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.
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On 4/11/06, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/11/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/11/06, Fastfission fastfission@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. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l