Merging tech problems + discussion

[Jordy]

Its the same thing as the TV&Film thing we have to merge forums to improve load time.

It takes over two seconds for me to load the forum home page right now, this is at a low time with all my forums. I've seen several warning messages that average load time is over five seconds which is ridiculously high

To be fair it's slow and I can live with that. If these changes were the difference between slow and fast then I wouldn't be mind but lets be honest, it's just changed the forum from very slow to slow and I couldn't really give a rats ass between the two, I know it's slow and I accept it for that and I really have my doubts all these changes have done anything significant.

[Robbie]

To be fair it's slow and I can live with that. If these changes were the difference between slow and fast then I wouldn't be mind but lets be honest, it's just changed the forum from very slow to slow and I couldn't really give a rats ass between the two, I know it's slow and I accept it for that and I really have my doubts all these changes have done anything significant.

Looking at the server loads in MODCP, at present they're averaging around 1.2 whereas a few weeks back they were going as high as 4-5.5.

[Agnostic Bear]

Looking at the server loads in MODCP, at present they're averaging around 1.2 whereas a few weeks back they were going as high as 4-5.5.

The server load would be a lot less if a bunch of useless features were turned off and the forum optimized by a good coder or 4.

[nvrspk4]

The problem isn't the amount of forum it's the software and hardware.

I'm open to being proved wrong, if you can put together a fairly comprehensive audit I'll definitely look it over (with Jin guiding me through of course).

To be fair it's slow and I can live with that. If these changes were the difference between slow and fast then I wouldn't be mind but lets be honest, it's just changed the forum from very slow to slow and I couldn't really give a rats ass between the two, I know it's slow and I accept it for that and I really have my doubts all these changes have done anything significant.

Its the difference between slow and serverbreaking honestly. Its a possibility that the long downtime was partially due to a server overload at which point an automated system in the server farm (or whatever its called) shut it down temporarily.

We get warnings when load times exceed x seconds for a reason, when traffic is heavy the server can only take so much.

The server load would be a lot less if a bunch of useless features were turned off and the forum optimized by a good coder or 4.

If you're volunteering, send me a PM. Otherwise, do you know anyone with the time to do that?

[Hazza]

Pre-fixes?
[Problem]
[Discuss]

?

[nvrspk4]

Pre-fixes?
[Problem]
[Discuss]

?

If we did prefixes probably only the one for problem.

[Chippiewill]

Bear, only one of those threads was originally in the tech problems forum....

Also there is so much load junk on the index...

Edit: Is there actually any need to know how many Threads or Posts there are in a forum?

Also is a Chat 'Link' forum really needed? There is a link at the top of every page

[xPrecedent]

Remove chat, remove arcade, remove blogs.

[Chippiewill]

Remove chat, remove arcade, remove blogs.

Yeah, blogs aren't used, arcade should stay and Chat shouldn't be on index.

Edit: 'Today's Events' isn't needed either...

[lick]

Ok i agreed with the merge but after looking just now

the first page is just people looking for help