Possible Forums Maintenance

[K C]

Is it not possible to use this download (leaderboard attachment) as a fixed action to measure the performance together with the number of members online ?

The download was done in 2 seconds with 132 members online at 7:30AM GMT

[Ray.R]

I don't think it would indicate much, since there are so many factors involved, from the froum server, to our ISP to our PC's, and especially to the unreliable MS products (IE & Excel). 

And of course, little surprises like the message I obtained while opening it this morning (see image below).. 😄

Strangely enough, the second time I opened the file, it was instantaneous.  3rd took approx 2 sec.  4th took approx 8 sec.  All this morning, within a 5 min timeframe.  Not that it indicates anything, but I have no explanation for the time differences.  The 1st attempt did not count because of the error message, but disregarding that fact, it took less than 8 sec. (from the time to proceed after the message).

🙂

Message Edited by JoeLabView on 01-09-2008 08:17 AM

[Ray.R]

Wow..  I'm not sure if other see the speed differences I'm seeing this morning, but here goes..

Posted a couple of messages, including the one below.  The time after pressing "submit post" is relatively short.  <2 sec??

Just posted a message that has no attachment and uses the regular smiley(s).  It took way over 30 secs to submit the post.  That's a significant difference.

If this one takes more than 10 secs, I'll edit how long it took.  There shouldn't be that much traffic this early..  (Maybe Ben's online 😉 )

Actually, to get the Forum page to get the following took approx 30 secs!! 

"There are currently 244 members online and 26158 guests "

Feels like I'm using dialup!!  😄

Here goes!

EDIT:  Posting this message took 3 sec.

Getting the Edit window took 25 secs..

>> confused <<

Message Edited by JoeLabView on 01-09-2008 08:27 AM

[Ben]

For all of you that feel adventurous, I found a way that has has improved the performance I see when I am at home.

I shut-off all anti-spy-ware and privacy protection functions I had running.

Much faster! THat is even with tagging turned on.

I still left the Firewall on and the virus protection stuff.

Make sure you turn it back on before you go anywhere else!

[Ray.R]

I may try that.. 😉

[Matthew_Williams]

Hi Laura.  Would it be possible to add a link to the email notification of a post
from a user's subscription list that says 'drop this subscription'?  Might make
it easier (more likely?) for users to keep their subscriptions under control.

Maybe even include a count of total number of subscriptions 😉

Just a thought.

Matt

[smercurio_fc]

Have folks noticed an improvement since the forum maintenance of 1/15? From just anectodal "evidence", I've actually experienced a degradation in response. Frequent delays in displaying message listings, or returning to the thread after posting a response, and sometimes I just get a blank page. A few times I even got that progress bar. At the time it happened I checked other sites to see if it was my internet connection, and everywhere I went things were fine. It was definitely this site.

[Ben]

"Have folks noticed an improvement since ..."

No it has not gotten better. Can't say it is worse. The only thing that has made any difference for me is shutting-off the anti-spyware, and privacy protection on my machine. Even then I am still seeing a delay with he forums being slow to provide me with screen updates. If I watch the network traffic on my machine, it appears I get one blip within a couple of seconds of requesting a new screen, then there is a long delay and then another blip that completes my sceen update.

Ben

[Laura F.]

Hi Everyone,

Unfortunately, I don't really see an improvement in performance since the maintenance, but I also don't see it getting worse either.

Matt - I like this idea and I will submit it as a suggestion.  Currently, there is a just a "Manage My Subscriptions" link but what you are suggesting is much more specific.  Just to make sure I understand, this use case would be for when a user replies to a thread and it gets added to their subscriptions automatically, but the thread gets many replies and the user is no longer interested after some amount of time.

Thanks,
Laura

[Matthew_Williams]

Hi Laura.  I was really thinking of any subscription, not just one from a replied thread,
but yes, that was the idea.

I know I would be much more likely to drop a subscription if there was a <drop this sub> link in the
email notification.

Thanks.

Matt