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ruveyn
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02 Jun 2009, 4:41 pm

Why is the Online Now count stuck at 0?



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03 Jun 2009, 7:05 am

ruveyn wrote:
Why is the Online Now count stuck at 0?


PM Lau about that, ruveyn. I see the same thing.


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03 Jun 2009, 8:05 am

i have noticed that the site is much faster to load recently.
this corresponds to when i first noticed the counter was not working.

i speculated that maybe the developer of the site has tracked the reason for the slow site-load times to the counter which may have been an inefficiently coded query.

every time i refreshed the site, the counter changed, and so it is maybe querying some cumbersome table and returning a "record count" of currently connected members or something.

maybe that code was bypassed, and maybe they are trying to rewrite it.

the site certainly performs as if i am there is no one here.

i do not suspect that what i speculated was true, the idea just ran through my mind.



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03 Jun 2009, 8:38 am

the counts require a lot of updates to the online table



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03 Jun 2009, 8:23 pm

^^ that would make sense. Now that Lau is the Admin he is doing his job! Thanks, Lau!


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