Montana Matt wrote:

ZeeJay wrote:Several individuals have pointed out that SP runs faster if one is not logged in. This has been my experience as well and is easily duplicated. I have not seen a response from you regarding this particular observation. Has this discrepancy been investigated? For instance, just now it took about 11 seconds to access a picture if I was logged in and about 2 seconds if I was not. This specific anomaly has the appearance of inefficient software vs limited hardware resources.

I haven't noticed that discrepancy and I've not investigated it, but I will do so.

ZeeJay for Elf!! And thanks, Matt.

Much better and FASTER now that it was in recent days, thanks for all working on the problem!

Luc wrote:How about people stop mass posting 50+ pictures at a time,

I enjoy looking through the new images but having to scan through hundreds of them to find the gems. I scan through them via images sorted by creation date, I don't really care for their ratings.

Quality over quantity please, I understand a bunch of good pics for a TR or clear ones for route finding, but not a pic for every meter travelled.

I was about to write the same thing when i read this. Good point.
NOTE: I never used that tool for several uploads, not even saw it

PAROFES wrote:

Luc wrote:How about people stop mass posting 50+ pictures at a time,

I enjoy looking through the new images but having to scan through hundreds of them to find the gems. I scan through them via images sorted by creation date, I don't really care for their ratings.

Quality over quantity please, I understand a bunch of good pics for a TR or clear ones for route finding, but not a pic for every meter travelled.

I was about to write the same thing when i read this. Good point.
NOTE: I never used that tool for several uploads, not even saw it

Completely agree, and we all know who is doing it.

Their "excuse" appears to be they want the pictures for a trip report, but as far as voting goes, you have to spend an excessive amount of time to find the
good ones.

They probably don't give a damn about voting, but I can't understand why they'd want to bog down the site with a multitude of pictures, some (not ALL) of
them out-of-focus and completely "meaningless" as far as a QUALITY image goes ..

That bulk uploader tool is perhaps the worst addition that has ever been made to SP.

If you are submitting an appropriate about of quality stuff, and providing adequate detail in your captions, it doesn't even really save you much time, you still need to write the captions. You only need to load up to 15 images or so for any kind of page in a day anyway (perhaps a limit should be put on the number of images an account can add per day). Bulk uploading primarily benefits those who are overloading the site with bullshit.

Great work Matt. I noticed now we have to be logged in to read the forum.
About the ghost users, couldn't imagine a better solution.
Cheers!

Wow Matt! It is unbelievably fast now. Thank you so much.

ZeeJay wrote:Wow Matt! It is unbelievably fast now. Thank you so much.

Spoken by a person who (in my most humble opinion) would make a (most) wonderful Elf on this dynamically growing site.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Montana Matt wrote:I also wrote a script to delete users that registered, never did anything on the site (no pages, no forum posts, etc.) and have been inactive for over a year. My intent was to pare down the users table in order to speed things up a bit. Again, please let me know if you see any negative side effects from this.

Like all the users that are registered in 2001 wihout any 'last active'?

Montana Matt wrote: Has anyone experienced significant slowness over the last 12 hours or so?

I noticed a significant change in fastness during the last couple days. It seems to be running faster in the morning than in the afternoon ..



Thanks, Matt ! ...

Wow! Now I can have an easier time fixing up my pages and posting trip reports. I'll admit that I'm one of those people who use the bulk uploader, perhaps I need to stop posting photos?

mrchad9 wrote:That bulk uploader tool is perhaps the worst addition that has ever been made to SP.

If you are submitting an appropriate about of quality stuff, and providing adequate detail in your captions, it doesn't even really save you much time, you still need to write the captions. You only need to load up to 15 images or so for any kind of page in a day anyway (perhaps a limit should be put on the number of images an account can add per day). Bulk uploading primarily benefits those who are overloading the site with bullshit.

I just want to point out that the ability to bulk upload pictures has not been fingered as the cause of server slowdown.

Also the Bulk Uploader allows you to write your captions in the program before you submit for upload. It was designed so that you don't have to go visit the pages one by one. Finally, it can also submit the metadata in the photo for title/description. There is nothing preventing you from writing good captions for your photos with the bulk uploader...it was designed to make it easier for you to make good captions.

It was also designed to make it easy to use every photo you upload, by giving you a list of sp-formatted links to the photos after upload is complete, so you can embed those links in your trs, mountain pages, whatever.

Sorry, I know the application does have and will continue to have detractors, but the intention behind it and the feature set that went into it was built to ease the production of quality content.

Michael, I have differing opinions from Mr. Chad about the bulk uploader. I consider it the greatest tool ever created for sp. It does save time because even though you have to type in the captions (same with single upload), the main difference is that you have to wait each time for the picture to upload. Lets say it takes 30 seconds to upload a single picture, and you have 20 pictures for your latest mountain page or trip report. The bulk uploader would save you 10 minutes of waiting because you have to be there uploading one by one, but with the bulk uploader you can walk away for 20 minutes or so until its done. Kinda like cooking.