Marshall Crocker wrote:
> I saw that too when I did my survey last month. I said I would change
> the update time from the morning hours to 9am - Midnight but never
> did. If everyone who does this survey changes then they'll end up
> with everyone switching to this time and their servers will be
> overloaded during the 9am-Midnight hours. Maybe it's not asking
> everyone to do that?
Or, perhaps they're going to ask everyone to use specific times and
customize those times based on the user's location (i.e. making sure
they specify the proper local time) and perhaps renewal date.
Just asking the whole world to use some time between 9:00am and midnight
would accomplish little (because 9:00am and midnight come at different
times in each time zone)... Now, if they said, "Between 9am-Midnight
EST," that would be a different story... Also, if they really wanted to
get the message out, they could have easily put some info on the forum
(Has anyone seen a post there? I couldn't find anything.) or even a
recommended download time on each user's account page.
So, I would say don't make any changes until you're explicitly asked to
do so. If anyone finds any specific instructions for the community at
large, please let us know.
Mike
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Here's an idea!
Just to over-complicate things, they should have an optional service that we could add to mythfilldatabase. After completing the daily download, it makes a request to a server somewhere (maybe zap2it would want to host it?). The response would be the UTC time that they want you to get the next daily update. They could keep a running frequency chart of when they are telling people to download the listings so that they are evenly spread throughout the day. This would have to be an optional feature, since some people can't just get the listings at arbitrary times. I would certainly be onboard for that, if it could be automated somehow with cron.
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