Good news, everybody! Today Wikidot.com will be faster, even when a hundred thousand Mac OS/X users reload that Snow Leopard page. And secondly, we're starting to roll-out the Iron Giant template sites. Read on for the juicy details…
Last week we already split that Snow Leopard page into a static HTML version for anonymous users, leaving the normal dynamic page for logged-in users. Even so, it was taking 20-30 seconds to load for logged-in users, and our servers were getting fully loaded, causing random Ajax failures and 500 errors. Again, yes. :-( But, we found the problem. Technical explanation: there are a bunch of regular expressions that mash the HTML to do things like fix-up static file references (images, CSS) with version numbers. One of these regexps was going haywire, going O(n2) slower and slower as the HTML page got longer and longer. We've now found it, fixed it, and if you try the offending page you'll see it loads quickly.
So, I've put up a status indicator in the left menu. Green, yellow, orange, or red if things are really bad. We'll update this if we have any reason to think Wikidot won't be working smoothly, if we plan any maintenance, etc.
Now, the Iron Giant templates. You will see that all the template sites have a 'Clone this site' action on their main page. Click this, enter a new site name, and you get a full working copy of the site.
Next time you need a new site, don't start from scratch but try the default template or a more sophisticated template. If you have questions or problems with a template, or requests for improvements, please discuss on the projects forum. Cheers!
had this a couple of times since wikidot was "green"
An also, that is a typo in the error. I got is as well.
Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
Thanks for pointing out the spelling mistake. We'll take a look and see why this error is happening. There was nothing in the logs (and I got the problem once or twice too) so it could be a network issue somewhere.
The fun never stops :-)
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Made a few changes today, still need to make a few into actual pages but it's nearly there.
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No no, you've got it all wrong. It should be like this:
This better method reflects the Wikidot way; the way we understand a Wikidot user's karma. You should change things at once to reflect the Wikidot way.
Yes, this is a joke… duh!
I know the karma colors are kind of… strange. There was a long discussion over this in the Wikidot team and I was overruled (I wanted something like a battery indicator that went from empty to full, showing five nice green gold bars when full). See attached.
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I assume those circles are for pro account? Glad you didn't go with that, and instead just use a golden star. One of the things I like about how it is now is that you can't tell whether a user is Pro Lite / Pro / Pro Plus.
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James your color scheme, while pretty, just doesn't follow standard project management methodology which uses a traffic light status system comprising 3 colours as follows::
There's no problem with adding a couple of intermediate colours if required, but swapping everything round so that red is good is completely wrong if you are talking about the status of something.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
*giggles*
Yes, I knew that!!!
I'm assuming you didn't see my 'hidden' comment?
one of the great things about email notifications is that that hidden comments are shown. :-)
> one of the great things about email notifications is that that hidden comments are shown. :-)
Was just about to say that ;)
Though that comes at a cost (Wikidot code that is meant to render on the page obviously doesn't do so in an email)
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Life is too short to highlight areas of the screen in case there is a hidden comment. I'm not best pleased at the waste of time in reading and answering that post.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
pouring with rain + heavy cold => sense of humour failure
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
ROFL! XD XD XD XD XD
I'm sorry to put you through that… XD XD
Summer in Scotland? Glad I left the place.
Hang on… when did the Scots develop a sense of humour in the first place? Eliott is an English name?
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No, it's Scottish. The Elliott's were a very troublesome clan in the borders around Hawick. I look very fetching in my Elliott tartan kilt although my children laugh at my knees.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Very nice. My own kilt was Hunting McGregor. Better at hiding the spaghetti stains.
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Besides, that's what we in the US are accostumed to after 9/11 :)
Dick Cheney would be proud…
Eduardo R. Ribeiro
http://www.etnolinguistica.org
Pieter, having a look at your page code I think it might be a good idea to change those to iftags instead of simple comment blocks.
That way, only a tag needs to be changed and when (if ever) the set-tag-using-button wish1 is implemented it'll be even better.
Now (6 steps)
Click edit.
Delete code open block for new status
Delete code close block for new status
Add code open block for status you're hiding
Add code close block for status you're hiding
Save the page
Using tags (4 steps)
Click tags.
Delete current tag.
Add new tag.
Press enter.
In the future (1 step)
Click a button that automatically changes the tags. (four buttons, one for each status)
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*drools*
Hey, join the queue! :-)
It's this one, btw: http://blog.wikidot.com/weneed:49. Votey votey!
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Ooh, do I like that wish! I did a bit of work on the Iron Giant project management template earlier in the week and the ability to click a button to change tags would be a huge bonus.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Yes, a huge bonus. It needs a few more tricks, like the ability to show such buttons only if other tags are not set ("close" makes no sense on closed items), and the ability to undo other tags when setting this tag ("close" undoes "open").
It will arrive at some stage and then we start to see that Wikidot is actually an application development tool.
*drools*
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Somehow, working with perfectionists is amazing fun until they start looking at one's own code… :-)
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Was only a suggestion :)
Though I think I should be looking at my own code more closely before interrogating anyone else's!!
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Couldn't find the original blog post / design doc so I've posted here.
Iron Giant site isn't working correctly. When attempting to use the clone tool it clones the Iron Giant site, not the targeted site.
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Yes, it's a bug in the Clone module. I've commented that part out and am waiting for a fix from Michal.
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We've made a snazzy forum, feel free to use that to report issues with projects like Iron Giant.
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@leiger: MINUS one stripe ! :-)
I may have done it intentionally, to give pieter another chance to link to the projects forum =)
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