Hey, I was Using That (Hot Topics)

[Occasionally Fatal]

What happened to them?

HOT TOPICS: Are currently offline until further notice.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Yeah, what happened? Just an upgrade is comming to them ?

 

[someone else]

Left or right? Which is better and why?

 

[Taluntain]

Hot topics went for a cooldown.

 

[Haba]

Purchase Hot Topics DLC today!

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Damn it. Haba's on to us!

 

[Zdzisiu]

At least it wasn't day one DLC...

 

[Taluntain]

That's not a bad idea, actually... enabling it as a patron perk, that is.

 

[empi]

You heartless bastards

 

[Thrasher]

It's the best feature of the front page. AND it's innovahtuv!!!
It is coming back, isn't it?

 

[Castanova]

I need hot topics

 

[DarkUnderlord]

The query (which is actually 5 separate queries for each finger - merging them all into 1 didn't help much, at least not when I tested it) puts too much load on the server. Especially with 750+ active users per day.

It may return in some form or another depending on if I can reduce the load (split it up into some JavaScript and only load what's clicked on rather than loading all fingers, plus caching it so it only updates every 15 mins or so rather than on every page load).

 

[oldmanpaco]

Exactly why do we throw money at this place if we cannot have nice things.

No Hot Topics, no Gold Bars.

This is like the Detroit of the internets.


Also this afternoon was the first slowdown I have noticed. There were about 700 people online but how rare is that?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Also this afternoon was the first slowdown I have noticed. There were about 700 people online but how rare is that?

 

[oldmanpaco]

Also this afternoon was the first slowdown I have noticed. There were about 700 people online but how rare is that?

Seems like a problem for the plebeians.

edit: The hell?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

The hell what?

 

[oldmanpaco]

The hell what?

Stop ninja editing your posts.

Also what is peak/average usage. Cumulative usage can be misleading.

edit: feel free to work on the gold bars instead of responding to my pointless questions.

 

[Taluntain]

Let me provide a translation to DU's stats: shit's hitting the fan.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Bah you guys have been saying that for years.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Would it help if the query was similar to the one on the "What's New?" page? What about a box that's basically the top 20 threads from that query with the ones from GD thrown out? Obviously I'd prefer the return of the fingers (lol), but maybe this would be a cheap stop-gap (that will eventually become a permanent fixture out of neglect).

 

[kazgar]

wasteland's killing the server! There will be nothing left but a rubble, and a statue.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

The hell what?

Stop ninja editing your posts.

It can't be helped. It's an XF thing that allows it.

Also what is peak

I think that is peak. We had about 770 online at once this morning. I doubt it's been the same people coming back all day.

/average usage. Cumulative usage can be misleading.

If you go to the forum index. Look at how many people it says are "online now". That's the average. Last few weeks it was 300, eventually it rose to 350. Now it's hovering above 400 regularly.

Bah you guys have been saying that for years.

And we've been upgrading the server for years and just recently upgraded the forum software to reduce the load.

You may have noticed.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Bah you guys have been saying that for years.

And we've been upgrading the server for years and just recently upgraded the forum software to reduce the load.

You may have noticed.

Is that what that was? I thought one of your whores spilled her booze on the server while in the the process of suffering a cocaine overdose.

Seems I have been misinformed.

 

[CappenVarra]

Would it help if the query was similar to the one on the "What's New?" page? What about a box that's basically the top 20 threads from that query with the ones from GD thrown out? Obviously I'd prefer the return of the fingers (lol), but maybe this would be a cheap stop-gap (that will eventually become a permanent fixture out of neglect).

Or just change the What's New page to ignore GD.

 

[OuterSpace]

Can we please get these hot topics back. I was using it a lot when it was working. Please.