Finally, Faster File Uploads

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Finally, Faster File Uploads
From the desk of pieterh
Via the ghosts-in-the-machine department, on 1257342836|%e %B %Y, %H:%M

Today we busted one of the more annoying bugs in Wikidot: uploading images would take forever (or around 30-40 seconds, whichever came first). I'm happy to be able to tell you that uploading now works properly, quickly, without delays, and without pauses, hiccups, slowdowns, dillydallying, lag, or even dawdling.

For the technical minded, an explanation: the Wikidot.com cluster is powered by magical sprites, which we feed with discarded CDROMs. A group of these sprites, specializing in image redrawing, had by accident received a shipload of old AOL CDs and had spontaneously formed a discussion group about Sprite Rights. They started a trade union, work to rule, and general slowdown of image processing. So this morning we fired the lot and replaced them with nano-orcs, which are 10x faster and don't need feeding at all.

Translation: I don't know what Michal and his team of wizards did, but thanks, guys!

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leigerleiger 1257344437|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Agreed!

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rhombus prhombus p 1257357202|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

woot it is FASTERIZED!!!

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pieterhpieterh 1257357974|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

woot it is FASTERIZED!!!

Glad you appreciate it :-)

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leigerleiger 1257375396|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Oops, I'm sorry… I don't know what got into me.

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Ed JohnsonEd Johnson 1257391203|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Can an admin please edit the CSS to add

#side-bar{
     overflow: hidden;
}

to keep extra long page titles in recent comments from stomping on the page content?

Thanks,
-Ed

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pieterhpieterh 1257425819|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

@Ed, done, and thanks for the patch.

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BrunhildaBrunhilda 1257345480|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I don't understand a single word from the second paragraph, but who cares? Thank you very much for this! And also, thank you very much for being so quick in reaction to our rants… I do appreciate it very much. You show us in the best possible way that Wikidot really cares….

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell

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Ed JohnsonEd Johnson 1257345905|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You show us in the best possible way that Wikidot really cares…

Which is why I find it hard to rant, but this particular situation shows why I (we all) need to rant!

Thanks Michal and the team of wizards, for listening and jumping on a fix so quickly!

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Wayne EddyWayne Eddy 1257369393|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks guys, well done. You must have had all your mythical creatures working overtime the last few weeks, or did you import some engineers & watchmakers from the Mote in God's Eye?.

Wayne Eddy
Bundaberg, Australia

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