Kieran, I think the changes made , new Game Page style ,move to https and other background/backend changes may be the root cause.
I noticed that its very traffic heavy (the images need to have some quick view reduced depth compressed format when shown in overview) also the adverts are taking up more bandwidth. If you try an use too much colour depth and have too much going on , refreshing all the time you will need very powerful servers and high bandwidth. Personally I would be happy if they went back before they dressed up all the page style to the new fancy format , it was fast and worked. Look at reddit it keeps it simple and has more users but works well. I like BGG but if its not reliable then people will not visit as much our local group communicates alot but if they don't sort it we will go elsewhere. Personally I think they have had some flash IT / Web group say this is the way to do it a few mock ups , this looks great doesn't it. Then some technical stuff don't worry wont impact you lets move everything to http. Lets make the adverts more flashy and update more , why not add more images. This is great when you only have z hits and y visitors but if you have 100 x z and 100 x y and you now need 10 x the processing + back up and 10 x storage + backup and 10 x bandwidth + standby (or not in their case) you end up with the issues we are seeing. Personally I would have put all the new flashy stuff on a separate server back ending to the original with a "switch" to decide when to use new format or just go straight to the old format. They could then control each new "feature" and have a standby. My worry is the new "Web Team" may have fatally injured BGG because its going to take money too fix. Reddit clearly did their sizing and tuning due diligence BGG relied on "experts" P.S. I spent 30 years in IS Senior Management for some major International Corporations before I went back to my Engineering roots. So the above views may be guess work but they are based on a lot of experience between th1980-2010. On Monday, 9 January 2017 06:25:56 UTC, Kieran P wrote: > > Hey guys. > > Any of the BGG maintainers or developers present here? You seem to be > having a lot of issues with the site lately. > > Give me a buzz if you want to move to a CDN served reactive JS application > that hits a backend API easily scalable and powered by AWS. > > I'll almost virtually eliminate downtimes and make page loads take a > second, not 5-10. > > There would be a lot of complexity around data migration I'd imagine, but > it'd give you the chance to remodel to suit todays needs. > > Have a think about it and let me know. > > I have a full time job already, I'm not going to be able to do the whole > thing for you, but I can't lend my expertise part time and 10 years > experience in the web application development industry. > > Regards > Kieran > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
