What are your initial thoughts of the new site?
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What are your initial thoughts of the new site?
TDF
Last edited by TechDawgFan; 05-09-2004 at 05:05 PM.
Overall I think the new board is great. The speed is a LOT better than the other board. We'll see what happens when 50 people are trying to access the same forum though.
One thing i noticed that I don't like is how Quick Reply works. It just seems awkward to me.
Nick Patrick
I suspect that I will catch some grief over that. I've heard it from several people. So you can see why it is that way, see the following screenshot. This is from the "Threaded View" available under "Display Modes". If nobody uses this or the hybrid view, then we can do away with the click required for quick reply. But if people do, then we need to keep it.Originally Posted by splicer
What is everyone else's thoughts?
Chris
i love it
very nice job
Very nice site and will be looking forward to the move here
Speed is the all important element in anything computer related and this new forum has it. Great job!
Speed and the addition of the ignore feature are worth the change alone.
I greatly appreciate the many hours (days?) you and the other admins put into this. And it pays sooooo well.
Thanks,
D68
It sux!
just kidding...thanx for all the hard work and time. I know it has taken a while and I appreciate the effort and love for Louisiana Tech University.
Martie
Looks great and so is the speed of it.
I do like the site. Its different a bit, but I'll adjust. Its apparently got my most anticipated feature - IGNORE, so what can be wrong with it?
Love it. The speed is great and I like the way its set up. Good job, and thanks for all the work that went into it.!
Took me a bit to find the "quick reply" thinggie, but I managed, so everybody else ought to be able to struggle through the first experience. I love the speed. Just hope is holds up when a whole bunch of posters are running around on the board! Good job!!!
TD
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A couple of people have mentioned being interested in how this board will run speed wise when we open it up with, at some times, over 100 people hitting it at a time. I am by no means a database expert, but I'll tell you what I THINK we will see.
First, realize that this board is running off of the exact same server as the current site and is using the same database application. There are two databases on it - the vBulletin db and the PNphpBB db (the old one). So when we are doing page views on this site, we are actually competing with the other board with all the people on it. And during those times, this site appears much faster.
On the day the C-USA decision was announced our site was getting HAMMERED with people and page views. We had, at some times, over 100 people on the site at one time. When we had that load, I came over here to see how things were going. It was slower than now, but was still more than twice as fast as the other site. I think once we get off of that database entirely, we're going to find that even during high traffic, the site will be even faster than what I saw. That other db is just darn inefficient!!!
Just my 2 cents worth.
Thanks for all your comments! I really appreciate it! Keep testing and getting used to things. You folks should be the experts when we finally roll out!
TDF (Chris)