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!






Agreed!
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woot it is FASTERIZED!!!
i will be inactive until the winter holidays because of school — Rhombus p.
Glad you appreciate it :-)
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Oops, I'm sorry… I don't know what got into me.
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Can an admin please edit the CSS to add
to keep extra long page titles in recent comments from stomping on the page content?
Thanks,
-Ed
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@Ed, done, and thanks for the patch.
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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
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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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