Kudos

KUDOS to Wayne and SLS IT Team.. they fixed the sideways photo upload issue!

Nice... now we can upload even more photos without bothering Wayne to rotate like last night's Halloween Pickleball party!!

Set a cron event that runs every 10 minutes for new messages for the user, then fires off a email message with a snippet of the message to their email.

It's 2023 : use push notifications, or nothing. Not only do most people suppress email from sites, it's also a huge chore to keep yourself out of blacklists, when right swipe, spam is much easier than logging in and turning off email notifications.

<p>The average character length of a message on the site is around 75 characters. I don't think increasing the limit above 2000 would benefit very many people.</p>

"1. Clean up the bullshit with the 2k character limit. I know that would break a LOT of other things, but long term that should be on the list of stuff to fix."

Why should they fix something that only you are going to use?

@erotic
Sounds perfect.

@Wayne

From a nerd perspective. There are three things that I'd do regarding the messages section.

1. Clean up the bullshit with the 2k character limit. I know that would break a LOT of other things, but long term that should be on the list of stuff to fix.
2. On a new page load, query the message counter class to determine if it needs to render the bird.
3. Set a cron event that runs every 10 minutes for new messages for the user, then fires off a email message with a snippet of the message to their email.

It IS looking good.
I am happy that the Birdie is back also. It just seems friendlier somehow.

"Although, I did have to give them the back-story on the hampsters part of it."

The hamsters' story is more betterer.

Things are working pretty darn good now. Personally I hope the team doesn't try to fix the "real time messages" thingy and messes up how well everything else has been working in the process.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

<p><a href="https://www.swinglifestyle.com/profile/lookup.cfm?usercode=41370601">eroticamazon</a>,</p>

<p>Thanks. I sent your comment (as well as some other positive comments) to the team. Although, I did have to give them the back-story on the hampsters part of it.</p>

<p>The messages used to be real-time no matter where you were on the site. That is one of the features they recently changed to increase performance. The messages are still real-time while you are on the messages page. </p>

@erotic
Ok...fair enough. Just something that shows you have a message without having to log in. And an email notification saying I have a message.

@Thesungoesdown

You may not want that :)

From a nerd perspective, that means that your client and the server need to always be connected and transmitting data. The way the site works now and most sites in general, is you ask the server for a page, it sends the page and your computer renders it. That is the whole conversation. Until you change pages, there is no persistent connection. Persistent connections are very expensive in memory, cpu and bandwidth. It also slows the hell out of your browser.

Site feels lightning quick on my computer today, even Hot Dates, which have always been notoriously glitchy and slow.

So far so good. Now if we could just get real time message notifications...preferably on the website and email.

@Sorrillo

The site is 'popping' now. Load times are fast as hell, render times are much faster. It looks like they changed out the hamsters for sure!

I have no problem bitching when the site acts st00pid.

I also have no problem complimenting when they get their shit together and it works well.

Are you SURE that you want to risk jinxing the site???

Wayne, it looks like you guys probably upgraded your CF version as well as the hosting it was on. It looks like you retired the hamster that had run the servers for the last 10 years and have now gotten a team of hamsters :)

Good job. I have not seen any crashes.