On Saturday, November 13, 2010 09:39:10 am Mike Hart wrote: > tried YouVersion on my work provided blackberry. > > The number one learning I had from it was: Here in America, on Sunday at > 11am, no 'net' bible is going to work due to a predictable traffic spike > overloading servers. Unfortunately, that is the only time 95% of users want > it to work. So, even if the app is polished beyond perfection, a server > side bible reader is doomed to be perceived as a flop because just about > everyone finds it won't work on Sunday. I suspect a similar issue exists in > Europe and Asia
I would second that, though I haven't had any issues on Sunday, I've only had issues with the ESV on Wednesday night. I used the HCSB to complement my print ESV since the preacher was using HCSB this past Sunday and it worked without a hitch. But I can agree with caution on server-side apps and bandwidth. Because, at least with every game I've run on Facebook (apps that aren't games are usually external apps that connect other things to my fb account so I'm not as familiar with their infrastructure) all the back-end stuff is handled by an external server so we would need to make sure we would have more than enough bandwidth for extreme loads (I would imagine more than the famous slashdot effect) _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
