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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
1. The Gecko renderer (the one in Firefox/Netscape) is generally much slower than the one IE, and the scrolling thing is a known issue with a certain stylesheet/image background construct that we use.
2. The bar at the bottom isn't silly, it happens to be the only navigation to other areas of the
site. If you're not using it, you're probably missing quite a lot.
3. There are 8 webservers, several SQL server, and gobs of bandwidth. Throwing more hardware at a problem is irresponsible before fixing any software glitches.
4. The forums deliberately delay posts to allow the caching to work. Deal with it, it is by design.
5. The Linux comment shows you have little knowledge of what you're talking about. Apache is a great web server - but so is IIS6. In our case, the .NET framework than only IIS6 provides is the best choice for our infrastructure - with little overhead. We've tried Apache/Perl in the past. It didn't scale for our needs.
Posted by: Kaptain
I've noticed that the Bungie.net webpages load VERY slowly in Firefox on slower computers. I have to use my 3GHz desktop to view the forums at any decent speed at all. On my 1GHz laptop, they crawl. Part of it has to do with the silly bar across the bottom of the screen. If Bungie were to get rid of that and make the pages easier to load, the site would be a lot faster.
As to posts being slow to appear, that's not your computer doing that - it's Bungie's overloade forum servers being slow and laggy. Bungie needs more bandwidth and faster servers - surely Microsoft can do something about that for them? Or maybe they need to get Linux servers...those are usually faster anyway - less overhead.
[Edited on 3/24/2005 11:13:43 AM]