[WikiEN-l] In praise of the tech people

Tue Apr 11 17:38:05 UTC 2006

That's really all I'm saying. About a year ago it was so bad that it
almost wasn't worth even trying -- you could never predict when things
would just give up on you completely, and there was no end of it in
sight, for months on end. Sure, there are hiccups now, but they are
pretty minimal, at least in my experience, and nothing like the "bad
old days" of the server problems.

FF

On 4/11/06, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/11/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > While we're praising things... I just wanted to say that the other day
> > > my internet connection was bad and I had a hard time reaching the
> > > 'pedia and I remembered that less than a year ago there were almost
> > > constant technical problems relating to hardware, databases, servers,
> > > etc. I can't remember the last time there was even protracted time of
> > > server downtime or really annoying "experiencing difficulties" every
> > > time you tried to submit something.
> >
> > You and I are using different Wikipedias, or at different times of day
> > :) I'm not complaining at all about what the tech people get done with
> > very limited resources, but you couldn't compare it to the 0% downtime
> > of other similarly-popular websites.
> >
> > Though I have to say the most common problem for me is not being able
> > to save changes to a page, and having to retry several times, which
> > probably doesn't affect casual browsers.
>
>
> It's really an issue of context.  A year or so ago things were pretty bad.
> Now, while there are problems, they are trivial in comparison.  It's true,
> how quickly we forget.
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