The forum is VERY slow nowadays

[Raptor]

Is it just for me? It takes like half a minute to a minute to load a post or whatever

[AGC]

Lol, I thought you meant the general activity lately. I haven't noticed anything on my end.

[Raptor]

Yeah it works well now. In the last week it's been very slow though.

[adarqui]

had no idea.. really sorry :<

how is it now?

[Raptor]

Well, it works fine. It has some periods when it's really slow... but fortunately they aren't too often...

It would be interesting to know why those periods exist, though.

[adarqui]

Well, it works fine. It has some periods when it's really slow... but fortunately they aren't too often...

It would be interesting to know why those periods exist, though.

daym.. maybe it's the database backups i do? i mysqldump --single-transaction so it shouldn't impact the forum from a lock tables perspective.. but the server isn't super powerful so mabbbe that's what's causing it.

[Raptor]

Yeah but the traffic has been lower these last few months so...

By the way - any idea where Lance is these days?

[vag]

It is extremely slow today ( April 22 ) too. From various ISPs, home, work, cell phone 3G, takes a lot of time to load any page.

[adarqui]

It is extremely slow today ( April 22 ) too. From various ISPs, home, work, cell phone 3G, takes a lot of time to load any page.

ya.. ;/

im going to start thinking about actually doing the 'rewrite' and then moving it to a dedicated server... the #1 issue with me re-writing this forum is the ui/ux... it would be 100% cli/api based initially, which would be great for me but... HEHEH!@$ ya so one reason i don't use the forum as much anymore is because, i'm never on a web browser.. EVER.. i'm 100% stuck in the cli/console.. this is one main reason why I need to write a custom forum, so that i'll actually be able to use it.

That probably sounds weird to most, and i guess it is.. but my personal laptop has no gui, no mouse, no sound, no video, nothing... so for me to fire up 'links' and interact with the forum -> it never enters my mind (because it's tedious)..

If I re-write this thing to support my console life (and still work for everyone else), i'd be able to go nuts on here again..

i'm pretty cut off from the world now.. lmao

peace

[Raptor]

I can tell

To quote you:

News:
Major upgrade in progress,
Please bare with me.
:F

[LBSS]

adarq, i literally have no idea what any of that means.

[vag]

That post made my day! It is the same adarq. In his quest he is passionate, obsessive, loner, unconventional.
It was jumping, now it is source coding, but if you take a couple of steps back and see it better it is the same thing.
 

[adarqui]

hah cool.. ;f

i'm going to start prototyping tonight, most likely.. going to create an 'adarq.org' github project on my git.. then the following directories:

adarq.org/prototyping/{forumjs,forumfs}

I find nodejs the quickest language to prototype in.. I often find myself creating a prototype in node and then porting it to go/c/haskell. Three main requirements of a custom forum to me are: 1) the forum itself is live/event driven 2) completely api/cli based 3) it must also exist as a file system.

The forum file system will be cool... imagine logging in to adarq.org via ssh:

ssh user@adarq.org

Then cd'n to the forum/vim'n your thread:

cd /forum/progress-journals/
less "ADARQ's Journal"/last <-- to view the last post
vim "ADARQ's Journal"/new <-- to create a new post
vim "ADARQ's Journal"/100 <-- to edit post 100

etc

A dope way to search:

grep -ir "half squat" /forum/progress-journals

:F

As long as I prototype first, instead of trying to save the world initially.. I should be able to get the project started.. One of my main focuses with development now is:

simplicity
testing

So the prototype needs to be simple, not necessarily accompanied by unit tests.. the end product however needs to be fully test driven.

;f