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Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:59 pm
by Josh Lewis
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Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:16 pm
by lcarreau
butitsadryheat wrote:Smart man, that Belichick!


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Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:47 pm
by Lolli
Marmaduke wrote:Has Dow been considered for a "position" with SP? I don't know if he would be interested or not. But I don't agree with Chugach that he always has contempt for everyone. Normally Dow is constructive as is The Chief. I think when you are so accomplished you see things differently. That doesn't equate to being negative. Dow's insights are valuable and more of them should be considered to further make SP a better site.


He wanted to buy it a few years back.

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:19 am
by MoapaPk
In terms of the slowness... is it possible that someone is intentionally thrashing the site, with automated inquiries? I recall a former member showing how easy it was to raise the "views" of a certain object via automated script.

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:29 am
by Damien Gildea
Montana Matt wrote: ... SP has grown ..... needs to be reexamined.


Too much duplication of images. Too many albums. Too many irrelevant photos. Too many useless pages.

Needs a cull, then coordinated consolidation, then stricter management. Prune the branches or lose the tree.

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:27 am
by Josh Lewis
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"I have a dream that one day summitpost will be running fully at it's top speed, and will not be discriminated by it's slowness...
Don't judge by the color of the server, but by the contents of the page." -SP_MLK

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:50 pm
by Luc
How about adding a tracker system for Bugs and feature requests, a bit like Sourceforge project uses?

Like that we could see what bug is assigned to whom, when it was assigned, the progress, priority etc.

Feature requests could also carry the same type of info's such as how many users have voted or requested it.

Luc

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 2:52 am
by Josh Lewis
Now I'm not saying we should do this (the more integrations, perhaps the slower the log in) but here is a idea that would "work". Matt I've seen you work with joomla before and I'm pretty sure they got quite a few tracker systems for this kind of stuff. And then it can be integrated into phpbb3 which would be integrated into the site. Now I'm not saying that is how it should be done, but I don't think you would have to develop any new software is what I'm saying.

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:37 am
by mtnhiker13
I haven't been on SP in a while and came by to take care of some maintenance, thanks to SP's very nice email notification system. SP is running amazingly slow. Even switching between forums and adding this edit is REALLY slow.

People are bound to lose interest and patience. I hope Matt can fix the problem soon.

I noticed at 7:40 MST, I was the ONLY forum visitor on SP.

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:45 am
by lcarreau
mtnhiker13 wrote:
People are bound to lose interest and patience.


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Shhhhh.. perhaps the Tortoise will catch up and actually win the race !!! :P

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:19 am
by Josh Lewis
I'll admit it's still slow, but there was a time a week or so (I forget exactly when) that it went painfully slow. The fixes then made things much nicer and then now it's starting to go slow again (although not as bad). Mbpost is probably 20 times faster than this site! :lol: Thank goodness to the multi uploader tool, if it were not for that tool I would rarely be able to post photos. :wink: I will admit when the site is faster I may be inclined to post more information related stuff. 8)

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:30 pm
by Luc
Damien Gildea wrote:Too much duplication of images. Too many albums. Too many irrelevant photos. Too many useless pages.

Needs a cull, then coordinated consolidation, then stricter management. Prune the branches or lose the tree.


+1

ie:
http://www.summitpost.org/object_list.php?object_type=3&object_name_3=butterfly&sort_select_3=score
gets the axe :twisted:

Re: Disappointed to say the least....

PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:29 pm
by Josh Lewis
Well good news and bad news on how sp is working for me.

The good news is that voting and page viewing seems faster! The bad news is not only are photos lagging a lot, but many are not even displaying! Anyone else having the same issue? Even some of the avatar photos in this forum page are not displaying... and they are tiny.

Edit: Yay! Now everything is back to alright speed! Seems slightly faster than before. :wink: If that was your fix, thumbs up!