I want to say sorry for moaning and I didn't realise.

See https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/854...f-s2ki-update/ and wonder, peeps.

I was vocally critical but, after reading that, I am going to - voluntarily - STFU

Perhaps better to have been briefed in advance.

But we wouldn't have listened ...

@cthree

 

Yup, I think we all agree it could have gone better, but the main man has been working har to fix it and can't have been easy with the amount of abuse going on.

I also think people on the UK site need to visit the main parts of the forum more. That's an old post and we mods are still having to redirect people to the Site Info forum for forum issues.

 

Mark, why not sticky a link IN BIG WRITING here?

Ultimately it might mean a hardware upgrade from what he says
to get back to the good old speed. If ever we can.

Anyway all strength.

 

Because nobody ever reads stickies Can do though. I'm sure Ian has posted it before, and I have a couple of times in other threads on here.

I do think people should go to the main part of the forum every now and then. There is some good stuff in the news / announcements, and site info has generally covered any issue you discover.

For me the speed is back to normal and has been for about a week. Still slow for you?

 

Odd ... that's old news to me and the speed hasn't been an issue for me since the new hardware went in .......

 

Sometimes I wait a few seconds for a page load.

But don't forget here in the sticks my advertised 4Mbps is often sub 100Kbps ...

edit @UF: woops just been reading. So there was a hardware upgrade. No longer active in IT myself but not surprised that shifting from a nightmare-to-maintain bespoke system to made-for-purpose software needs more ponies. Plus ca change

 

Work is 10mb/10mb and home is 7mb/512kb and no appreciable difference in speed at either end - sub 100kbps should be fine for just web pages although, there is a lot more data on the new site layout.

Out of interest, you're not using Zonealarm / Mcafee / Norton are you?

edit: And yes. the HW upgrade i'd say is about a 6x increase in terms of 'poke'

 

I'd be horrified at the thought of having to do what he's done with so many live users. But software does have a tendancy to get messier and messier until there's a point where you really have to do something radical to dig yourself out of the hole.

I don't think it's slow. Certainly those first few days were terrible, but it's been fine since.

 

Speaking as a long term IT hack (actually a CTO), I find it amusing when the systems life-cycle get exposed to lay-people who almost always think they know better. I don't envy cthree's task here. The one thing that can ALWAYS be better with any IT deployment though, is communication. You can't give enough of it and people will never read most of it, but it has to be done.

 

More data: thought so. Page-switches take longer. Ok once you're used to it.

Z.../Mc.../N...: not here. Avira quietly in the background.

HW x6: that all? And the cost multiplier?