=?iso-8859-1?q?Chuck=20Smith?= wrote:
Improving performance on English server: when the server reaches a certain threshhold of activity could we replace the text of all the Special pages with:
"This page is currently inaccessible because of the immensive amount of traffic we're getting. Wikipedia is just too popular."
Removing Recent Changes functionality removes most of the functionality for me as an editor...taking it down would be almost as bad as the current molasses we're in.
A much better suggestion would be to fix the code. My completely unhelpful suspicion is that it's PHP's fault. But I'm a perl bigot, so take it for what it's worth. I'm just not surprised we're having problems.
--tc