[WikiEN-l] In praise of the tech people

[Guettarda]

On 4/11/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/11/06, Fastfission <fastfission at 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.