[WikiEN-l] Donation banner in edit window

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 03:55:34 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could it not have waited until tomorrow? Tonight we are getting the heaviest
> traffic of the year because of the US election,

What better time to run it?!@#

> just compounding the
> slowness of the servers. There is a problem when people's browsers time-out
> when loading their watchlists.

It should never make things like watchlists slow, since it should be
served 100% out of the front end caches. If it's causing slowness then
there is a glitch which needs to be fixed and would likely have
resulted in slowness no matter when it was run.



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