Farked/Boing Boing'd tonight

Undertoad · 04-17-2006, 10:16 AM

See, when we got FARKed, they pointed to the blog view, which is better. It requires fewer database lookups. It also made like $3 in ad revenue that day (typically about $15/month). This time they are pointing to the thread, which means the whole system has to work harder to resolve the page.

I've made a few adjustments so that the system will just become slow, and not stop responding altogether, when these things happen. There are a lot of other performance tricks I could implement - unfortunately some of them would remove features of the forum software, so right now I'm just hoping this is temporary.

04-17-2006, 10:16 AM	#31
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	See, when we got FARKed, they pointed to the blog view, which is better. It requires fewer database lookups. It also made like $3 in ad revenue that day (typically about $15/month). This time they are pointing to the thread, which means the whole system has to work harder to resolve the page. I've made a few adjustments so that the system will just become slow, and not stop responding altogether, when these things happen. There are a lot of other performance tricks I could implement - unfortunately some of them would remove features of the forum software, so right now I'm just hoping this is temporary.

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