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.
Steve