! Did you get your run in today with that cold? It's 55°F or so here today...perfect winter weather in my opinion. I'm going to try to get off this computer here in a bit and hit the trails behind the house.
by Dow Williams » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:28 pm
Montana Matt wrote:Dow Williams wrote:are your responsible for fixing it?
No, not really, but I want to.
Montana Matt wrote:Dow Williams wrote:are you capable of fixing it?
Yes, given enough time I believe I can fix it. But time is money and I need to spend my time making money paying my bills first and foremost.
Dow Williams wrote:These are not offensive questions for my generation
Montana Matt wrote:Nor for mine (being born 13 years apart puts us in a different generation? I thought we were both Gen X?). I was not offended by any of those 4 questions and I don't think it's a generational thing here Dow. I think many people would feel the same about how you communicated in this thread if they were on the receiving end of it. It was your text like the following that I didn't understand the necessity of:
Dow Williams wrote:Keep it up Matt, you are doing a terrific job. Since you feel I complain too much, I will try to not post again in site feedback for another couple of years. Sorry to bother you.
Dow Williams wrote:There are plenty of folks to pat you on the back and tell you what a great job you are doing, but at the current performance of this site, that would be disingenuous bs, and I believe you know better.
Montana Matt wrote:I'm not doing this looking for a pat on the back. But I'm also not doing this to be talked to as if I'm a peon.
by lcarreau » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:42 pm
Dow Williams wrote:The baby boomer generation includes years 1946-1964.
by MoapaPk » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:46 pm
mrchad9 wrote:MoapaPk wrote:A LOT of sites have slowed down in the last year. It's partly a matter of finding inexpensive hosting services, and the way those services save money. They spread content among available servers in the cloud, and attempt to use multiplexing, to give the illusion of greater bandwidth.
That is bull. You think the WHOLE INTERNET has slowed down?
I've used lots of sites over the previous year, and SP over the previous several years. This is the only site that has slowed down a noticible amount, and at times it is quite significant. Sometimes even a simple task like voting on someone's mountain page can take a few seconds to register. That is NOT normal for a website, and something is going on here that is unique to this site.
(btw, isn't Matt a part owner? That would imply it isn't exactly 'for free', if the answer is yes. But I am not sure, so that is an actual question.)
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