On 12/12/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
until Magnus's GeoHack broke (which may not have been coincidental!).
I don't believe in that kind of coincidence. :-)
We (and they) are in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. It's good that they're working from their own stashed copy instead of hitting us live, because I doubt our servers could handle their users' load. But of course on the other hand it's supremely annoying that they're working from their own stashed copy, because (as you note and I emphatically agree) our lovely instantaneous wiki-quick edit-save-test loop is broken.
As to updating their stashed copy more often, there's not much way we can ask them to do that when our own dumps only come out on a 2-4 week cycle. :-(
I agree that having live updating would be well outside the realm of what we or Google want or are willing to pay for. Maybe we can do something to get back to a weekly dump schedule? Preferably on Google's dime? ;-)