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Performance is terrible
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It happened to me this morning when I started with a clear cache (my browser is set to clear the cache on exit). But performance appears to be OK now.
Community ManagerThanks for the continued feedback, our dataset for release is almost complete, I am pleased to report that the majority of users should in fact find pages are loading quicker than they did before by a whole 0.5 seconds.
Why only the majority of users? well the components of the site use a caching system which means that when you request a page to load it doesn't always run off to the back, run a database query and populate the data for you and then display the results. Some data is stored in the sites cache, especially large data sets like message lists and this data will be pulled from the cache until the cache expires.
When the cache expires (which varies by component) one user will experience a slower page while the database query completes. Because each cache has different expiry (message lists have 1 minute cache, whereas the top contributor component has a 30-minute expiry) it's highly unlikely that the same user will always be called upon to be the person who refreshes the cache.
We will keep monitoring but so far I am happy with how the site is performing and hopefully you will all be enjoying the filters that are designed to make it easier to find content your looking for.
Allen , not all discussions in the feed with unread posts are marked as Unread. It worked for a while after the update, not returns back. Didn't find what is the logic behind, why some marked and some not.
In addition, order of replies in the feed. Sometimes I see first one, sometimes last one (as desired).
The only guess something is wrong with caches, but that's not my territory.
- Allen
Thank you for your feedback, part of the reason for the change is now when you filter feeds it doesn't require a page reload where as it did before. That said it should still be possible to create a listener for parameters to allow you to bookmark a url, we will look into this.
Re: the order of replies
Yeah this does seem a bit odd but I am not sure what the problem is at the moment. It's not always the oldest reply it shows and sometimes it does show the newest, but it seems... unreliable. on this thread I am getting the last reply from me for example... but there are two others after that. We will keep investigating this one till we figure out the problem.
Thanks again
Performance is OK again, but I very much dislike the changes, as mentioned in my first reply:
"Before the update, applying a filter would be reflected in the URL, so
- One could bookmark a filtered list.
- Refreshing the page (F5) would preserve the filter.
Now, the URL is a generic URL that does not include the filter, so
- It is not possible anymore to bookmark a filtered list.
- Existing bookmarks with a filter don't work anymore - they time out.
- Refreshing the page loses the filter.
Also, the forum list used to display the most recent reply, now it displays the first reply, This is worthless if there are multiple replies.
This greatly reduces usability for me."
