For tech info on BGG, have a look https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/5ngyjd/what_tech_stack_does_boardgamegeek_use/ On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:35 AM Jerry Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
