Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Because most people are using 56kbit modems and recent changes size is huge. It's not about server bandwidth at all.
I have a 56k. The slow speed I get from RC *is* due to Wikipedia, the database I presume. While RC is chugging s-l-o-w-l-y I can get Google results up in no time :)
One enhancement to RC I suggested a LONG time ago was a link at the foot of the page saying:
"Show next 100 | 250 | 500 changes"
With this, compulsive RC addicts could check a whole 24 hours of edits in small chunks. This might be better for the database too?