On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10:59:13 AM UTC-4, Maarten wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 12 January 2017 10:35:45 UTC+1, Jerry Martin wrote: >> >> >> I think the changes made , new Game Page style ,move to https and other >> background/backend changes may be the root cause. >> >> > I think it's not that, really. It's old decrepit code finally succumbing > to the load which is placed on it. You have to keep in mind that the > backend has never been properly designed, but grew organically over the > years. In 2011-ish a rewrite was attempted, but that was front-end only... > and it was halted because the underlying code base was still a mess and > would not support things like mobile. From the looks of things finances > were an issue too; and by the time a partial refactoring was affordable it > was discovered that the chosen platform (Angular 1, I believe) had issues > on mobile... which in part was the reason for turning to Angular in the > first place. So progress is slow, and fraught with difficulties. Like > outages. > > Ah, I see Daniel has already responded too. > > > Maarten >
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